Big 12 interim commissioner Chuck Neinas says he is coming to the league to work, not just serve as a caretaker until someone else takes over. The 79-year-old Neinas says his priority is to bring together a fractured league that nearly fell apart for the second time in 15 months. Nebraska and Colorado are already gone and Texas A&M plans to leave by next summer. Neinas is a former commissioner of the old Big Eight Conference and is well-respected as a consensus builder. He says he wants to build a family atmosphere among Big 12 schools. The Big 12 and…
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MIAMI (AP) Kansas State coach Bill Snyder says he isn’t happy about having to come to Miami this weekend. The Wildcats’ scheduling history offers some hints why. This is only the ninth time in the last 16 seasons that Kansas State is hitting the road for a September nonconference game. And the Hurricanes figure to provide Kansas State with a considerably tougher test than Eastern Kentucky and Kent State did for the first two games of the Wildcats’ season. Miami is coming off a 24-6 win over Ohio State and looking its first two-game winning streak since October. Kansas State…
CHICAGO (AP) Bruce Chen allowed two hits in eight innings and the Kansas Royals backed him with four home runs Friday night in an 11-1 romp over the Chicago White Sox. Eric Hosmer, Salvador Perez, Alcides Escobar and Jeff Francoeur connected for the Royals. Kansas City has won nine of 11 overall in a late-season surge. Chen (12-8) finished 3-1 this season against the White Sox, with all three of the wins at U.S. Cellular Field. His lone loss to Chicago came last Sunday in Kansas City, when he…
The latest sales tax numbers for Manhattan have just been released, with Finance Director Bernie Hayen describing the totals as holding steady, although somewhat behind the city’s forecast and budget projections. Hayen goes on to say overall the city remains at a five percent increase in sales tax revenues over 2010. Several big box retailers, car dealers, and even town center retailers were down this July compared to July of 2010, with mostly small percentage declines. $791-917 was collected in the September numbers, with an adjusted rate of $741,917. That’s $33,296 less when compared to the forecast and $31,296 less…
Some 70 balloons were released just outside of Manhattan’s Fire Station Headquarters at Kimball and Denison shortly before noon Friday. The event was part of a local recognition of National Recovery Month, and followed a moving presentation about recovery, from Audra Akin, who was born and raised right here in Manhattan. Akin shared the ups and downs of her recovery process. She came from a loving family right here in Manhattan, was active in sports all through high school, and graduated with honors at Emporia State Teacher’s college, and during exit exams, scored in the top 15 per cent of…
Music tends to be universal, and that’s exactly what musician Pavla Schedova from the Czech Republic of Dobrichovice has found in her travels. Schedova was in Manhattan to help celebrate the dedication of Manhattan’s Partner City Flag Plaza at City Park. Former Mayor of Manhattan’s Partner City, Vaclave Kracochvil says Manhattan’s changed a lot in the six years since he last visited. Kracochvil says partner cities are good because one is accepted and you can learn about the other city’s problems and how they live. Meanwhile, the Trehusk Band of Dobrichovice will fill the air with folk song selections from…
Two Soldiers died due to injuries sustained from small-arms fire while on patrol in southern Afghanistan. Specialist Robert Dyas, 21, of Nampa, Idaho, and Specialist Jakob Roelli, 24, of Darlington, Wis., were on patrol in Afghanistan, when their unit came under attack. The Soldiers were assigned to 2nd Battalion, 34th Armor Regiment, 1st Heavy Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division, currently deployed in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Dyas joined the Army in January 2009 as a fire support specialist. Roelli joined as an infantryman in August 2007.
SALINA, Kan. (AP) Authorities have made another arrest in a central Kansas crackdown on distribution of an illegal drug nicknamed “potpourri.” KSAL-AM reports that Salina police arrested a 10th person Tuesday in an investigation that began earlier this month. Nine other people were arrested last week on suspicion of distributing the marijuana-like substance in the Salina area. Authorities say the so-called “potpourri” was manufactured in the Denver area and brought to Kansas. The case has been investigated by a regional drug task force, the Kansas Bureau of Investigation and Salina police. Officers seized nearly two pounds of the drug, with…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A Kansas doctor and a researcher accused of falsifying data in a clinical drug trial appear ready to change their pleas next month. Federal court notations show change-of-plea hearings are scheduled Oct. 19 for Wayne Spencer, a Topeka physician, and Lisa Sharp, a clinical research coordinator from Olathe. Both were indicted in June on charges of conspiracy, mail fraud and falsifying information required by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. Spencer and Sharp worked for Lee Research Institute, which was paid $30,000 by pharmaceutical company Schering-Plough to conduct clinical trials of an allergy pill on human subjects.…
HUGOTON, Kan. (AP) A company that plans to convert switch grass into biofuels has received a state air quality permit to build a large cellulosic ethanol plant in southwest Kansas. The Garden City Telegram reports Abengoa Bioenergy received the permit Friday for a $550 million plant in Hugoton that will produce more than 23 million gallons of fuel a year. Sixty-five people are expected to work at the plant, which is billed as the nation’s first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol operation. The company says construction is expected to take about two years and the facility will have an annual payroll of…