News for Monday July 10, 2011

LOCAL NEWS

A University organization will take their knowledge of crops on the road this fall. K-State Research and Extension will host a crop production field day on Wednesday August 17th at Ottawa University’s East-Central Experiment Field. Several K-State presenters will discuss topics of crop production from Nutrient Management in Eastern Kansas Soils to Soil Pit Evaluation of Strip-Till. For more information on the event you contact Research and Extension at 242-56-16.

A Wamego man has died in an accident in Anderson County. 42-year-old Ronald Winterman died after his 2003 Acura MDX drove left of center on U.S. 169 and collided with a semi-truck. Winterman was northbound when the accident occurred last Wednesday. He was ejected from the vehicle as it rolled into an east ditch. The semi’s driver, 63-year-old Gerald Schneider of Hillsboro was taken to the Anderson County Hospital.

STATE NEWS

Four northwest Kansas post offices have been reviewed for possible closure. The state is currently reviewing 32 post offices, discussing possible closure in result of the declining amount of mail. A total of three post offices in Smith County and one post office in Ness County have been added to the list of possible closure. The Hays Daily News reports each of the station’s workload is less than two hours a day.

Two people from the southeast Kansas town of Cherryvale have died in a crash near the intersection of U.S. 169 and U.S. 400.
The Kansas Highway Patrol says the accident happened late Saturday when the driver of a pickup truck failed to come to a halt at a stop sign before getting onto U.S. 169. The truck crashed into a car headed south on the highway, causing both vehicles to roll into a ditch.
The driver of the car, 41-year-old Cindy P. Blake, and her passenger, 46-year-old Jeffrey J. Blake, were killed.
The patrol says the truck's driver wasn't hurt.

NATIONAL NEWS

When they say everything is bigger in Texas, they might right. CBS NEWS reports that a mother in Longview gave birth to 16-pound baby over the weekend. Previously she was diagnosed gestational diabetes, which doctors speculate may have been the cause for such a large infant. Along with weighing 16-pounds the baby was measured in length at two feet.

ENTERTAINMENT NEWS

For the second week in a row, “Transformers: Dark of the Moon” is a top the box office. Grossing nearly 50-million dollars over the weekend, the film has now received an estimated amount of 261-million dollars. The third installment of the Transformers series was released in the U.S. on Tuesday June 28th and is the first of trilogy to be show in 3D.

SPORTS

K-STATE JUNIOR LINEBACKER ARTHUR BROWN HAS BEEN NAMED TO THE 2011 BRONKO NAGURSKI TROPHY WATCH LIST. THE TROPHY IS AWARDED EACH YEAR TO THE NATION’S TOP DEFENSIVE PLAYER. BROWN JOINS 86 OTHER PLAYERS ACROSS THE U.S. ON THE LIST AND IS THE FIRST WILDCAT TO BE NAMED TO THE LIST SINCE IAN CAMPBELL IN 2008.

THE ROYALS DROPPED THE FINALE OF THEIR FOUR GAME SERIES WITH THE DETROIT TIGERS YESTERDAY AFTERNOON, 2-1. TIGERS ALL-STAR PITCHER JUSTIN VERLANDER PITCHED NEARLY EIGHT INNINGS GIVING UP ONE RUN AND SITTING DOWN NINE BATTERS. THE ROYALS HAD A CHANCE TO WIN THE BALL GAME IN THE BOTTOM OF THE NINTH, WITH A ERIC HOSMER DOUBLE, BUT HE WAS LATER CAUGHT STEALING THIRD AND MIKE MOUSTAKAS GROUNDED OUT RIGHT AFTER. THE ROYALS WILL HEAD TO MINNESOTA ON THURSDAY FOR A FOUR GAME SET WITH THE TWINS.