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By DAVE SKRETTA AP Basketball Writer LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Kansas fought its way through arguably the toughest league in college basketball this season, ultimately sharing the Big 12 regular-season title with Baylor before romping past Texas Tech to win the conference tournament. Maybe it’s karma that the Jayhawks could have the easiest path of

By DAVID SMALE Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Rori Harmon scored 20 points and No. 7 Texas beat No. 4 Baylor 67-58 to win the Big 12 Women’s Tournament championship. Harmon, a freshman, was named the tournament’s Most Outstanding Player. Texas also got 14 points from Joanne Allen-Taylor and 12 from Aaliyah Moore.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A 9-year-old boy has died died after being ejected from a car following an accident in Wichita. The accident happened around 10:15 p.m. Saturday. Police responded to the scene of an accident involving three vehicles and pronounced the child dead at the scene. His name has not been released. Police say

EUREKA, Kan. (AP) — One person has died after fire destroyed a home in the small southeastern Kansas town of Eureka. KSNW-TV reports that the fire was reported around 3:15 a.m. Saturday. The fire department says crews arrived to find the home fully engulfed in flames, spreading to a second structure. Details about the victim,

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Relatives have identified the man killed on the job at the site where a new water plant is under construction in Wichita. The Wichita Eagle reports that the victim was 55-year-old Manuel Esparza of Wichita, a superintendent for UCI Industrial Construction Services. The company is a subcontractor on the Wichita Water

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Trial begins Monday for a man accused in a 2019 shooting in Kansas that killed a college football player and wounded a teammate of the victim, a man who now plays in the NFL. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Francisco Mendez is the only person arrested and charged in the case

COMMERCE CITY, Colo. (AP) — Diego Rubio and Mark Anthony Kaye each scored a goal to help the Colorado Rapids beat Sporting Kansas City 2-0. William Yarbrough saved the only shot he faced for the Rapids. 

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Basketball Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Ochai Agbaji was a lightly regarded three-star prospect when he left his home in Kansas City, Missouri, four long years ago to play big-time college basketball just down the road at Kansas. Agbaji returned home this weekend as the Big 12’s player of the

By DAVID SMALE Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Rori Harmon scored 12 of her 30 points in overtime and No. 7 Texas outlasted No. 10 Iowa State 82-73 on Saturday in the Big 12 women’s semifinals. The Longhorns (25-6) will face No. 4 Baylor in the championship game Sunday. Baylor beat No. 21

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Supreme Court has affirmed a sentence given to a man who was pleaded guilty to killing a Junction City woman and her unborn child on Christmas Day in 2018. The court on Friday upheld the sentence of Dion Jamal Green. He pleaded guilty to two counts of felony first-degree

HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — Kansas corrections officials say a Derby man who was convicted of killing his girlfriend and stabbing her son has died in prison. The department says 48-year-old Charles Beck died Friday at a Hutchinson hospital. The cause of his death is being investigated but officials said it is not believed to be

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Basketball Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Mark Adams wasn’t about to use any sort of flowery poetry to describe No. 14 Texas Tech’s 56-55 victory over Oklahoma in the Big 12 Tournament semifinals Friday night, instead describing the entire 40 minutes as “ugly.” Then again, it looks a lot prettier

By AVERY OSEN Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Lauren Ebo tied a career-high 17 points, and No. 7 Texas beat Kansas State 72-65 in the quarterfinals of the Big 12 Tournament. Rori Harmon had 16, Aliyah Matharu scored 15 and Joanne Allen-Taylor added 12 for the Longhorns, who will play No. 10 Iowa

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Basketball Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Ochai Agbaji curled off a screen and was wide open for a rim-rattling ally-oop dunk, the inbound play perfectly executed if only Kansas teammate Dajuan Harris had lofted him the ball in the Big 12 quarterfinals. Harris didn’t make the same mistake against TCU

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Basketball Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Baylor’s NaLyssa Smith deftly stepped into Oklahoma State’s passing lane, secured the steal and then headed the other direction, the Big 12 player of the year all by herself in the open court and with her eyes only on the rim. Up she went

LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) — A 67-year-old rural Linwood man has pleaded to a lesser charge in the shooting death of his girlfriend in 2018. Dan Flannagan pleaded no contest to voluntary manslaughter on Friday. He was originally charged with second-degree murder and was scheduled to go to trial March 21. Prosecutors say Flannagan shot Constance

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Madi Williams had 19 points, 11 rebounds and seven assists, Taylor Robertson also scored 19 points and No. 21 Oklahoma beat Kansas 80-68 to advance to the Big 12 Conference tournament semifinals. Fourth-seeded Oklahoma, which picked up its first conference tournament victory since 2016, avenged a 73-67 loss at home