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Kansas State basketball guard Ques Glover out again after reinjuring his knee

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January 3, 2024

Kansas State basketball guard Ques Glover out again after reinjuring his knee

MANHATTAN — Just when Kansas State basketball coach Jerome Tang was about to add some needed depth for the Big 12 schedule, the Wildcats suffered another blow.

Veteran guard Ques Glover, out since hurting his knee in the Wildcats’ exhibition game against Emporia State back in November, reaggravated the injury in practice this week, possibly ending his season.

“He came back, we came back, and we had a full team out there at practice and it looked pretty good,” Tang said of Glover following the Wildcats’ 62-55 victory over Chicago State on Tuesday night at Bramlage Coliseum. “We worked on some things that we can do with two veteran guards out there that you really can’t do when you don’t have the guard depth.

“It looked pretty good for three, three-and-a-half days and then he had, I don’t know if it was a misstep, a bump or whatever, but it was just one of those freak things. Same knee, same issue.”

Kansas State basketball vs. Chicago State recap: Wildcats hang on for 62-55 victory

Glover, a 6-foot graduate transfer from Samford who also played two years at Florida, was on crutches for Tuesday’s game. At Samford, he averaged 19.2 points as a junior and 14.7 last year as a senior.

Tang did not sound optimistic about Glover’s prognosis going forward.

“I don’t know all the details yet. We have this rule on our staff, no bad news on game day, so they didn’t tell me the whole thing,” Tang said. “And I knew it was bad news because nobody would tell me what the MRI said.

“Just walking up here (to the postgame news conference), I was told that it’s a possible surgery. They didn’t give me the whole detail of everything yet.”

Glover shot 37.8% from 3-point range last year at Samford. The Wildcats made just 3 of 14 from outside the arc against Chicago State.

Kansas State basketball back to work against Chicago State in final nonconference game

The coaches had deliberately taken their time in putting Glover back on the court in order to make sure his knee had fully healed.

“I hurt for him, because he put in so much work in rehab,” Tang said. “I do feel like I’m glad we took as long as we did to bring him back. He could have been back two weeks ago, but had we rushed him, and this happened, then we would have been sitting around going, ‘Oh man, we rushed him back.’

“But we gave him every opportunity for that thing to fully heal, and for some reason it didn’t, or something else happened, and so now it’s on to the next thing. What’s the next thing he has to do? What’s the next thing we have to do?”

The Wildcats now open conference play at 5 p.m. Saturday at home against Central Florida without two key players that started practices on the roster. In addition to Glover, they lost senior forward Nae’Qwan Tomlin in preseason when he was dismissed from the team following his arrest on a disorderly conduct charge in October.

“I’m proud of our nonconference, to go 10-3 and not have two guys that you thought were going to be contributors for you, and dudes just figuring out a way,” Tang said.

Arne Green is based in Salina and covers Kansas State University sports for the Gannett network. He can be reached at agreen@gannett.com or on Twitter at @arnegreen.

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RESULTS: NE Kansas high schools to play Friday after Tuesday sub-state wins

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March 4, 2026

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RESULTS: NE Kansas high schools to play Friday after Tuesday sub-state wins

TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) – Below is a look at the results from Tuesday night’s high school basketball sub-state semifinals in Northeast Kansas.

Editor’s Note: This story will be updated with what schools are hosting when that information becomes readily available.

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BOYS

5A East Boys: Tuesday’s sub-state semifinal results

KC Washington 68, Highland Park 38
Shawnee Heights 49, De Soto 37 (will play Leavenworth Friday)

5A West Boys: Tuesday’s sub-state semifinal results

Topeka West 55, Hutchinson 32 (will play Bishop Carroll Friday)
Emporia 61, Great Bend 41 (will play Maize South Friday)
Seaman 73, Valley Center 51 (will play Hays Friday)

3A West Franklin Boys: Tuesday’s sub-state semifinal results

Burlington 60, Osage City 35 (will play Baxter Springs Friday)

3A Sabetha Boys: Tuesday’s sub-state semifinal results

Hiawatha 73, Oskaloosa 48 (will play Heritage Christian Friday)
Silver Lake 58, Sabetha 39 (will play Perry-Lecompton Friday 7:30 p.m.)

GIRLS

6A West Girls: Tuesday’s sub-state semifinal results

Washburn Rural 60, Wichita South 32 (will play Derby)
Topeka High 69, Maize 45 (will play Liberal)
Manhattan 67, Free State 21 (will play Wichita East)

4A East Girls: Tuesday’s sub-state semifinal results

Rock Creek 71, Parsons 23 (will play Tonganoxie)
Wamego 54, Labette County 33 (will play Bishop Miege)
Hayden 2, Athison 0 (will play Baldwin)

2A Eskridge/Mission Valley Girls: Tuesday’s sub-state semifinal results

Rossville 71, KC Christian 49 (will play Maur Hill-Mount Academy)
Lyndon 61, Jeff. Co. North 31 (will play Valley Heights)
Valley Heights 65, Doniphan West 41 (will play Lyndon)

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Doe v. State of Kansas | American Civil Liberties Union

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March 3, 2026

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Doe v. State of Kansas | American Civil Liberties Union

In early 2026, the Kansas state legislature passed SB 244, a law which prohibits transgender people from using public restrooms on government property that align with their gender identity and establishes a private right of action that allows anyone who suspects someone is transgender and in violation of the law to sue that person for “damages” totaling $1,000.

The law also invalidates state-issued driver’s licenses with updated gender markers that reflect the carrier’s gender identity. In February 2026, transgender people across the state received letters from the state Department of Revenue’s Division of Vehicles informing them that their driver’s licenses “will no longer be valid,” effective immediately. SB 244 also prohibits transgender Kansans – or those born in Kansas – from updating the gender marker on state-issued birth certificates and driver’s licenses in the future.

The same day SB 244 went into effect, the American Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Kansas, and Ballard Spahr LLP filed a lawsuit challenging SB 244 in the District Court of Douglas County on behalf of two transgender men who had their driver’s licenses invalidated under the law. The lawsuit charges that SB 244 violates the Kansas Constitution’s protections for personal autonomy, privacy, equality under the law, due process, and freedom of speech.

“The invalidation of state-issued IDs threatens to out transgender people against their will every time they apply for a job, rent an apartment, or interact with police,” said Harper Seldin, Senior Staff Attorney for the ACLU’s LGBTQ & HIV Rights Project. “Taken as a whole, SB 244 is a transparent attempt to deny transgender people autonomy over their own identities and push them out of public life altogether.”

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Kansas City man sentenced for cocaine trafficking, possession of illegal firearm

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March 3, 2026

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Kansas City man sentenced for cocaine trafficking, possession of illegal firearm

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) – A Kansas City man was sentenced in federal court for his role in a drug trafficking conspiracy and possession of an illegal firearm.

According to the United States District Court for the Western District of Missouri, 22-year-old Antoine R. Gillum was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison without parole.

His sentencing stems from a June 2024 incident in a metro gas station. KCPD investigators contacted Gillum inside and found that he had discarded a 9 mm pistol in an aisle between the merchandise. He also discarded a pill bottle containing multiple illegal substances: cocaine base, oxycodone/acetaminophen and oxycodone.

Officers searched the vehicle Gillum had arrived in and found approximately 32 grams of cocaine base.

On May 6, 2025, Gillum pleaded guilty to one count each of possession with intent to distribute cocaine and possession of a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime.

This case was prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorney Jessica Jennings. It’s a part of ‘Operation Take Back America,’ a nationwide Department of Justice initiative to eliminate cartels and transnational criminal organizations.

No further information has been released.

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