Check your medicine cabinet for expired prescriptions. This weekend the Ellis County Drug Enforcement Unit will offer an opportunity to dispose of those medications safely.
U.S. Attorney for Kansas Barry Grissom says this is important because prescription drug abuse is on the rise.
Unused or expired medications can be taken to the north parking lot of the Ellis County Law Enforcement Center on September 29th from 10am to 2pm.
Scarce mental health resources across Kansas are swelling the ranks of local jails with inmates who might be better served in psychiatric institutions.
Jails in Johnson and Shawnee counties have special pods for prisoners with mental illnesses, but no such facilities exist in the state’s second most-populated county.
The Wichita Eagle reports Sedgwick County Sheriff Robert Hinshaw, who lost his re-election bid in August, has been pushing for years to build a dedicated pod for inmates with mental illnesses.
But with expected first-year operating costs pegged at $750,000 in 2009, no funding has been provided for such a pod.
Hinshaw says the average length of stay in Sedgwick County’s jail is 28 days, but for 49 inmates he would house in a special pod, the average is 165 days.
(AP) – Toby Keith is releasing his new album on October 30. “Hope On The Rocks” is the follow up to his all-genre No. 1 album “Clancy’s Tavern.” The new album includes the already released single “I Like Girls That Drink Beer.”
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A Dodge City girl has died and five other people were injured in a rollover accident in southwest Kansas.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reports that the child, Esella Vasquez, died after the vehicle she was in swerved into oncoming traffic, rolled and landed in a ditch. The accident occurred Saturday afternoon on U.S. 50 about 14 miles west of Cimarron
The highway patrol says the injured were taken to hospitals in the area and in Wichita.
The patrol says child killed in the accident was not wearing a seatbelt.
The abrupt demise of a popular state program that helped Kansas communities revitalize their downtowns has left officials in many cities disappointed and perplexed.
State Commerce Secretary Pat George announced the immediate shutdown of the 27-year-old Kansas Main Street program in an email Thursday to directors of the 25 local Main Street programs around the state. George said the move was part of a department restructuring.
Kansas Main Street offered training sessions, technical guidance and zero-interest matching loans for small-business development.
In northeastern Kansas, Holton Main Street executive director Bob Carlson said the loans kept some small towns from drying up commercially. Carlson says most of the local programs will continue to exist, but the training and guidance from the state program will be missed.
Some Kansas winery owners are concerned about a new state law that cuts the percentage of Kansas-grown ingredients that wineries are required to have in their products.
The new law went into effect in May and cuts the amount of Kansas products required in Kansas wine from 60 percent to 30 percent. The new provision applies to a winery’s overall products, rather than each bottle. Under the law it would be acceptable, for example, for a winery to make one type of wine using 100 percent Kansas grapes and two other types with no Kansas grapes.
The Lawrence Journal-World reports supporters say lessening restrictions promotes growth of Kansas wineries.
Opponents say fostering regionality in the wine is more important than spurring large numbers of new wineries.
The Tiger football team fell to the 7th-ranked Griffons of Missouri Western by a score of 21-3 in Hays on Saturday evening. It was the third straight ranked opponent for the Tigers, who fell to 0-4 overall and 0-4 in the MIAA with the loss. Missouri Western moved to 4-0 overall and 3-0 in the MIAA.
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Fort Hays State did a much better job of keeping its defense off the field by putting together time-consuming drives in the first quarter. They had the ball for 9:22 in the opening frame of the game to keep the high-powered Griffon offense off the field. Missouri Western scored a touchdown on its first drive of the game on a 19-yard pass from Travis Partridge to Kyle Knox and led 7-0 at the end of the first quarter.
Fort Hays State freshman kicker Drew O’Brein pulled the Tigers within four at the 11:51 mark of the second quarter with a 48-yard field goal, the longest of his young college career. It also tied the eighth-longest field goal in FHSU history.
After the field goal, the Griffons put together a methodical 11-play drive that took 5:29 to push its lead to 14-3. Partridge found Tarrell Downing for a 17-yard touchdown pass with 6:18 remaining in the opening half.
The Tigers moved inside the Griffon 40-yardline three times in the second half, but every time fumbled the ball ending in turnovers. Missouri Western sealed the game with a 1-yard run for a touchdown by Partridge at the 11:32 mark of the fourth quarter, ending a 12-play, 81-yard drive.
Addie Brown led the Tiger rushing attack with 87 yards on 11 carries. Tarean Austin completed 17-of-30 passes for 112 yards and ran for 45 yards on 11 attempts. Grant Brown and Addie Brown each had three receptions.
Layton Hickel led the Tiger defense with 10 tackles. Aaron Burton, Basil Bandy, Austin Hubert and Tyler Richards and all had sacks in the game and Keke Paul had the lone Tiger interception. The Tigers held Missouri Western to 427 yards of total offense, the first opponent the Tigers have held under 500 yards this year.
Michael Hill, one of the top rushers in Division II, had 198 yards on the ground for the Griffons on 26 carries. Travis Partridge was 13-of-24 passing in the game with two touchdowns and a rushing touchdown to his credit. Mike Jordan and Marc Harrison led the Griffon defense with six tackles.
Fort Hays State goes on the road next week to Truman (3-1, 2-1 MIAA). The game is set for 1 pm on Saturday (Sept. 29) in Kirksville, Mo.
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by Randy Picking ~ Salina Post
Two Nebraska residents are killed Saturday morning when the car they were in was struck by a train in northern Kansas.
According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, A BNSF train with 99 cars was northbound about a mile north of Webber in Jewell County, when it a 2002 Suzuki as it exited a Farm Entrance Drive and crossed the tracks.
The driver of the car 43 year old Tracy Core of Lincoln Nebraska , and 22 year old Bradley G Cusatis Jr. of Beatrice Nebraska were killed.
The crash occurred about 10:30am.
No one on the train was injured.
Hays, Kansas – Rosetta R. “Rose” Jordan, age 85, died Monday, September 10, 2012, at Hays Medical Center, Hays, and Kansas.
She was born June 15, 1927, in West Chicago, ILL. to Harry and Anna Florence (Dykes) Gilmore.
She married Lawrence R. Jordan on March 8, 1947, in Kentucky. He died March 11, 2008.
She was involved in food services and the restaurant business most of her live. She opened the Pheasant Run Restaurant in Hays, Kansas, in 1982, and is in operation today by her son and daughter-in-law. She lived in Hays for 15 years then moved to Green Valley, AZ. and was involved in starting a restaurant there. She a her husband retired in 2007, and moved to Broken Arrow, OK. She recently moved back to Hays, Kansas, to live with her son. Survivors include two sons, Randy Jordan and wife, Sue, Hays, KS; Richard Jordan, Springfield, ILL; one daughter, Linda Burkhart, Broken Arrow, OK; eight grandchildren, Randy Jordan Jr. Scott Jordan, Stephanie Nance, Heather Jordan, Heidi Farris, Heath Jordan, Brian Mongeon, Michelle Wilson; 25 great grandchildren and 2 great great grandchildren.
She was preceded in death by her parents, husband, and one daughter, Vicki Jordan.
A celebration of her life will be held from 2:30 to 3:30 P.M. Saturday, October 6, 2012, at the Pheasant Run Restaurant 3201 Vine Street, Hays, Kansas.
In lieu of flowers the family suggest donations to the American Cancer Society in memory of Vicki Jordan. Cline’s Mortuary of Hays, 1919 East 22nd Street, Hays, Kansas 67601 is in care of services.
Condolences can be sent via e-mail to [email protected].
Listen to Mike Cooper interviewing Suzanne Bollig, Manager of the Sleep and Neurodiagnostic Institute at HaysMed, by clicking the link below.
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The stalled plan for the National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility in Kansas may be regaining traction in Washington, D.C.
Gov. Sam Brownback says he’s encouraged by reports that the Department of Homeland Security is eager to discuss releasing $40 million for a utility plant for the $1 billion NBAF lab. It would research foot-and-mouth and other dangerous animal diseases that can be passed to humans.
Progress has slowed since a site next to Kansas State in Manhattan was chosen in 2008.
Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., brought up the delay in releasing federal funding for NBAF construction during a Senate committee hearing Wednesday.
The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano responded by telling Moran the agency proposed meeting with Kansas officials to discuss NBAF cost issues.
A spokeswoman says officials at Kansas’ Wolf Creek nuclear power plant take safety seriously and have corrected a problem that led to a January shutdown.
Jenny Hageman commented Friday after the Nuclear Regulatory Commission said it dropped its rating for the plant in the east-central Kansas town of Burlington. The NRC says it plans additional inspections.
The Jan. 13 shutdown followed a loss of off-site power. The NRC blames an electrical short caused by improper wiring.
Hageman says the plant’s operators did extensive inspections to make sure a similar problem did not exist elsewhere.
NRC spokesman Victor Dricks says the agency has dropped Wolf Creek into its third-lowest rated category of licensed nuclear reactors. Only seven other of the nation’s 104 reactors have the same or a lower rating.
Students and the community have a great opportunity to volunteer for the second annual Paint-A-Thon hosted by the Fort Hays State University Tigers in Service and the Hays Rotary Club on Saturday, Sept. 29.
Two houses in Hays have been selected to be painted. Volunteers can sign up for one of two shifts, 8 a.m. to noon and 1 p.m. to 5 p.m. Volunteers have the option to put together teams within organizations.
“We seek applications from people in the community,” said Greg Sund, Hays Rotary Club president-elect. “We review the applications and have people do an on-site visit to learn the condition of the homes and whether this program is the appropriate solution.”
“The Rotary Club has two missions. One is community improvement through programs like this and education programs for children and adults. The other is an International mission to encourage clubs to form relationships with Rotarians in other parts of the world to complete improvement projects throughout the world,” said Sund.
Applications to volunteer are due Friday, Sept. 21, in Custer Hall, room 202. For more information, contact Tigers in Service at 785-628-5537 or [email protected].
