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Month: March 2013

KHAZ Country Music News: Kimberly Schlapman Launches Season Two of “Kimberly’s Simply Southern” on Saturday

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khaz kimberly schlapman 20121217Little Big Town‘s Kimberly Schlapman kicks off the second season of her GAC cooking show, Kimberly’s Simply Southern, this Saturday at 1 p.m. Eastern.  She’s lined up an impressive list of stars to join her behind the counter this season including Josh Turner, Jerrod Niemann, Dustin Lynch, Martina McBride, Craig Morgan and Sunny Sweeney as well as her LBT band mate Karen Fairchild.  Playing host to her famous friends is a big perk of hosting the show for Kimberly.

“I like having people in the kitchen with me, and I like talking to them about what they’re doing,” Kimberly tells ABC News Radio.  “I like talking about how they grew up and how they grew up with food, and did they grow up cooking and did they grow up watching their grandmother cook?  I love the stories that we find out.”

Kimberly has to actually memorize each recipe and cook it all while she’s paying attention to the camera and making her guests feel welcome.  It’s a lot to juggle, and Kimberly is thankful her producers are in the next room to keep her in line during filming.

She says, “I think I’m getting a little bit better at it, but still, sometimes they yell at me from the other side of the wall, ‘You forgot the cloves!’  You know, stuff like that.”

In addition to cooking in the kitchen, Kimberly also gets out into the wild with a trip into a Florida citrus grove this season. She also harvests oysters in Washington State, handcrafts chocolate in Brooklyn and milks cows in Georgia on upcoming episodes.

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Sweeping Anti-Abortion Bill Approved

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A Kansas House committee has approved a sweeping anti-abortion bill that prevents groups providing abortion services from being involved in the state’s public schools.Abortion 001

The measure approved Thursday by the Federal and State Affairs Committee also is aimed at ensuring the state doesn’t subsidize abortions even indirectly through tax exemptions or credits.

The committee’s voice vote sends the measure to the entire House for debate.

The bill would prevent abortion providers from distributing information for schools’ sex education courses. It also says no school employee or educational service provider could provide abortion services.

Republican Allan Rothlisberg wanted to go further and ban abortion providers or their employees from even volunteering at public schools, but his fellow committee members didn’t endorse the idea.

Boldra Carries Ed Bill

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Rep. Sue Boldra on WednesdayBoldra 2 carried an education bill on the House Floor.

A member of the House Education Committee, Rep. Boldra carried House Bill 2319 during Thursday’s General Orders. To “carry” a bill means the legislator from the committee of origination explains the bill to the entire body, then stands for questions from members.

“Representative Boldra did a fantastic job carrying the bill today,” said House Speaker Ray Merrick (R-Stilwell). “The debate was lengthy, but Rep. Boldra answered questions and did a great job representing and explaining the bill.”

House Bill creates the Innovative Districts Act, which would allow 10 school districts in Kansas to form plans to create special curriculum and education systems outside of current laws and regulation. The bill would give the districts a lot of flexibility to operate new programs.

The House gave initial approval to the bill Thursday on a voice vote. Representative Boldra is currently serving her first term in the Kansas House of Representatives. She is a longtime educator and professor.

Despite Snow, All of Kansas Still in Drought

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droughth monitor march 5This week’s Kansas map From the U-S Drought Monitor:

Despite heavy snow across most of Kansas the last week of February, the entire state still remains in either Severe, Extreme, or Exceptional Drought.

Ellis County is listed as Extreme, except for the very western edge of the county which is listed as Exceptional.

The U.S. Drought Monitor is produced in partnership between the National Drought Mitigation Center at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, the United States Department of Agriculture, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

 

 

Tigers Defeat Missouri Southern, Move on to MIAA Semifinals

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FHSU-MBB-Congiusta MIAAThe Fort Hays State Tigers outscored Missouri Southern 28-12 over the final 11:23 and beat the Lions 79-60 in the quarterfinals of the MIAA tournament in Kansas City Thursday. It’s the Tigers third-straight win an improves them to 20-7. The Lions end their season at 13-15. Fort Hays State will face Northwest Missouri State in the semifinals Saturday at noon. The Bearcats held off Northeastern State 69-65 in the second game Thursday.

Fort Hays State trailed by six early then went on a 25-11 run to go up eight. They pushed the lead to 13 a little over five minutes into the second half, but the Lions rallied and pulled within three at 51-48 before the Tigers decisive run.

The Tigers had four in double figures, led by Craig Nicholson with 19. Ben Congiusta, who was 4-4 from three-point range in the first half, finished with 17. Carson Konrade added 15 and a season-high eight rebounds while Lance Russell added 12, all in the second half.

FHSU vs. Missouri Southern Game Highlights

Mark Johnson Post Game Press Conference

Players Postgame Interview

Indictments in FIre that Killed KSU Researcher

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Federal prosecutors today charged two people with arson resulting in death after a fire last month at the Lee Crest Apartments in Manhattan.

Court documents filed late Wednesday charge Patrick Martin Scahill and Virginia Amanda Griese in the Feb. 6 fire that killed 34-year-old Vasanta Pallem, a postdoctoral researcher in chemical engineering at Kansas State Universitycrime-scene-yellow-tape4.

Court records do not list defense attorneys for the defendants.

The federal grand jury that returned the indictment also found that the defendants acted in reckless disregard for human life during the commission of the crime of arson. The grand jury also found that they also created a “grave risk of death” to others besides the victim.

FHSU Men Wear High Heels for a Cause

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WALKINGMen from Fort Hays State University fraternities will host the fifth annual “Walk-A-Mile in Her Shoes” philanthropy event Monday night at 6:00 in Cody Commons in the Memorial Union to raise money and awareness for the victims of sexual and domestic abuse.
All proceeds from the event will go to Options Domestic and Sexual Violence Services, a Hays-based organization that provides a variety of services to the victims of sexual and physical abuse in western and central Kansas.
The night will conclude with the men walking the ceremonial one-mile walk through the FHSU campus while wearing high heels in honor of the victims of these crimes.
This event is open to the public.

Hays Firefighters Train for Multistory Building Fires

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HFDMembers of the Hays Fire Department are in the second day of training on the top floor of the downtown Emprise Bank building.

Crews are practicing procedures to attack a fire in a multistory building.

Large and tall buildings, such as the six-story bank building,  are equipped with built-in water mains supplying interior “fire hydrants, ” according to Lieutenant Ryan Hagans.

“We hook-up a two-and-a-half inch line outside and an additional attack crew takes 150 foot of hose inside, hooks it up to the inside hydrant and then stretches the hose throughout the building,” he explains.

The firefighters use the fire exit stairs, and have to estimate the reach of the hose and its proper deployment and management on an upper floor.

Business is going on as usual at Emprise Bank and the other building tenants during the drill.  “When we don’t have access to a multistory building,” says Hagans, “we have training props at the station for practices several times a year.”

The third and final training starts at 9a.m. Friday.

 

 

 

 

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KHAZ Country Music News: Blake Shelton, Luke Bryan, George Strait and More Performing on the ACM Awards

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acm_stepRepeat_tunein_logo_041212Blake Shelton and Luke Bryan will not only co-host the Academy of Country Music Awards next month, they’ll also perform on the show.

Miranda Lambert, Kelly Clarkson, George Strait, Hunter Hayes and The Band Perry are joining the performance lineup too.

The ACM Awards broadcast live from Las Vegas April 7 on CBS.

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Hearing Continued for Great Bend Woman Charged in Honor Flight Theft

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HonorFlight_logoGREAT BEND, Kan. (AP) – A Great Bend woman charged with stealing from a group that flew World War II veterans to Washington D.C. had her preliminary hearing continued until April 10.

LaVeta Miller is charged with two counts of theft by deception for allegedly stealing more than $100,000 from the Central Prairie Honor Flights program.

After a day of testimony Wednesday, the preliminary hearing was continued until April because of the attorneys’ scheduling conflicts.

The program raised nearly $1.2 million to take 1,100 WWII vets to Washington. But Miller canceled two Honor Flights in June because she said there was a shortage of funds. Central Prairie Honor Flights was disbanded around the time Miller was fired last July 1.

Miller was released from jail on a $20,000 bond.

Kansas Man Charged With Killing 4-Year-Old Boy

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Screen Shot 2013-03-07 at 10.30.45 AMAuthorities in northeast Kansas say a 27-year-old Hiawatha man is charged in the death of a 4-year-old boy.

Brown County Prosecutor Kevin Hill says Lee Davis IV, also known as Jimmy Davis, was charged with first-degree murder and felony abuse of the child, who died Tuesday.

Davis is being held on $2 million bond and is expected to have a lawyer formally appointed for him Thursday or Friday.

The child was taken by air ambulance from Hiawatha Community Hospital on Sunday to Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, where he died Tuesday.

A preliminary hearing for Davis has been set for March 13.

KHAZ Country Music News: Tim McGraw’s Rep Shoots Down Report He Has a Secret Son

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khaz tim mcgraw 20120807Tim McGraw‘s rep is shooting down reports he has a “secret son.” A 23-year-old student named Tyler Zarbo claims to The National Enquirer Tim was once engaged to his mom, Kristine Donahue, and helped her raise him while they were together. Zarbo also claims Tim continued a relationship with him once he broke up with Donahue and says Tim kept that relationship secret from his wife Faith Hill.

Tim’s rep tells People that’s just not true.

“The National Enquirer story is full of inaccuracies and misrepresentations about Tim and Faith,” says the rep. “We aren’t going to comment on false statements that appear to have been sensationalized for the purpose of selling tabloid magazines.”

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