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Month: November 2013

Three injured, one facing D.U.I. charge

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Photo from Saline County Sheriff’s Office
Photo from Saline County Sheriff’s Office

No one seriously injured in a pickup crash Tuesday night, but the driver will face criminal charges that include driving under the influence.

Saline County Deputies were sent to the area of Brookville around 9:00p.m. after residents called dispatch to report a man left a home intoxicated in a blue pickup with his family.

A short time later a deputy found the pickup on it’s top in the 10,000 block of K-140 highway near Reese Road.

It appeared the pickup had rolled twice coming to rest in a ditch. The driver 24-year-old Alexander Mills, 22 year-old Kristen Mills, and 1-year-old Adelyn Mills, all of Salina suffered minor injures.

Alexander Mills was taken by EMS to Salina Regional Hospital for further evaluation.

He was then taken to jail and booked in on requested charges of D.U.I. , domestic battery, endangering a child, and no proof of insurance.

 

Kansas man dies in industrial accident

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police-lights.jpg(AP) — An employee of a Hutchinson business died after he was hit in the head by a steel gas cylinder while at work.

Hutchinson police say they were called to Hutchinson Airgas Tuesday afternoon. Police Detective Cory Ogburn says a valve on an oxygen cylinder malfunctioned, making the nearly 2-foot bottle spin “like a helicopter blade.”

Another employee suffered a minor injury to his lower leg.

The company offered condolences in a statement Wednesday but declined to release the employee’s name.

The business was closed Wednesday while the accident is investigated.

Monday Police Activity Log

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The Hays Police Department conducted 10 traffic stops and received 10 animal calls Monday November 4th according to the Police Activity Log.

Abandoned Vehicle

  • 1:49 AM – Abandoned Vehicle reported in the 400 block of Elm St
  • 1:56 AM – Abandoned Vehicle reported in the 300 block of W 17th St
  • 9:32 PM – Abandoned Vehicle reported in the 400 block of Riley St

Animal Call

  • 7:10 AM – Lost Animals reported in the 2800 block of Indian Trl
  • 10:57 AM – Animal At Large reported in the 2300 block of Downing Ave
  • 1:15 PM – Animal At Large reported in the 500 block of Vine St
  • 2:21 PM – Animal At Large reported in the 1200 block of Maple St
  • 5:04 PM – Animal Call reported in the 3700 block of Fairway Dr

MV Accident

  • 12:00 AM – MV Accident-City Street/Alley reported in the 1200 block of Canterbury Dr
  • 5:55 PM – MV Accident-Personal Injury reported in the 1700 block of Vine St
  • 8:58 PM – MV Accident-Private Property reported in the 3800 block of Vine St

Found / Lost Property

  • 10:00 AM – Found/Lost Property reported in the 100 block of W 12th St
  • 3:05 PM – Found/Lost Property reported in the 1300 block of Vine St

Mental Health Call

  • 8:58 AM – Mental Health Call reported in the 1000 block of W 28th St

Warrant Service

  • 12:56 PM – Warrant Service (Fail to Appear) reported in the 100 block of W 12th St

Driving While Suspended

  • 11:39 AM – Driving While Suspended/Revoked reported in the 200 block of E 20th St

Misc. Investigation

  • 2:50 PM – Miscellaneous Investigation reported in Hays no address block listed

Attempt to Locate

  • 8:56 PM – Attempt to Locate reported in the 700 block of Junction Ave, Wakeeney

Disturbance

  • 10:29 PM – Disturbance – Noise reported in the 200 block of W 5th St

KHAZ Country Music News: Dolly Parton Will Be A Hologram

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khaz dolly parton 20120813PIGEON FORGE, Tenn. (AP) – So far holograms have been used in concerts to bring dead musicians back to life on stage. This time, it’s to show Dolly Parton as a ghost. Parton’s hologram will play the Ghost of Christmas Past in “A Christmas Carol” at her Dollywood resort in Pigeon Forge, Tennessee, starting on Saturday. The holograms of other actors will be used to portray the Ghost of Christmas Present, the Ghost of Christmas Future and Jacob Marley. Parton says she thought it was crazy when she was told she was going to be turned into a hologram, but when she saw it on stage, she couldn’t believe it.

 

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Science Cafe is “For the Birds”

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gellasBird migrations across the seasons, with a focus on their wonders and risks, will be the subject of the next Science Café, at 7 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 7, at Gella’s Diner, 117 E. 11th.

“Changing Seasons — Migration Marvels and Migration Risks” is sponsored by Fort Hays State University’s Science and Mathematics Education Institute, directed by Dr. Paul Adams, SMEI director and FHSU’s Anschutz Professor of Education and a professor of physics.

The café will inform the audience on the complexities of certain birds’ migration patterns, the “wonders of long-distance travel by tiny creatures,” according to café host Dr. Greg Farley, a professor of biological sciences.  “Kansas is a good place to witness the annual event.”  He will also bring the greatest risk in contemporary avian migration: a housecat.  The Smithsonian Institute estimates that between 1.4 to 3.7 billion birds are killed by cats per year.

Instead of one professor delivering a long speech, the format of the event allows lively discussion in an open forum. Admission for the Science Café is free.  The café will be in the back room at Gella’s.

Supreme Court hears case on prayer

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Supreme Court 001(AP) — The Supreme Court is wrestling with the appropriate role for religion in government in a case involving prayers at the start of a New York town’s council meetings.

The justices engaged in a lively give-and-take Wednesday that highlighted the sensitive nature of offering religious invocations in public proceedings that don’t appeal to everyone and of governments’ efforts to police the practice.

The court is weighing a federal appeals court ruling that said the Rochester suburb of Greece, N.Y., violated the Constitution because nearly every prayer in an 11-year span was overtly Christian.

The tenor of the argument indicated the justices would not agree with the appellate ruling. But it was not clear what decision they might come to instead.

First Assistant U.S. Attorney Appointed for Kansas

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Tom Beall has been appointed First Assistant, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said today.

As First Assistant, Beall will be the second in command of the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the District of Kansas, which comprises approximately 50 Assistant U.S. Attorneys and 50 support staff members working in offices in Topeka, Kansas City, Kan., and Wichita.

Beall joined Grissom’s staff as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in April 2011. A Leavenworth native, Beall served as chief deputy to Kansas Attorney General Steve Six. He previously spent eight years in private practice in Leavenworth and Topeka. He currently is an adjunct instructor at Washburn Law School teaching advanced trial advocacy.

Beall graduated in 2000 from the Washburn University School of Law after earning a master’s degree in public administration from Kansas State University and a bachelor’s degree from Baker University.

Baby’s Body Found Encased in Concrete

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police(AP) – Police in a northwest Missouri town are investigating the discovery of a newborn baby’s body encased in concrete.

Police Chief Robert Driscoll says the baby’s body was found in a residential garage on Monday. He did not provide the baby’s gender or details of the child’s death.

No one has been arrested.

Driscoll says officers went to the home as part of a stolen vehicle and drug investigation.  While there, officers learned that a child who was born at the home in early October did not survive.

Driscoll says the parents are cooperating with investigators. The child’s mother is in the hospital.

Four children in the home are now staying with a grandmother.

Voting Open for Don’t Spoil It

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ks dont spoil it logoThe Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) has opened voting on student artwork entries to be featured in the 2014 Kansas Don’t Spoil It Calendar. Thousands of students from all over Kansas submitted artwork to KDHE to encourage all Kansans to be good environmental stewards.

KDHE has narrowed the entries to five per grade level. Voters across the state will choose the winning entry for each grade. Winning students will be invited to the state Capitol in December. They, along with their families and teachers, will meet Governor Sam Brownback and have their pictures taken.

“This is a popular student contest that has been running for 15 years,” said Bill Bider, Director of KDHE’s Bureau of Waste Management. “We encourage Kansans to take a few minutes to enjoy these fun and inspiring entries and to show their support for these students by casting votes for their favorites.”

Cast votes here: 2014 KDSI Calendar Selection

The last step in the online voting will show the choices the voter has made and ask for a final selection for the calendar cover.

Voting ends Friday, Nov. 8.

KHAZ Country Music News: George Strait Voted For Himself

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khaz george strait 20130312NASHVILLE (AP) – George Strait knows he got one vote for entertainer of the year at the Country Music Association Awards. He voted for himself. Strait says he had a great year and any time he gets nominated it’s special, but he’s still nervous. He’s competing for that award against Taylor Swift, Jason Aldean, Luke Bryan and Blake Shelton — and any of them would be happy if Strait won as well. Swift says Strait let her open his shows when she was just 17 and she still gets a text from him now and then wishing her well. Shelton says two artists will be viewed as having the greatest influence on country music: Hank Williams Senior and Strait. The CMAs will be tonight in Nashville and air live on ABC.

 

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Cash for Candy (VIDEO)

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More than 100 pounds of Halloween candy was collected in less than an hour during Monday’s Candy Buy Back at Lifetime Dental Care.

Within just 45 minutes Monday evening, Hays dentist Dr. Jeff Lowe, Lifetime Dental Care, paid out $100 for 100 pounds of Halloween candy brought in by youngsters.

Two brothers handed over 23 pounds of treats.  In return, they got cold hard cash, and, new toothbrushes.

“This is the fifth year for our candy buy back program,” says office manager and CFO Jana Lowe.  “It’s also an opportunity to talk to then and their parents about brushing their teeth at least twice a day and watching how much sugar you eat.”

Six-uear-old Alisha picks our her toothbrush after selling her candy for $6.
Six-year-old Alisha picks our her toothbrush after selling her candy for $6.

Six-year-old Alisha is in kindergarten at Wilson Grade School.  She says it wasn’t hard for her to sell her treats, and she already knows where her money is going.

“I’m saving it to buy my doll,” says Alisha.

The collected candy, minus the chocolate, which would melt, will be shipped overseas to Kansas servicemen and women. Lowe wants to “spread the sweets” as much as possible:

You can make your mailing request for the candy through the end of the week at Lifetime Dental.

NW Kansas counties approve student loan repayments

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ks roz logoThe Kansas Department of Commerce has announced that seven additional counties certified by the Kansas Legislature to participate in the Rural Opportunity Zones (ROZ) program have decided to partner with the state in the student loan repayment program.

Allen, Bourbon, Brown, Ellsworth, Nemaha, Osborne and Sheridan counties have voted to provide matching funds to assist qualified new residents with student loan repayments.

The ROZ program allows qualifying individuals who move to a ROZ county to have their state income taxes waived for up to five years. In addition, counties that opt to partner with the state may offer student loan repayments of up to $15,000.

Since July 2011, the Department has received 1,106 applications for participation in the student loan repayment program from residents of 41 states. Education and healthcare are the two largest professions among applicants. More than 80 percent of applicants have family connections to rural Kansas.

For more information about the ROZ program, visit KansasCommerce.com/RuralOpportunityZones.

The following counties have been certified by the Legislature as ROZ counties (italicized counties are 2013 additions):

Allen, Anderson, Barber, Bourbon, Brown, Chase, Chautauqua, Cheyenne, Clark, Clay, Cloud, Coffey, Comanche, Decatur, Doniphan, Edwards, Elk, Ellsworth, Gove, Graham, Grant, Gray, Greeley, Greenwood, Hamilton, Harper, Haskell, Hodgeman, Jackson, Jewell, Kearny, Kingman, Kiowa, Lane, Lincoln, Linn, Logan, Marion, Marshall, Meade, Mitchell, Morris, Morton, Nemaha, Neosho, Ness, Norton, Osborne, Ottawa, Pawnee, Phillips, Pratt, Rawlins, Republic, Rice, Rooks, Rush, Russell, Scott, Sheridan, Sherman, Smith, Stafford, Stanton, Stevens, Trego, Thomas, Wabaunsee, Wallace, Washington, Wichita, Wilson and Woodson.

Poor temperament adversely affects profit

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Stacy Campbell
K-State Research & Extension

October hasKSU research & extension traditionally been weaning and culling time for spring-calving herds. This is a time when producers decide which cows no longer are helpful to the operation and which heifer calves will be kept for future replacements. Selecting against ill-tempered cattle has always made good sense. Wild cattle are hard on equipment, people, other cattle, and now we know that they are hard on the bottom line.

Mississippi State University researchers used a total of 210 feeder cattle consigned by 19 producers in a “Farm to Feedlot” program to evaluate the effect of temperament on performance, carcass characteristics, and net profit. Temperament was scored on a 1 to 5 scale (1=nonaggressive, docile; 5=very aggressive, excitable). Three measurements were used: pen score, chute score, and exit velocity. Measurements were taken on the day of shipment to the feedlot. Exit velocity is an evaluation of temperament that is made electronically by measuring the speed at which the animal leaves the confinement of the chute. Exit velocity and pen scores were highly correlated. As pen scores increased, so did exit velocity. As pen score and exit velocity increased, health treatments costs and number of days treated increased, while average daily gain and final body weight decreased. This outcome makes perfect sense. Other studies have shown that excitable temperament can diminish immune responsiveness, with more temperamental calves having a reduced response to vaccination when compared with calm calves.

In the Mississippi study, as pen temperament score increased, net profit per head tended to decline. Pen temperament scores and net profits per head were as follows: 1=$121.89; 2=$100.98; 3=$107.18; 4=$83.75; 5=$80.81. Although feed and cattle price relationships have changed since this data was collected, one would expect similar impacts from the temperaments of cattle under today’s economic situation.

“Heritability” is the portion of the differences in a trait that can be attributed to genetics. The heritability of temperament in beef cattle has been estimated to range from 0.36 to 0.45. This moderate level of heritability indicates that real progress can be made by selecting against wild cattle. Whether we are marketing our calf crop at weaning or retaining ownership throughout the feedlot phase, wild, excitable cattle are expensive to own and raise.

Feeding distillers grains to cattle
Infrequent delivery did not affect cow performance
Infrequent feeding did not negatively affect cow performance
At the Agricultural Research Center in Hays beef scientists John Jaeger and Justin Waggoner conducted a study in which pregnant Angus-cross cows were fed Dried Distillers Grain Solubles (DDGS) as a protein supplement daily, every 3 days, or every 6 days from December 27, 2011, through March 20, 2012. All cows were maintained together in a common native range pasture, sorted daily for feeding, and provided the equivalent of 0.5 lb crude protein/cow per day in the form of DDGS (29.5% crude protein). Cow body weight and body condition scores were collected every 28 days throughout the duration of the study.
The Bottom Line: Supplementing cows with protein as infrequently as every 6 days did not negatively affect cow body weight or body condition score. Producers can reduce cost using DDGS as an inexpensive protein source and can reduce labor and fuel costs with infrequent delivery. View the complete research report at www.asi.ksu.edu/cattlemensday.
If you have any questions contact your local County Extension Office or John Jaeger (785-625-3425; [email protected]) & Justin Waggoner (620-275-9164; [email protected]).

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