A little over a week after manager Ned Yost said they would not send Mike Moustakas down to the minors, the Kansas City Royals announced today that the struggling third baseman is being optioned to Omaha. Infielder/outfielder Jimmy Paredes will be recalled prior to Friday’s game in Anaheim.
Moustakas, who only made one pinch-hit appearance in the recently completed series with the Chicago White Sox, is hitting just .152 (19-for-125) in 40 games this season.
The 25-year-old Paredes has played in four games with the Royals this season, going 0-for-1 with two runs scored and two stolen bases as a pinch runner. He is hitting .327 (35-for-107) with 4 doubles, 2 triples, 3 homers and 17 RBI in 26 games with the Storm Chasers.
On May 17, Hays Police Department officers conducted DUI saturation patrols in an effort to deter and decrease the number of impaired and intoxicated drivers on the street.
This extra enforcement effort was conducted between 11 p.m. and 3 a.m. As a result, 16 traffic stops were conducted. Six drivers were tested resulting in four driving under the influence arrests. Two drug possession arrests also were made.
A violation was written for no driver’s license, along with one speeding, seven hazardous moving violations, and six defective equipment violations.
The event was conducted in accordance with the Kansas Department of Transportation’s Impaired Driving Deterrence Program.
The Hays Police Department would like to remind and encourage individuals who go out and drink to call Safe Ride at (785) 621-2580 or have a Designated Driver to help you get home safely.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The House has passed a bill to end the National Security Agency’s bulk collection of American phone records. It’s the first legislative response to the disclosures by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden, and the Senate is expected to take it up. But civil liberties activists and technology companies say the bill doesn’t go nearly far enough.
The USA Freedom Act tracks a proposal made in January by President Barack Obama, who said he wanted to end the NSA’s practice of collecting the “to and from” records of nearly every American landline telephone call.
The bill requires the phone companies to keep the records for 18 months — something they already were doing— and allows the NSA to search for connections to terrorist plots abroad in response to a court order.
NEW YORK (AP) — Authorities say a man stole a New York City bakery truck and began delivering loaves of bread to random businesses.
Police say David Bastar hopped into the Grimaldi’s Home of Bread truck on Manhattan’s Upper East Side early Monday while the real driver was making a delivery at a pizzeria.
Wearing only his underwear, Bastar then allegedly began dropping off baguettes, whole-wheat rolls and sourdough bread — but not to the bakery’s customers.
Joe Grimaldi is the owner of the Queens bakery. He says the bandit “dropped a lot of bread” worth about $5,000.
He says the bakery later accommodated all its customers.
Bastar, of Nanuet, has been taken to a hospital for evaluation. He faces charges of criminal possession of stolen goods. It wasn’t immediately clear whether he had a lawyer.
What makes me, an amateur writer, think I can get across to readers there’s a monumental story out there that’s not getting coverage; a scandal that mainstream media doesn’t want to go near? Unfortunately for this country, there are a lot of people who don’t care to know, but worse, are those who want to know and just aren’t getting the word.
Les Knoll
Over a year and half ago Islamic extremists attacked our overseas consulate in Benghazi of Libya and killed four Americans, one of them Ambassador Christopher Stevens, but MSM treats it as a non-story.
Fast forward to May, 2014. With numerous congressional House committee investigations and hearings for months on end, there are still more questions than answers to what happened on 9/11/2012, the 11th anniversary of the deadliest terrorist attack on American soil ever.
Should we care that four Americans, serving our country, were killed by Islamic extremists? Should we be concerned that not one terrorist to date has been brought to justice and it’s not as if we don’t know who was involved?
How do you suppose the families of the four who died feel as they still wait for some word from the White House and State Department about what really happened?
It is clear that the attack was not something that happened spontaneously. It was clearly planned by terrorists. However, it is also clear that Obama and then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton misled Americans that an anti Islamic video caused a spontaneous demonstration. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Why were Americans misled? It is also clear that with Obama’s re-election weeks away terrorist groups, particularly al-Qaeda, were supposed to be decimated and on the run. With the capture and death of Osama bin Laden, the president wanted Americans to go to the polls thinking Islamic terrorists were no longer a problem.
Readers, at this point, might ask “Les, why should this be such a big story?” The big story is that the lives of four great Americans took a back seat to Obama and Hillary’s politics! What a huge travesty!
It’s all about a huge cover-up, greater than Watergate, as I see it! Nobody died with the Watergate scandal, yet President Nixon resigned. And, I say it is Obama who is making this the biggest story even though he wants it to go away. If, I ask, “Mr. President, if there’s no cover up, there’s no wrong doing, why don’t you lay it out there for all to see what really is the truth? You have been stonewalling. Congress subpoenas documents and you ignore the subpoenas. Why?”
A smoking gun email was secured recently by a private source called Judicial Watch, an email Congress was unable to secure from the White House. Why is current Secretary of State John Kerry stonewalling? He said at the outset of his new job all documents requested by House committees would be forthcoming. Guess what?
“The smoking gun email Mr. President by your staff member Ben Rhodes, instructed UN Ambassador Susan Rice to go on five TV shows and blame it on a video and not Islamic terrorists. CIA knew from the get go it was a terrorist attack and never ever referred to a video. Why, the lie Mr. President and for many days after?
“Why not come clean about where you were and what you were doing during the eight-hour attack? Where was Hillary? Why the secrecy? Why would you and Hillary be completely incognito for eight hours? Why were military stand-bys told to stand down when there was the possibility of helping the four who ended up dying? Why did Hillary turn a blind eye to the many requests by Ambassador Stevens for more security months prior to the attack?”
How ironic, Democrats are accusing Republicans of using this story for political gain, yet it was Obama and Hillary’s political agenda that started the whole thing. Hopefully, the new select committee of the House, with powers the other committees lacked, can get answers to questions heretofore ignored by the White House and State Department.
I don’t want to sound like a broken record, considering my other writings, but I ask, how in the case of our current president, the death of four great Americans, followed by stonewalling and lies, can this be a non story; however, in the case of Bush 43, the story would be so very big, there probably would be impeachment? Anybody with half a brain, looking at this issue with an open mind, must know Benghazi is a huge story and not just political posturing.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Lawrence Republican is challenging incumbent Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, saying he wants to restore sanity to the office.
Scott Morgan announced Wednesday he was filing for the race. His background includes working for former Kansas Republican senators Bob Dole and Nancy Kassebaum.
Kobach is seeking a second term. He has taken strong positions in Kansas and other states on election laws and immigration issues, and is currently embroiled in federal litigation over Kansas laws requiring proof of citizenship from people registering to vote.
Morgan says Kobach isn’t serving the office or Kansas residents by pursuing his agenda.
Former state senator Jean Schodorf, of Wichita, is running for secretary of state as a Democrat after switching her affiliation from the Republican party.
MANHATTAN — The recall of 1.8 million pounds of beef for possible E. coli contamination could now be extended to grocery stores. A Kansas State University food safety specialist warns consumers to be extra careful when grilling out this holiday weekend.
Bryan Severns, director of food programming and services for Kansas State University Olathe, says all food, especially raw meat, has pathogens in it.
“You want to make sure that you’re not ingesting live bacteria when you eat your hamburger because it has a tendency to have E. coli, salmonella and listeria in it,” Severns said.
The way to kill those bacteria is to cook hamburgers to 160 degrees Fahrenheit, while hot dogs should be cooked to 165 degrees Fahrenheit. And Severns says to be sure you are using the right type of thermometer. A dial thermometer has a dimple about three quarters from the tip and is used to measure thick cuts of meat. An ideal thermometer for hamburgers and chicken breast is a digital thermometer, which picks up temperature at the tip of the device.
“It is vital to check the temperature of the meat because the color of the meat does not tell you if it’s done,” Severns said. “If you happen to have some old hamburger in the refrigerator for awhile, it might be oxidized and start off raw but brown all the way through.”
KANSAS CITY—A Kansas man was critically injured in a Wyandotte County crash at 5:15 a.m. Thursday.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 1992 Chevy SUV driven by Erwin Potts, 51, Kansas City, was northbound on Interstate 635 just south of Parallel when the driver side tire separated.
The vehicle went into the right ditch, overturned and the driver was ejected.
Potts was transported to KU Medical Center.
The KHP reported Potts was not wearing a seat belt.
Jim Sherow, Manhattan, Democratic candidate for Kansas 1st congressional district
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas State University history professor and former Manhattan mayor has filed for the Democratic primary in the state’s 1st Congressional District.
Jim Sherow filed the paperwork Wednesday to put his name on the Aug. 5 ballot. The seat is currently held by conservative Republican Rep. Tim Huelskamp, who is seeking a third term.
Sherow joins Bryan Whitney of Wichita in the Democratic primary. Huelskamp is being challenged in the Republican primary by Alan LaPolice of Clyde.
The 1st Congressional District is the state’s largest, covering all of western and most of central Kansas.
Sherow says he wants to promote cooperation in Congress and represent the Kansas district’s agricultural interests. Huelskamp was removed from the House Agriculture Committee in 2012 by Speaker John Boehner.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The Sedgwick County Sheriff’s Department says someone stole thousands of dollars in equipment and 559 gallons of gas from the county’s maintenance facility. It’s the fifth time the plant has been broken into since last March.
The sheriff’s office says the latest theft occurred sometime during last weekend.
The loss was estimated at more than $16,000, with another $1,300 in damage.
The thieves used a tractor to move concrete barriers to get into the property. They stole generators, saws, nailers, a flat-bed truck and the gas.
KWCH reports investigators aren’t sure if the thefts are related. No arrests have been made in any of the cases.
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A judge has dismissed an indictment against a Lawrence man who was charged with selling stolen goods from his second-hand store.
U.S. District Judge Carlos Murguia this week dismissed a 19-count indictment against Guy Neighbors, who was charged in 2007 along with his wife.
The Lawrence Journal-World reports urguia ruled several delays violated Neighbors’ right to a speedy trail. Neighbors was found incompetent to stand trial and hospitalized in 2009. The judge said some of the delays could have been prevented by changes in his treatment.
Neighbors was released on bond in September 2011, but his case was delayed for nearly two more years because of his lawyer’s health issues.
Neighbors’ wife, Carrie, was convicted in 2010 and is serving an eight-year prison sentence in West Virginia.
