Treveon Albert threw for three touchdowns and ran for two others leading the Fort Hays State Tigers to a 48-13 win over Northeastern State Saturday afternoon at Doc Wadley Stadium in Tahlequah, Oklahoma. Albert, who didn’t start the game at quarterback but took all of the snaps under center in the second half after Kevin Spain went down with an ankle injury, scored on touchdowns runs of four and nine yards. He hooked up with running back Kenneth Iheme on a 27-yard TD pass. Albert also hit Isaiah Maxi on an 11-yard strike and Ed Williams on a 12-yard TD pass.
Chris Brown Postgame Interview
Northeastern State grabbed the early lead with a 12-play 80-yard scoring drive on their first possession. Albert first touchdown run late in the first quarter tied the game. Drew O’Brien’s extra point gave the Tigers the lead for good. O’Brien would kick field goals of 41 and 38 yards to put the Tigers up 13-6 early in the second quarter. Albert’s strike to Iheme gave FHSU a 20-6 lead at the half.
Treveon Albert / Micheal Terry Postgame Interview
The Tigers finished with 408 yards of offense, 197 on the ground and 211 through the air and had the ball for 35:29, one week after having it for just over 19 minutes in their season opening loss to Central Oklahoma.
Game Highlights
Ed Williams had eight receptions for 113 yards and a touchdown. Edward Smith led the Tigers rushing attack with 70 yards on 10 carries and a touchdown. Kenneth Iheme, who didn’t play in the second half after an apparent shoulder injury, rushed for 62 yards on eight carries.
Fort Hays State improves to 1-1 both overall and in MIAA play. They are back at home next Saturday to host Lindenwood at 7pm.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Former President Bill Clinton has mentioned Kansas as a competitive race while talking about Democratic efforts to hold onto Congress.
Clinton’s comments Friday on the PBS NewsHour have caught the attention of Kansas Senator Pat Roberts. The Republican is in a tight race with independent candidate Greg Orman after Democrat Chad Taylor stopped campaigning.
Orman is projecting himself as fresh and authentic while acknowledging that he’s been both a Republican and a Democrat.
But Roberts’ campaign has attacked Orman as a liberal pretending to be a conservative. Roberts’ campaign manager, Cory Bliss, said in a news release that Orman will “say and do anything to get elected, even if it means pretending he’s not a Democrat.”
Orman’s spokesman says Robert’s campaign will “say and do anything to get him reelected.”
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Hundreds of mourners have turned out to remember a Topeka police corporal killed in the line of duty.
The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that officers from more than 70 law enforcement agencies were on hand when Cpl. Jason Harwood was buried Saturday.
The observance featured the reading of a letter to Harwood from his surviving identical twin brother, Kansas Highway Patrol Trooper Jeremy Harwood. Also, the German shepherd who was Harwood’s K-9 partner before his promotion to corporal two years ago lay down in front of the casket.
Harwood was a decorated 15-year police veteran who was shot after he pulled over a car last weekend. Prosecutors have announced plans to seek the death penalty against the man charged in the killing.
TOPEKA- The former president of the American Federation of Government Employees Local Union 906 pleaded guilty this week to embezzling more than $51,000 from union members in Topeka and Waco, Texas, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said.
Timothy Sanchez, 40, Topeka, pleaded guilty to one count of embezzlement. In his plea, he admitted the crimes occurred while he was president of the labor union, which represents approximately 200 active members who are employed at the Veterans Administration Health Resource Center in Topeka and Waco.
While Sanchez served as president, he embezzled funds from the union by making unauthorized debit card charges for expense reimbursements, writing unauthorized checks for his own benefit, and filing false meeting minutes and annual financial reports with the Department of Labor to conceal his embezzlement.
Sentencing is set for Nov. 25. He faces a maximum penalty of 10 years in federal prison and a fine up to $250,000. The U.S. Department of Labor Office of Labor-Management Standards investigated. Assistant U.S. Attorney Rich Hathaway is prosecuting.
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — Jurors are getting the weekend off before deciding the fate of a Kansas bail bondsman accused of coercing women he bailed out of jail to have sex with him.
The Hutchinson News reports that both sides rested Friday in the trial of 66-year-year-old Dwight Jurgens. He’s accused of two counts of aggravated human trafficking, four counts of attempted aggravated human trafficking, aggravated criminal sodomy and rape.
Prosecutors allege Jurgens told women he would revoke their bonds if they didn’t have sex with him. He was a bonding agent for TNT Bonding. His daughter also is a bonding agent, and she testified that the company took riskier clients.
The jury will return Monday morning for court instructions and two hours of closing statements before beginning deliberations.
The folk duo Otter Creek is scheduled to perform at the Hays Public Library at 6:30 p.m. Sept. 15 in the Schmidt Gallery. The performance is free to attend and open to the public.
Spouses Peter and Mary Danzig make up the folk duo Otter Creek and are originally from Salt Lake City and will stop in Hays as part of a cross-country tour. With 10 instruments, with a combined total of 53 strings, there is never a dull moment in their performances.
Not only does the duo have talents but their daughters, called The Muses, also have musical talents. Their three daughters will also accompany them from the Golden Gate Bridge to Plymouth Rock and possibly perform with their parents at the Hays Public Library.
Marleah Augustine, the adult department librarian, was the person who recruited the musicians.
“I was impressed by The Otter Creek Duo’s mix of instruments and sheer talent. You can tell that they have a true love of performing and for the music itself,” she said. “I wanted to share that enjoyment with the Hays community.”
Otter Creek entered the folk music scene in 2010 with the release of “Hunter’s Moon.” In 2012, they release their second album “Shiver Into Sparks.” These back-to-back albums both found their way onto the folk music charts.
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Rod Haxton is editor/owner of the Scott County Record.
It’s tough being a Republican candidate in Kansas these days.
There once was a time, if you entertained thoughts of going to Washington, D.C., or spending a couple months out of the year in Topeka, the hardest thing you had to do was make sure your name appeared on the ballot with a big, bold “R” behind it.
If you had to debate a Democratic opponent, all you had to do was smile a lot and avoid saying anything stupid . . . but mostly just smile a lot. You’d get your 70 percent of the vote in the general election and be guaranteed job security for as long as you wanted.
Being an incumbent was even easier. Just show up on your annual “listening tour,” remember what town you were in and, of course, keep smiling. You never had a Republican challenger and, most of the time, no one appeared on the Democratic ticket. When one did surface it was often a candidate whose name was unknown outside of his immediate family.
But Barack Obama and Harry Reid have ruined it.
It’s because of them that we have a Tea Party, we have uberconservatives in Congress and in statehouses around the country, and we have ubergridlock. They’re to blame for voter fraud, illegal immigration, taxes, Putin flexing his muscle in the Ukraine and anything that can possibly go wrong in the Middle East.
Worst of all, they’re making it very difficult for Republicans in Kansas to get re-elected.
Sen. Pat Roberts, who has to look at a map to be certain where Kansas is located, mentioned Harry Reid’s name 20 times during the Kansas State Fair debate with Independent challenger Greg Orman. Orman had to be looking over his shoulder to be sure the Nevada senator hadn’t slipped onto the stage without his knowledge.
Gov. Sam Brownback has used a similar strategy by referring to Democratic challenger Paul Davis as “the Nancy Pelosi of Kansas” (whatever that’s supposed to mean) and by claiming the only reason people voted against him in the Republican primary was because “ . . . people are so angry . . . they’re just trying to express it somehow.”
Isn’t that just like Kansas voters?
One minute they elect Brownback governor and the next minute they can’t wait to throw him out of office because they hate President Obama.
Of course, it has nothing to do with anti-education policies, a disastrous tax policy and a state budget that’s going into the toilet.
Curse you President Obama. You’re spoiling a good thing for Kansas Republicans.
One can’t fault Brownback and Roberts for their political strategy. It makes sense when you haven’t done anything that you can . . . or want to . . . be remembered for. When that happens the only alternative is to dangle some red meat like Barack, Harry, Hillary, Benghazi, EPA or IRS in front of Tea Party hyenas and after that nothing else matters.
“Sen. Roberts, what would you do to improve the economy and create more jobs?”
“I’d put Harry Reid out to pasture.”
“How will that help the economy?”
“Did I mention that Nancy Pelosi fights like a girl?”
“Senator, we’re talking about the economy.”
“Harry Reid.”
“What about Harry Reid, Senator Roberts?”
“What more can I say? Once you’ve said Harry Reid you’ve said it all.”
It’s obvious that Gov. Brownback has been looking through the same Republican playbook. The sluggish Kansas economy, the downgrading of our state’s bond rating and state revenues that are on track to bring in $600 million less than projected for the current budget year can only be blamed on one thing . . . or person.
“What we are seeing today is the effect of tax increases implemented by the Obama administration that resulted in lower income tax payments and a depressed business environment,” according to Brownback.
Brownback and his Republican legislature passed massive tax cuts with the promise that it would be a boost to businesses and that higher state tax revenues would follow. Other than being named Barack Obama, exactly what did the President do to throw a wrench into Brownback’s budget?
Unless, of course, Obama really doesn’t like Kansas. Perhaps his unique Muslim abilities made it possible to implement policies that have an impact on Kansas alone.
For example, In 11 of 12 economic measuring sticks, Kansas trails the neighboring states of Nebraska, Missouri, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Colorado.
Private business establishments in Kansas grew by 0.7% between 2012 and 2013, compared to 2.6% in the region and 2.2 percent nationwide. Personal income growth from 2011 to 2012 was 2.2 percent in Kansas, which lagged behind the six-state region (3.6%) and the nation (3.4%).
It’s obvious that Barack’s tax policies and Michelle’s push for healthier eating are creating an economic disaster in Kansas.
How else do you explain the net loss of 10,197 people from Kansas between 2010 and 2013, according to the U.S. Census Bureau?
Simple. It’s because those people realize that Kansas is in President Obama’s crosshairs and the only way to avoid becoming a victim of his obsessive dislike for Kansas is to escape to places like Oklahoma or Missouri where people are enjoying the benefit of exuberant support for the President and his policies.
The truth is that being Republican isn’t enough to guarantee an easy election as Roberts, Brownback, Kris Kobach and Tim Huelskamp are discovering. Obama, Reid or any other Democrat bogeyman aren’t to blame because Roberts hasn’t had an original idea in 40 years and Brownback’s tax experiment is a disaster.
Republican incumbents are finding very little to smile about this election season and they have no one but themselves to blame.
Rod Haxton is editor/owner of the Scott County Record.
OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — A northeast Kansas high school football player is in critical condition after collapsing during a football game.
The Kansas City Star reports that Olathe East High School senior James McGinnis was rushed into surgery Friday night at Overland Park Regional Medical Center with bleeding around his brain.
His father, Patrick McGinnis, said doctors were removing a piece of his son’s skull to relieve pressure. A hospital spokeswoman told The Associated Press on Saturday that James McGinnis remains in critical condition.
Olathe East assistant coach Mike Thomas says the 165-pound linebacker and slotback had made a tackle a few plays before collapsing. Olathe East head coach Jeff Meyers also said that James McGinnis had suffered one concussion during his sophomore season, but had not had any other related medical issues.
Linwood Park, the site of the Junior football practice gunfire
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — An official with a Wichita youth football league says the group does not plan to add extra security for weekend games in the wake of an attack on a coach and gunfire at a practice earlier this week.
Greater Wichita Junior Football League athletic director Mickey Lara says he thinks it was an isolated incident.
The Wichita Eagle reports five to six men attacked the 37-year-old coach. The beating stopped after the coach’s wife pulled out a gun and fired a shot in the air. The coach then went to his car and got another gun, which he reportedly pointed at several people.
Lara says some parents have told him their children are a little shaken up, but others have put it behind them.
SALINA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas hospital has found a way to get patients to observe its no-tobacco rule: They’re being sent home.
Salina Regional Health Center and its clinics have been tobacco-free since 2007. But vice president of human resources David Moody tells The Salina Journal that some patients continue to sneak cigarettes or chew tobacco.
Starting in August, patients were warned that tobacco users would be discharged and considered to have left against medical advice. That includes removing any intravenous tubes, ending all treatment and telling patients to arrange for a ride home.
Moody says some patients have already been ousted. He’s not sure if there’s a procedure to readmit patients who agree to adhere.
The mandate covers the Salina hospital, Lindsborg Community Hospital and the center’s eight Salina clinics.
Listen to Mike Cooper interviewing CardioVascular Surgeon Dr. Elizabeth Ashworth; and Cardiologist Dr. Andrew Carter, from from the DeBakey Heart Institute at HaysMed, by clicking the link above and then clicking the play button
In the latest edition of The Forum, Eagle’s Gary Shorman had the opportunity to speak with Angela Moore, an University of Kansas student who has just returned from a year in Japan.
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