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Month: October 2014

Partly cloudy, warm Wednesday

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Screen Shot 2014-10-01 at 5.39.08 AMScattered thunderstorms will be possible across west central and central Kansas this evening spreading across the remainder of the forecast area overnight. Precipitation chances end by noon tomorrow with clear skies expected through the weekend.

Today Areas of dense fog before 10am. Otherwise, cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with a high near 81. Northwest wind 5 to 9 mph becoming east northeast in the afternoon.
Tonight Showers and thunderstorms likely, mainly after 3am. Increasing clouds, with a low around 52. Breezy, with an east northeast wind 8 to 13 mph becoming north 15 to 20 mph after midnight. Chance of precipitation is 70%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Thursday A 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms, mainly before 10am. Cloudy, then gradually becoming mostly sunny, with a high near 66. Breezy, with a north northwest wind 17 to 20 mph.
Thursday Night Mostly clear, with a low around 43. West northwest wind 6 to 11 mph increasing to 12 to 17 mph after midnight.
Friday Sunny, with a high near 67. Windy, with a northwest wind 15 to 20 mph increasing to 23 to 28 mph in the afternoon.
Friday Night Mostly clear, with a low around 41.
Saturday Sunny, with a high near 73.
Saturday Night Mostly clear, with a low around 50.
Sunday Sunny, with a high near 77.

 

Kansas man dies in Hummer rollover accident

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Screen Shot 2014-07-07 at 8.32.26 AMKINSLEY- A Kansas man died in an accident just after 11 p.m. on Tuesday in Edwards County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2006 H3 Hummer driven by Manuel G. Baca, 43, Kinsley, was westbound on U.S.50 one mile east of Kinsley and for an unknown reason the vehicle left the roadway.

The driver overcorrected and the vehicle overturned and rolled landing on its top.

Baca was transported to Edwards County Hospital where he died.

The KHP reported Baca was not wearing a seat belt

Sheriff’s office warns of scam using judge’s name

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Scam AlertOLATHE, Kan. (AP) — Kansas authorities are warning residents to beware of a new scam that’s using the names of judges in an attempt to solicit money.

The Johnson County Sheriff’s Office says a person has been calling people claiming to be a command officer from a fictitious Federal Warrants Division at the Johnson County Courthouse.

The caller tells potential victims they have a federal warrant and will be arrested if they don’t pay the fine. The sheriff’s office says the scammer names an actual judge by name and claims the judge is angry so they need to pay with a prepaid debit card.

The office says the procedure for contacting people with warrants does not include demanding immediate bond payment.

Monarch boys and girls cross country teams win at Lyons

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The TMP boys cross country team put all seven runners in the top 10 to win the Lyons Invitational Tuesday. The TMP girls’ put seven in the top 18 to also win the team title.

Andrew Hess led the TMP boys with a second-place finish (19:00.25), 40 seconds behind Smoky Valley’s Calvin Shannon. Mark Loftus was third (19:39.54) and Matt Mindrup fourth (19:54.30). Tony Staab came in sixth (20:08.63), Ricky Hockett seventh (20:10.79), Trevor Pfeifer ninth (20:35.74) and Ryan Ruder 10th (20:41.21).

Alicia Lechman led the TMP girls with a sixth place finish (17:43.42). Rachel Hamel was seventh (17:46.73), Shelby Stauffer eighth (17:47.67) and Julia Hess ninth (17:52.67).

FHSU women’s golf finishes 10th at own tournament

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Fort Hays State women’s golf finished 10th on its home course in the FHSU Invitational, the first mandatory MIAA event of the season. The Tigers shot 730 as a team. Central Oklahoma won the tournament with a 611 at Smoky Hill Country Club, a par-71 layout.

Abby Schmidtberger led the way for Fort Hays State, carding two rounds of 88. She finished in a tie for 38th individually. Samantha Hobson shot rounds of 87 and 91 to tie for 41st overall. Quillen Eichhorn finished 51st with rounds of 91 and 96. Megan DeWerff had rounds of 93 and 96, finishing one spot behind Eichhorn in 52nd. Hadley Tharp tied for 57th with scores of 105 and 96. Sage Alquist played as an individual and shot two rounds of 103. The Tigers finished eighth out of the 10 MIAA teams competing, but there were also two non-MIAA teams in the tournament.

Central Oklahoma won the event by 21 strokes over Northeastern State (632). Lindenwood was third with 636. Lindsey Bensch of Central Oklahoma, the medalist for the tournament, was tied for fourth, four strokes back of the lead entering the final round. By carding a 1-over par 72, she jumped teammate Marla Souvannasing for the top spot after Souvannasing shot 78 on the second day following a first day 72. Bensch competed in the tournament as an individual, so she did not figure into the team scoring for Central Oklahoma. Had she competed among the five team scorers, Central Oklahoma would have shot 12 strokes better and would have won by 33.

Next week, the Tigers head to Oklahoma City for the RCB Bank Classic, hosted by Central Oklahoma.

FHSU men’s soccer re-enters national rankings at No. 25

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Fort Hays State Men’s Soccer re-entered the NSCAA National Poll at No. 25 this week after a strong weekend of play.  The Tigers defeated Lindenwood 8-0 on Thursday before closing out the weekend with a 5-0 victory against Southwest Baptist.
 
FHSU dropped out of the rankings last week, but have been ranked 23rd in three other releases of the poll.  The Tigers are joined in the latest poll by MIAA opponent Northeastern State, which rose one spot to No. 15. 
 
Fort Hays State travels to Canyon, Texas on Thursday (Oct. 2) for a matchup with West Texas A&M before returning to conference play at home on Saturday (Oct. 4) versus Harding.
 
Below is the complete NSCAA National Poll for Sept. 30…
 

1 Southern New Hampshire University 1 7-0-0
2 University Of Charleston 3 8-0-0
3 Saginaw Valley State University 2 6-0-1
4 Saint Leo University 6 4-0-2
5 Southern Connecticut State University 7 6-0-0
6 Limestone College 4 7-0-0
7 Seattle Pacific University 10 6-0-1
8 Regis University 14 6-1-0
9 Young Harris College 9 6-0-1
10 Quincy University 11 9-0-0
11 Lynn University 12 5-1-0
12 Metropolitan State University of Denver 8 6-1-0
13 Mercyhurst University 13 7-3-0
14 Cal Poly Pomona 22 7-0-1
15 Northeastern State University 16 5-2-0
16 Tiffin University 15 5-1-1
17 Notre Dame College 19 6-2-0
18 Midwestern State University 18 6-1-1
19 Merrimack College 17 5-1-1
20 Azusa Pacific University NR 3-1-1
21 University of Alabama-Huntsville NR 3-1-1
22 Francis Marion University NR 5-1-1
23 St. Edward’s University NR 5-2-1
24 University Of Tampa 21 5-1-1
25 Fort Hays State University NR 4-3-1

 
Also receiving votes: Ohio Dominican University (9), Lock Haven University (9), Concordia College (NY) (7), Lander University (4), West Chester University (4), Northwest Nazarene University (3), University Of South Carolina-Aiken (2)

The little train that won’t

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OtherWords columnist Jim Hightower is a radio commentator, writer and public speaker.
OtherWords columnist Jim Hightower is a radio commentator, writer and public speaker.

I love groups with the gumption to take on big tasks and do what needs to be done — can-do groups that can, and do.

But, uh-oh, here comes The Little Train That Couldn’t. I’m talking about Congress.

Since the earliest days of our US of A, the most basic task of this legislative body has been to keep our national house in good repair. That requires tending to roads, bridges, rail systems, airports, school buildings, parks, Internet access, etc.

Yet, with a toxic mix of anti-government ideology and fiscal foolishness, Republican members of Congress have recently been blocking every serious proposal to reinvest in America’s collapsing infrastructure.

The result is an inexcusable drop in maintenance, even as our population has expanded dramatically and the wear and tear on all parts of the infrastructure has created disasters-waiting-to-happen. As one lawmaker says of our increasingly ramshackle house, “I’ve been here seven and a half years. We have not solved one single problem. It’s just so frustrating.”

That was no tax-and-spend liberal Democrat talking — it was a penny-pinching Republican, Bob Corker of Tennessee. Indeed, it wasn’t that long ago that most Republicans understood and funded infrastructure — from Abe Lincoln to Teddy Roosevelt to Dwight Eisenhower, and even Ronald Reagan, who called such common sense maintenance “an investment in tomorrow that we must make today.”

Gail Collins, the superbly sensible New York Times columnist, recently noted that, “In a perfect world, Congress would figure out a serious, long-term plan to fix bridges, (etc.).” Yes, but I would amend her observation with this: It shouldn’t take “a perfect world” — even a Congress in a halfway-mediocre world ought to be able to do that job.

Actually, thanks to GOP obstinacy, Congress isn’t the Little Train That Couldn’t. It’s the choo-choo that could, but won’t.

OtherWords.org columnist Jim Hightower is a radio commentator, writer and public speaker.

Police: Kansas woman sexually assaulted in taxi

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PoliceOVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — Overland Park police are looking for a taxi driver after a woman told them he sexually assaulted her in his cab.

Spokesman Gary Mason tells KCTV-TV  the woman in her early 20s took the cab Tuesday after drinking with friends. The woman sat in the front seat and says the driver sexually assaulted her on her way home.

Mason says authorities are concerned the driver could have harmed others. Police haven’t released information about the suspect.

Year’s 9th Kansas Honor Flight ready for take-off

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Screen Shot 2014-10-01 at 5.11.41 AMWICHTA, Kan. (AP) — The year’s ninth Kansas Honor Flight is getting ready to carrying 10 World War II veterans, 16 Korean War veterans and one Vietnam War veteran to Washington to see the nation’s war monuments.

The flight leaving from Wichita Mid-Continent Airport at 10 a.m. Wednesday also will carry the veterans’ guardians to the Washington for a two-night stay before coming home on Friday.

The group will visit the World War II Memorial, Korean War Memorial and several others commemorating the nation’s biggest military conflicts.

The trip has been organized by Kansas Honor Flight Inc. and is at no cost to the veterans, while guardians who accompany each veteran pay their own way.

 

Report: Kansas wheat production lowest since 1989

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winter wheatWICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A new government report says this year’s winter wheat production in Kansas is at the lowest level since 1989.

The National Agricultural Statistics Service reported Tuesday winter wheat production is estimated at 246 million bushels, down 23 percent from a year ago.

Kansas farmers planted 9.6 million acres for the 2014 wheat crop. That was about 1 percent more wheat acreage than a year earlier, but production was still down in part because farmers actually harvested just 8.8 million acres.

Also affecting production were lower yields averaging 28 bushels an acre — 10 bushels an acre below last year.

The report also estimates this year’s Kansas oat production at 840,000 bushels, about the same as last year. Barley production is estimated at 350,000, down 32 percent from a year ago.

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