In a recent interview, Tiger Media Network’s Nicole Elwood interviewed former Student Government Association President Chris Roberts. Roberts resigned his position as the 2014-15 school year began.
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The Hays Police Department conducted 19 traffic stops and received 17 animal calls on Wednesday, Oct. 8, according to the HPD activity log.
Driving while suspended/revoked, 2500 block Vine, 12:34 a.m.
Contempt of court/failure to pay, 105 W 12th St, December 2011
Drug offenses, 3400 block Vine, 7:46 a.m.
Abandoned vehicle, 3200 block Canal, 8:21 a.m.
Dangerous animal, 500 block East Eighth, 9:36 a.m.
Found/lost property, Hays, 10:32 a.m.
Animal at large, 1000 block East Eighth, 11:18 a.m.
Found/lost property, 1500 block Montgomery, noon
Theft, 2700 block Canal, noon
Driving while suspended/revoked, 400 block East 18th, 2:48 p.m.
Document service, 100 block West 12th, 4:09 p.m.
Motor vehicle accident, 1200 block East 22nd, 4:50 p.m.
Drug offenses, 100 block West 11th, 5:04 p.m.
Animal at large, 500 block West 12th, 5:28 p.m.
Civil dispute, 2000 block East 21st, 6:05 p.m.
Domestic disturbance, 1100 block Drum, 6:43 p.m.
Animal injured, 300 block East 11th, 8:04 p.m.
Suspicious activity, 300 block West 39th, 8:32 p.m.
Suspicious activity, 300 block West 39th, 8:56 p.m.
Suicidal subject, 200 block East 17th, 8 p.m.
Drug offenses, 100 block Ash, 9:57 p.m.
Lost animals, 3300 block Hall, 11:32 p.m.
KANSAS CITY Mo. (AP) – They endured it together, Billy Butler and Alex Gordon. All those years with 90 losses, the managerial changes and youth movements and empty seats come late September.
Empty seats in July and August, too.
They were supposed to be the two players who led the Kansas City Royals back to the playoffs. Butler was the standout high school prospect who couldn’t run well and struggled with his glove, but my, how he could hit. And Gordon was the best player in college baseball when the Royals plucked him out of Nebraska, a sure-fire All-Star one day.
Well, that day has finally arrived. After seven years of building and rebuilding, Butler and Gordon are reveling in the Royals’ first postseason appearance since 1985.
“For the fans, 30 years without feels like a lifetime. It’s an eternity to me,” Butler said. “Kansas City deserves everything they’re getting and we want to give it to them.”
The Royals open the best-of-seven AL Championship Series on Friday night in Baltimore having already given thousands of fans plenty of postseason thrills.
There was the 12-inning walk-off win over Oakland in the wild-card game at Kauffman Stadium. There was the pair of 11-inning wins against the Angels in Los Angeles. And there was the clinching game back in Kansas City, an 8-3 romp that kicked off a citywide party.
Butler and Gordon have been gleefully in the midst of it all.
“This is personal for us,” Butler said. “It started all the way back when we got drafted. That’s what they envisioned when they drafted us. Going through some bad times, I’ve been with this team for 10 years, building toward this.”
It’s been a challenging road filled with pitfalls and potholes, and more than once it looked as though neither Butler nor Gordon would see the fruits of their labor.
Butler established himself as a solid hitter early in his career, but his limited ability on the base paths and in the field hampered his value. Butler finally made an All-Star game in 2012, when it was played in Kansas City, but the past couple of seasons have been a struggle.
He was hitting just .235 in late-May, a disaster by his lofty standards. And late in the season, Butler found himself sitting on the bench for critical games in a pennant chase.
Of course, he would rise to the occasion when the postseason rolled around.
Butler had a pair of hits in the victory over the A’s. And while he went 0 for 9 against the Angels, he managed three walks and even stole a base, his first in two years.
“We’ve believed in Billy all along,” Royals manager Ned Yost said.
The same could be said of Gordon, the second overall pick in the 2005 draft – one year after Butler went in the first round. He was rushed to the majors two years later as the heir to George Brett at third base and soon fizzled out, spending the next couple years vacillating between the majors and minors while trying out a variety of positions.
He finally stuck when he landed in left field, and in 2011 hit .303 and earned the first of three consecutive gold gloves. He made his first All-Star game last year, and his second this season, when he hit .266 with 19 homers and again played a masterful left field.
Gordon atoned for a 0-for-5 performance against Oakland by beating up the Angels, going 3 for 10 with a pair of doubles and scoring twice. It was his bases-loaded double in the first inning of Game 3 on Sunday night that spurred the Royals to the series clincher.
“Gordo, hands-down leader of this ballclub,” third baseman Mike Moustakas said. “For him to go out there in a huge situation like that, after we’re down one, drive in three runs, it just gave us so much confidence going into the rest of that game.”
Gordon has slowly evolved into the face of the franchise, yet he’s a reluctant star who speaks quietly but carries a big stick. He rarely gets too excitable, nor does he ever get too down. And when he is asked about his personal performance this postseason, he quickly defers the credit to general manager Dayton Moore for sticking with him all these years.
“Dayton has done a great job molding this team to where it is now,” Gordon said. “He really got the right pieces in through the draft and through the trade with James Shields and Wade Davis. Things are really starting to come together. Give a lot of credit to Dayton.”
Give a lot of credit to Butler and Gordon, too.
“We’re about now,” Gordon said. “It’s been a struggle, but we’re here now. It doesn’t matter who does it as long as someone does it and we get the win.”
Showers and isolated thunderstorms will gradually move into southwest Kansas today and increase in coverage tonight into Friday. Some locally heavy rainfall, up to 2 inches or so, will be possible in some areas by the time the rain winds down late Friday afternoon and evening.
Today A chance of showers and thunderstorms, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 5pm. Cloudy, with a high near 63. Northeast wind 6 to 11 mph increasing to 12 to 17 mph in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 60%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tonight Showers and possibly a thunderstorm. Some of the storms could produce heavy rainfall. Low around 49. Breezy, with a north northeast wind 18 to 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.
Friday Showers and possibly a thunderstorm, mainly before 1pm, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1pm. High near 52. North northeast wind 11 to 17 mph. Chance of precipitation is 100%. New rainfall amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.
Friday Night A slight chance of showers before 2am. Cloudy, with a low around 40. East northeast wind around 6 mph becoming light and variable in the evening. Chance of precipitation is 20%.
Saturday Mostly sunny, with a high near 62. Light and variable wind becoming south southeast 6 to 11 mph in the morning.
Saturday Night Partly cloudy, with a low around 45.
Sunday A 30 percent chance of showers. Partly sunny, with a high near 65.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Wichita couple who left their 18-month-old son in an apartment closet have been sentenced to one year of probation.
KWCH-TV reports Wednesday that 18-year-old Destiny Lee and 19-year-old Donivan Turner pleaded guilty to misdemeanor child endangerment charges.
A maintenance worker repairing an air conditioner in May found the boy inside a closet in the couple’s apartment. Police say the temperature in the closet was about 90 degrees. The baby had been there about 20 minutes.
Lee tells police she left her son alone in order to pick up Turner from work.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A nonpartisan congressional study has found that stiffer state voter ID laws have damped election turnout, disproportionately affecting blacks and younger people.
The Government Accountability Office found that election turnout in Kansas and Tennessee — which tightened voter ID requirements — dropped more steeply than it did in four states that didn’t change their identification requirements.
The report found that in those two states, voter turnout was more sharply reduced among young people than among the middle-aged and among blacks than whites and others.
Young people and blacks generally tend to support Democratic candidates.
Republicans have said such laws are designed to reduce fraud.
The report was released less than four weeks from Election Day.
Related: Insight Kansas columnists swings at Kobach over voter fraud.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Wichita man has been charged in an August traffic accident that killed a pregnant woman and the premature baby she delivered before dying.
The Wichita Eagle reports 25-year-old Zachary Brown was charged Wednesday with two counts of involuntary manslaughter. He also faces three counts of aggravated battery.
Police say Brown was driving an SUV that struck a car at a southwest Wichita intersection on Aug. 19.
Twenty-one-year-old Trevadawn Pauley was riding in the front seat of the car and was critically injured. Pauley was seven months pregnant, and doctors delivered her daughter before she died. The newborn died about a week later.
Brown is being held at the Sedgwick County jail on $50,000 bond. Online records didn’t indicate an attorney.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Department of Transportation says teenagers will be coming to the Statehouse to participate in a quick-click buckling-up challenge as part of a traffic safety event.
Friday afternoon’s event on the south side of the Capitol is part of KDOT’s Put the Brakes on Fatalities Day.
The challenge involves teams of teenagers racing to unbuckle their seatbelts in cars, trade places and buckle up again.
Deputy KDOT Secretary Jerry Younger plans to serve as master of ceremonies.
The event emphasizes the importance of traffic safety.
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Campus police at the University of Kansas say two men have been arrested on suspicion of raping two women in a residence hall during homecoming weekend.
6NewsLawrence reports the 21-year-old suspects are jailed in Douglas County without bond. They’re expected to have their first court appearances Thursday.
One suspect is from Lawrence and the other from Olathe. Police said one of the men is a KU student.
Public safety officials said the incidents were reported to have occurred between 2 a.m. and 5 a.m. on Sept. 28 at Hashinger Hall. They were unrelated to allegations of sexual assault the same weekend at a fraternity.
THOMAS BEAUMONT, Associated Press
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — Three-term Republican Sen. Pat Roberts is insisting that his stronger-than-expected independent opponent is a liberal Democrat in disguise.
But Greg Orman has donated to both Democrats, including Hillary Rodham Clinton, and Republicans, such as former Sen. Scott Brown.
Orman pitched domestic policy ideas during the debate that both parties have championed, and again refused to say which party he would usually vote with if elected.
However, Orman says he contributed to Brown’s 2010 Senate campaign to halt the advance of the health care law, which he says he opposed.
The race in typically GOP Kansas has become suddenly competitive in the past month as Democrat Chad Taylor has stepped aside and Orman, a wealthy businessman, has pulled ahead of Roberts in recent polls of Kansas voters.
OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — Two women who are seeking the first same-sex marriage license in the most populous county in Kansas say they already feel married because they’ve been together nine years.
Angela and Jennifer Schaefer, of Gardner, went to the Johnson County Courthouse in Olathe (oh-LAY’-thuh) on Wednesday to sign up for a marriage license.
They did so shortly after Johnson County Chief District Judge Kevin Moriarty ordered court clerks to issue licenses to same-sex couples. They were the only couple to do so.
The couple has a 9-month-old son. Angela Schaefer is 31 and Jennifer Schaefer is 28 and took Angela’s last name in 2012.
Angela Schaefer said she believes getting married will ensure that she has full parental rights to their son.
ATCHISON, Kan.- A teenager was injured in an accident just before 3 p.m. on Wednesday in Atchison County.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 1995 Ford F150 driven by Dalton Armstrong, 15, Atchison, was eastbound on River Road three miles northeast of Atchison following a 1985 Dodge truck driven by Nathan Jones, 14, Atchison.
The Dodge slowed due to dust. The Ford rear-ended the Dodge.
A private vehicle transported Jones to the hospital in Atchison. Armstrong was not injured.
The KHP reported both drivers were properly restrained at the time of the accident.
