February 2015 – Page 67 – Hays Post Archive

Brungardt named Covenant Builders Hometown Hero

Posted on February 7, 2015February 6, 2015

Rich Brungardt has been named the latest Covenant Builders Hometown Hero.

According to his nomination:

“Rich Brungardt is not only a great family man, but also a Vietnam (1968 and ’69) and Desert Storm (1991) veteran. Rich was a Specialist 4th Class and 1st Logistical Command in Vietnam during the Tet Offensive. He was in the military for 26 years, including three years in the Army and 23 years in the National Guard. His rank was Sergeant 1st Class during in 1991 when he was involved in Desert Storm.

“Rich was given many medals for his 26 years of service including: the Army Service Ribbon, National Defense Medal, Vietnam Service Award, Army Reserve Components Achievement Medal, Armed Forces Reserve Medal, Overseas Service Ribbon, NCO Professional Development Ribbon, Army Reserves Component Overseas Training Ribbon, SW Asia Service Medal, SW Asia Campaign Medal, etc.”

Brungardt will be honored at Saturday’s Fort Hays State University basketball games. The women’s game against Emporia State is scheduled to tip at 2 p.m., with the men’s game scheduled to begin at 4 p.m.

ECTV Forum: Sarah Beckner, Western KS Assoc. on the Concerns of the Disabled

Posted on February 7, 2015July 1, 2015

KHAZ Country Music News: Hee Haw The Musical

Posted on February 7, 2015February 6, 2015

NEW YORK (AP) – Brandy Clark is hoping a musical version of “Hee Haw” will draw in people who don’t like country music. Clark and songwriter Shane McAnally are working on “Moonshine: That Hee Haw Musical.” Clark says she wants people to leave it saying, “Wow, if that was country music, I love it.” Clark says the musical is in on the joke and makes fun of the “Hee Haw” stereotype. She says she wants it to have as much heart as it does humor. It premieres in Dallas in September.

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Unseasonably warm Saturday

Posted on February 7, 2015

Record high temps are in jeopardy today across much of western Kansas with highs near or around 80. High temperatures are expected to be 25 to 35 degrees above normal for this time of year.

Sunday will be windy and cooler, but still warm with a high near 70.

The mild and dry weather continues into early next week with highs in the 60s Monday and Tuesday.

Today: Sunny, with a high near 79. Northwest wind 6 to 10 mph.

Tonight: Mostly clear, with a low around 41. West wind 6 to 14 mph.

Sunday: Sunny, with a high near 68. Northwest wind 7 to 14 mph.

Sunday Night: Mostly clear, with a low around 35. West northwest wind 5 to 7 mph.

Monday: Sunny, with a high near 66. West northwest wind 7 to 9 mph becoming east southeast in the afternoon.

Kan. Senate Corrections and Juvenile Justice committee busy

Posted on February 7, 2015

By Austin Fisher
KU Statehouse Wire Service

TOPEKA — In a procedural flurry on Thursday, the Senate Corrections and Juvenile Justice committee passed two bills and heard a third. The committee unanimously passed Senate Bills 12 and 13 and heard testimony on Senate Bill 90.

When a convict is released from confinement by the Department of Corrections, Senate Bill 13 would allow the department to notify the victim of the release.

“Say there was a domestic violence case where a husband assaulted and battered his wife, and maybe he’s being released or he gets to go on a work release program or something like that, this bill allows them to release that information to the wife,” said committee chair Sen. Greg Smith (R-Overland Park).

Also on Thursday, after four amendments the committee passed Senate Bill 12, which would increase sentences for battery and aggravated battery against judges, attorneys, and court services officers.

Topeka defense lawyer David McDonald critiqued the bill by saying it’s language didn’t include defense attorneys. McDonald was punched in the face by a client during a trial in December.

The bill’s amended language includes public defenders, their assistants, and attorneys contracted with the Kansas Department for Aging and Disability Services, and the Kansas State Board of Indigents’ Defense Service. It does not explicitly mention private attorneys.

The two bills that passed through the committee do not yet have a set date to be heard on the Senate floor.

The committee also heard testimony on Senate Bill 90, which would allow the Attorney General to issue Fugitive Apprehension Licenses to independent bounty hunters, officially called bail enforcement agents.

Bondsmen and their bail agents currently go through background checks to get licenses in order to post bail bonds and track down fugitives but they sometimes work with freelance bounty hunters who currently don’t need licenses. Under the new bill freelancers would need to get a background check for a license in order to apprehend fugitives.

Shane Rolf, a bail bondsman from Olathe and executive vice president of the Kansas Bail Agents Association, supported the bill and said it would ensure that freelance bounty hunters are not convicted felons.

“While we do not believe that there is a huge problem with convicted felons acting as independent bounty hunters, there is no agency that checks the status of these independent agents who are not also authorized to post bail,” Rolf said.

Spencer Duncan, a private investigator from Topeka representing the Kansas Association of Licensed Investigators, supported the bill saying the bail enforcement industry needs to be regulated.

“Licensing allows those in an industry who are not following the proper procedures to be weeded out of the system, which is good for the industry and the general public,” Duncan said.

The committee will work the bill Tuesday.

Austin Fisher is a senior studying journalism at the University of Kansas from Lawrence, Kansas.

Vaccine skeptics find unexpected allies

Posted on February 7, 2015

NICHOLAS RICCARDI, Associated Press

DENVER (AP) — As vaccine skeptics fight laws that would force more parents to inoculate their kids, they are finding unexpected allies in conservative Republicans.

The stereotype of a vaccine skeptic is a coastal, back-to-the-land type, but it’s generally been Democratic-controlled states that have tightened vaccination laws.

This week, Democrats in California and Washington state proposed eliminating laws that allow parents to opt out of vaccination for personal reasons after a measles outbreak was traced to Disneyland.

Republicans objected to a similar effort in Maine. In Colorado, it was largely Republicans who squashed a 2014 effort to force parents to get a physician’s approval if they chose not to inoculate their kids.

There are exceptions. Some Democrats have fought vaccine requirements, and some members of the GOP have sought to increase the shots.

Area High School Scoreboard for 2/6

Posted on February 7, 2015February 7, 2015

BOYS SCORES
Area Scores
Hays-TMP-Marian 44, Norton 30

Central Prairie League
LaCrosse 51, Ness City 45
Otis-Bison 57, Trego 55
Spearville 64, Kinsley 40
St. John 52, Central Plains 33
Victoria 71, Macksville 29

Great West Activities Conference
Scott City 75, Hugoton 57

Mid-Continent League
Ellis 66, Stockton 44
Hill City 54, Smith Center 22
Plainville 59, Oakley 57

Northern Plains League
Lincoln 47, Pike Valley 43
Osborne 65, Natoma 40
St. John’s Beloit-Tipton 60, Wilson 33
Sylvan-Lucas 80, Thunder Ridge 39

Northwest Kansas League
Dighton 67, Ingalls 53
Hoxie 58, St. Francis 57
Wallace County 80, Rawlins County 30

Western Athletic Conference
Garden City 60, Guymon, Okla. 51
Liberal 53, Great Bend 45
McPherson 66, Dodge City 52

Western Kansas Liberty League Tournament
Consolation Semifinal
Western Plains 49, Cheylin 41
Semifinal
Logan 49, Northern Valley 36
Wheatland-Grinnell 48, Triplains-Brewster 23

Statewide Scores
Abilene 71, Marysville 53
Andale 58, Rose Hill 45
Andover Central 61, Andover 49
Attica 56, Fairfield 46
Augusta 55, Wellington 42
Barstow, Mo. 68, Heritage Christian 38
Basehor-Linwood 66, Bonner Springs 58
Beloit 67, Ellsworth 39
Bennington 53, Marion 37
Berean Academy 55, Ell-Saline 43
Bishop Miege 60, BV West 51
Burlington 72, Erie 29
Burrton 71, Pratt Skyline 61
BV North 50, Blue Valley Stillwell 42
BV Northwest 58, St. Thomas Aquinas 54
Cedar Vale/Dexter 62, Argonia 51
Central Heights 65, Iola 50
Chase 68, Glasco/Miltonvale-Southern Cloud 41
Cheney 58, Chaparral 49
Council Grove 46, Clay Center 43
Cunningham 71, Norwich 59
Deerfield 61, Yarbrough, Okla. 25
Derby 74, Wichita Campus 50
DeSoto 50, Spring Hill 46
Doniphan West 48, Linn 33
El Dorado 52, Mulvane 39
Eudora 77, Louisburg 34
Eureka 74, Neodesha 55
Flint Hills Christian 59, St. John’s Military 41
Fort Scott 63, Parsons 40
Frankfort 54, BV Randolph 29
Fredonia 64, Cherryvale 44
Frontenac 77, Baxter Springs 47
Garden Plain 51, Conway Springs 44
Gardner-Edgerton 58, Blue Valley Southwest 56
Girard 57, Southeast 34
Goddard-Eisenhower 76, Arkansas City 43
Goessel 49, Elyria Christian 33
Hanover 48, Wetmore 31
Hartford 52, Chase County 50
Hesston 64, Smoky Valley 26
Hodgeman County 57, Bucklin 36
Holcomb 81, Colby 40
Holton 66, Atchison County 20
Humboldt 49, Caney Valley 37
Hutchinson Trinity 68, Remington 58
Independence 46, Labette County 43
Jackson Heights 56, Maur Hill – Mount Academy 50
Jefferson North 44, Horton 33
Kapaun Mount Carmel 62, Wichita North 33
KC Piper 73, Tonganoxie 60
KC Washington 62, KC Harmon 38
KC Wyandotte 94, Atchison 69
Kingman 54, Hoisington 42
Lakin 82, Cimarron 52
Lansing 66, KC Turner 59
Larned 55, Halstead 33
Lawrence 54, SM South 50
Lawrence Free State 62, SM Northwest 50
Little River 58, Centre 40
Lutheran (Kansas City), Mo. 75, Maranatha Academy 71
Lyons 46, Haven 27
Maize 73, Hutchinson 42
Maize South 67, Goddard 46
Manhattan 55, Topeka West 48
Marais des Cygnes Valley 54, Cornerstone Alt. Charter 40
Meade 57, Ashland 39
Medicine Lodge 48, Belle Plaine 39
Mill Valley 57, KC Bishop Ward 35
Minneapolis 53, Salina Sacred Heart 48
Mission Valley 56, Herington 26
Northeast-Arma 66, Jayhawk Linn 59
Northern Heights 67, Madison 48
Olathe North 51, SM East 43
Olathe Northwest 63, SM West 56
Olathe South 51, Leavenworth 26
Olpe 64, Lyndon 35
Onaga 55, Axtell 35
Osage City 65, Wamego 52
Oswego 50, St. Paul 38
Ottawa 63, Bishop Seabury Academy 24
Oxford 47, Flinthills 44
Paola 76, Baldwin 49
Pittsburg Colgan 55, Columbus 28
Pleasanton 55, Altoona-Midway 33
Prairie View 57, Santa Fe Trail 55
Pratt 46, Hillsboro 37
Riverside 57, Perry-Lecompton 45
Riverton 61, Galena 60, OT
Rock Creek 48, Riley County 22
Rock Hills 41, Lakeside 33
Rockhurst, Mo. 64, St. James Academy 62
Rossville 55, Wabaunsee 44
Royal Valley 32, Hiawatha 27
Sabetha 64, Jefferson West 46
Salina Central 56, Newton 44
Salina South 53, Valley Center 46
Satanta 55, Kiowa County 43
Sedgwick 60, Canton-Galva 56, OT
Shawnee Heights 65, Emporia 46
Silver Lake 73, St. Mary’s 34
SM North 63, Olathe East 61
Solomon 64, Rural Vista 37
South Barber 60, Stafford 30
South Central 78, Fowler 51
South Gray 73, Pawnee Heights 30
Southeast Saline 65, Chapman 50
Southwestern Hts. 53, Johnson-Stanton County 38
Sterling 78, Nickerson 56
Topeka 59, Junction City 57, OT
Topeka Hayden 56, Highland Park 51
Troy 58, Valley Heights 50
Udall 59, Central Burden 21
Valley Falls 58, Oskaloosa 31
Washburn Rural 51, Topeka Seaman 42
Waverly 59, Southern Coffey 49
Wellsville 62, Osawatomie 54
West Elk 58, Yates Center 39
Wichita Collegiate 66, Buhler 62, OT
Wichita East 64, Wichita Bishop Carroll 44
Wichita Heights 68, Wichita Northwest 36
Wichita Home School 64, Veritas Christian 39
Wichita Independent 62, Bluestem 53
Wichita Southeast 67, Wichita West 51
Wichita Trinity 54, Douglass 33

GIRLS BASKETBALL
Area Scores
Hays-TMP-Marian 63, Norton 38

Central Prairie League
Central Plains 49, St. John 24
LaCrosse 47, Ness City 40
Macksville 63, Victoria 52
Spearville 51, Kinsley 47

Great West Activities Conference
Hugoton 65, Scott City 29

Mid-Continent League
Hill City 54, Smith Center 36
Stockton 56, Ellis 49
Trego 61, Otis-Bison 50

Northern Plains League
Natoma 54, Osborne 50, OT
Pike Valley 45, Lincoln 44
St. John’s Beloit-Tipton 61, Wilson 47
Thunder Ridge 59, Sylvan-Lucas 35

Northwest Kansas League
Dighton 50, Ingalls 37
Hoxie 78, St. Francis 13
Oberlin-Decatur 58, Greeley County 40
Wallace County 59, Rawlins County 26

Western Athletic Conference
Garden City 65, Guymon, Okla. 45
Great Bend 52, Liberal 47
McPherson 58, Dodge City 50

Western Kansas Liberty League Tournament
Semifinal
Golden Plains 38, Logan 36
Wheatland-Grinnell 51, Triplains-Brewster 43

Statewide Scores
Abilene 59, Marysville 31
Andale 67, Rose Hill 34
Andover Central 47, Andover 45
Argonia 61, Cedar Vale/Dexter 47
Attica 58, Fairfield 45
Beloit 63, Ellsworth 34
Bennington 49, Marion 44
Berean Academy 49, Ell-Saline 35
Bishop Miege 67, BV West 33
Blue Valley Southwest 76, Gardner-Edgerton 65
Bonner Springs 45, Basehor-Linwood 28
Buhler 61, Wichita Collegiate 46
Burlington 59, Erie 27
Burrton 38, Pratt Skyline 34
BV North 54, Blue Valley Stillwell 52
BV Randolph 59, Frankfort 56
Caney Valley 60, Humboldt 20
Canton-Galva 37, Sedgwick 33
Centre 55, Little River 28
Chapman 45, Southeast Saline 43
Chase County 64, Hartford 31
Cheney 60, Chaparral 38
Cherryvale 51, Fredonia 35
Chetopa 58, Crest 41
Christ Preparatory Academy 47, Independence Home School 42
Cimarron 50, Lakin 44
Clay Center 47, Council Grove 34
Cunningham 45, Norwich 25
Derby 61, Wichita Campus 43
DeSoto 59, Spring Hill Charter 28
DeSoto 59, Spring Hill 28
Douglass 48, Wichita Trinity 46
El Dorado 41, Mulvane 35
Elkhart 39, Syracuse 37
Flinthills 33, Oxford 28
Fort Scott 40, Parsons 36
Frontenac 54, Baxter Springs 25
Galena 58, Riverton 24
Garden Plain 34, Conway Springs 33
Girard 47, Southeast 19
Glasco/Miltonvale-Southern Cloud 45, Chase 38
Goddard 51, Maize South 26
Goddard-Eisenhower 67, Arkansas City 60
Goessel 33, Elyria Christian 24
Halstead 42, Larned 34
Hanover 38, Wetmore 36, OT
Hesston 58, Smoky Valley 33
Hiawatha 34, Royal Valley 21
Hoisington 41, Kingman 35
Holcomb 60, Colby 47
Holton 42, Atchison County 23
Independence 58, Labette County 57
Iola 35, Central Heights 23
Jefferson North 55, Horton 39
Jefferson West 60, Sabetha 36
Johnson-Stanton County 54, Southwestern Hts. 46
Kapaun Mount Carmel 55, Wichita North 18
KC Piper 65, Tonganoxie 30
KC Washington 57, KC Harmon 26
Kiowa County 52, Satanta 35
Lakeside 56, Rock Hills 44
Lansing 72, KC Turner 17
Leavenworth 47, Olathe South 34
Linn 40, Doniphan West 23
Louisburg 57, Eudora 40
Lutheran (Kansas City), Mo. 54, Maranatha Academy 46
Lyons 46, Haven 27
Maize 48, Hutchinson 33
Manhattan 56, Topeka West 31
Marais des Cygnes Valley 57, Cornerstone Alt. Charter 49
Maur Hill – Mount Academy 43, Jackson Heights 36
Meade 80, Ashland 29
Medicine Lodge 39, Belle Plaine 24
Mill Valley 65, KC Bishop Ward 23
Minneapolis 57, Salina Sacred Heart 23
Mission Valley 41, Herington 32
Moundridge 33, Inman 24
Northeast-Arma 44, Jayhawk Linn 35
Northern Heights 51, Madison 40
Olathe East 65, SM North 16
Olathe North 44, SM East 31
Olpe 55, Lyndon 39
Ottawa 47, Bishop Seabury Academy 15
Paola 54, Baldwin 52
Perry-Lecompton 54, Riverside 18
Pittsburg 39, Coffeyville 14
Pittsburg Colgan 37, Columbus 29
Pleasanton 50, Altoona-Midway 11
Prairie View 46, Santa Fe Trail 32
Pratt 53, Hillsboro 44
Pretty Prairie 40, Hutchinson Central Christian 38
Remington 47, Hutchinson Trinity 39
Riley County 48, Rock Creek 17
Rural Vista 41, Solomon 29
Salina Central 43, Newton 33
Salina South 42, Valley Center 34
Shawnee Heights 50, Emporia 48
SM Northwest 63, Lawrence Free State 38
SM South 57, Lawrence 44
SM West 66, Olathe Northwest 58
South Barber 62, Stafford 10
South Central 64, Fowler 17
South Gray 58, Pawnee Heights 13
South Haven 54, Sedan 37
St. Paul 54, Oswego 27
Sterling 72, Nickerson 14
Topeka 68, Junction City 59
Topeka Hayden 69, Highland Park 38
Valley Falls 52, Oskaloosa 26
Valley Heights 53, Troy 39
Wabaunsee 42, Rossville 24
Wakefield 43, Peabody-Burns 25
Wamego 53, Osage City 33
Washburn Rural 64, Topeka Seaman 41
Washington County 47, Centralia 45
Waverly 54, Southern Coffey 27
Wellington 47, Augusta 30
Wellsville 67, Osawatomie 22
West Franklin 41, Lebo 37
Wichita Bishop Carroll 55, Wichita East 25
Wichita Heights 63, Wichita Northwest 31
Wichita Home School 65, Veritas Christian 58
Wichita Independent 48, Bluestem 21
Wichita Southeast 68, Wichita West 43

Washington County Tournament
Barstow, Mo. 58, Heritage Christian 29

TMP sweeps Norton

Posted on February 6, 2015

By JEREMY McGUIRE
Hays Post

Girls: TMP 63, Norton 38

TMP used an early 10 to nothing run, that spanned the first and second quarters, to help put away the Norton Lady Jays early. The Lady Monarchs started the run with the game tied at six and never looked back. TMP led 14-6 after the first quarter, 28-11 at halftime, 49-23 at the end of the third and won 63-38.

TMP has won 13 games in a row and are now 13-1 on the season and 6-0 in the Mid Continent League. Norton drops to 7-9 overall and 2-4 in the MCL. TMP will be on the road in Scott City on Tuesday night.

ROSE MCFARLAND INTERVIEW

GIRLS HIGHLIGHTS

Boys: TMP 44, Norton 30

TMP trailed only once, 2-0, in their Mid Continent League rematch with the Norton Bluejays on Friday night at Al Billinger Fieldhouse in Hays. Offense wasn’t nearly as abundant as it was the first time these two teams met when the Monarchs beat the Bluejays 80-48 in the MCL Tournament Championship. TMP took an 8-2 lead heading into the second quarter and continued to keep Norton at arm’s length the entire game.

The Monarchs led 17-9 at halftime and extended that lead to double figures, 34-21, at the end of the third quarter. Norton was able to cut the TMP lead to 10 early in the fourth quarter but that would be as close as the Bluejays would get. Kameron Schmidt led TMP with 12 points and Jared Vitztum had 10. Deon Lyle was the only Bluejay in double figures. He finished with 12 points but fouled out midway through the fourth quarter.

TMP is now 9-5 overall and 5-1 in the MCL. Norton drops to 13-2 and 5-1 in the MCL as well. TMP will be at Scott City on Tuesday.

JOE HERTEL INTERVIEW

BOYS HIGHLIGHTS

Obama: Scaling back college savings benefits wasn’t worth it

Posted on February 6, 2015

NEDRA PICKLER, Associated Press

Obama town hall at Ivy Tech Community College on Friday

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — President Barack Obama says he dropped a plan to scale back tax benefits for college savings accounts because it wasn’t worth it.

He says he looked at reducing the tax savings because the accounts tended to be used by “folks a little more on the high end.” He says lower-income taxpayers struggled to save enough to participate.

A grandmother attending an Obama town hall at Ivy Tech Community College in Indianapolis asked him if the accounts would change.

Obama says he has 529 accounts for his own daughters, Malia and Sasha.

He says after opposition arose, he concluded the change wouldn’t save enough money to keep pursuing.

The White House says the proposal would have raised about $1 billion over 10 years.

2 Kansas men hospitalized after car hits a trailer

Posted on February 6, 2015

MONTGOMERY COUNTY- Two Kansas men were injured in an accident just before 6:30 p.m. on Friday in Montgomery County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2009 Suzuki SX4 driven by John Warring, 53, Sedan, was southbound on U.S. 75 at the Oklahoma border and struck a 13 foot utility trailer pulled by a 2000 Dodge pickup.

The pickup was stopped in traffic waiting to make left turn and the trailer did not have lights.

A private vehicle transported Warring and a passenger Kirk Duckers, 40, Topeka, to Jane Phillips Medical Center in Bartlesville.

The pickup driver Fred Robert Hinkle, 71, Copan, OK., was not injured.

The KHP reported all were properly restrained at the time of the accident.

Hays Post News

Posted on February 6, 2015February 6, 2015

Senators call for investigation into Verizon ‘supercookies’

Posted on February 6, 2015

ANNE FLAHERTY, Associated Press

WASHINGTON (AP) — Democratic senators are calling on federal regulators to investigate Verizon Wireless, the country’s biggest mobile provider, for secretly inserting unique tracking codes into the Web traffic of its estimated 100 million customers.

Data privacy experts have accused Verizon of violating consumer privacy by using these “supercookies,” an identifying string of letters and numbers that become attached to each site visited on a person’s mobile device. Sen. Bill Nelson of Florida, the top Democrat on the Senate Commerce Committee, said he wants to know whether the company violated any laws and whether legislation is needed.

Verizon Wireless spokeswoman Debra Lewis said the company takes customer privacy seriously and will respond to Nelson’s letter. The company had announced last week it would allow customers to opt out of the tracking program.

Radio Shack announces store closings

Posted on February 6, 2015

NEW YORK (AP) — Struggling electronics retailer RadioShack has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and says it will sell up to 2,400 stores

Those closings include the store in Hutchinson, five locations in Wichita, one in Newton, Great Bend, Emporia, Pittsburg and seven in the Kansas City area.

Click HERE for a look at the complete list of stores being closed