ARKANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — An Ark City man has been arrested on suspicion of threatening a woman with a knife and chasing her down the street.
KWCH-TV reports he faces charges of aggravated assault, criminal restraint, criminal damage to property, domestic battery, disorderly conduct, possession of marijuana, and possession of drug paraphernalia.
A woman told police that a 32-year-old man pulled a knife after they had an argument Sunday night. She told police that the suspect refused to let her go.
The victim said she was able to escape without any injuries to a neighbor’s house after being chased down a sidewalk. According to authorities, the suspect damaged the neighbor’s home, and marijuana was found in the home where the incident took place.
Temperatures will be slight cooler today behind a cold front, with highs mainly in the upper 60s to lower 70s. Widespread rain with isolated thunderstorms is expected late tonight through Tuesday night. After a break in the wet weather Wednesday and Thursday, there is a good chance of showers and thunderstorms from late Thursday night through Saturday.
Today Mostly sunny, with a high near 66. North northeast wind 10 to 16 mph.
Tonight Partly cloudy, with a low around 45. East northeast wind 7 to 14 mph.
Tuesday Showers and thunderstorms likely, then showers and possibly a thunderstorm after 1pm. High near 55. East wind 13 to 18 mph, with gusts as high as 28 mph. Chance of precipitation is 80%. New rainfall amounts between a tenth and quarter of an inch, except higher amounts possible in thunderstorms.
Tuesday NightS howers and possibly a thunderstorm, mainly before 4am, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 4am. Low around 43. North wind 14 to 16 mph. Chance of precipitation is 90%. New rainfall amounts between a half and three quarters of an inch possible.
Wednesday A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 8am. Mostly cloudy, with a high near 56. North wind 14 to 16 mph.
Wednesday Night Mostly cloudy, with a low around 43.
SOUTH HUTCHINSON- A Kansas man was injured in an accident just before 10 p.m. on Sunday in Reno County.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a Suzuki motorcycle driven by Jame A. Shaw Jr., 43, Hutchinson, was eastbound on U.S. 50 on the ramp from Scott Blvd. one mile East of South Hutchinson.
The motorcycle hit a bicycle driven by Larry T. Bumguardner, 60, Wichita, who was eastbound at the top of the on ramp to U.S. 50 on the right shoulder.
Shaw, Jr. was transported to Hutchinson Regional Medical Center. He was wearing a helmet.
Bumguardner was not wearing a helmet and not injured.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators will be working with a reduced staff of secretaries and assistants now that their annual session is in overtime.
Lawmakers were returning Monday to the Statehouse for the 92nd day of their session. Legislative leaders traditionally schedule sessions for 90 days, but that day came Saturday.
The Legislature’s administrative services staff says a typical day in session costs the state about $60,000. But starting Monday, the cost is expected to drop to about $43,000 a day.
The Legislature ended seasonal jobs Friday for about 150 workers, leaving about 60 employees, including the full-time staffs in each chamber.
At least 11 of 125 House members and three of 40 senators have given up their $89-a-day salaries going forward. Lawmakers also receive $129 a day for expenses.
DODGE CITY, Kan. (AP) — The Dodge City Police Department has received a grant that will allow it to have a drug collection unit on hand.
The police department was awarded a grant by CVS Pharmacy so that Dodge City residents would be able to properly dispose of expired or unused medications at a unit inside the department’s lobby.
According to Dodge City Police Chief Craig Mellecker, the Drug Enforcement Agency recently discontinued its Take-Back Program, so the department looked for other options to handle medications and eventually applied for the grant.
Mellecker says the unit will be checked weekly, and prescriptions will be taken to an incinerator to be destroyed.
Medications can be dropped off at the unit 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with no questions asked.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A House committee plans to meet as lawmakers go into overtime seeking an acceptable package of tax increases for closing a state budget shortfall.
The House Taxation Committee was convening Monday to consider additional proposals after a measure that would have increased the state’s sales tax was voted down in the chamber.
The tax panel has advanced one other proposal. It would impose some taxes on the profits of more than 330,000 business owners and farmers that have been exempt from income taxes since 2013.
Legislators must close a projected budget shortfall of $406 million for the fiscal year beginning July 1. They were meeting for the 92nd day — past the scheduled end of the 90-day session.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Edinson Volquez threw three-hit ball for seven innings, Salvador Perez homered and drove in two runs and the Kansas City Royals rudely welcomed Chris Capuano back to the big leagues with a 6-0 victory over the New York Yankees on Sunday.
The Royals got production from throughout their lineup to take the rubber game of their three-game set with the Yankees, whom they face again next week in New York.
Volquez (3-3) struck out five without issuing a walk in an effortless performance. He never allowed a leadoff man on base, and just one Yankee reached second all afternoon.
Capuano (0-1) made his season debut after rehabbing a quad strain that he sustained in spring training. The veteran left-hander gave up four runs on four hits and two walks, and left New York in a big hole when he was pulled four batters into the third inning.
The loss was the Yankees’ fifth in their last six games.
I used to have a book that showed numerous ways Native Americans accomplished tasks like trapping wolves and catching geese that were essential to their survival. Before the days of steel knives, firearms and grocery stores, they relied on knives, arrow heads, spear points and tools made from flint to kill and skin game, and they used handmade fish traps and other means to catch fish.
American Indians were also skilled in knowing which plants were edible and which held medicinal value, and learned to use America’s wild plant life for medicine and to supplement their diet.
When Cecil Hamilton was just a boy he was fortunate to spend lots of time with his grandmother, whom he only ever knew as “Bompy” Sanders. Cecil told me “I was always fascinated with Indian ways; how they lived with nothing but what was in their heads and what they could get from the wilderness around them.”
Grandma Bompy was skilled in Indian ways and would take Cecil on overnight and on weekend campouts, where she passed on to him her knowledge and understanding of self-sufficient primitive survival. She taught him how to catch catfish in the rivers using trotlines, how to find and prepare Morel mushrooms, and how to catch turtles and make turtle soup. Cecil told me a story how he and Grandma Bompy once caught a snapping turtle so big that as grandma sat on it to hold it down, it continued to crawl away.
After they had killed and cleaned the turtle, the shell was so big that grandma cleaned it and washed her hair in the shell in rain water she would collect. Perhaps the most important lessons Grandma Bompy taught Cecil were about identifying, collecting and preparing edible plants. He became so knowledgeable about wild edible plants that he later got involved with survival groups and was able to teach them what he knew.
Over the years, Cecil has been involved with several survival groups and has been privileged to learn from renowned primitive survival experts and teachers Jim Riggs and Richard Jameson. About twenty years ago, Cecil began hosting his own primitive survival camps to pass on to students the skills he has learned. He is able to show students how to make flint arrow heads, spear points and tools and how to use them for primitive survival.
He even teaches pupils how to fillet fish with flint. He gives instructions on making fish traps, deadfalls and snares and shows how to use them to catch fish and wildlife. He teaches how to identify, gather and prepare edible plants, and he’s very adamant that many wild plants are safe and beneficial to eat, but unless the person knows for sure the plants identity, it should be left alone.
This year Cecil’s Primitive Survival Camp will be from June 4 through June 7 near Augusta, KS, and will feature instruction on making fire by friction, edible plant gathering and preparation, how to make primitive cordage from strips of rawhide and making and using throwing sticks. Call Cecil at (620) 442-8171 or (620) 660-0257 for a brochure and for details, as he says other topics not listed will be covered.
Given the state of our nation and our world today, investing some time to learn primitive survival skills seems like a good idea, and learning about edible and medicinal plants can always be beneficial no matter your lifestyle. So whether you’re a doomsday prepper or just want to learn more about primitive survival, give Cecil’s camp a try, and find a different and more unique way to Explore Kansas Outdoors.
Steve Gilliland, Inman, can be contacted by email at [email protected].
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Forecasters have determined that wind gusts of 75 to 85 mph pushed 34 stopped railcars off their tracks in Lyon County.
The National Weather Service announced Sunday that the winds that hit Saturday night also damaged trees and outbuilding in the area. Additionally, an EF-1 tornado with peak wind speeds of 94 mph damaged a Lyon County farmstead.
Forecasters say 1 to 4 inches of rain fell Saturday and early Sunday across much of eastern Kansas, causing flash flooding in low-lying areas of Coffeyville, Wichita and the Kansas City metropolitan area.
Some stretches of the Chikaskia, Marais Des Cygnes, Neosho and the Cottonwood rivers are or soon will be overflowing their banks, causing minor to moderate flooding. Forecasters say some low-lying roads and farmland will be inundated.
ATCHISON -Many fans might believe Dayton Moore, Royals’ Senior Vice President of Baseball Operations & General Manager, has an advanced degree in baseball. And now, thanks to Benedictine College, they can officially call him “doctor.” On Saturday, May 16, the Catholic, Liberal Arts College in Atchison, Kansas, presented him with an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree during its annual commencement exercises, at which he was also the keynote speaker according to a media release from the school.
“The future belongs to people who believe in it,” he said in his speech, which focused on faith and teamwork. “There’s no doubt in my mind that each and every one of you are gifted for success and will make a difference.”
He went on to tell the graduates that it will be important to learn from their failures, which he said present opportunities. He concluded by saying that the two most important things they will need for success in life is to be able to forgive daily, both themselves and others, and don’t quit. And he reminded them that you need faith to do that.
Moore has shown a knack for winning, from championships in his early days managing the Winchester Royals of the Shenandoah Valley League, to 14-straight division titles with the Atlanta Braves, to turning the Royals around and bringing league championships and World Series dreams to Kansas City.
Moore is a native Kansan, born in Wichita. He came to the Kansas City Royals organization with an impressive resume from the Atlanta Braves, where he consistently moved up within the organization to eventually serve as Assistant General Manager/Baseball Operations. Since joining the Royals in 2006, he and his staff have worked to build a strong farm system, rated among the best in baseball, and have shown success on the field.
Under Moore’s leadership, the Royals won 86 games in 2013, then went on to win the American League Championship and go to the World Series in 2014. The club has also signed several key in-house players to long-term contracts during his tenure including Zack Greinke, Joakim Soria, Billy Butler, Alex Gordon, Salvador Perez and Alcides Escobar.
Moore joins the ranks of Bob Hope, Lou Holtz, Father Flanagan, Sen. Paul Ryan, Governor Sam Brownback, Bob and Elizabeth Dole, Dick Vermeil and Erma Bombeck, who have all addressed Benedictine College’s graduates in the past.
SALINA -A Salina teen that was missing early Friday morning has been safely
located.
15-year-old Jennifer Ann Mills was reported missing Friday evening after disappearing from her home during the overnight hours Thursday night into Friday morning.
Mills was seen walking down a Salina street Saturday afternoon and her family was contacted.
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SALINA -Family and friends are searching for a teenage girl who disappeared during the overnight hours.
According to reports, 15-year-old Jennifer Ann Mills disappeared from her Salina home sometime late Thursday night or Friday morning.
She is believed to be in the company of an adult male.
Mills is said to be suffering from stomach bleeding and has a heart condition. She is on medication for the stomach bleeding, but does not have it with her.
She is 5’6″ tall and weighs 126 pounds. She has blonde hair with a red tint and brown eyes. She has a tattoo of a heart with the word “LIVE” in a heartbeat design on her inner right forearm and a tattoo of a skull with flowers around it on her left top forearm.
Anyone with information regarding the whereabouts or disappearance of Jennifer Ann Mills is asked to contact the Salina Police Department at (785)826-7210.
Man rescued from top of car stuck in high water overnight. No injuries reported–photos Clay County Sheriff
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Forecasters are urging residents of some parts of Kansas to watch out for flooding after another downpour.
National Weather Service meteorologist Jenifer Bowen says southern, east-central and northeast Kansas received from 1 to 4 inches or rain Saturday and early Sunday. Higher rainfall amounts were recorded in a few localized areas.
Flash flooding was reported in low-lying areas of Coffeyville, Wichita and the Kansas City metropolitan area.
Some stretches of the Chikaskia, Marais Des Cygnes, Neosho and the Cottonwood rivers are or soon will be overflowing their banks, causing minor to moderate flooding. Forecasters say some low-lying roads and farmland will be inundated.
