KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Eduardo Rodriguez pitched capably into the seventh inning, Mookie Betts had a career-best four hits and the Boston Red Sox beat the Kansas City Royals 7-3 on Friday night.
Rodriguez (3-1), who gave up nine runs in 4 2-3 innings in his previous start against Toronto, allowed one run and six hits in 6 1-3 innings. Alcides Escobar’s RBI-double in the fifth was the first run he allowed on the road in 18 1-3 innings.
The Red Sox batted around in a five-run second inning, which included an RBI-single by Betts. Blake Swihart contributed a two-run double, while Mike Napoli drove in two runs with a single.
Betts is 13 for 22 in his past five games, raising his average to .267.
Boston’s Hanley Ramirez hit his 14th home run in the fifth.
WALLACE COUNTY – A Kansas woman was injured in an accident just before 2 p.m. on Friday in Wallace County.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2008 Chevy Malibu driven by Jade Macinzie Lehman, 20, Tribune, was westbound on Old Highway 40 just east of Kansas 27.
The vehicle entered the eastbound lane and hit the trailer of a Mack semi driven by Wilson Lee Fink, 59, Monument.
Lehman was transported to Goodland Regional Medical Center.
Fink was not injured. Both drivers were properly restrained at the time of the accident.
MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — The president of Kansas State University says he’s giving the money he would make in a raise to be used elsewhere at the university.
President Kirk Schulz announced on the university’s website he won’t keep the 2 percent raise approved by the state’s Board of Regents on Thursday.
Schulz thanked the Regents for the raise and credits them with backing his K-State 2025 initiative. But he says he’s turning the raise over because the university couldn’t provide faculty and staff raises too. He says he’ll put the amount of money of his raise toward supporting the University Support Staff Awards program.
Students at most state universities in the state will also see their tuition and fees increase by no more than 3.6 percent this fall.
COUNCIL GROVE, Kan. (AP) — An American Indian tribe is poised to hold its first official powwow for the first time in 142 years on its own land near Council Grove.
The Wichita Eagle reports that the Kaw Nation, also called the Kanza, is scheduled this weekend to hold the powwow, with more than 300 dancers.
The Kaw Indians had claimed a territory that covered parts of Kansas, Nebraska and Missouri, but by the mid-19th century it was forced into what’s now Oklahoma.
The tribe’s legacy and culture is ingrained in Kansas history. The state took its name from the tribe, and a Kaw warrior stands atop the dome of the state Capitol.
The Kaw Nation in 2000 purchased more than 145 acres of land along the Little John Creek near Council Grove.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators aren’t quite done with their work for the year because they inadvertently enacted two conflicting versions of a new law aimed at holding down local property taxes.
House Speaker Ray Merrick’s office said Friday that legislators will reconvene June 26 to pass a bill addressing the problem. Spokeswoman Rachel Whitten described it as a technical fix.
Legislators already were scheduled to have a brief adjournment ceremony that day.
The issue is a new law limiting the authority of cities and counties to spend increases in property tax revenues without getting voters’ approval. Lawmakers intended the limits to take effect in 2018.
They passed two bills raising taxes to balance the budget. One measure said the limits on property taxes would start in July and the other, in 2018.
Funeral services for Goodland, Kansas, resident Dale Price, 82, will be held Monday, June 22, 2:00 PM MT at First United Methodist Church in Goodland.
Interment will be at Goodland Cemetery.
Memorials to Dale Price Elks Memorial Scholarship Fund may be left at the service or mailed to Koons Funeral Home, 211 North Main, Goodland, KS 67735-1555.
The skateboard scene in Hays will be dealt a big blow when White Chocolate, 810 Main, will close for business Saturday.
The business has been open since 1998.
Derek Hadley, known by locals as “Dude,” has been running the location since 2005, but said he always felt at some point the shop would close.
“Dude”
“We kinda knew it was just kind of inevitable that people move on and, with this type of lifestyle and culture, you really, to be doing it, to have a store and to be successful, you have to be immersed into the sub-culture of skateboarding, or at least, maybe not necessarily have to skate, but be into the lifestyle and know what it’s about, know the mentality, really almost be into it for the love.”
The Hays White Chocolate is one of two locations for the business. The other is located in Lawrence, and Hadley said the Hays location is likely closing due to the difficulty of the owners operating both locations.
While the store catered to the skating sub-culture by selling skating hardware, in recent years the location expanded into clothing sales as well, bringing in an interesting mix of shoppers.
“Our customers are really unique I think,” Hadley said. “We’ve had a wide variety of people that have came in over the years, and they’re, in my opinion, the best customers. I think we just have the most loyal of customers.
“We have everybody from little kids, just starting out skateboarding, or just like certain brands, like Vans or something, all the way up to … we’ve had grandmas shop here like 60, 70-years-old that like our girls selection.”
Austin Phyfer, a regular customer at the shop, said he felt people who shop there preferred the personal experience of shopping for skateboarding supplies in the store, rather than online, but speculated that a lack of community support hurt the business.
“With there not being a lot of space to skate, it’s hard for people to want to put forth the money in something they can’t use,” he said.
Hays has a skate park at 30th and Sherman Avenue, but efforts by the Western Kansas Skatepark Committee to update the facility have stalled this year.
The shop was staffed by up to five people at a time, including Hadley, who will now be pursing other options. Hadley said he likely will move out of the area following the closure and was unsure what the staff will do after the closing.
Although the shop is a center for the skate culture in Hays, Hadley feels that skateboarders and other fans of action sports will still have a strong following here — even after the closure.
“We had a pretty good skate scene. We had the skate park before the shop even opened,” Hadley said. “Usually a shop like this will open up to meet demand, I don’t really think it’s the other way around.
“I think the skate scene will keep going.”
Through their last day of business the shop is running closeout deals on much of its merchandise, and what is left will mostly be transferred to the Lawrence location, according to Hadley.
GEARY COUNRY- Two people including a Geary County Sheriff’s Deputy were injured in an accident just before 1:30 p.m. on Friday.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2008 Ford F 150 driven by Deputy Megan I. Landry, 30, Junction City, was northbound on U.S. 77 at the Interstate 70 exit attempting a traffic stop with lights and sirens activated.
A 2001 GMC 1500 driven by Derek L. Leis, 25, Manhattan, pulled out from a stop sign in front of the Ford and they collided.
Landry and Leis were transported to Geary County Hospital.
Landry was not wearing a seat belt according to the KHP.
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GEARY COUNTY -The Kansas Highway Patrol is responding to an accident at U.S.77 near the Interstate 70 exit. The accident involved a Geary County Sheriff’s Deputy and another car.
According to the Kansas Highway Patrol, the Deputy and another driver involved were transported to Geary Community Hospital for non-life threatening injuries.
Check Hays Post for additional details as they become available.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Supreme Court has upheld the involuntary manslaughter conviction of a daycare provider in the 2007 accidental death of an infant.
Michelle Bolze-Sann was sentenced to nearly three years in prison for her role in the suffocation death of the 6-month-old baby. The child died July 2, 2007, after rolling off a bed and becoming trapped between the mattress and the bed’s footboard.
In a ruling released Friday, the state Supreme Court upheld the Shawnee County court verdict. Prosecutors said Bolze-Sann violated state laws requiring napping children under 18 months of age to be in cribs or playpens with narrowly placed slats and protective bumpers.
The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the justices rejected Bolze-Sann’s claim that the state failed to present sufficient evidence establishing that she acted recklessly .
SALINA- Law enforcement authorities in Salina have made an arrest in a Friday morning shooting.
Salina Police Captain Mike Sweeney reported officers were dispatched just after 12:45 a.m. to 1119 N. 4th Street in reference to a disturbance involving a firearm.
Upon arrival, officers contacted a 17-year-old male, who reported Michael Ryan, 34 of #31 Crestview, came to his residence and pointed a rifle at him.
Ryan also kidnapped a 15-year-old female (who was acquainted to Ryan) and left prior to the officers’ arrival.
Officers immediately responded to #31 Crestview where they found the 15-year-old safe and unharmed. She was taken to the police department to be interviewed. Ryan was not located at the residence.
Ryan later returned to his residence.
Officers surrounded the house and used a public address system in an attempt to have him come out.
As officers continued to persuade Ryan to come out, several shots were fired in their direction.
One of the rounds struck the rear passenger door of a patrol car, where an officer was taking cover.
In addition, one occupied residence across the street was struck multiple times. No officers fired their weapons.
Ryan eventually came out of the residence armed with two firearms. Officers confronted Ryan from cover and ordered him to drop his weapons. Ryan complied and was taken into custody.
The Salina Police Department is requesting charges of attempted first degree murder of a law enforcement officer, shooting into an occupied dwelling, aggravated kidnapping, aggravated assault, unlawful possession of a firearm by a felon and damage to property.
Police on the scene of the Friday morning shooting in Salina
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SALINA- Law enforcement authorities are investigating a shooting in Salina.
Police say that multiple shots were fired in the 31 Hundred Block of Crestview Drive early Friday morning.
Michael Allen Ryan, 34, Salina, was booked into the Saline County Jail just after 5:30 a.m. on charges that included Attempted 1st Degree Murder, Aggravated Kidnapping and two counts of Aggravated Assault.
There were no injuries reported.
An investigation continues according to police and more details are expected late Friday.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas winter wheat harvest is expected to get into full swing by this weekend or early next week amid a forecast calling for mostly warm, dry weather across the state.
So far, though, it has been a messy start in the scattered places where combines have ventured into muddy fields.
At OK Co-op Grain Co. in Kiowa, assistant elevator manager Brett Courson says there are stuck combines across the country there, and some custom cutters have put tracks on their combines to get into fields. Farmers there have gotten a pretty good start, but 3 inches of rain this past week has knocked down test weights.
The industry group Kansas Wheat says it anticipates a big part of the state to be harvesting all at once next week.
A longtime fixture in the Hays, the Home Party Club, 229 W. 10th, has announced this weekend will be its last.
An announcement made on their Facebook page gave little details as to reason for the closing, but said Saturday will be the last day.
“Closing doors! All inventory must go. $1 bottles $1 single wells and awesome deals on everything else. Stop into the HPC for the last time ever. Open through Saturday. It’s been fun. We’ll miss you all,” the page said in the original announcement.
A message was added later giving an brief update about the current owners.
“Just received word that the HPC owners are moving into bigger and better things. All inventory still must go,” the later message said.
HPC owner Jason Noriega declined to comment for this story.
