Today Partly sunny, with a high near 71. Breezy, with a north wind 15 to 23 mph, with gusts as high as 44 mph.
Tonight Partly cloudy, with a low around 46. North northwest wind 6 to 15 mph.
Thursday Sunny, with a high near 73. West northwest wind 7 to 11 mph.
Thursday Night Mostly clear, with a low around 50. West northwest wind 6 to 8 mph becoming east southeast in the evening.
FridayA 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 4pm. Sunny, with a high near 77. Breezy, with a southwest wind 9 to 14 mph becoming north 15 to 20 mph in the afternoon.
Friday NightA 10 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 7pm. Mostly clear, with a low around 43. Breezy.
Fort Hays State University students in communication studies and the Institute for New Media Studies will provide a behind-the-scenes look at the 3D virtual campus project, Tiger Range, from 10:30 a.m. to noon on Wednesday, May 11, in Tomanek Hall, room 161. This open house event is free and open to the public.
“The project gets its name from the term for the home territory of a tiger,” said Dr. Gordon Carlson, assistant professor of communication studies and director of the Institute for New Media Studies. “An Oculus Rift virtual reality system will be used to transport participants into the virtual campus and allow them to interact with the model. This demonstration includes buildings in the Quad of the university bounded by South Campus Drive, College Drive, North Campus Drive and Park Street.”
“This project has taught me that we, as communication studies majors, will do things in our careers that we are not going to be comfortable with in the beginning, but we can persevere to create new and innovative projects that will contribute to any culture we find ourselves in,” said Vanessa Resh, Shelton, Neb., senior majoring in communication studies.
While still under development, Tiger Range will include campus buildings, landscape items and other environmental objects to enhance the virtual experience of walking across a 3D model of campus. Potential uses for the technology include recruitment, new student and faculty orientation, information kiosks, online tools or mobile apps, and a number of current and upcoming research projects. The project can even be used in conjunction with engineers and administrators to simulate proposed changes to the campus landscape, such as new construction or renovations.
During the event, students of “Issues and Applications in Communication” will display their senior portfolios.
“Fort Hays State University is working hard to develop new technology in support of higher education and encourages students to be pioneers,” said Carlson.
For more information, contact Carlson at [email protected] or (785) 628-5876.
LIBERAL, Kan. – The Hays High boys golf team shot a 311 to finish second at the Liberal Invitational Tuesday at the Willow Tree Golf Course. The Indians finish nine shots behind Garden City who won the tournament with a 302. Garden City freshman Sion Audrain was the individual champ with a 5-under-par 67.
Hays placed four in the top-10 led by Allen Zollinger who finished sixth with a 5-over-par 77. Tradgon McCrae was seventh also with a 77. Brent Koeningsman also shot a 77 and came in ninth with Justin McCullick one stoke back in 10th.
Team Finish 1. Garden City 302 2. Hays High 311 3. Dodge City 311
4. Liberal 328
5. Great Bend 380
Top 10 Medalists 1. Sion Audrain-Garden City 67
2. Kelby Titus-Great Bend 74
3. Matthew Vogel-Dodge City 74
4. Logan Durst-Garden City 75
5. Taylor Larsen-Garden City 77 6. Allen Zollinger-Hays 77 7. Tradgon McCrae-Hays 77 8. Luke Gleason-Dodge City 77 9. Brent Koenigsman-Hays 77 10. Justin McCullick-Hays 78
GARDEN CITY, Kan. – Garden City scored two runs in the bottom of the sixth inning to break a scoreless tie and win game one of their doubleheader with Hays High 2-0. The Buffaloes built a 5-0 lead through five innings and won the second contest 9-4.
Jaysa Wichers allowed both runs on two hits in 1 1/3 innings of relief and suffered the loss in game one. Starter Kaitlyn Brown did not allow a run over 4 1/3 innings with six strikeouts.
Wichers allowed all nine runs, six earned, on 11 hits in the second game. Tessa Stickel had three hits and Nicole Dinkel two hits and two RBIs in game two.
HAYS, Kan. – Emily Schulte drove in Julia Werth on a fielders choice in the bottom of the seventh inning to lift the TMP-Marian softball team to a 3-2 win over Great Bend in game two of their doubleheader Tuesday at the TMP Sports Complex and gave the Monarchs the split.
The Panthers took the first game 5-4 despite a big day from Alison Helget who had two extra base hits and allowed one earned run with six strikeouts and two walks over seven innings in the circle.
TMP committed 10 errors on the day, six in the first game and four of them came in the fifth where the Panthers scored the tying and go-ahead runs.
Helget and Schulte both had two hits in the second game.
Bailey Lacy did not allow an earned run, giving up five hits with five strikeouts to get the win.
The Monarchs are 14-6 and await regional seedings which come out Wednesday.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A man charged in the slaying of a Wichita couple during a robbery has pleaded guilty.
The Wichita Eagle reports that 21-year-old Steven Wade Edwards II pleaded guilty to several charges, including two counts of first-degree murder.
The bodies of 70-year-old Martha Moreno and her husband, 72-year-old Godofredo Moreno, were found by their son in their home on Oct. 16, 2014. Police say the couple died of gunshot wounds.
Edwards faces a life sentence for the murder charges, and is scheduled to be sentenced on June 21. A 17-year-old has also been charged in the killings.
NEWTON -The Newton City Commission voted Tuesday night to terminate the contract of City Manager Randy Riggs, effective immediately.
The vote was 3-2, with Vice Mayor Barth Hague and Commissioner Kathy Valentine opposed, according to a media release.
The termination agreement did not outline specific reasons for the separation other than a desire by the Commission to pursue a different direction in management of the City.
As per Riggs’ contract, the City will provide a severance benefit to include:
• 12 months’ salary in the amount of $147,243.20, plus health insurance benefits.
• Unused vacation leave in the amount of $17,233.83.
• Unused sick leave in the amount of $50,968.80.
City Attorney Bob Myers was appointed to serve as interim city manager. The Commission said they would discuss the process for selecting a new city manager at a later date.
Riggs served as Newton’s city manager since March 2008. He previously was city manager in Chanute and Sterling and assistant city manager in Lawton, Oklahoma.
photos from a surveillance camera located at the gas station- courtesy KBI
The Police Department in Sterling, Colorado reported on social media the couple included in Tuesday’s Silver Alert Jerry and Patricia Marshall have been located in Macon, Missouri
They are currently safe with local law enforcement, according to a social media report.
Arrangements have been made to assure the safety and well being of Mr. and Mrs. Marshall until family can reunite with them.
Nothing criminal is suspected.
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TOPEKA- Law enforcement authorities in Kansas have issued a Silver Alert issued at the request of Colorado.
Just after 5 a.m. on Saturday, Jerry and Patricia Marshall left Sterling, CO., for Seymour, MO., driving a gold 2012 Chevrolet Impala, with CO license plate 288ZRX.
Both are elderly and are showing signs of dementia.
They forgot to take a cell phone and other personal belongings with them on the trip.
At 8 p.m. on Sunday, the couple contacted a relative and indicated that they were in Clarinda, IA.
At 2 a.m. on Tuesday, the couple and their vehicle were spotted at a BP Gas Station in Topeka.
If you see them, please call 911 or a local law enforcement agency.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Latest on the fatal shooting of a police detective in Kansas City, Kansas (all times local):
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The Kansas City, Kansas, police detective killed in a confrontation on Monday will be honored with a public funeral.
The funeral for Detective Brad Lancaster will be at 11 a.m. Saturday at Children’s Mercy Park, home of the Sporting Kansas City soccer team, in Kansas City, Kansas.
A visitation is scheduled at 4 p.m. Friday at Trinity Community Church in Kansas City, Kansas.
Lancaster died Monday after being shot while trying to stop a suspect who was fleeing from officers near the Kansas Speedway.
The 39-year-old Lancaster is survived by a wife and two children.
A suspect, 28-year-old Curtis Ayers, was arrested after he was shot in a confrontation with Kansas City, Missouri, officers hours after Lancaster was shot.
Emily Brandt, a junior from Beloit majoring in political science, has been elected president of the Student Government Association at Fort Hays State University. Vivian Agnew, a Haysville junior majoring in political science, was elected vice president.
Brandt currently serves as the SGA legislative affairs director. Agnew is a senator from the College from Arts, Sciences and Humanities. She also served as chair the Student Relations and Involvement Committee and chair of the Allocations Committee.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Kansas man who spent 15 years in prison for a rape and murder that his brother later confessed to committing is suing law enforcement officers for fabricating evidence that led to his conviction.
Floyd Bledsoe of Hutchinson was freed in December after his brother, Tom, killed himself in prison and left behind a series of notes confessing to the November 1999 slaying of 14-year-old Camille Arfmann.
The federal lawsuit filed Tuesday says Tom Bledsoe confessed several times to killing and raping the Oskaloosa girl soon after her disappearance, but investigators coached him to instead implicate his brother.
Floyd Bledsoe was convicted in April 2000, briefly released on bond in June 2008 and returned to prison in July 2009 after the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed the 2008 ruling.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Gov. Sam Brownback has signed a bill that will limit the power of Kansas cities and counties to levy property taxes starting next year.
The new law revises a property tax lid that was enacted last year and had been set to take effect in January 2018. Brownback signed the bill Monday to make the effective date January 2017 instead.
Cities and counties won’t be allowed to spend an increase in property tax revenues above the rate of inflation without voters’ approval. The law contains exceptions for bond payments, spending on court judgments and other items.
Local officials who couldn’t spend the extra revenues would have to drop tax levies.
Supporters contend local voters will have more control over fiscal decisions. Critics worry that local services will be hurt.
RUSSELL–The next Pickin’ at the Deines is Sunday, May 15.
Bring your acoustic instrument and play along with musicians of all skill levels. Jammin’ starts around 3:30 p.m. Bring a dish of food to share for the potluck dinner starting at 5:30 p.m.
The Deines Cultural Center is located at 820 N. Main in Russell.
Today Partly sunny, with a high near 71. Breezy, with a north wind 15 to 23 mph, with gusts as high as 44 mph.
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