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Month: May 2016

New Kansas zoo elephants adjusting after journey from Africa

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Courtesy photo- 2 of the elephants that made the journey from Africa
Courtesy photo- 2 of the elephants that made the journey from Africa

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas zoo director says six elephants shipped in from southern Africa earlier this year are settling into their new home as the grand opening of their exhibit nears.

The Sedgwick County Zoo’s new elephant exhibit is named after director Mark Reed, who led a $10.6 million fundraising campaign to pay for the structure. The elephants arrived March 11 from Swaziland, which is experiencing an ongoing drought.

The Wichita Eagle reports 17 elephants were imported from Africa in a partnership involving zoos in Wichita, Dallas and Omaha, Nebraska. Wichita and Omaha got six elephants each, while Dallas got five.

Sedgwick County Zoo’s exhibit opens to the public May 27, with sneak previews for zoo members to begin Wednesday.

Hays High baseball beats Goddard; finishes runner-up at Diamond Classic

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By DUSTIN ARMBRUSTER
Hays Post

Hays 8, Goddard 4

The Hays High Indians finished the Diamond Classic with a win and 3-1 record, plus a victory on the official Senior Day. What the Indians needed though was a six run victory to claim the tournament title. Hays High, Salina Central, and Great Bend all finished with a 3-1 tournament record. Great Bend took the team title with at plus 16 runs, Hays High finishes runner up at plus 14 and Salina Central was plus 11.

Highlights

Goddard used a three run second inning to jump up on Hays early. The Lions added a single run in the third to go up 4-0. The chances to score for Hays looked bleak with two outs in the bottom half of the third. Marcus Altman walked and stole a base to get into scoring position for Brayden Delzeit to drive him in for the Indian’s first run. Hays used that momentum to score five runs all with two outs in the third. Hays tied the game on a bases loaded walk by Cole Schumacher and took a 5-4 lead on a single by Dalton Stout. Hays added a run in the fourth and two more in the sixth for the 8-4 victory.

Coach Frank Leo

Palmer Hutchison earned his second career win pitching 5.2 innings in relief of Grant Coffman. Hays is now 11-5 on the year. Goddard used five pitchers in the game and falls to 3-15.

Hays returns to action on Tuesday at Liberal. Regional seedings will come out on Wednesday. Hays will then play their final games of the season in a makeup contest hosting Garden City on Thursday.

Great Bend 6 – Salina Central 1

Salina Central suffered the only loss of the tournament with a 6-1 loss to Great Bend in the second of three games at the Diamond Classic on Saturday. Great Bend scored four runs in the third then took a six run lead with two in the top of the sixth. Salina Central scored their only run in the sixth inning. The Mustangs did get a lead-off single to start the seventh, but the Great Bend defense used a force out and a ground ball double play to end the game.

Great Bend and Salina Central both go 3-1 in the Diamond Classic. Salina Central is 8-8 on the year and Great Bend is 12-4.

Goddard 3 – Life Prep Academy 1

Goddard scored all three of their runs in the bottom of the fourth inning and held on to claim their first win of the tournament Saturday morning. The Lions led off the inning with three consecutive singles and totaled four of their eight game hits in the fourth.

Life Prep answered back with one in the fifth then loaded the bases with one out in the top of the seventh inning but did not score. For Goddard it is their third win of the season and breaks a streak of five consecutive one run losses.

Kansas store seeks clues to ‘Sleepy Sasquatch’ burglar

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photo Tradepost security camera
photos Tradepost security camera

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Wichita business repeatedly targeted by a burglar it now calls “Sleepy Sasquatch” is asking for the public’s help in identifying the intruder who frequently leaves empty-handed.

The Wichita Eagle reports that Tradepost Entertainment has been burglarized four times since Feb. 12. Three of those times, the culprit left the music, movie and games store without taking anything. On March 1, he made off with an X-Box One.

The store’s manager, Chelsea Bethel, says they’ve dubbed him “Sleepy Sasquatch” because he’s seen on surveillance cameras wearing red pajama bottoms and is tall.

Screen Shot 2016-05-07 at 3.22.54 PMWichita police say they have no suspects at this time.

TMP-Marian girls’ soccer drops home finale

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HAYS, Kan. – Bishop Carroll scored the lone goal in the 70th minute and TMP-Marian could not get the equalizer as the Monarchs drop their home finale 1-0 Saturday afternoon at the Bickle-Schmidt Sports Complex. Deonna Wellbrock had 12 saves in goal for TMP who falls to 8-3-1 on the season.

The Monarchs travel to Wichita Monday to play Word of Life

Tigers use two big innings to knock off NW Missouri State; sweep series

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By GERARD WELLBROCK
Hays Post

HAYS, Kan. – Joe Mapes and Alex King both homered as Fort Hays State overcame an early three-run deficit then held off a Northwest Missouri State rally for a 9-8 win and sweep the three-game MIAA series Saturday afternoon at Larks Park. The Tigers (23-26, 17-21 MIAA) won their final four and six of their last seven. The Bearcats (24-26, 19-20 MIAA) lost their sixth straight.

Steve Johnson Postgame Interview

Game Highlights

 

The Bearcats scored three in the third to take a 3-0 lead but the Tigers answered on Mapes three-run opposite field home run down the left field line in the fourth. Alex King followed two batters later with an opposite field solo shot to right to put FHSU up 4-3. The Tigers scored five in the fifth in singles from Alex Weiss, Joe Mapes, Alex King and Ty Redington.

The Bearcats rallied with a run in the sixth and and seventh, two in the eighth then a solo homer in the ninth.

Freshman Logan Herd allowed five runs (four earned) on 10 hits in five innings of relief for his fourth win of the season. Austin Unrein entered with one out in the ninth and picked up his second save in consecutive games.

King went 3-for-4 and drove in three while Mapes had two hits and knocked in four.

 

 

Evel Knievel Museum scheduled to open in Kansas this year

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photo courtesy Visit Topeka
photo courtesy Visit Topeka

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The man who is creating a museum honoring daredevil Evel Knievel in Topeka says he expects it be a big draw.

Mike Patterson owns a Topeka Harley-Davidson dealership, which is being expanded to include a 16,000-square-foot area to house the museum.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports Patterson is projecting the museum will draw 100,000 people a year. He says a two-month Knievel exhibit in Milwaukee drew 50,000 people from around the world.

Patterson says several exhibits will incorporate science, technology, engineering and math education. For example, one exhibit will detail the physics of planning one of Knievel’s jumps. Another will allow visitors to sit on a bike and create a virtual reality jump.

The museum is expected to open sometime this year.

Kan. man hospitalized after semi slides, hits semi trailer’s load

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MARION COUNTY – A Kansas man was injured in an accident just before 10a.m. on Saturday in Marion County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 1999 International Semi driven by Eriel Gonzalez-Mitre, 29, Hillsboro, was northbound on Kansas 15 two miles south of U.S. 56.

The driver saw there was a bridge and didn’t want to meet a southbound1996 International Semi driven by Joshua Caleb Meliza, 27, Hillsboro, with an oversized load.

Gonzalez-Mitre locked up the brakes on the semi. It slid across the centerline and struck the trailer load of Meliza’s semi.

Gonzalez-Mitre was transported to Newton Medical Center.
Meliza was not injured.

Both drivers were properly restrained at the time of the accident, according to the KHP.

Pilgrim’s Pride expands recall of cooked chicken products

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Screen Shot 2016-05-07 at 12.22.49 PMWACO, Texas (AP) — Pilgrim’s Pride is expanding a 5 million pound recall of cooked chicken products.

Federal food safety regulators say the latest expansion by the largest poultry producer in the U.S. includes a variety of chicken products potentially contaminated with foreign materials. Food inspectors have found items such as wood, plastic, rubber and metal.

The U.S. Department of Agriculture said Friday that there have been no “confirmed reports of adverse reactions” due to consuming the products. But consumers are still urged to throw away or return the products.

The latest recall involves products produced in 2015 between May 6 and Dec. 3.

Federal regulators say the problem was first discovered after the company received several consumer complaints regarding plastic contamination of chicken nuggets.

Royals place Moustakas on 15-day D.L.; recall Cuthbert

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Kansas City Royals Media Relations

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – The Kansas City Royals announced today that the club has placed third baseman Mike Moustakas on the 15-day disabled list with a left thumb fracture, retroactive to May 5.  In a corresponding move, the club has recalled infielder Chesler Cuthbert from Omaha (AAA).

Cuthbert, 23, was hitting .333 with four doubles, seven homers and 28 RBI in his first 24 games with the Storm Chasers.

Ten online rankings recognize FHSU’s degree programs

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fhsu virtual college logoFHSU University Relations and Marketing

With more than 20 years of experience and constant recognition by online ranking sites — this time recognizing hospitality, teacher education, management, nursing, marketing, computer science and psychology virtual degree programs — there is no doubt that Fort Hays State University and its Virtual College are leaders in valuable and affordable online education.

When ranking degree programs, researchers do not look at tuition costs alone but also graduation rates, faculty-student ratios, accreditations, location and quality of faculty. Information typically comes from the school’s website, the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) and U.S. News and World Report.

BestColleges.com
No. 7, Best Online Programs Hospitality Management
For a second consecutive year, BestColleges ranks FHSU’s B.S. in tourism and hospitality management program among the top 10 best online programs in its field.

To view this ranking, navigate to www.BestColleges.com > Rankings > Academic Programs > Best Online Programs Hospitality Management.

“The tourism and hospitality program, which began in 2008, has continued to grow and develop its curriculum and opportunities for students, so the recognition means a lot,” said Dr. Stacey Smith, associate professor of management and director of the tourism and hospitality program at FHSU. “The program offers a variety of courses with the newest offering being a concentration in health and wellness tourism, which is a growing aspect of the industry.”

ToBecomeATeacher.org
Compared to the rest of the schools in Kansas, ToBecomeATeacher ranks FHSU not only as the most affordable but also with the highest ROI. ToBecomeATeacher has a complex algorithmic tool that uses 2015 data to analyze total expense, student-faculty ratios, graduation rates, potential earnings and return on investment.

“Our review algorithm discovered that among all the schools we reviewed, Fort Hays State University is among the best in the entire state,” said Tim Charlet, editor. “The school was among the top-ranked schools in several categories, including return on investment, graduation rate and the total expense score.”

To view these rankings, navigate to www.ToBecomeATeacher.org > State > KS Kansas.

No. 3, Best Bachelor’s Education Programs, Kansas
FHSU offers a variety of online Master’s programs related to education:
· B.S. in business education with a business teacher licensure, corporate communications or training and development emphases.
· B.S. in education with an early childhood unified, elementary or special education emphases.

No. 2, Best Master’s Education Programs, Kansas
FHSU offers a variety of online Master’s programs related to education:
· M.S. in counseling, school counseling emphases.
· M.S. in education with a higher education-student affairs, English for speakers of other languages, library media specialist, reading specialist, JROTC instructor prep or higher education student affairs emphases, and also a transition to teaching alternative certification.
· M.S. in education administration (principal).
· M.S. in nursing education.

CollegeChoice.net
No. 13, Best Online Bachelor of Nursing Degree Programs, 2016
CollegeChoice ranks FHSU’s B.S. in nursing No. 13 in its top 50 online nursing programs ranking. FHSU beat out the University of Nebraska, Ball State University, Western Governors University, Arizona State University and Pennsylvania State University.

To view this ranking, navigate to www.CollegeChoice.net > Rankings > Online Rankings > Best Online Bachelor of Nursing Degree Programs, 2016.

AffordableSchools.net
No.13, Top 20 Affordable Online Bachelor’s Degrees in Marketing
FHSU’s virtual B.B.A. in marketing is No. 13 in an article titled “20 Affordable Online Bachelor’s Degrees in Marketing.” The ranking is based on the yearly net price of the online program.

To view this ranking, navigate to www.AffordableSchools.net > School Rankings > By Subject: 20 Affordable Online Bachelor’s Degrees in Marketing.

“The article has a number of discovery features to improve the college search process for degree seekers,” said Amitav Dash, researcher and writer for AfforableSchools. “This includes a scrollable occupations list, scrollable curriculum courses/topics list, statistical summary of relevant NCES data, alpha-sorted data table of colleges ranked, an interactive tuition/net price comparison chart, an interactive dashboard for each college, and a custom circular chart that allows the reader to simultaneously compare all 20 schools for multiple data points – a feature that, by itself, can reduce college-research search time.”

No. 18, Top 20 Affordable Online Bachelor’s Degrees in Computer Science/IT
B.S. and B.A. in information networking and telecommunications
B.S. in computer science
The B.S. in computer science and the B.A. and B.S. in Information Networking and Telecommunications online programs at FHSU rank No. 18 in the country.

To view this ranking, navigate to www.AffordableSchools.net > School Rankings > By Subject: 20 Affordable Online Bachelor’s Degrees in Computer Science/IT.

Majors in the Information Networking and Telecommunications program at FHSU can concentrate in either computer networking and telecommunications, health informatics or Web development.

This summer, FHSU’s computer science program becomes fully available online. Students can follow the business or networking track.

The field of computer science is growing faster than normal, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and according to AffordableSchools, there is more than one-hundred different computer and IT related occupations. FHSU’s virtual computer science programs offer a variety of tracks depending on a student’s interests.

CollegeValuesOnline.com
No. 27, Online Psychology Degree Programs: More Values
CollegeValuesOnline identifies FHSU’s B.S. and B.A. in psychology as the 27th best college for an online psychology degree based on value, beating out No. 28 Pennsylvania State University. CollegeValuesOnline considered graduation rates along with tuition rates by using the NCES College Navigator Database.

To view this ranking, navigate to www.CollegeValuesOnline.com > Rankings > Online Psychology Degree Programs: More Values.

“College Values Online’s mission is to provide assistance in selecting the best college for each individual situation by offering rankings of schools and various degree programs, in addition to information on numerous career options from a value perspective,” said Jamie Bond, communications manager of CollegeValuesOnline.

AffordableCollegesOnline.org
FHSU is recognized for offering “one of the most notable combinations of academic quality, accommodation, guidance and affordability across several programs,” said Megan Filbin, director of communications at AffordableCollegesOnline.

AffordableCollegesOnline uses a formula that takes into consideration tuition rate, degrees available, student-faculty ration, graduation rate, financial aid recipients, campus resources, acceptance rate, job placement and loan default rate.

No. 14, Best Online Master’s in Counseling Degrees
FHSU’s online M.S. in counseling received a score of 86.75 out of 100, beating out other colleges in the nation but also Washburn University and Emporia State University in Kansas.

To view this ranking, navigate to www.AffordableCollegesOnline.org > Degrees > Master’s > Counseling.

No. 16, Best Online Master’s in Psychology Degrees
FHSU’s online M.S. in psychology tied with Pennsylvania State University-Main Campus with a 92 out of 100 score.

To view this ranking, navigate to www.AffordableCollegesOnline.org > Degrees > Master’s > Psychology.

No. 19, Best Online Master’s in Special Education Degrees
FHSU’s M.S. in special education received a 90.5 out of 100 score beating out Pittsburg State University, the University of Kansas, Texas A&M University, Michigan State University, Kentucky State University and the University of Nebraska.

To view this ranking, navigate to www.AffordableCollegesOnline.org > Degrees > Master’s > Special Education.

FHSU alum hopes to make breaking news at today’s Kentucky Derby

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Donnie Von Hemel (Photo courtesy Oaklawn Racing and Gaming)
Donnie Von Hemel (Photo courtesy Oaklawn Racing and Gaming)

By DIANE GASPER-O’BRIEN
Fort Hays State University Relations and Marketing

Fort Hays State University supporters might want to catch the Kentucky Derby on TV Saturday.

A 3-year-old colt, Suddenbreakingnews, trained by Donnie Von Hemel — a Tiger alum and long-time scholarship donor — will be racing in the first leg of the Triple Crown.

Suddenbreakingnews hopes to make big news for Von Hemel, who grew up in tiny Manter in the southwest corner of Kansas.

Pre-race coverage of the derby starts at 3 p.m. Central time on NBC, with “the most exciting 2 minutes in sports” set to begin at 5:34.

Suddenbreakingnews will break out of the No. 2 pole position in the 142nd version of the “Run for the Roses” at Churchill Downs in Louisville, Ky.

Von Hemel, who has more than 2,000 victories and $55 million in earnings to his name, graduated from Fort Hays State in 1983 with a bachelor’s degree in accounting and went into the family business. He is the son of Don Von Hemel, a respected trainer now in his 80s.

Suddenbreakingnews has finished in the top two in all but one of his eight starts.

Hayley Bieker of the FHSU Foundation, said that Donnie Von Hemel, who now lives in Piedmont, Okla., is “a consistent donor to student scholarships.” Von Hemel will be recognized by the Foundation this year as a 20-year donor.

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