WAKEENEY–U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) announced that he will visit WaKeeney as part of his Kansas Listening Tour on Wednesday, August 10.
Area residents are encouraged to attend and share feedback with Sen. Moran on the critical issues facing Kansas and the nation. The issues Sen. Moran focuses on and the work he does in Washington, D.C., are largely based on the conversations he has with Kansans during these town hall meetings.
Sen. Moran will be at the Western Cooperative Electric Community Room, 635 S. 13th Street, WaKeeney, 1:30-2:30 p.m. on Aug. 10.
The Kansas Wetlands Education Center will host its fourth annual Perseid Meteor Shower Viewing Party — a free, fun-filled family evening of crafts, games, snacks and stargazing — at 9 p.m. Friday, Aug. 12, at the Kansas Wetlands Education Center.
The Kansas Wetlands Education Center, 592 NE K-156 Highway, is at the southeast side of Cheyenne Bottoms Wildlife Area, northeast of Great Bend.
Perseid Meteor Shower occurs every year when the earth passes through the trail of dust and debris left by the Swift-Tuttle comet. The shower has more than 50 meteors per hour at its peak. The shower got its name because the meteors appear to come from the constellation Perseus.
Children will be provided with activities such as playing with stardust slime, creating their own star art and listening to a tale about Perseus on the star walk. S’mores and refreshments will be available.
Perseid Meteor Shower (NASA photo)
In addition to the activities and crafts, the FHSU Science and Mathematics Education Institute will have its inflatable planetarium for guaranteed star-viewing.
Activities will run until the sky is dark enough to see the meteors. Bring a lawn chair or blanket for more comfortable stargazing.
For more information, call the KWEC at 1-877-243-9268.
Today A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms after 4pm. Patchy fog before 9am. Otherwise, mostly cloudy, with a high near 82. North northeast wind 7 to 9 mph becoming southeast in the afternoon.
Tonight A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 4am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 70. Southeast wind 6 to 11 mph.
TuesdayPatchy fog before 10am. Otherwise, mostly sunny, with a high near 94. South wind 7 to 11 mph.
Tuesday NightPartly cloudy, with a low around 71. South southeast wind 7 to 11 mph.
WednesdaySunny, with a high near 97. South wind 8 to 16 mph.
Wednesday NightMostly clear, with a low around 73.
ThursdayA 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms. Mostly sunny, with a high near 95.
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — A 19-year-old man has been sentenced to probation for growing psychedelic mushrooms at a Hutchinson business.
A Reno County judge on Friday sentenced Carlyeon Moore to three years of probation. He faces 18 years in prison if he violates the probation.
District Judge Trish Rose agreed to depart from state sentencing guidelines in granting the probation after an agreement between attorneys in the case.
The Hutchinson News reports officers in March 2015 found the mushroom growing operation in a back room at the business, which wasn’t identified. Police said there were about six dozen growing mushrooms and other equipment.
SHAWNEE COUNTY – Law enforcement authorities in Shawnee County are investigating an armed robbery.
Just after 9p.m. on Sunday, police responded to the Subway Sandwich Shop at 2005 SE 29th in Topeka for report of a robbery, according to a media release.
Employees told officers a man entered the building wearing a black ski mask, red bandanna and a gray sweatshirt. He used a handgun and demanded money.
After receiving an undisclosed amount of money, the man fled on foot. There were no injuries.
The suspect was described at approximately 5’8” inches tall and weighs 160 pounds.
No additional details were available early Monday.
WICHITA – The Hays Larks built a three-run lead then held off a San Diego rally and beat the Waves 3-2 Sunday night at Lawrence-Dumont Stadium to improve to 2-0 in pool play at the NBC World Series.
Frank Leo Postgame
Game Highlights
The Larks (40-10) won despite allowing a season-high eight walks. Starter Alex Lopez issued a season-high five free passes with relievers Sam Reed, Dalton Leiker and Daniel James all giving up one.
James struck out three over two scoreless innings and picked up the win. He issued a one-out walk in the ninth but struck out the final two batters to close out the victory.
Starter Alex Lopez (8-0) allowed two hits over 5 2/3 scoreless innings and picked up the win. The senior-to-be at Texas Wesleyan stranded eight base runners – five of them in scoring position.
Michael Burns led off the fourth inning with a double, moved to third on a wild pitch then scored on Nate Olinger’s sacrifice fly to put the Larks up 1-0.
Jacob Boston put them up 2-0 after he reached on an error, stole second, advanced to third on a ground out then scored on a wild pitch.
Austin O’Brien hit two-out solo home run in the sixth to push the lead to 3-0.
The Larks close out pool play Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. against the Northwest (WA) Honkers and can win the pool with a win. The Honkers game with the Hutchinson Monarchs was rained out and will be made up at 10 a.m. Monday morning.
HOME RUN KING
Mike Mioduszewski won the first ever NBC World Series Home Run Derby. After he advanced out of the preliminary round Sunday morning, Mioduszeski hit three homers in the finals, the one during the tie-breaker round.
Police went to the Schlitterbahn Kansas City Water Park on Sunday to investigate a death photo courtesy KMBC
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — The Latest on a death at a Kansas City, Kansas, waterpark (all times local):
Officials are investigating the death of a young Kansas boy on a water slide that is billed as the world’s largest.
Authorities and family members say 10-year-old Caleb Thomas Schwab died Sunday at Schlitterbahn Waterpark in Kansas City, Kansas. Schwab was the son of state Rep. Scott Schwab.
Schwab is a graduate of Fort Hays State University.
Schlitterbahn spokeswoman Winter Prosapio says the boy died on one of the park’s main attractions, Verruckt, a 168-foot-tall water slide that has 264 stairs leading to the top.
No details specific details about what led to Caleb’s death have been provided.
The park will be closed Monday, and the ride will be closed pending the investigation.
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Caleb Thomas Schwab- courtesy photo
The child who died at a Kansas City, Kansas, water park has been identified as the son of a state lawmaker.
Authorities did not immediately identify the boy who died at Schlitterbahn Waterpark on Sunday, but Kansas state Rep. Scott Schwab and his wife released a statement saying it was their son Caleb Thomas Schwab.
The statement thanked the community for an “outpouring of support and compassion” after his sudden death. It asks for privacy as the family grieves.
Officials said the boy died on the park’s main attraction, the Verruckt, a 168-foot-tall water slide.
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A 12-year-old boy has died on a Kansas water slide billed as the world’s largest.
Kansas City, Kansas, police spokesman Officer Cameron Morgan says the boy died Sunday at the Schlitterbahn Waterpark.
Schlitterbahn Waterpark spokeswoman Winter Prosapio says the child died on the park’s main attraction, the Verruckt, a 168-foot-tall water slide. Speeds down the ride can reach 70 mph.
Police and Prosapio did not provide details of how the child died or the child’s identity.
Prosapio says the park was closed Sunday and would also be closed Monday while the death is investigated.
The park’s website says Verruckt is the largest water slide in the world, and riders must be at least 54 inches tall.
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KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A 12-year-old boy has died at a water park in Kansas City, Kansas.
Police spokesman Officer Cameron Morgan says the boy died Sunday at the Schlitterbahn Water Park. Morgan says he does not yet know the circumstances of the death.
Among the park’s attractions is the Verruckt water slide, which is promoted as the world’s tallest water slide.
A park official did not immediately respond to a call seeking comment Sunday.
There was no additional information released about the fatality.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man who has spent 22 years in prison for a double homicide that witnesses swear he didn’t do hopes more than 40 affidavits supporting his innocence will help set him free.
Lamonte McIntyre was 17 in 1994 when he was accused of fatally shooting two men who were sitting in a car in a drug-infested Kansas City, Kansas, neighborhood. He was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.
A retired Kansas City police captain who reviewed McIntyre’s case calls the murder investigation “grossly deficient.” A former drug dealer signed an affidavit swearing a different person was paid to kill the men.
McIntyre’s attorney, Cheryl Pilate, says the case has so many flaws no reasonable juror would have convicted her client if all evidence had been presented.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Prosecutors say they won’t seek a second “Hard 50” sentence against a Wichita man convicted in a fatal 2009 stabbing.
Rogelio Soto was 16 when he took part in the March 17, 2009, stabbing death of 28-year-old Arturo Moreno. Soto was convicted and sentenced to at least 50 years before becoming parole eligible.
But a 2013 U.S. Supreme Court ruling essentially voided the Hard 50 sentences, which sent Soto’s case back to Sedgwick County court.
Sedgwick County District Attorney Marc Bennett told The Wichita Eagle recently that his office isn’t seeking the Hard 50 sentence for Soto, in part because two key witnesses are no longer in the United States.
Bennett’s office has notified the court that instead prosecutors will seek a 25-to-life prison term.
Cheslor Cuthbert tags out Jose Bautista at 3rd base in Sunday’s game vs. Toronto. (Courtesy Kansas City Royals/ Chris Vleisides)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Yordano Ventura pitched effectively into the seventh inning, Kendrys Morales hit a grand slam, and the Kansas City Royals beat the Toronto Blue Jays 7-1 Sunday.
Ventura (7-9), who was 0-5 in seven starts since a June 17 victory over the Detroit Tigers, limited the Blue Jays to one run and five singles in 6 2/3 innings, walking four and striking out four.
Morales’ third career grand slam and his first since July 30, 2012, while with the Los Angeles Angels came off left-hander Brett Cecil with two out in the eighth to break the game open. Raul Mondesi, Alcides Escobar and Cheslor Cuthbert led off the inning with singles. It appeared Toronto might escape unharmed after Lorenzo Cain and Eric Hosmer struck out, but Morales hit Cecil’s first pitch out to straight-away center.
Blue Jays right-hander Marcus Stroman (8-5) allowed three runs and seven hits in five innings.
Plans for new Walmart training facility- image city of Topeka Planning
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Wal-Mart is planning a new 3,000-square foot training center in Topeka.
Wal-Mart spokesman Kory Lundberg says the new Topeka facility is part of a nationwide plan that includes 200 centers located in stores across the country. Lundberg says the centers are dedicated facilities for some supervisors to get hands-on training.
In paperwork filed in June with the City of Topeka planning department, Wal-Mart indicated it would build the Topeka center near the east end of a store there.
Lundberg told The Topeka Capital-Journal that Wal-Mart elected to build 200 training academies nationwide to make it easier for employees to receive training near their homes. The Topeka facility will add about 14 positions for trainers to the store.
He says the training center is expected to be running next year.
Police on the scene of the murder in Topeka- photo Courtesy WIBW-TV
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Topeka police are investigating after two people were found shot to death.
A man and woman were found dead from multiple gunshots early Sunday. Police identified the victims as 23-year-old Dominique Ray and 20-year-old Camrah Trotter. Both were from Topeka.
Lt. John Sturgeon told The Topeka Capital-Journal that the two were pronounced dead at the scene.
The incident is under investigation as a possible double homicide.
RILEY COUNTY – Five people were injured in an accident just after 5:30a.m. on Sunday in Riley County.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2005 Volvo CMV driven by Misty Dean Palmer, 41, Washington, UT., was westbound on Interstate 70 twelve miles east of Manhattan.
The vehicle pulling an enclosed racecar trailer hydroplaned on the wet road, veered right, went on the north shoulder and the driver lost control.
The trailer detached from the vehicle and both rolled on the north shoulder.
The vehicle came to rest on its top and the trailer came to rest on its wheels in north ditch.
Palmer and passengers Robert Kanyon Van Otten, 15, Kyson Paul Palmer, 15, Kayden Ross Palmer, 16, Juston Ross Palmer, 42, all of Washington, UT, were transported to Via Christi in Manhattan.
Only the driver was properly restrained at the time of the accident..
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Tonight A 20 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms before 4am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 70. Southeast wind 6 to 11 mph.
