ST. CHARLES, Mo. – Lindenwood junior Connor Law (5-1) pitched a three-hit shutout as the Lions won the final game of their three game series with Fort Hays State 3-0 Sunday at the Lou Brock Complex. The Lions (15-18, 9-15 MIAA) took two of three from the Tigers (17-18, 11-13 MIAA) and have won three straight weekend series after starting conference play 3-9.
Lindenwood used a triple and a sacrifice fly to take a 1-0 lead in the first inning. They used another triple and two doubles to add two more runs in the sixth.
The Tigers, who dropped to 10th place in the MIAA standings, had only two base runners reach scoring position all day. Casey Sedbrook doubled with one out in the fifth and advanced to third on a sac fly but couldn’t score. Nick Hammeke singled to lead off the seventh and moved to second on a wild pitch but Law retired the next two batters to end the threat. Alex Weiss had the other hit for the Tigers.
Freshman Logan Herd (2-3) suffered the loss after giving up all three runs on four hits over five innings.
The Tigers return home Wednesday to play Nebraska-Kearney at 6 pm which can be heard on KJLS (103.3-FM).
Members of the HaysMed Organ Tissue and Eye Donation Committee: L to R: Laurie Kendall, Midwest Transplant, Dr. Heather Klatt, Hospitalist, Heidi, Gohl, RN, Marlis Norton, RN, Dorothy Kisslinger, RN, Kim Wiles, RN
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Hays Medical Center received the Saving Sight’s 2015 Excellence in Eye Donation Award on Friday, April 8, recognizing the partner hospital for achievements in providing the gift of sight to those needing a transplant last year.
In 2015, staff at Hays Medical Center helped to facilitate 12 eye donation cases, which resulted in 15 individuals receiving restored sight through a cornea transplant. Overall, the hospital achieved a 52 percent consent rate for eye donation.
The Excellence in Eye Donation Award was created in 2014 to recognize hospitals that demonstrate an outstanding commitment to eye donation. Hospitals in Saving Sight’s service area of Missouri, Kansas and Illinois that achieved an eye donation consent rate exceeding 45 percent with at least 10 donors during the 2015 calendar year will receive the award. Fewer than 15 percent of Saving Sight’s partner hospitals will be recognized with a 2015 Excellence in Eye Donation Award.
“We applaud Hays Medical Center for empowering others to give the gift of sight and for striving to create a culture that supports donation,” Tony Bavuso, CEO of Saving Sight, said. “Thanks to the generosity of eye donors and their families, and the staff at Hays Medical Center, more people than ever were able to receive a sight-saving cornea transplant last year.”
Each year around 48,000 individuals in the United States require a cornea transplant to restore vision that has been lost due to disease, disorder or injury. With the help of hospital partners like Hays Medical Center, Saving Sight provided corneas for more than 3,000 of those transplant surgeries in 2015. For more information on becoming an eye, organ and tissue donor, please visit donatelife.net.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Sedgwick County commissioners are being warned by the state not to ask participants in the federal Women, Infants and Children program about their citizenship.
The Wichita Eagle reports the Kansas Department of Health and Environment says asking about immigration status before the state changes eligibility requirements could result in termination of the county’s contract to operate WIC.
County Commissioner Richard Ranzau suggested last fall that the county health department start using a questionnaire that would ask about immigration status of all who use department services.
He later proposed that the state redefine eligibility requirements to block illegal immigrants from participating in WIC. He criticized the state for failing to give a clear answer about whether it plans to change those requirements.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Amtrak is suing a southwest Kansas feed yard claiming gross negligence related to a train derailment that injured 28 passengers last month.
The Wichita Eagle reports Amtrak and BNSF Railway Co. filed a lawsuit Friday accusing Cimarron Crossing Feeders of failing to report that one of its trucks had damaged tracks about 20 miles west of Dodge City.
The lawsuit says an Amtrak train traveling east on the tracks shortly after midnight March 14 hit the damaged tracks and derailed near Cimarron.
A preliminary National Transportation Safety Board report estimated damage from the derailment at more than $1.4 million.
The plaintiffs have requested a jury trial in Wichita. Officials with Cimarron Crossing Feeders didn’t immediately return a phone call Sunday seeking comment.
TOPEKA – Throughout the Capitol, there are numerous organizations that play a part in the daily function of the building and in helping legislators do their jobs. One of those is the Kansas State Library, located on the third floor of the Capitol.
Founded in 1855 as the Kansas Territorial Library, the state library was established in 1863 when the legislature appropriated $2,000 to create it. Since then, the library has been helping Kansans read, learn and do business.
The state library services three main audiences: state agencies, librarians throughout Kansas, and residents across the state. The services the library provides include Internet access, as well as access to numerous electronic databases. The library also carries Playaways audio books and eBooks, and provides these products and services through money from state and federal funds.
“A lot of money we get is from the state dollars, and we also we received federal money,” state librarian Jo Budler said. “Every year there is federal money that comes from the (U.S.) Institute of Library and Museum Services, and they give us money as a state. Every year we receive it, and we do things that will benefit the state.”
The state library offers a variety of different services to Kansans, including the Talking Book Service for people who are blind, dyslexic or suffering from arthritis. Library patrons can be certified to use a “Talking Book Machine,” which has large buttons for people with arthritis or buttons with writing in Braille.
Through a Knight Foundation grant, the Kansas State Library has loaned out Wi-Fi hot spots to libraries in Kansas. These hot spots provide Internet access in urban and rural communities so residents can apply for jobs, use social media and do homework.
“The things that we do makes it possible for any resident of the state to access state services (and that) is the most important thing this library does for the state,” Budler said.
The State Library of Kansas is putting up small posters in the stacks with a QR-code link to online collections next to the matching paper document serials
The library also serves the state by providing resources for legislative research. The library contains information about historical events, plus Kansas policies and bills that were passed or not passed in the legislature.
The library’s reference desk staff is there to help legislators shift through these documents and to assist them in finding what they need.
“Even though a lot of the information is on the Internet, most legislators do not have an hour or two to read through and find it,” said reference director Cindy Roupe. “Our reference desk librarians have a great deal of experience in helping people with the knowledge of bills.”
Budler said the library is an invaluable resource for lawmakers.
“If were to ask the legislators what is the most important thing to them about the state library, they would say the reference department,” Budler said.
The library is a resource for state history, but the library also has an interesting history of its own. The library had the Capitol’s first electric lights, its website says, and in 1889, the state library began a traveling book service for rural Kansans. In 1964, the state library began a system of grants to help rural libraries across the state.
The state library is open Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. year round. It is closed on major holidays.
Hutchinson— A Kansas man who was taken to jail on April 1, was back in court Friday for the formal reading of charges.
Joshua Stucky, 29, Prairie was stopped by a Reno County Sheriff’s Deputy around 12:40 a.m. after he was allegedly driving erratically on Pretty Prairie Road.
Officers testified they determined he was under the influence of some substance. They also noticed a spoon on the floorboard that appeared to have a white substance in it.
In a backpack, officers allegedly found a bag of suspected marijuana, a scale, additional baggies, a bag of meth and other paraphernalia that included a pipe.
He appeared before Magistrate Judge Cheryl Allen via the video hookup with the Reno County Correctional Facility where he was read the complaint that includes felony charges of possession of marijuana with intent to distribute, possession of methamphetamine, possession of hydrocodone and drug paraphernalia with intent to distribute.
There are also two misdemeanor charges including DUI and no insurance.
In court, he requested a bond reduction, however Judge Allen reminded him that she already lowered it once and told him for four felonies, a $5,500 bond is reasonable.
The case against Stucky now moves to waiver-status docket on May 4.
Fort Hays State University’s Science Café will host “Current Trends In Photovoltaic Research: What’s a Carrot Got to do with It?” at 7 p.m. Tuesday, April 12, at Gella’s Diner in Hays.
The event, sponsored by the university’s Science and Mathematics Education Institute, will be presented by Dr. Arvin Cruz, assistant professor of chemistry. Cruz will cover research conducted at FHSU involving the design and fabrication of photovoltaic cells based on beta-carotene, light harvesting antenna.
TOPEKA -Law enforcement authorities in Shawnee County are looking for two suspects in connection with a murder, according to a media release.
Just before 6 p.m. on Friday officers responded to the 2000 Block of Echo Ridge Circle in Topeka. They found a shooting victim Brian Miller, 20, Topeka, behind a residence on the east side of road.
Police administered life saving measures and EMS transported Miller to Stormont Vail where he died.
Police are asking the public’s help to locate two suspects Deangelo Martinez and Christopher
Photo by Jim McLean/KHI News Service Don Gray, general manager of the Kansas City Board of Public Utilities, spoke at a Friday news conference announcing construction of a wind farm in southwest Kansas. The Kansas City, Kan.-based utility will buy 200 megawatts from the new plant, Gray said. At left is Gov. Sam Brownback
Kansas is in the midst of another wind energy boom. At a Friday news conference called to announce that construction had begun on a massive wind farm in southwest Kansas, Gov. Sam Brownback said the project was among 10 in various stages of development across the state. “This year, we should have north of $3 billion of new wind investment announced in the state of Kansas,” Brownback said.
Already, he said, when the existing wind generation facilities in the state are working at or near maximum capacity, they’re capable of generating up to one-third of the power distributed to a large group of states by the Southwest Power Pool. The $613 million Cimarron Bend Wind Project will consist of 200 turbines scattered over about 60 square miles near Minneola in Clark County.
It is being built by Enel Green Power North America, an arm of the Enel Group, a renewable energy company based in Rome, Italy. Brownback said the project will further the state’s efforts to become “a dominant player” in the renewable energy industry.
Cimarron Bend is EGPNA’s fourth Kansas wind farm and its largest worldwide. It will have a generating capacity of 400 megawatts, which already is committed under long-term power purchase agreements to the tech giant Google and the Kansas City Board of Public Utilities, also known as BPU.
The 200 megawatts purchased by BPU will make it among the greenest utilities in the nation. “
With this 200 megawatts, we are now at 45 percent roughly of our generation mix coming from renewable energy,” said Don Gray, general manager of the Kansas City, Kan.-based utility.
In addition to wind, BPU’s renewable portfolio includes hydropower from the Bowersock Mills & Power Co. in Lawrence and electricity generated from landfill gases, Gray said.
There was a time when energy produced from renewable sources wasn’t competitively priced with coal and natural gas. But that is no longer the case, Gray said.
“One of the reasons we were aggressive in obtaining 200 megawatts is because of the price,” he said. “It’s going to be one of the lowest-cost energy resources that we have in our generation mix.
It’s a 20-year contract that creates stability for us in our pricing.”
For several years, Kansas legislators with ties to the fossil fuels industry fought to repeal a state law that set renewable energy targets for the state.
But Brownback said a compromise reached last year that leveled the competitive playing field among renewable generators and traditional energy companies helped clear the way for the wind energy projects now in development.
Jim McLean is executive editor of KHI News Service in Topeka, a partner in the Heartland Health Monitor team.
TOPEKA- Four people were injured in an accident involving a law enforcement vehicle just after 6:30 p.m. on Saturday in Shawnee County.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2016 Topeka police department Ford Explorer driven by Officer Gary Lee Atchison III, 23, Burlingame, was southbound on Adams with Emergency Lights and Sirens active.
The vehicle entered the intersection at 15th Street at the same time as a 2004 Dodge Caravan driven by Jesus David Meza, 40, Topeka. The vehicles collided.
Atchison III, a passenger in the Ford Officer Caitlan Nicole Hornung, 22, Topeka, Meza and a ten-year-old passenger in the van were transported to Stormont Vail.
The Kansas Court of Appeals ruled that the Kansas Constitution’s Bill of Rights provides a right to abortion. JENNIFER MORROW / FLICKR–CC
NEW YORK (AP) — The National Abortion Federation says threats and violence directed at U.S. abortion clinics increased sharply in 2015. It attributed the surge to the release of undercover videos intended to discredit Planned Parenthood.
According to the federation, death threats targeting abortion providers increased from one in 2014 to 94 in 2015, while incidents of vandalism at clinics rose from 12 to 67.
The most violent occurred in November, when a gunman opened fire at a Planned Parenthood abortion clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado, killing three people and wounding nine. The man accused in the attack, Robert Dear, has described himself as a “warrior for the babies.”
The abortion federation is alarmed by the heightened hostility and has hired an outside security firm to track online threats.
Mike Moustakas homers on a line drive to right field in the Royals 7-0 win over the Twins Saturday night. (Photo Courtesy Kansas City Royals/Chris Vleisides)
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Ian Kennedy pitched impressively into the seventh inning in his Kansas City debut and the Royals hit their first three home runs of the season to beat the winless Minnesota Twins 7-0 Saturday night.
The Twins fell to 0-5 for the first time since the Washington Senators moved to Minnesota in 1961.
Kennedy (1-0), signed by the Royals to a five-year $70 million contract in January, limited the Twins to five hits — including four singles, before being pulled after 109 pitches with two out in the seventh.
Mike Moustakas and Lorenzo Cain hit successive home runs in the fourth for the first hits off Twins left-hander Tommy Milone, while Kendrys Morales homered in the sixth off Casey Fien.
Milone (0-1) allowed four runs and four hits in 4 2/3 innings.
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