HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — A former Hutchinson teacher has left nearly $1.4 million to three Hutchinson groups.
The Hutchinson Daily News reports money from Deborah Mosier will go to the Hutchinson Public Library, The Boys and Girls Club and the Hutchinson Community Foundation.
Library director Gregg Wamsley says the gift comes without any designations for how it should be used. The gift comes just as the library is starting renovations to its building.
Video by Cooper Slough
By JAMES BELL
Hays Post
Getting into real estate might be a tough nut to crack, but after only three years, real estate agent Adam Pray has gone from a beginner in the business to quickly become well-known in Hays and now has opened his own agency, The Platinum Group, in a renovated office space in the Chestnut Street District at 116 E. 11th.
Even though becoming a real estate agent requires a lot of work, the process was a labor of love for Pray.
“I first got into real estate in 2012. I really had a love for real estate. We had a few rentals and enjoyed that part of it,” he said.
Pray was in insurance before and looked for an opportunity to decrease business travel, so real estate seemed a natural fit. But soon after getting into the business, he realized he could do things differently.
“Once I got into the real estate business, there were a few things I felt could be done better,” he said. “I just feel like we are behind the times, in general.”
After watching agents outside of Hays, he decided on a new approach.
“I was watching agents in other towns do transactions, and they were using technologies we don’t use here, and I just felt we could be doing things more effectively and efficiently,” he said. “We could be more convenient for the customer and save the agent more time. … That’s what led to Platinum Group.”
With the agency, he hopes to bring a different real estate experience to customers in Hays, allowing the group to excel.
“I’ve always wanted to own my own business,” he said. “It’s kind of a win-win.”
“I really feel like a lot of my personal success and our success so far in our young company life is how we treat the customer,” he added, “Consequently, it’s called the platinum rule — treat others like they want to be treated. … We go above and beyond. People don’t ask for some of the services we provide, but we do them anyway. If they do ask, even if it is something we don’t provide, most times we will help them out.”
And Pray believes opening the agency in Hays comes at a good time.
“I think real estate is great in Hays. We have a great market. We have a lot of really great people here and it’s a fun market,” he said.
While opening an agency so quickly is notable enough, Pray plans on expansion, as well.
“Eventually in the future, we are going to add on. There are other agents that have expressed interest in working with us, and I see foresee in the next couple of years us growing as a company,” he said. “Our goal is to be known as the source for anything real estate-related in Ellis County.”
The Platinum Group will host an open house on April 1.
For more on the business and recent listings visit their facebook page.
City of Hays
The Thursday, Jan. 21 Hays city commission work session has been canceled due to a lack of agenda items for review at that time.
The Hays Police Department responded to 6 animal calls and 14 traffic stops Tue., Jan. 19, 2016, according to the HPD Activity Log.
Driving While Suspended/Revoked–27th and Vine St, Hays; 12:17 AM; 12:20 AM
Suicidal Subject–3400 block Vine St, Hays; 5:53 AM
Animal At Large–2200 block Farley Pl, Hays; 8:45 AM
Dead Animal Call–1600 block Pine St, Hays; 8:48 AM
Suspicious Activity–2200 block General Custer Rd, Hays; 1/18 10 PM; 1/19 8:30 AM
Dead Animal Call–500 block Elm St, Hays; 9:16 AM
Counterfeit currency/documents–1100 block E 27th St, Hays; 1/16 6 AM; 1/18 9 PM
Other (not MV)–200 block E 7th St, Hays; 10:43 AM
Mental Health Call–2500 block Sherman Ave, Hays; 12:18 PM
Abandoned Vehicle–1300 block Felten Dr, Hays; 12:20 PM
Animal At Large–3700 block Thunderbird Dr, Hays; 12:42 PM
MV Accident-Private Property-Hit and Run–4300 block Vine St, Hays; 2:30 PM
Found/Lost Property–1200 block E 27th St, Hays; 2:47 PM
MV Accident-Private Property–2300 block E 13th St, Hays; 3:11 PM
Unattended Death–300 block E 24th St, Hays; 1/19 8 PM; 3:25 PM
Juvenile Complaint–1900 block Ash St, Hays; 4:20 PM
MV Accident-Private Property–500 block W 27th St, Hays; 4:33 PM
Theft (general)–2000 block Canal Blvd, Hays; 6/1/14 12 PM; 10/1/15 12 PM
Mental Health Call–2700 block Colonial St, Hays; 7:03 PM
Harassment, Telephone/FAX–2700 block Epworth St, Hays; 5:13 PM
Shoplifting–4300 block Vine St, Hays; 7:27 PM
Criminal Trespass–1700 block Vine St, Hays; 8:58 PM
BOYS’ BASKETBALL
Deerfield 71, Yarbrough, Okla. 41
Golden Plains 40, Cheylin 36
Kiowa County 59, Ingalls 40
Moscow 47, Balko, Okla. 40
South Central 50, Ashland 25
South Gray 55, Minneola 23
Spearville 56, Satanta 45
St. Mary’s Academy 53, Hiawatha 50
Troy 55, Doniphan West 31
Burrton Invitational Tournament
Inman 53, Hutchinson Central Christian 50
Little River 47, Goessel 45
Canton-Galva Tournament
Canton-Galva 52, Derby Invasion 44
Wichita Home School 45, St. John’s Military 33
Halstead Tournament
Douglass 41, Garden Plain 35
Haven 57, Halstead 49
Hi-Plains League Tournament
Cimarron 63, Syracuse 36
Johnson-Stanton County 45, Sublette 43
Lakin 61, Wichita County 43
Meade 62, Southwestern Hts. 56
Hillsboro Tournament
Bennington 57, Republic County 52
Hesston 47, Clay Center 37
Holcomb 61, Riley County 27
Wichita Sunrise 59, Hillsboro 48
Hoisington Tournament
Ellinwood 51, LaCrosse 31
Hoisington 57, Ellsworth 53
Mid Continent League Tournament
Hill City 54, Ellis 41
Plainville 47, Trego 45
Hays-TMP-Marian 75, Smith Center 42
Norton 57, Phillipsburg 54
Nemaha Central Tournament
Falls City, Neb. 72, Silver Lake 66
Marysville 62, Jackson Heights 61, 2OT
Nemaha Central 59, Horton 28
St. Mary’s Academy 53, Hiawatha 50
Northern Plains League Tournament
Chase 41, Natoma 38
Lakeside 43, Glasco/Miltonvale-Southern Cloud 25
Rock Hills 64, Thunder Ridge 56
Wilson 56, Tescott 44
Lincoln 47, Pike Valley 45
St. John’s Beloit-Tipton 59, Osborne 19
Northwest Kansas League Tournament
Dighton 59, Oberlin-Decatur 45
Hoxie 50, Quinter 43
St. Francis 71, Rawlins County 55
Wallace County 74, Greeley County 42
Skyline Tournament
Attica 54, Stafford 14
Kinsley 67, South Barber 66
Medicine Lodge 61, Norwich 34
Pratt Skyline 55, Cunningham 44
St. John Tournament
Pratt 52, Ness City 47
Sterling Tournament
Sterling 85, Hutchinson Trinity 63
Twin Valley League Tournament
Onaga 45, Clifton-Clyde 31
BV Randolph 43, Linn 42
GIRLS’ BASKETBALL
Jackson Heights 42, St. Mary’s 40
Augusta 58, Wichita Collegiate 44
Cheylin 52, Golden Plains 51
Clearwater 61, Winfield 43
Dodge City 48, Hays 20
Garden City 46, Ulysses 24
Garden Plain 47, Conway Springs 39
Goddard 48, Wichita Campus 42
Hanover 61, Valley Heights 44
Ingalls 50, Kiowa County 47
Jefferson West 55, Tonganoxie 20
Maize 68, Goddard-Eisenhower 44
Maize South 59, Newton 54
McPherson 49, Andale 32
Minneola 61, South Gray 35
Moscow 48, Balko, Okla. 17
South Central 50, Ashland 25
Spearville 56, Satanta 45
Topeka Hayden 61, Olathe North 38
Wichita Bishop Carroll 63, Wichita North 33
Wichita Heights 62, Kapaun Mount Carmel 36
Wichita Northwest 63, Wichita West 27
Wichita South 83, Wichita Southeast 27
Hi-Plains League Tournament
Meade 62, Southwestern Hts. 34
Elkhart 58, Cimarron 53
Lakin 54, Sublette 51
Syracuse 36, Johnson-Stanton County 28
Hillsboro Tournament
Clay Center 48, Bennington 23
Hesston 47, Wichita Sunrise 23
Hillsboro 41, Holcomb 34
Riley County 47, Republic County 43
Hoisington Tournament
Hoisington 44, Victoria 34
LaCrosse 63, Ellsworth 33
Northern Plains League Tournament
Chase 55, Rock Hills 46
Sylvan-Lucas 49, Tescott 27
Lakeside 42, Wilson 37
Lincoln 36, Natoma 30
Glasco/Miltonvale-Southern Cloud 40, Pike Valley 35
Thunder Ridge 59, St. John’s Beloit-Tipton 47
Northwest Kansas League Tournament
Quinter 68, St. Francis 26
Wallace County 48, Rawlins County 41
Sterling Tournament
Sterling 65, Lyons 29
Consolation Semifinal
Remington 53, Hutchinson Trinity 46
Tonganoxie Invitational
Silver Lake 55, Eudora 27
Twin Valley League Tournament
Linn 31, Onaga 14
Troy 55, Doniphan West 31
By CLIFF BRUNT
AP Sports Writer
STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — Freshman Jawun Evans had 22 points, eight assists and six rebounds to help Oklahoma State upset No. 3 Kansas 86-67 on Tuesday night.
The Cowboys beat Kansas in Stillwater for the third straight time and the fifth in seven years.
Jeff Newberry scored 13 points and Jeffrey Carroll added 11 for the Cowboys, who had lost four straight. Oklahoma State shot 50 percent from the field, made 11 of 21 3-point attempts and outrebounded the Jayhawks 38-31.
Frank Mason III scored 14 points and Perry Ellis added 13 for Kansas (15-3, 4-2 Big 12), which has lost two of its past three and fell out of a tie for the Big 12 lead.
Oklahoma State made 23 of 26 free throws while Kansas made just 13 of 24.
The Cowboys (10-8, 2-4) nearly knocked off then-No. 2 Oklahoma six days earlier, but they missed a last-second shot and lost 74-72.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas lawmakers are reviewing a bill that would lessen the state’s penalties for marijuana possession and allow the limited use of marijuana for medical purposes.
The Senate Corrections and Juvenile Justice Committee was meeting Wednesday for the first of two days of hearings on the marijuana legislation. The panel was taking testimony from supporters first and hearing from opponents Thursday.
The House approved the bill last year.
The measure would decrease the maximum penalties for first-time, misdemeanor marijuana possession to six months in jail and a $1,000 fine from a year in jail and a $2,500 fine. A second possession conviction would no longer be a felony.
The bill also would allow cannabis to be used in treating seizures and set up a program to research industrial hemp production.
GEARY COUNTY – Law enforcement authorities in Geary County are investigating 3 suspects on drug charges.
During a traffic stop on eastbound Intersate 70 at McDowell Creek Road, three California residents were arrested, according to Junction City Police.
Callie C. Harvey, 30, Latoia L. Thomas, 34, and Devion T. Toy, 31, are being held on suspicion of Possession of Heroin With Intent, Possession of Cocaine With Intent, No Drug Tax Stamp and Possession of Drug Paraphernalia.
FHSU University Relations and Marketing
Two academic journals produced at Fort Hays State University and a book written by an FHSU professor became publicly available today as the first works available in the FHSU Scholars Repository, sponsored by Forsyth Library.
During the spring 2016 semester, Forsyth Library will mount additional pilot projects including scholarly journals, image collections, student research and select faculty scholarship.
The repository is on the Digital Commons platform hosted by bepress (formerly called Berkeley Electronic Press).
The Journal of International and Interdisciplinary Business Research, edited by Dr. Justin Evans, assistant professor of management, and the archive of the Journal of Business and Leadership (2005-2012) are both featured as inaugural collections, as is the book “An Intelligent Troglodyte’s Guide to Plato’s Republic,” by Dr. Douglas Drabkin, associate professor of philosophy. The book is offered as an open educational resource.
As early as 2011, proposals were created to establish an institutional repository (IR) at FHSU. When Library Dean Deborah Ludwig joined the faculty and staff in July 2014, she made the IR a priority. In November of 2014 Forsyth Library invited representatives from bepress to demonstrate its Digital Commons hosted platform to FHSU faculty and staff.
“That demonstration was met with great enthusiasm and interest,” said Ludwig, “so in August 2015, with funding support from President Mirta M. Martin, Provost Graham Glynn, and Vice President for Technology Joy Hatch, we acquired Digital Commons and began designing and developing FHSU Scholars Repository.”
The team that produced the FHSU Scholars Repository included Ludwig; Jennifer Sauer, the library’s coordinator of scholar services and electronic resources; Yumi Ohira, digital curation librarian; Dan Shea, academic affairs marketing specialist; Lyndsey Dugan, graphic design program coordinator; Mary Ridgway, university creative director; and Earl Ruder, webmaster.
Other pilot projects identified to promote in the first year are an image collection from University Relations and Marketing, open educational resources and student research as well as peer-reviewed work from FHSU faculty scholars.
A major goal of the IR is to make research and scholarly and creative work produced at FHSU more visible and accessible. Institutional repositories focus primarily on open access content — content that is available online and free of charge and which is generally free of copyright and licensing restrictions.
“It is work that the creators are able to freely share with anyone they choose, and in the case of an IR, the world, thanks to the Internet,” said Sauer.
The Digital Commons platform allows dissemination of work in many different formats, including theses, open educational resources, journals, video, posters, image galleries and more. The platform also provides the capability to plan and host FHSU sponsored conferences and publish the associated papers, posters, schedules and more.
Future collections in the repository will include diverse scholarship from across the FHSU community of faculty, students and staff as well as select university archive resources and historical materials. The repository will be fully available in fall 2016.
Sauer said Forsyth Library wants to work with FHSU community members who have an interest in depositing highly visible and publicly accessible research and creative work. As part of the acquisition of Digital Commons, the bepress product SelectedWorks was included, which allows faculty members to create their own pages to highlight their publications, creative works and performances.
“This will create an online scholarly identity where the faculty can share their scholarship and measure its impact,” said Sauer. “It will provide a network for researchers where they can connect and collaborate with other scholars.”
FHSU Scholars Repository is available at https://scholars.fhsu.edu/
Forsyth Library’s website is https://www.fhsu.edu/library/.
For more information, contact Sauer at (785) 628-5262 or Ludwig at (785) 628-4431 in the library, or email [email protected] or [email protected].
HUTCHINSON— The state has formally charged a Kansas man arrested after a domestic incident just days after he held police at bay for nearly six-hours on Christmas Eve.
Charles Mendenhall III, 34, Hutchinson, was arrested again on Jan.10, and now faces charges of aggravated battery, aggravated burglary, interference with law enforcement, violation of a protection from abuse order, criminal restraints and battery of a Hutchinson Police Officer.
The most recent case comes after he allegedly broke a window to enter a home at 707 Pierce in Hutchinson and attacked the woman resident.
She attempted to leave the home, but he then pulled her back inside and pinned her to the floor. Police came and he struggled with them to the point he had to be tased and was finally taken into custody.
Mendenhall is already facing a charge of kidnapping, aggravated assault with a deadly weapon, criminal discharge of a firearm and criminal threat and two counts of aggravated endangerment of a child for the incident on Christmas Eve at that same home.
He’s jailed on a $100,000 bond and the most recent case will also be placed on a future waiver-status docket.
A weak weather system will bring light snowfall amounts today and ending early tomorrow.
Today A chance of rain and snow showers, mainly after 3pm. Areas of freezing fog before 9am. Increasing clouds, with a high near 41. South wind 8 to 14 mph. Chance of precipitation is 40%.
Tonight A 50 percent chance of snow. Cloudy, with a low around 27. South southeast wind 6 to 14 mph becoming north northwest after midnight. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.
ThursdayA 50 percent chance of snow showers. Cloudy, with a high near 33. Breezy, with a north wind 15 to 20 mph. New snow accumulation of less than a half inch possible.
Thursday NightA 20 percent chance of snow showers before 10pm. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 18. Wind chill values as low as 5. North wind 14 to 17 mph.
FridayMostly sunny, with a high near 35. North wind 7 to 13 mph becoming east in the afternoon.
Friday NightMostly clear, with a low around 20.
SaturdayMostly sunny, with a high near 46.
By Dustin Armbruster
Hays High hung through the first eight minutes with #10 Dodge City. The second eight minutes though was a different story. In the first quarter the Hays High zone forced Dodge City to shoot three pointers and the Red Demons responded with misses, making just one of seven. That allowed Hays to keep with in striking distance of the conference leaders down 8-6 after one quarter.
Highlights
The Indians employed the same strategy in the second quarter, but Dodge City made four of their six attempts. Dodge City went on a 16-1 run to blow the game open and lead 31-11 at half time.
Hays would only muster a single point in the third quarter and fell behind by 36 in the fourth quarter 48-12. Hays would score the final eight points of the game for the final score of 48-20.
Coach Kirk Maska
It was the Indians lowest point total of the season. Hays falls to 4-6 and 1-3 in the WAC Dodge City is 7-3 and 3-0.
Hays is off until next Thursday when they travel to McPherson for the Mid-America Classic.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The head of the Kansas Department for Children and Families is defending the agency’s efforts to ensure the safety of children in the foster care system.
The Wichita Eagle reports that agency Secretary Phyllis Gilmore spoke Tuesday to the House Committee on Children & Seniors. The appearance came less than a week after another committee approved an audit of the agency.
Gilmore called the state’s foster care system one of the safest in the nation.
A November report showed five children died in the foster care system during the 2015 fiscal year, which ended in June. Only one death was attributed to maltreatment. Other reasons for fatalities included illness and car accidents.
