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Month: January 2017

Kan. man remains jailed on $100K Bond for alleged abuse of 7-week-old

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JEWELL COUNTY – Law enforcement authorities in Jewell County continue to investigate a suspect for alleged child abuse.

Cody Michael Showers, 26, Mankato, scheduled court appearance this week was moved to February 1, according to Jewell County Attorney Darrell Miller.

Julie Effenbeck is representing Showers.

On December 21, deputies arrested Showers for allegedly shaking a 7-week-old baby and causing “great bodily harm” during an incident on December 15, according to a media release.

Showers remains jailed on a $100,000 bond, according to the Jewell County Sheriff’s office.

The baby was hospitalized in Wichita.

Longtime broadcaster named Covenant Builders Hometown Hero

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tad-feltsTad Felts has been named the latest Covenant Builders Hometown Hero. He will be honored at Saturday’s Fort Hays State University basketball games.

The following is a tribute to Tad Felts written by Senator Jerry Moran on May 17th, 2016:

For more than 40 years, Tad Felts has been broadcasting high school athletics and reporting north-central Kansas news for KKAN-KQMA radio in Phillipsburg, but after several decades chronicling hundreds — or more likely thousands — of sporting events, Tad decided a couple years back it was time to watch a few more games from the bleachers rather than the press box. Now, this month, he will retire from radio altogether.

Tad first started his radio career in Garden City at KIUL as a high school sophomore in 1948, working after school and at night for free. During his time at KIUL, his main duties were cleaning the floors and playing records. While he was a student at Fort Hays State University in 1951, Tad worked at KAYS radio station in Hays and upon graduation at KLOE in Goodland. Tad found his eventual home with the team at KKAN-KQMA in Phillipsburg in 1972.

Given his decades of experience in broadcasting, Tad knows the business well and takes great joy in teaching others. Gerard Wellbrock, the sports director of KAYS radio in Hays and the voice of the Fort Hays State University Tigers said this about Tad: “He was a good mentor, I learned so much from him. The work ethic, how to deal with people, the relations you build with athletic directors and coaches. It’s hard not to like Tad. And you learned a lot about work, and life, just by being around him.”

In gyms across north-central Kansas, the KKAN-KQMA banner can be seen at high school basketball games, wrestling tournaments, and State championships. In fact, it is because of Tad’s dedication that the radio station is so often present. Families who can’t make the game in person, often because they are working long hours on the farm, especially appreciate local radio hosts being there because they can still catch the details of the game.

In rural America, entire communities revolve around how the high school sports team is doing. It is a common topic of conversation while standing in the checkout line at the grocery store or while dining at a neighborhood restaurant.

By no means is Tad a one-trick pony, though. Cherished equal to his sports reporting are his updates from the field during wheat harvest season, in which Tad will drive straight up to a farmer in his combine and record an interview from the cab. This is in addition to the full slate of city council and school board meetings, county fairs, and annual parades.

For years, Tad’s knowledge and sunny disposition has greeted folks tuning in to local radio. One former peer of Tad’s said this about the significant impact he has made: “KKAN-KQMA Radio has played an integral role in the lives of people in the Phillipsburg area, and Tad has always been a driving force behind that station’s programming and its scope of community service.” His professionalism was recognized by his peers when Tad was inducted into the Kansas Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 2010. Inductees to the hall of fame are selected based upon their contributions to the broadcasting profession, their broadcast career, and their recognition and awards received, and Tad is an extremely deserving recipient.

Today I want to express my gratitude to Tad Felts for helping to strengthen the close bonds of rural communities through his years of faithful service. I want to congratulate him on a job well done for the past nearly six decades. Tad’s been a tremendous friend to me over the years, and his work has served as a bedrock for many of the communities I grew up in and care deeply about.

Tad, I wish you all the best and thank you for everything you have done to improve the lives of so many in our great State.

Toll-free legislative hotline available to Kansas residents

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kansas-state-library-logoTOPEKA — Kansas residents can access information on legislation, legislative procedure, state government, public policy issues and more by calling 1-800-432-3924. Calls are answered by experienced reference/research librarians at the State Library of Kansas and kept confidential. Lines are open weekdays 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Callers can also leave brief messages to be delivered to legislators as well as request copies of bills, journals, and other legislative documents.

In addition to calling the hotline, residents can also text questions to (785) 256-0733 (standard text message rates may apply), email, or instant message at kslib.info/ask, or visit the State Library. The State Library is located on the third floor, north wing of the Kansas Capitol Building. The library’s hours are Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Controversy Over Attorney-Client Recordings At Kansas Jail Continues

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By Dan Margolies

Recorded meetings of inmates and their attorneys at the pretrial detention facility in Leavenworth are the source of ongoing tension between federal prosecutors and criminal defense attorneys.
MICHAEL COGHLAN / CREATIVE COMMONS-FLICKR

The Kansas Federal Public Defender says federal prosecutors have failed to turn over all attorney-client phone calls that were recorded at the pretrial detention center in Leavenworth to a special master looking into their legality.

In a court filing this week, the public defender identified recorded calls to at least two attorneys that were not disclosed by prosecutors.

“The Special Master should be given authority to determine why these telephone calls were not included in the material provided by the government, and whether there are still recorded calls in the USAO (U.S. Attorney’s office) possession or knowledge that should have been disclosed,” the filing states.

In October, U.S. District Judge Julie Robinson appointed David Cohen, a Cleveland attorney, as special master to investigate whether and to what extent the pretrial detention facility had turned over privileged video and audio recordings of attorney-client meetings to the U.S. Attorney’s office in Kansas.

The issue arose as part of a wide-ranging criminal case in which inmates and corrections officers at the facility have been charged with distributing drugs and other contraband within its walls. Initially, six defendants, including two inmates, were charged. In its filing Wednesday, the public defender says the government has since identified 95 additional detainees who may be subject to indictment.

The underlying criminal case, however, has largely been overshadowed by the revelations last summer that the private operator of the facility, Corrections Corporation of America (CCA), had been recording attorney-client phone calls and meetings and, in some cases, turning the recordings over to prosecutors in the U.S. Attorney’s office in Kansas City, Kansas.

In a report last month, Cohen identified 229 recorded calls made to known attorney phone numbers. The public defender now says that some recorded calls were not identified by Cohen because prosecutors had failed to turn them over to him.

A spokesman for the U.S. Attorney’s office did not return a call seeking comment. Lawyers with the Federal Public Defender could not be reached for comment.

Cohen, reached at his Cleveland office, said he did not know why the government might not have produced some recordings.

“I don’t think one of those reasons is that it’s in the court’s vault and I didn’t come across it. I don’t think it’s because I didn’t see something that’s there,” he said. “What that reason is could be any number of things. I just don’t know.”

The public defender and U.S. Attorney’s office have been at odds since the initial revelations of the tapings. That mutual antagonism has spilled over into a dispute over the scope of Cohen’s investigation. The public defender wants him to examine whether CCA routinely recorded attorney-client meetings and turned them over to the government. The U.S. Attorney wants Cohen’s investigation limited to editing out and retaining privileged attorney-client matters.

The public defender’s suspicions have been heightened by what it says are other discrepancies in the government’s production of information to Cohen.

For example, it says, the government told the court in August that it was unaware CCA had recorded, and not simply monitored, attorney-client meetings. Yet two weeks later, it says, the government told the court that it had obtained 18 terabytes of surveillance footage from CCA, including recordings of attorney-client meeting rooms.

“Both of these statements cannot be true,” the public defender says.

Find Dan Margolies on Twitter @DanMargolies.

KDA to host Agribusiness Development Workshop in Russell

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Kansas Department of Agriculture

MANHATTAN – The Kansas Department of Agriculture will host an Agribusiness Development Workshop on Jan. 19, 2017, from 5:30-8:30 p.m. at the Russell City Council Chambers, 133 W. 8th St., Russell. This workshop will provide Kansas farmers, ranchers and agribusinesses with resources, current business development and organizational contacts to assist with start-ups or expansions.

The KDA Division of Agriculture Marketing received a U.S. Department of Agriculture Rural Business Development Grant to help fund the workshop. Established in the 2014 Farm Bill, USDA’s Rural Business Development Grant is a program intended to help with technical assistance, training and other activities to allow small businesses in rural areas to expand.

“Agriculture is the largest industry, economic driver and employer in the state, contributing 43 percent of the state’s economy and 12 percent of the state’s workforce, including 19 percent of the entire workforce of Russell County,” said Kansas Secretary of Agriculture Jackie McClaskey. “We are committed to economic growth, and these workshops will provide information and education to expand opportunities for small and rural agribusinesses across the state.”

Featured speakers at the event will represent KDA; Russell County Economic Development; USDA Rural Development; Kansas Department of Commerce; Network Kansas; Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism; Kansas Small Business Development Center; a local agriculture business; and a financial institution.

KDA will also hold five additional agribusiness development workshops in the following locations: February 2 in Emporia, February 9 in Winfield, February 16 in Liberal, February 23 in Norton and March 2 in Hutchinson.

KDA is committed to providing an environment that enhances and encourages economic growth of the agriculture industry and the Kansas economy. This workshop will provide support and assistance to help make Kansas businesses more successful.

A light meal will be available for those who register prior to Jan. 15. To RSVP, email your name and workshop location to [email protected]. Contact Lynne Hinrichsen at [email protected] or (785) 564-6757 with any questions.

This institution is an equal opportunity provider and employer.

First Amendment: To uphold religious freedom, do small things with great love

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Charles C. Haynes is director of the Religious Freedom Center of the Newseum Institute.
Charles C. Haynes is director of the Religious Freedom Center of the Newseum Institute.

Farewell to 2016, arguably the worst year for religious freedom in living memory.

From genocide in Syria and Iraq to ethnic cleansing in Burma, religious oppression and persecution destroyed countless lives, exiled millions and fueled the greatest humanitarian crisis since World War II.

Most of the world’s population — more than 5 billion people — now lives in countries with high restrictions on religious freedom.

Meanwhile in the United States, many religious Americans felt under siege in 2016 as Islamophobia spiked, attacks on Sikhs and Hindus grew, anti-Semitism gained ground with the surge of White Supremacist groups, and Christian claims of conscience were too often dismissed and denigrated as acts of “bigotry.”

Bleak, but not hopeless: Beyond the numbing headlines of despair in the past year were signs of hope — small, but profound stories about the capacity of the human spirit to counter hate with compassion, destruction with healing, violence with peaceful coexistence.

Consider, for example, the Muslim and Christian faithful in Cameroon who began taking turns last year protecting one another from terrorist attacks by Boko Haram. On Fridays, Christians now guard the mosques during community prayer and on Sundays, Muslims protect churches during Sunday worship.

Or consider the Muslim farmers in a Punjabi village in Pakistan who used their meager savings last summer to rebuild a Christian church destroyed by monsoon floods. “Our mosque stands here from times past,” a Muslim villager told the Daily Pakistan, “but our Christian brothers also have the right to worship in their church.”

Closer to home, a broad coalition of religious groups, including the Southern Baptist Convention’s Ethics and Religious Liberty Committee (ERLC), Sikh Coalition, National Association of Evangelicals, the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty and the Unitarian Universalist Legislative Ministry of New Jersey, joined to support a court challenge by the Islamic Society after the Muslim group was denied an application to build a mosque in Bernards Township, N.J.

When ERLC president Russell Moore faced criticism for supporting Muslims at the annual Southern Baptist Convention last summer, he responded first as a Christian by saying: “What it means to be a Baptist is to support soul liberty for everybody.”

Then Moore gave a short, but sweet civics lesson reminding his listeners that upholding the First Amendment for others also serves the best interest of Baptists:

“Brothers and sisters, when you have a government that says ‘we can decide whether or not a house of worship can be constructed based upon theological beliefs of that house of worship,’ then there are going to be Southern Baptist churches in San Francisco and New York and throughout this country who are not going to be able to build.”

Whatever the motives for standing up for others — religious faith, civic virtue or enlightened self interest — religious freedom only works when a right for one is a right for all.

That was the takeaway from the protest at Standing Rock, a defining moment for religious freedom in 2016. Representatives from more than 300 Native American tribes converged to stop the Dakota Access Pipeline from being built under the Missouri River near the Standing Rock Sioux Reservation in North and South Dakota. The tribe argued that the route would threaten sacred sites and life-giving water.

Native American tribes stood in solidarity with the Sioux — supported by thousands of military veterans, Black Lives Matter activists, religious leaders, civil libertarians and citizens of different faiths, races and political beliefs. In December, the two-year battle for Native American religious freedom ended in victory (for now at least) when the Obama administration denied the easement needed to run the pipeline under the river.

In these acts of courage and compassion, religious freedom was nourished in 2016. But tragically, the avalanche of stories of violence and conflict largely eclipsed stories of hope last year. And the outlook for 2017 promises even more religious persecution abroad and religious division at home.

At Christmas, my household received a sign of hope — literally — when a kind priest gave us a wooden plaque with a saying from St. Teresa of Calcutta:

“We can do no great things, only small things with great love.”

So in 2017, when the headlines overwhelm our conscience with death and destruction, we will inevitably feel helpless that we can’t do the “great things” needed to end genocide, save the refugees or fully protect the many vulnerable Americans here at home.

But remember those villagers in Africa and Pakistan, the religious leaders in New Jersey and the veterans and activists standing with Native Americans in the Dakotas. And then emulate them by striving to do small things with great love.

Charles C. Haynes is vice president of the Newseum Institute and founding director of the Religious Freedom Center. [email protected]

Governor recognizes mentoring programs for helping Kansans in need

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Governor Sam Brownback designates January as Mentoring Month during a proclamation signing with: (left to right) Celina Porter, Tracy Crockett, Dave Depue, Secretary Phyllis Gilmore, Brenda Estell, Milcah Lewis, Brandi Turner, Duane Hines, Dana Logue, Mike Siebert and Jim Echols.
Governor Sam Brownback designates January as Mentoring Month during a proclamation signing with: (left to right) Celina Porter, Tracy Crockett, Dave Depue, Secretary Phyllis Gilmore, Brenda Estell, Milcah Lewis, Brandi Turner, Duane Hines, Dana Logue, Mike Siebert and Jim Echols.

KDCF

TOPEKA — Thousands of individuals across the state benefit from formal and informal mentoring relationships. Wednesday, in Topeka, Governor Sam Brownback recognized the tremendous impact mentoring programs have on Kansans in need, including welfare benefits recipients, inmates in Kansas jails and prisons and children in the state’s public school system.

Governor Brownback signed a proclamation to designate January as Mentoring Month. During the ceremony officials from the Kansas Department for Children and Families (DCF), the Kansas Department of Corrections (KDOC) and the Kansas State Department of Education (KSDE) discussed the success of their respective mentoring programs.

“I’ve started mentoring a young man [through HOPE Mentoring],” Governor Brownback said. “Here’s someone who has had quite a bit of difficulty, who’s been in prison a time or two, but is really working to change his life around. I’m just so encouraged by this.”

DCF’s HOPE (Hope, Opportunity and Prosperity for Everyone) Mentoring program offers mentors to Temporary Assistance for Needy Families (TANF) clients and Independent Living youth who have aged out of the foster care system. Since June 2016, 288 TANF/IL clients have expressed interest or been successfully matched with a mentor.

The HOPE Mentoring program is changing the lives of both mentors and mentees. One Career Navigator stated that of the four people she recently referred to the program, three now have jobs that pay living wages. In addition, one mentor was able to help a mentee struggling to obtain a driver’s license break down barriers to apply for one. Thanks to his new license, the mentee was able to obtain a job that pays more than $22 per hour.

“The HOPE Mentoring program continues to grow as more of our clients seek additional opportunities to achieve self-reliance,” DCF Secretary Phyllis Gilmore said. “We are excited to hear the success stories from people who have furthered their education, found steady employment and improved their quality of life.”

The HOPE Mentoring program is closely modeled after Mentoring4Success, a mentoring program developed by KDOC that matches inmates, both adults and juveniles, with mentors. This positive relationship helps inmates prepare to reintegrate into society, and gives them the best chance of staying out of the corrections system. Since July 2011, the program has made 7,522 adult matches. Since July 2014, Juvenile Services has made 252 matches.

The Kansas Mentors program, established in 2006 and housed at KSDE, currently partners with over 175 mentoring programs across the state. The organization is committed to providing every young Kansas access to a caring and quality mentor through recruitment, awareness, and training efforts. There are approximately 20,000 youth on waiting lists needing a mentor in Kansas, and research shows that mentoring has long-term benefits on youth by increasing their chances of high school graduation and college attendance and decreasing the likelihood of substance abuse and other risky behaviors.

For more information on HOPE Mentoring, please visit https://www.hopementoring.dcf.ks.gov. For more information on Mentoring4Success, visit https://www.doc.ks.gov/help-out/mentoring. For more information on Kansas Mentors, visit www.KansasMentors.org.

Police: Suspect with a gun holds up Kansas clothing store

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SHAWNEE COUNTY – Law enforcement authorities in Shawnee County are investigating an armed robbery.

Just before 8:30 p.m. on Friday police were dispatched to Plato’s Closet clothing store at 1580 SW Wanamaker in Topeka after report of a robbery, according to a media release.

The store staff told officers an unknown black male wearing khaki pants, black leather jacket, his face masked and using a pistol entered the store demanding money.

After the robbery, the suspect fled the store on foot. Police and a K9 tracked the suspect to where witnesses say they saw him enter a silver passenger car and leave the area.

No arrests have been made.

Kansas issues revised fish consumption advisories

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Spotted bass
Spotted bass

KDHE

TOPEKA–The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) and the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism (KDWPT) are issuing revised fish consumption advisories for 2017. The advisories identify types of fish or other aquatic animals that should be eaten in limited quantities or, in some cases, avoided altogether because of contamination. General advice and internet resources are also provided to aid the public in making informed decisions regarding the benefits as well as the risks associated with eating locally caught fish from Kansas waters.

Definitions:
Bottom-feeding fish: buffalos, carp, carpsuckers, catfishes (except flathead catfish), sturgeons, and suckers.
Predatory fish: black basses, crappies, drum, flathead catfish, perches, sunfish, white bass, wiper, striper, walleye, saugeye, and sauger.
Shellfish: mussels, clams, and crayfish.
General Population: Men and women 18 years of age or older.
Sensitive Populations: Women who are pregnant, may become pregnant, or are nursing and children age 17 or younger.
Meal size (before cooking):
Adults and Children age 13 and older = 8 ounces
Children age 6 to 12 = 4 ounces
Children younger than 6 = 2 ounces

Statewide Advisories

Kansas recommends the following consumption restrictions because of mercury in fish:
1. Sensitive Populations should restrict consumption of all types of locally caught fish, from waters or species of fish not specifically covered by an advisory to one meal per week because of mercury.
2. Largemouth, smallmouth, and spotted bass (black basses):
A. Sensitive Populations should restrict consumption of these species to one meal per month because of mercury.
B. General Public should restrict consumption of these species to one meal per week because of mercury.

Waterbody specific advisories for all consumers

Kansas recommends not eating specified fish or aquatic life from the following locations:
The Kansas River from Lawrence (below Bowersock Dam) downstream to Eudora at the confluence of the Wakarusa River (Douglas and Leavenworth counties); bottom-feeding fish because of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs).
The Spring River from the confluence of Center Creek to the Kansas/Oklahoma border (Cherokee County); shellfish because of lead and cadmium.
Shoal Creek from the Missouri/Kansas border to Empire Lake (Cherokee County); shellfish because of lead and cadmium.
Cow Creek in Hutchinson and downstream to the confluence with the Arkansas River (Reno County); bottom-feeding fish because of PCBs.
The Arkansas River from the Lincoln Street dam in Wichita downstream to the confluence with Cowskin Creek near Belle Plaine (Sedgwick and Sumner counties); bottom-feeding fish because of PCBs.
Antioch Park Lake South in Antioch Park, Overland Park (Johnson County); all fish because of the pesticides dieldrin, heptachlor epoxide, chlordane, and dichlorophenyltrichloroethanes (DDTs).

Kansas recommends restricting consumption of bottom-feeding fish to one meal per month from the following location because of PCBs:
1. The Little Arkansas River from the Main Street Bridge immediately west of Valley Center to the confluence with the Arkansas River in Wichita (Sedgwick County).

General advice for eating locally caught fish in Kansas
1. Sensitive populations should consider restricting their total mercury intake for both supermarket fish and locally caught species. Concerned parents and other persons may wish to consult with a physician about eating fish and mercury exposure.
2. Mercury exposure can be reduced by limiting the consumption of large predatory fish. Larger/older fish of all types are more likely to have higher concentrations of mercury.
3. Avoid the consumption of fish parts other than fillets, especially when eating bottom-feeding fish. Fatty internal organs tend to accumulate higher levels of fat-soluble contaminants such as chlordane and PCBs than fillets.
4. Consumers can reduce their ingestion of fat-soluble contaminants such as chlordane and PCBs by trimming fat from fillets, and cooking in a manner in which fat drips away from the fillet.
5. Avoid subsistence level (relying on wild-caught fish for daily nutritional needs) fishing activities in large rivers within or immediately downstream of large urban/industrial areas and wastewater outfalls. Fish in these areas are more likely to contain traces of chemical contaminants.
6. In waterbodies where watches or warnings related to harmful algae blooms have been applied, fish should be consumed in moderation and care taken to only consume skinless fillets. Avoid cutting into internal organs and rinse fillets with clean water prior to cooking or freezing.

Internet resources from KDHE, KDWPT, EPA, FDA, and the American Heart Association
To view the advisories online and for information about KDHE’s Fish Tissue Contaminant Monitoring Program please visit our website at: https://www.kdheks.gov/befs/fish_tissue_monitoring.htm

For information about harmful algal blooms, including current watches and warnings, visit this KDHE website: https://www.kdheks.gov/algae-illness/index.htm

For information about fishing in Kansas including licensing, regulations, fishing reports and fishing forecasts please visit the KDWPT fishing website: http://ksoutdoors.com/Fishing

For general information about mercury in fish, national advisories, and advisories in other states please visit this EPA website: https://www2.epa.gov/choose-fish-and-shellfish-wisely

For information about sensitive populations and mercury in fish please visit this FDA website: https://www.fda.gov/food/resourcesforyou/consumers/ucm110591.htm

For information regarding personal care products and pharmaceuticals in fish please visit this EPA website: https://www.epa.gov/fish-tech/pilot-study-pharmaceuticals-and-personal-care-products-fish-tissue

For information about the health benefits vs. the risks of including fish in your diet please visit this American Heart Association website: https://www.heart.org/HEARTORG/GettingHealthy/NutritionCenter/Fish-101_UCM_305986_Article.jsp

For technical information regarding the EPA risk assessment methods used to determine advisory consumption limits please visit: https://www2.epa.gov/fish-tech

Area High School Scoreboard for 1/6/17

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Western Athletic Conference
Great Bend  68    Garden City  58
*Cimarron  41   Dodge City  37

Mid-Continent League
TMP  65   Ellis  26
Norton  34  Stockton  47
Phillipsburg  28   Plainville  42
Smith Center  15   Oakley  19

Central Prairie League
Otis-Bison  66  Victoria  27
Ness City  45  St. John  67
Macksville  18   Central Plains  72
*Kinsley  47  Cunningham  41

North Central Activities Association
Beloit  38   Russell  33

Northern Plains League
*Hill City  48  St. Johns-Tipton  60
Pike Valley  22   Lakeside  32
Thunder Ridge  46   Natoma  38

Northwest Kansas League
*Trego  55   Decatur Com.  46
Dighton  52  Quinter  21

Central Kansas League
Hoisington  36   Kingman   54
Lyons  19  Hesston  56
Larned  46  Hillsboro  26

Great Western Activities Conference
Ulysses  42   Scott City  50
Goodland  50   Holcomb  46
Hugoton  81   Colby  20

Western Kansas Liberty League
Golden Plains  41   Logan  32

Boys

Western Athletic Conference
Great Bend  35   Garden City  37
*Cimarron  39   Dodge City  53

Mid-Continent League
TMP  57   Ellis  47
Norton  58  Stockton  49
Phillipsburg  50  Plainville  47

Central Prairie League
Otis-Bison  62  Victoria  49
Ness City  42  St. John  53
Macksville  54  Central Plains  58
*Kinsley  52   Cunningham  48

North Central Activities Association
Beloit  71   Russell  40

Northern Plains League
*Hill City  44  St. Johns-Tipton  61
Pike Valley  22   Lakeside  32

Northwest Kansas League
*Trego  51  Decatur Com.  39
Dighton  52   Quinter  37

Central Kansas League
Hoisington  62  Kingman  56
Lyons   35  Hesston  60
Larned   47   Hillsboro   63

Great Western Activities Conference
Ulysses  70   Scott City  65
Goodland  42   Holcomb 70
Hugoton  81  Colby  20

Western Kansas Liberty League
Golden Plains  23   Logan  55

*Non-league
By The Associated Press
BOYS’ BASKETBALL
Abilene 52, Marysville 45
Andale 72, Mulvane 33
Andover 60, Maize South 52
Andover 60, Maize South 52
Ashland 69, Pawnee Heights 50
Atchison 46, Holton 33
Augusta 57, El Dorado 46
Basehor-Linwood 54, Tonganoxie 24
Baxter Springs 68, Riverton 32
Beloit 71, Russell 40
Bishop Miege 46, Mill Valley 43
Bishop Seabury Academy 70, Veritas Christian 45
Buhler 67, Winfield 52
Burlingame 72, Marais des Cygnes Valley 27
Burrton 67, Fairfield 42
BV Northwest 65, Blue Valley 56
Central Burden 53, Udall 35
Central Plains 58, Macksville 54
Chapman 64, Clay Center 44
Chase County 56, West Franklin 55
Cheney 65, Douglass 54
Cherryvale 63, Neodesha 49
Clearwater 53, Wellington 49
Clifton-Clyde 76, Axtell 50
Coffeyville 46, Chanute 34
Conway Springs 74, Medicine Lodge 36
Crest 63, Marmaton Valley 55
Dighton 52, Quinter 37
Dodge City 53, Cimarron 39
Doniphan West 69, Linn 58
Ellsworth 66, Republic County 59, OT
Eudora 61, DeSoto 30
Frankfort 70, BV Randolph 49
Garden City 37, Great Bend 35, OT
Gardner-Edgerton 66, BV West 57
Hanover 56, Centralia 43
Haven 58, Nickerson 44
Hays-TMP-Marian 57, Ellis 47
Hesston 60, Lyons 35
Highland Park 49, Manhattan 38
Hillsboro 63, Larned 47
Hoisington 62, Kingman 56
Holcomb 70, Goodland 42
Horton 50, Pleasant Ridge 40
Hugoton 81, Colby 20
Hutchinson Trinity 52, Remington 46
Immaculata 38, Valley Falls 36
Independence 71, Parsons 61
Iola 53, Osawatomie 37
Jackson Heights 60, McLouth 26
Jefferson West 55, Royal Valley 45
Johnson-Stanton County 57, Wichita County 38
Kapaun Mount Carmel 72, Wichita East 69, OT
KC Christian 73, Oskaloosa 28
KC Piper 62, Lansing 51
KC Turner 59, KC Bishop Ward 22
Kinsley 52, Cunningham 48
Lamar, Mo. 79, Frontenac 69
Lawrence Free State 56, Olathe North 44
Leavenworth 59, SM Northwest 47
Logan 55, Golden Plains 23
Louisburg 68, Baldwin 58
Marion 56, Ell-Saline 54
McPherson 62, Circle 52
Meade 45, Syracuse 37
Mission Valley 61, Central Heights 47
Nemaha Central 75, Riverside 47
Northern Heights 54, Osage City 47
Norton 58, Stockton 49
Olathe Northwest 46, Olathe East 38
Olathe South 54, Lawrence 38
Olpe 59, Southern Coffey 47
Osborne 62, Lincoln 32
Otis-Bison 62, Victoria 49
Ottawa 56, Paola 32
Perry-Lecompton 64, Atchison County 33
Phillipsburg 50, Plainville 47
Pittsburg 78, Fort Scott 70
Pittsburg Colgan 55, Columbus 25
Pratt 52, Labette County 45
Pratt Skyline 59, Attica 51
Rock Creek 69, Silver Lake 51
Rural Vista 64, Peabody-Burns 23
Sabetha 41, Hiawatha 33
Salina Central 76, Goddard-Eisenhower 59
Sedgwick 57, Inman 52
Shawnee Heights 62, Bonner Springs 55
SM North 50, SM East 44
SM South 60, SM West 50
Smoky Valley 59, Halstead 40
Solomon 48, Goessel 37
South Gray 74, South Central 32
Southeast Saline 61, Minneapolis 39
Spearville 51, Kiowa County 45
Spring Hill 30, Blue Valley Southwest 25
St. Francis 77, Idalia, Colo. 25
St. John 53, Ness City 42
St. John’s Beloit-Tipton 61, Hill City 44
Sterling 75, Bennington 69
Topeka Hayden 68, Emporia 63
Topeka Seaman 61, Junction City 44
Topeka West 74, KC Washington 67
Trego 51, Oberlin-Decatur 39
Ulysses 70, Scott City 65, OT
Valley Heights 53, Washington County 49
Wabaunsee 54, St. Mary’s 45
Wamego 65, Concordia 49
Washburn Rural 72, Topeka 66
Wellsville 74, Anderson County 30
Wetmore 43, Onaga 30
Wichita Collegiate 74, Rose Hill 43
Wichita Heights 64, Wichita Southeast 53
Wichita Independent 61, Belle Plaine 50
Wichita North 45, Wichita Northwest 44
POSTPONEMENTS AND CANCELLATIONS
Hays vs. Liberal, ppd. to Jan 7.
GIRLS’ BASKETBALL
Abilene 61, Marysville 32
Andale 43, Mulvane 38
Attica 49, Pratt Skyline 41
Augusta 46, El Dorado 41
Baldwin 65, Louisburg 26
Basehor-Linwood 57, Tonganoxie 35
Baxter Springs 34, Riverton 32
Beloit 38, Russell 33
Berean Academy 45, Moundridge 29
Blue Valley Southwest 35, Spring Hill 32
Burlingame 38, Marais des Cygnes Valley 31
Burlington 63, Santa Fe Trail 38
Central Plains 72, Macksville 18
Centralia 55, Hanover 48, OT
Centre 42, Herington 33
Chanute 38, Coffeyville 34
Cheney 63, Douglass 24
Chetopa 38, Altoona-Midway 16
Cimarron 41, Dodge City 37
Clay Center 57, Chapman 29
Clifton-Clyde 38, Axtell 30
Columbus 33, Pittsburg Colgan 22
Concordia 59, Wamego 42
Conway Springs 61, Medicine Lodge 29
Council Grove 65, Lyndon 14
Crest 42, Marmaton Valley 40
DeSoto 51, Eudora 30
Dighton 52, Quinter 21
Ellsworth 45, Republic County 31
Emporia 67, Topeka Hayden 52
Eureka 42, Fredonia 31
Fairfield 49, Burrton 37
Gardner-Edgerton 51, BV West 36
Glasco/Miltonvale-Southern Cloud 52, Wilson 38
Goessel 57, Solomon 24
Golden Plains 41, Logan 32
Goodland 50, Holcomb 46
Great Bend 68, Garden City 58
Halstead 56, Smoky Valley 43
Hartford 33, Lebo 27
Hays-TMP-Marian 65, Ellis 26
Hesston 56, Lyons 19
Hodgeman County 50, Satanta 28
Holton 73, Atchison 40
Horton 47, Pleasant Ridge 43
Hugoton 81, Colby 20
Independence 51, Parsons 31
Iola 57, Osawatomie 23
Jackson Heights 54, McLouth 29
Jefferson North 56, Maur Hill – Mount Academy 42
Jefferson West 43, Royal Valley 41
Kapaun Mount Carmel 55, Wichita East 36
KC Piper 66, Lansing 56
Kingman 54, Hoisington 36
Kinsley 47, Cunningham 41
Kiowa County 56, Spearville 34
Labette County 57, Pratt 24
Lakeside 32, Pike Valley 22
Lamar, Mo. 54, Frontenac 45
Larned 46, Hillsboro 26
Lawrence Free State 73, Olathe North 57
Leavenworth 46, SM Northwest 34
Linn 42, Doniphan West 27
Maize South 58, Andover 39
Manhattan 74, Highland Park 30
Marion 48, Ell-Saline 30
McPherson 58, Circle 45
Mission Valley 40, Central Heights 27
Nemaha Central 49, Riverside 26
Neodesha 48, Cherryvale 43
Nickerson 39, Haven 36
Northeast-Arma 62, Southeast 53
Northern Heights 54, Osage City 47
Oakley 19, Smith Center 15
Olathe East 48, Olathe Northwest 37
Olathe South 54, Lawrence 38
Olpe 58, Southern Coffey 18
Osborne 44, Lincoln 31
Oskaloosa 49, KC Christian 37
Oswego 48, Jayhawk Linn 47, OT
Otis-Bison 66, Victoria 27
Paola 62, Ottawa 44
Pawnee Heights 53, Ashland 38
Perry-Lecompton 33, Atchison County 28
Pittsburg 44, Fort Scott 28
Plainville 42, Phillipsburg 28
Remington 56, Hutchinson Trinity 31
Rose Hill 56, Wichita Collegiate 23
Rural Vista 36, Peabody-Burns 16
Sabetha 41, Hiawatha 29
Salina Central 57, Goddard-Eisenhower 27
Scott City 50, Ulysses 42
Sedan 54, Argonia 44
Sedgwick 47, Inman 35
Shawnee Heights 42, Bonner Springs 25
Silver Lake 43, Rock Creek 31
SM East 47, SM North 32
South Central 45, South Gray 44
Southeast Saline 46, Minneapolis 42
St. Francis 52, Idalia, Colo. 36
St. James Academy 59, BV North 40
St. John 67, Ness City 45
St. John’s Beloit-Tipton 60, Hill City 48
Sterling 63, Bennington 22
Stockton 47, Norton 34
Sublette 51, Elkhart 50
Sylvan-Lucas 67, Tescott 45
Syracuse 42, Meade 33
Topeka Seaman 57, Junction City 41
Topeka West 60, KC Washington 28
Trego 55, Oberlin-Decatur 46
Valley Falls 48, Immaculata 14
Veritas Christian 70, Bishop Seabury Academy 33
Wabaunsee 46, St. Mary’s 17
Washburn Rural 69, Topeka 44
Waverly 55, Madison/Hamilton 34
Wellington 59, Clearwater 17
Wellsville 49, Anderson County 35
West Elk 38, Yates Center 23 Wetmore 43, Onaga 30
Wichita Heights 50, Wichita Southeast 41
Wichita Independent 60, Belle Plaine 20
Wichita Northwest 70, Wichita North 51
Wichita Trinity 40, Chaparral 27
Winfield 42, Buhler 35
POSTPONEMENTS AND CANCELLATIONS
Fowler vs. Rolla, ccd.
Hays vs. Liberal, ppd.

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