Vehicle similar to the one reported stolen-photo Thomas Co. Sheriff
THOMAS COUNTY – Law enforcement authorities in northwest Kansas are investigating report of a stolen vehicle and asking the public for help to find it.
Just after noon Tuesday, a 2006 Nissan Xterra was stolen in Colby, according to a social media report from the sheriff’s department.
The vehicle has a Kansas tag of “006GZW” displayed on the rear and an “Open Spaces Sports” sticker on the back window.
If anyone has any information on the missing vehicle, please contact the Colby Police Department at 785-460-4460.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Jose Quintana gave up four singles over eight innings and the Chicago White Sox beat the Kansas City Royals 6-0 on Tuesday night.
Quintana (2-4) walked two, struck out seven and allowed only one runner to reach second base.
The Royals lost for the 10th time in 11 games. Starter Danny Duffy (2-2) allowed six runs, 10 hits and two walks over five innings.
Yolmer Sanchez had three hits and Avisail Garcia and Geovany Soto each had two to lead Chicago’s offense.
Garcia was 2 for 2 with a walk and was hit by a pitch. He leads the American League with a .382 batting average, and his on-base percentage hiked to .433. He scored a run in the second and drove in Sanchez with a third-inning single.
GREAT BEND, Kan. – The Hays High boys golf team finishes second at the Great Bend Invitational yesterday at the Stoneridge Country Club. The Indians shoot a 301 and finish seven back of Garden City. Allen Zollinger led the Indians with a 3-over-par 73 and finished fourth. Tradgon McCrae also shot a 73 and finished fifth. Justin McCullick was seventh after a 76 and Josh Norris came in 10th with a 79.
Team Results
1. Garden City, 294 2. Hays, 301 3.Dodge City, 322
4. Liberal, 328
5. Great Bend, 352
6. Salina South, 371
Top-10 Individual Medalists
1. Taylor Larsen-Garden City, 70
2. Sion Audrain-Garden City, 70
3. Kelby Titus-Great Bend, 73 4. Allen Zollinger-Hays, 73
5. Tradgon McCrae-Hays, 73 6. Logan Durst-Garden City, 75 7. Justin McCullick-Hays, 76 8. Luke Gleason-Dodge City, 78
9. Alex Carrasco-Liberal, 78 10. Josh Norris-Hays, 79
HAYS, Kan. – Alison Helget threw a no-hitter to lead the TMP-Marian softball team to a doubleheader sweep of Plainville/Stockton Tuesday at the TMP Sports Complex. Helget and Bailey Lacy combine to strikeout 18 as the Monarchs win 2-0 and 6-1.
Helget struck out nine and walked none in the first contest. The only baserunner came on catcher interference. Helget and Lacy, who had three hits, drove in both Monarchs runs.
Lacy struck out nine without a walk in the second game. Her first inning double scored two to give the Monarchs the early lead. Katelyn Zimmerman also drove in two while Alison Helget and Ciara Seib both had two hits.
HAYS, Kan. – Fort Hays State fell behind early and could never recover, falling to Pittsburg State 11-2 on Senior Day Tuesday at Larks Park. The Gorillas (23-24, 17-16 MIAA) used a three-run first inning home run from Hunter Clanin to grab the lead, then blew the game open with a six-run fifth for the series sweep.
Steve Johnson Postgame Interview
Game Highlights
The Gorillas used five straight singles to open the big fifth inning including the first three which never left the infield.
The Tigers (10-36, 3-30 MIAA) scored in the bottom of the fifth after a Jace Bowman double and Ruan Imber groundoud. Dayton Pomeroy added a solo homer in the sixth.
Starter Justin Hersch (0-3), one of seven Tiger seniors honored before the game, allowed three runs (two earned) on two hits over three innings and took the loss.
Austin Weiser pitched the final four innings for Fort Hays State, allowing two runs on just one hit while retiring seven in a row at one point. Bryce Witchurch was the only Tiger to pick up multiple hits, finishing 2-for-4. All five positional Tiger seniors had either a hit or an RBI in their final home game at FHSU.
Hunter Clanin hit two home runs and drove in seven runs to lead the Gorillas 11-hit attack.
Mission – The Libertarian Party of Kansas’ Executive Committee embodies the political middle ground the party has claimed for years, following last weekend’s State Convention in Mission, Kansas, according to a news release from the LPKS.
Kris Logan
Party leadership is predominantly female for the first time since inception with the election of the first ever female LPKS State Chair, Kris Logan (Lansing), Victoria French (Wichita) as 4th District Coordinator, and Heather Toot (Leavenworth) as 2nd District Coordinator.
Perhaps even more surprising, all three new members of the party’s leadership found the Libertarian Party as disenfranchised Democrats or Republicans.
LPKS State Chair, Kris Logan, said, “People shouldn’t be surprised our leadership is made up of both former Democrats and Republicans. As Libertarians, we know we don’t have to agree on all issues, we simply have to agree that we will not use force to make others live as we personally believe is best. That is what makes us Libertarian.”
As hyper-partisanship continues to escalate, could the Libertarian Party be the common-sense middle ground voters are looking for?
Logan thinks so, and she invites every Kansan disappointed with the establishment parties to learn more about the party of minimum government, maximum freedom. “The Libertarian Party has been the fastest growing political party in Kansas for over a decade,” said Logan, “and I think that trend is only going to accelerate as both middle-ground Republicans and Democrats join us… not to mention all the Kansas Independents who simply don’t yet know that they are really Libertarians. Kansans are live-and-let-live people, and that is a core value of the Libertarian Party.”
In addition to the above listed new officers, Ric Koehn (Cimarron) was re-elected to the position of State Treasurer.
The 2018 LPKS State Convention is slated to be held in the spring in Wichita, Kansas. The party expects to continue the momentum with ever larger and impactful events.
For more information contact:
Kris Logan– LPKS State Chair – [email protected] – (913) 240-9008
Heather Toot – LPKS 2nd District Coordinator – [email protected] – (913) 240-4286
Victoria French – LPKS 4th District Coordinator – [email protected] (316) 807-4685
Game 1: TMP 7, Sacred Heart 0 Game 2: TMP 11, Sacred Heart 5
HAYS, Kan.-It was pitching and defense that dominated the first four innings of Game 1 of a doubleheader between TMP and Sacred Heart on Tuesday. After getting a timely double play to end the top of the 5th inning the Monarch bats came alive in the bottom of the fifth. TMP collected four hits along with a walk and a fielder’s choice and put five runs on the board. The inning was highlighted by a two RBI triple by Chase Werth to cap the scoring in the inning.
The Monarchs would add two more runs in the 6th inning for some extra insurance. Tate Garcia pitched the complete game shutout to pick up the victory. TMP moved to 5-7 with the 7-0 win.
Sacred Heart got on the board in the top of the first inning in Game 2 thanks to a TMP error and a base hit. TMP tied it in the 2nd inning with a run from Eston Brown. The Knights would take the lead in the top of the 4th with a pair of runs but TMP would answer with three runs in the bottom of the inning on a three-run homer from Adam Gottschalk. Sacred Heart tied it in the top of the 5th but their joy was short lived as the Monarchs put up a five spot in the bottom of the inning to put the game away.
TMP would score two more in the 6th inning and picked up the 11-5 win. Chase Werth gets the win for the Monarchs who improved to 6-7 on the season. Goodland will come to town for a doubleheader on Thursday.
To help support future K-12 teachers receive their professional license, the Department of Teacher Education teamed up with the Fort Hays State University Foundation to offer 190 student teachers a $60 stipend to help cover the cost of the Kansas Performance Teaching Portfolio.
The Foundation also established a teacher certification fund, which enables donors to specifically support soon-to-be teachers as they work toward professional certification. All full-time faculty on the Department of Teacher Education now participate in payroll deductions to support this fund.
Currently in the state of Kansas, teacher education majors spend close to $400 to take their required exams for program entry and teacher licensure.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A second defendant who took part in a fatal attack on a man whose body was found in a Wichita suburb has pleaded guilty to amended charges.
According to the Sedgwick County District Attorney’s Office, 30-year-old Jose Antonio Rojas will be sentenced June 15 for aggravated assault and aggravated battery. Court records show he pleaded guilty Monday before has was to be tried on more severe counts of first-degree premeditated murder and aggravated kidnapping.
The Wichita Eagle reports Rojas is one of five people arrested in connection with the December, 24, 2015 death of 42-year-old Moises Arias-Aranda. Authorities have said Arias-Aranda was lured to a residence in Wichita because a friend claimed he had raped someone. He was beaten, strangled and stabbed nearly 40 times.
Arias-Aranda was discovered dead in an SUV in Park City with electrical cords wrapped around his feet and hands.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas lawmakers who oppose concealed guns at state hospitals have yet to settle on a path forward, though they’ve likely ruled out spending $24 million to secure the facilities.
Spending committees in the House and Senate have decided they won’t fund GOP Gov. Sam Brownback’s proposal that the state pay for metal detectors and armed guards at state-run hospitals for the mentally ill and developmentally disabled. Under a 2013 law Brownback signed, the hospitals will have to allow guns starting July 1 unless they provide security measures.
Opponents of concealed carry say they want at least a partial rollback of the policy that requires public hospitals, nursing homes and universities to allow concealed guns or provide security. But they have not settled on a strategy to change the law.
Just after 11:30 a.m. Sunday, police officer Aaron Bulmer was on patrol near 16th and Clay in Topeka looking for subjects involved in a reported altercation, according to a media release.
Officer Balmer
He happened to notice a 4-year-old child walking toward a pond located in the Central Park Community Center. Officer Bulmer exited his vehicle to speak to the child when the youngster fell in.
The video shows Bulmer immediately jump into the pond to rescue the child. Emergency medical staff responded to the scene and transported to the child to a local hospital for evaluation.
A parent out looking for the child was reunited with him. The child was later identified as having a diagnosis of Autism. Some of these children are attracted to water. Officer Bulmer was in the right place at the right time.
SALINA, Kan. (AP) — A Salina woman was sentenced to nearly 31 years in prison for her role in the death of a Nebraska man.
Twenty-five-year-old Amber Craig was sentenced Tuesday in the death of 32-year-old Adonis Loudermilk, of Lincoln, Nebraska. He was killed in April 2016 in the parking lot of a Starlite Motel in Salina.
Craig pleaded no contest in February to second-degree murder, aggravated robbery and conspiracy to commit aggravated robbery. She settled a separate case by pleading no contest to trafficking methamphetamine in jail May 6.
Co-defendant DiAntre Lemmie, who shot Loudermilk, will be sentenced June 19 for first-degree murder and five other charges.
Prosecutors say Loudermilk was shot during a botched robbery committed by Lemmie and Craig.
