KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A father and daughter have been charged with attacking the girl’s ex-boyfriend inside a Kansas City high school, leaving the 18-year-old in critical condition.
Thirty-eight-year-old Josiah Wright, of Kansas City, is charged with first-degree assault and his 17-year-old daughter, Jonay Wright, with domestic assault in the Tuesday attack in Ruskin High School in the Hickman Mills School District. The prosecutor’s office didn’t immediately respond to a phone message asking whether they had attorneys.
District spokeswoman Ruth Terrell-Lee says the parent got a visitor badge before going with his daughter to the counselor’s office, where the fight erupted. Court records say the girl and her father kicked the victim and hit him in the head. The records say the father held people back so his daughter could continue hitting her ex-boyfriend.
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KANSAS CITY (AP) — Kansas City school officials say a student was critically injured when a parent and her child came into a school and began beating the student.
The fight happened Tuesday inside Ruskin High School.
Police said the parent assaulted the other student during the fight. No weapons were involved.
Off-duty officers and school security were able to break up that fight.
Ruskin High School is in the Hickman Mills C-1 School District.
Sept. 18
Out of County Criminal Transport, Wakeeney, 7:21 a.m.
Out of County Criminal Transport, Wakeeney, 10:38 a.m.
Criminal Transport, Rural Ellis County, 2:42 p.m.
Out of County Criminal Transport, Wakeeney, 4:23 p.m
Drug Offenses, Rural Ellis County, 8:31 p.m.
Juvenile Complaint, 400 block Linda Lane, Ellis County, 9:45 p.m.
Suicidal Subject, 700 block Feedlot Road, Ellis, 10:54 p.m.
Drug Offenses, Hays, 11:07 p.m.
Sept. 19
Motor Vehicle Accident, 800 block Commerce Parkway, Hays, 9:52 a.m.
Motor Vehicle Accident, 800 block Commerce Parkway, Ellis County, 9:55 a.m.
Civil Transport, 4300 block Vine Street, Hays, 7:35 p.m.
Motor Vehicle Accident with a deer, 2400 block Highway 40, Ellis County, 8:21 p.m.
Motor Vehicle Accident Personal Injury, 1300 block Highway 40, Ellis County, 10:22 p.m.
Leland T. Opliger, age 78, passed away Monday, September 18, 2017 at his home in Fairview, KS.
He was born June 12, 1939 in Glade, KS the son of Harry S. & Della (Stevens) Opliger.
Survivors include his daughters, Kathy Bush (Rhonda Gillette) of Pleasant Hill, Iowa and Kay Lyn (Carl) Carlson of Glen Allen, Virginia; seven grandchildren; five great-grandchildren; and two sisters, Pauline Opliger of Adrian, Michigan and Lila Bailey of Belleville, KS.
Funeral services will be held Saturday, Sept. 23 at 11:00 a.m. in the Olliff-Boeve Memorial Chapel, Phillipsburg, with Pastor Mark McGregor officiating. Burial will follow in the Fairview Cemetery, Phillipsburg.
Mr. Opliger will lie in-state on Thursday, Sept. 21, from noon – 9 p.m. and again Friday from 9 a.m. – 9 p.m. at the funeral home, with family visitation on Saturday prior to the service from 9:30 a.m. until service time.
Memorial contributions may be made to: Saving Death Row Dogs of Topeka, KS. Olliff-Boeve Memorial Chapel, P. O. Box 563, Phillipsburg, KS 67661. Online condolences: www.olliffboeve.com.
Fort Hays State University will kick off its 2017-2018 International Piano Series with guest pianist Choong-ha Nam – an active performer and pianist – at 7:30 p.m., Friday, Sept. 22, in the Beach/Schmidt Performing Arts Center in Sheridan Hall on FHSU’s campus. A student honors recital will precede Nam at 6:45 p.m. in Beach/Schmidt.
Choong-ha Nam has been featured in several concerts across North America and is an associate professor of piano at West Texas A&M University. Her performances have been featured on Houston’s public radio and in many academic institutions. Nam’s research presentations on Fanny Hensel and Felix Mendelssohn, piano technique and pedagogy have appeared nationally and internationally at the meetings of the Texas Music Teachers Association, National Music Teachers Association, Athena Festival and Conference and the Suzuki Association of the Americas. Nam’s full biography can be found at www.wtamu.edu/academics/choong-ha-nam-bio.aspx.
Nam will perform:
• Andante from “Six Morceaux” by Sergei Prokofiev
• “Song for the Piano” from “Four Songs for the Piano” by Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel
• “Polonaise-Fantaisie” by Frederic Chopin
• “Sonata in C Minor” by Franz Schubert
Dr. Irena Ravitskaya
“The International Piano Series, a year-round program with a pure focus on piano, plays a distinctive role in the lives of students and the community by implementing excellence in the arts, education and cultivating piano music appreciation,” said Dr. Irena Ravitskaya, associate professor of music and theatre.
Each year, the FHSU International Piano Series stages concerts for pianists from the United States and around the world. The performers range from young professionals emerging onto the world stage to seasoned performers with long-established careers.
“They all bring their unique approach to their instrument and contributions to the field,” said Ravitskaya. “They are role models to our students and a source of sophisticated entertainment for our community.”
While on campus, the guest artists offer masterclasses where students perform and receive critiques. The masterclasses and student honor recitals are free and open to the public.
“Donations are accepted and ensure the longevity of the program and support educational opportunities for music students,” said Ravitskaya.
Three guest artists will be preceded by student honor recitals, listed in the schedule:
Data from transactions show 11 percent drop from 2015 values
MANHATTAN, Kan. – Kansas farmland values have dropped an average of 11 percent over the past two years, pulled down by lower grain and livestock prices and a dramatic drop in farm and ranch income. The downward trend is likely to continue through 2017, and the news likely won’t be much better next year, according to a Kansas State University agricultural economist.
“We’ve seen incredible volatility in land values in the last six years,” said Mykel Taylor, associate professor and farm management specialist with K-State Research and Extension. During that time, historic high prices were recorded in 2014-2015 followed by sliding values in 2016 and so far this year.
Values for non-irrigated or dryland cropland in Kansas have fallen the most – 17 percent since 2015 – said Taylor, who gave a presentation on the topic at the recent K-State Risk and Profit Conference in Manhattan. Prices for irrigated cropland dropped 9 percent, and pasture land values fell 5 percent in that period.
Farmland values and rental rates are two of Taylor’s primary areas of research. She uses data from farmer surveys conducted by the Kansas Agricultural Statistics Service and transaction data recorded in the Kansas Department of Revenue Property Valuation Division to study trends.
The farmer surveys provide a ballpark estimate of what land is selling for, but it’s based on farmers’ opinions, she said, adding that the farmer response rate to such surveys in Kansas is relatively low. For that reason, using market-based data from actual transactions recorded at the PVD gives a clearer picture.
Long-run trends indicate farmland values will continue to move lower through the rest of the year and potentially beyond and may fall by as much as 50 percent from the highs of 2014 and 2015, Taylor said, noting that though land values typically follow agricultural profitability, they do not adjust as quickly as changes to grain and livestock prices do.
“The way net farm income is related to land values, we project out a possible 30 to 50 percent drop from the 2014-2015 highs,” she said, noting that prices vary across the state.
“Farmers are still our biggest buyers of (Kansas) farmland,” Taylor said when asked about multi-national corporations buying farmland in Kansas. “Kansas is not as attractive to investors as states in the Corn Belt because of the volatility in our yields.”
Some appraisers have reported that the overall number of bidders at farmland auctions has dipped, she added.
Information on farmland values, rental rates and other information can be found on the K-State extension agricultural economics website www.agmanager.info.
Lincoln fifth-grade teacher Monica Dreiling was recently awarded a $3,000 Westar Energy Grant.
Dreiling submitted a grant titled “STEM Pals: An Intergenerational Learning Partnership.”
Dreiling will present her grant and program and receive her award at the Kansas Association of School Board’s Conference in Wichita on Dec. 2.
Money from the grant will be used to purchase materials for engineering challenges, global challenges, and kits to teach electrical engineering and sustainable energy concepts.
Fifth-grade students will work with intergenerational pals within the community on these projects.
FAIRVIEW, Okla. (AP) — Federal marshals say the last of two inmates who overpowered guards, stole a prison transport van and escaped from northwest Oklahoma last month has been apprehended in Missouri.
The U.S. Marshals Service says authorities apprehended 37-year-old Darren Walp Wednesday at a truck stop in Norwood, Missouri, after a standoff that lasted several hours.
The second inmate, 32-year-old Andrew Foy, was apprehended on Friday at a hotel in Fairless Hills, Pennsylvania.
The inmates escaped near Fairview, Oklahoma, on Aug. 22 during a multi-state inmate transfer by a private transportation company. The van was later found abandoned and the men were last seen on Aug. 24 driving a stolen tractor-trailer rig in northeastern Oklahoma.
Authorities said they were taking Walp to Kansas to face charges for nonviolent offenses.
TOPEKA, Kan. – The Kansas Volleyball Association has released their week three rankings and there’s not much change for all of the area schools that have been ranked. Hays High moves up two to No, 8 in 4A Division I. The TMP-Marian Monarchs remain fourth in 3A. Plainville holds at No. 3 and Smith Center No. 8 in 2A.
Wheatland-Grinnell continues to hold down the top spot in 1A Division II with Otis-Bison third.
Class 6A
1. Blue Valley North 10-1 (1)
2. Olathe Northwest 10-2 (2)
3. Blue Valley West 10-2 (3)
4. Olathe North 11-2 (NR)
5. Lawrence-Free State 11-5 (NR)
6. Blue Valley 7-4 (4)
7. Manhattan 8-6 (6)
8. Washburn Rural 8-2 (7)
9. Gardner-Edgerton 7-4 (8)
10. Lawrence 9-4 (5)
Class 5A
1. St. James Academy 14-3 (1)
2. Lansing 11-1 (2)
3. Goddard 15-1 (5)
4. De Soto 14-2 (3)
5. Maize 16-4 (6)
6. St. Thomas Aquinas 10-5 (4)
7. Newton 14-4 (10)
8. Andover 12-3 (7)
9. Pittsburg 15-1 (8)
10. Shawnee Heights 11-7 (NR)
Class 4A – Division 1
1. Rose Hill 16-0 (1)
2. Basehor-Linwood 14-5 (3)
3. Louisburg 15-5 (2)
4. Bishop Miege 1-7 (4)
5. McPherson 10-2 (5)
6. Abilene 12-4 (7)
7. Maize South 13-7 (8)
8. Hays 7-2 (10)
9. Andover Central 9-7 (9)
10. Independence 13-1 (NR)
Class 3A
1. Kingman 22-0 (1)
2. Silver Lake 14-2 (2)
3. Hesston 13-1 (3)
4. Thomas More Prep-Marian 14-1 (4)
5. Nemaha Central 15-1 (6)
6. Douglass 7-1 (7)
7. Garden Plain 8-4 (NR)
8. Cheney 8-4 (5)
9. Royal Valley 10-4 (10)
10. Beloit 14-2 (NR)
Class 2A
1. Heritage Christian 13-1 (1)
2. St. Mary’s-Colgan 14-2 (2)
3. Plainville 15-0 (3)
4. Kiowa County 15-2 (5)
5. Inman 15-1 (6)
6. Udall 13-0 (NR)
7. Valley Falls 12-4 (9)
8. Smith Center 10-4 (8)
9. Jefferson County North 11-5 (10)
10. Valley Heights 9-6 (NR)
Ellis High School will have its fifth-annual Community Service Day on Monday, Oct. 2.
Students and staff will do general cleaning and maintenance projects around the community. The school is doing this in conjunction with the Ellis City Wide Clean-Up scheduled for Oct. 4.
The school would like to help the elderly of the community and those who are unable to perform general cleaning and maintenance activities. The school would also be willing to help nonprofit organizations with the same services.
There will be no charge for the services. All grades at the high school will participate.
If you would like the students to help you, call EHS Principal Corey Burton at the high school at 785-726-3151 or Leonard Schoenberger at 785-726-1278. Please call by at least Friday, Sept. 29 so the school can organize its resources.
“We want to give back to the community,” Burton said. “We are always asking the community to support this or that. This is a way we can give back to the community.”
Jerry Monroe Van Osdol, 64, died at Hutchinson Regional Medical Center on Wednesday, Sept. 13, 2017. He was born on Dec. 6, 1952, in Hays, Kansas, to Perry H. and Hazel I. (North) Van Osdol.
Jerry graduated from Buhler High School in 1971, and was the senior class president. He was one of those rare people who stayed in touch with his school friends. After high school, Jerry attended Hutchinson Community College before relocating to Vail, Colorado, where his love of skiing eventually translated into a long, rewarding career in the ski industry. His career choice never lost its appeal and allowed him to travel across the United States. Jerry also had a lifelong interest in anything with wheels. His happiest times were on the road or skiing.
All the men in the Van Osdol family pursued the rank of Eagle Scout through the Boy Scouts of America. Jerry not only achieved this goal, but was awarded his Eagle badge by Bob Dole, retired United States Senator from the State of Kansas. In 1969, Jerry and several of his scouting friends attended the Boy Scout National Jamboree in Idaho.
Jerry was preceded in death by his parents, Perry and Hazel Van Osdol, and by his sister, Mary E. (Van Osdol) Rich. He is survived by two sons; Jebadiah M. Van Osdol of Hutchinson, Kansas, and Clay L. Van Osdol of Sacramento, California; granddaughter Kenzy Van Osdol of Hutchinson, Kansas; siblings Perry Van Osdol of Overland Park, Kansas, and Sherry (Van Osdol) Eales of Edmond, Oklahoma. There are also first cousins and numerous nieces and nephews that mourn his passing as he was known as “Funcle” Jerry. Jerry is also survived by his beloved Pomeranian, Oscar, who traveled thousands of miles with his owner. The two were not often separated.
As per his wishes, Jerry will be cremated, and a Celebration of Life will be scheduled at a later date. This is a fitting remembrance of a man who ended every conversation with “Life is Good.” Memorials may be designated to Buhler High School or the ASPCA, through Elliott Mortuary, 1219 N. Main, Hutchinson, KS 67501.
Due to recent communications equipment upgrades in the emergency dispatch center emergency officials have scheduled a test of the City of Hays and Fort Hays State University emergency sirens for Wednesday at 12 p.m.
This test is in addition to the normal weekly test on Mondays at 12:00 pm.
Police on the scene of Wednesday domestic violence attack and stolen vehicle- photo courtesy WIBW TV
SHAWNEE COUNTY — Law enforcement authorities are investigating a report of domestic violence and a stolen vehicle.
Just before 5 a.m. Wednesday, police were flagged down in the 1300 Block SW 37th Street in Topeka by a victim who reported being battered by her husband who then left the area, according to a media release.
The victim went by private vehicle to a local hospital where she was treated and released for minor injuries.
A report of a stolen vehicle, a silver Ford, was reported at the same time from the same apartment complex area. The victim of the stolen vehicle advised the alleged person was the same as the man reportedly involved in the report of domestic violence.
At 5:15 a.m., a vehicle fitting the description initiated a vehicle pursuit with Capital Area Police in the 1200 Bock SW Boswell but the vehicle was lost soon after.
Just before 6 a.m., the police were notified of an injury accident in the 2800 Block South Kansas Avenue in Topeka involving two vehicles, one rolled over into a ditch.
The rolled over vehicle was identified as being the stolen silver Ford. The Topeka Fire Department arrived and extricated the driver of the Ford who was then transported to a local hospital in stable condition.
It was unusually warm yesterday in Hays. The official high for Tuesday, Sept. 19, was 100 degrees, according to statistics from the K-State Agricultural Research Center south of town.
That reading ties the record. The temperature hit the century mark 100 degrees back on Sept. 19, 1935.
It was also windy in Hays with wind gusts up to 39 mph out of the south as recorded at the Hays Regional Airport. Tuesday’s overnight low dipped to 53 degrees.
Wednesday’s weather forecast calls for a much cooler day, then warming back up again Thursday.
