LEAVENWORTH COUNTY ‑The Kansas City Chiefs won’t play the Steelers until Sunday but the Pittsburg quarterback has new fans in Kansas.
The Ben Roethlisberger Foundation this week selected the Bonner Springs Police Department’s K-9 program for a grant.
On social media they shared “Officer Bargerstock, and K-9 Scout would like to thank the Ben Roethlisberger Foundation for choosing our department to receive a grant for our K-9 program. We are grateful for the grant opportunity the foundation provides to Police Departments and their K-9’s across the nation, and that we could be a part of it.”
Roethlisberger is scheduled to face the Chiefs at 3:25 p.m. Sunday at Arrowhead Stadium.
The Fort Hays Singers, Concert Choir, and Wind Ensemble at Fort Hays State University will present their Fall Concert “In Our Time” on Saturday, Oct. 21, at 7:30 p.m. on the campus of FHSU. The Beach/Schmidt Performing Arts Center is in Sheridan Hall.
The choirs are conducted by Dr. Terry Crull, while the Wind Ensemble is conducted by Dr. Jeff Jordan.
The Concert Choir will begin the concert, followed by the Fort Hays Singers, performing sacred and secular selections by famous composers such as Alfven, Bartok, Beethoven, Brahms, Dello Joio, Lotti, Mark Hayes, Orazio Vecchi and others.
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The choirs will be followed by the FHSU Wind Ensemble, playing a wide variety of literature composed for the wind band. The concert will close with a world premiere of a new work by Jeff Jordan entitled “In Our Time,” that combines the Choirs with the Wind Ensemble, and the composer conducting.
The concert will last approximately 90 minutes. Area HS students and their directors, FHSU students, and younger students all are admitted free; there is a small admission fee of $6 for adults, and $4 for senior citizens.
Theresa Hill, Community Assistance Center co-director
By BECKY KISER Hays Post
The shelves are no longer bare at the Community Assistance Center (CAC) in Hays.
“We’re still trying to find room for it all,” CAC Co-Director Theresa Hill said Wednesday. “It’s full.”
Tuesday night’s annual “Trick Or Treat So Others Can Eat” canned food drive, spearheaded by the Hays High School DECA Club, brought in much needed non-perishable commodities donated by Hays residents.
“Summer cleans us out with kids out of school,” Hill explained, “and we’re getting more people, too.”
CAC also recently increased the number of times food may be picked up, from four to six boxes in a 12-month period.
“We’ve got a lot of people we feed. We also help the elderly and DSNWK clients. We’ve got 5,500 people coming in each year.”
Hays High senior Madison Key (right) confers with HHS DECA sponsor Shaina Prough as Boy Scout Troop 101 begins to bring in their collected food donations.
The DECA students have been involved in the project since 1985, according to teacher Shaina Prough.
This was the second year for volunteer Madison Key, a Hays High senior. She was a DECA member last year but “this year I didn’t really have room in my class schedule to be in DECA but I still like to help.”
Key was keeping track of which volunteer groups were coming through the door with their food donations.
Some volunteers walked in with the food still in plastic grocery bags which they had plucked from the porches of residential donors. Cardboard boxes were also lugged in, filled to the top with heavy canned food. Male members of DECA helped unload vehicles and move the donations inside the CAC with a grocery cart and a flatbed truck. The Girl Scouts, with the troops working together, wheeled their collection inside using wagons.
Girl Scouts pull in wagons filled with food.Emma Brungardt, HHS DECA Jr., and Analyse Claude, HHS DECA Sr. , help with Trick Or Treat So Others Can Eat at the Community Assistance Center Tuesday night.
In addition to 34 Hays High students signed up to work, other volunteers came from church groups, civic groups, Fort Hays State University students and the Boy Scouts.
It’s all appreciated although “the best things are something you can use to make a lot of it,” Hill suggested.
Karyl Ferguson shelves a flat of green beans handed to her by Kay Davis in the CAC pantry.
One item the CAC doesn’t get a lot of is canned salmon.
There was an ongoing debate Tuesday night as volunteers helped restock the pantry shelves whether salmon is “too expensive” or “just doesn’t taste good.”
RILEY COUNTY — Law enforcement authorities are investigating after encouraged motorists keep an eye on their bank account if you use cards to pay for fuel.
Police found two skimming devices on a gas pump in Riley County Wednesday. While it’s good that these two were found, there is a chance there may be others that haven’t been located, according to a social media report.
In March police in Manhattan responded to separate calls from local gas stations reporting they had found “skimmers” or devices that can be used to obtain credit or debit card information from customers paying at the pump.
In July police reported skimmers on Bank ATMs in Garden City and Salina.
Police reminded there are different types of skimmers. Some are external on gas pumps or ATMs, but can blend in and other are internal and steal your information electronically.
They encouraged motorist be aware when you fill up, and notice if something is different at the pump
Look to make sure security seals are not broken, watch your bank statements regularly and Report criminal activity when it happens
TOPEKA, Kan. – The Kansas Volleyball Association is out with their week six volleyball rankings and no change for the area teams that are ranked. Hays High remains No. 7 in 4A Division I and TMP-Marian No. 3 in 3A. Plainville is still No. 4 in 2A while Wheatland-Grinnell continues to hold down the top spot in 1A Division I with Otis-Bison ranked third.
Records listed reflect information that was submitted by Monday, October 9.
Class 6A
1. Olathe Northwest 25-3 (1)
2. Olathe North 22-4 (2)
3. Blue Valley West 29-4 (4)
4. Blue Valley North 20-6 (3)
5. Washburn Rural 25-4 (6)
6. Manhattan 24-9 (5)
7. Lawrence 18-7 (7)
8. Lawrence-Free State 22-8 (8)
9. Shawnee Mission Northwest 25-10 (9)
10. Gardner-Edgerton 22-12 (NR)
Class 5A
1. St. James Academy 25-4 (1)
2. De Soto 28-3 (4)
3. Maize 25-6 (5)
4. Newton 30-6 (3)
5. Lansing 28-5 (2)
6. St. Thomas Aquinas 17-10 (7)
7. Andover 22-7 (8)
8. Goddard 26-4 (6)
9. Bishop Carroll 16-8 (NR)
10. Pittsburg 26-6 (10)
Today Sunny, with a high near 82. South wind 11 to 15 mph.
Tonight Mostly clear, with a low around 54. South southeast wind 9 to 11 mph.
Friday Mostly sunny, with a high near 67. North wind 8 to 13 mph.
Friday NightA slight chance of showers, then a chance of showers and thunderstorms after 1am. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 52. North northeast wind 6 to 8 mph. Chance of precipitation is 30%.
SaturdayA chance of showers and thunderstorms. Partly sunny, with a high near 73. East northeast wind 5 to 10 mph becoming west southwest in the afternoon. Chance of precipitation is 50%.
Saturday NightA 40 percent chance of showers, mainly before 1am. Partly cloudy, with a low around 44. Windy.
KANSAS CITY —The FBI is seeking the public’s assistance across the nation with obtaining identifying information regarding an unknown female who may have critical information pertaining to the identity of a child victim in an ongoing sexual exploitation investigation, according to a media release.
The unidentified woman being sought—known only as Jane Doe 39—can be seen in a video with a child who is being sexually exploited.
The video was obtained during an FBI investigation and forwarded to the National Center for Missing & Exploited Children (NCMEC), an organization that works closely with the Bureau to stop child predators. Further investigation revealed that the images have surfaced elsewhere online, said Special Agent Susan Romash, who investigates child exploitation cases as part of the FBI’s Violent Crimes Against Children program. “We know the video has been traded on the Internet,” Romash said, “and we know this child is a victim who needs our help.”
In the video, an adult woman is heard speaking Vietnamese, and at one point her face is shown. “Our hope,” Romash said, “is that someone will recognize this individual’s face—or her voice—and come forward with information.”
The publicity efforts to identify and apprehend Jane Doe 39 are part of the FBI’s Operation Rescue Me and Endangered Child Alert Program (ECAP) initiatives.
Operation Rescue Me identifies child victims of sexual exploitation by using sophisticated image analysis to obtain evidence. ECAP seeks public and media assistance to help identify the John and Jane Does who display their faces—and other distinguishing characteristics such as tattoos—in pornographic images and videos of children.
The FBI has a longstanding partnership with NCMEC, which maintains a database of pornographic images traded online to help law enforcement coordinate and solve investigations. Working closely with NCMEC, FBI investigators look for metadata embedded within images that might contain GPS or other details that can reveal critical information.
“We also search for clues within the images,” Romash said. “Those clues often help us determine where the image was produced or who created it. If those approaches don’t work,” she explained, “but there is an adult in the image whose face is shown, we publicize it through ECAP and ask for the public’s help.”
“We know the video has been traded on the Internet, and we know this child is a victim who needs our help.” said Susan Romash, special agent, FBI Headquarters
The video depicting Jane Doe 39 and a child victim was first noted by NCMEC in April 2016. The woman is described as an Asian female, likely between the ages of 25 and 35, with long black hair. She is wearing a white, yellow, blue, and red floral dress. In addition, she could be heard speaking Vietnamese.
Anyone with information can submit a tip online or call the FBI’s toll-free tip line at 1-800-CALL-FBI (1-800-225-5324).
Since its inception in 2004, ECAP has resulted in the identification of 26 of the 39 John/Jane Does, and in the recovery of more than 40 child victims. Operation Rescue Me, established in 2008, has resulted in the recovery of more than 200 child victims. “These programs work,” Romash said, “and we are again asking for the public’s help to save an innocent child from being victimized.”
WICHITA – Roberto Garcia-Zaragosa, 58, a citizen of Mexico, was charged Wednesday with unlawfully re-entering the United States after being convicted of an aggravated felony and deported.
He was found Sept. 20, 2017, in Seward County, Kan, according to a news release from U.S. Attorney Tom Beall in the District of Kansas.
If convicted, he faces up to 20 years in federal prison and a fine up to $250,000. Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s Enforcement Removal Operations investigated. Assistant U.S. Attorney Brent Anderson is prosecuting.
In all cases, defendants are presumed innocent until and unless proven guilty. The indictments merely contain allegations of criminal conduct.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas inmate accused of stabbing and injuring a corrections officer has been charged in the case.
Allen Thomas Schroeder Jr., 27, was bound over to for trial after a preliminary hearing Tuesday. He’ll be arraigned Thursday.
Shawnee County corrections officer Lacy Noll alleges Schroeder became angry after she threatened to write him up for screaming and inciting a riot in April.
She says Schroeder was initially upset because all the inmates in the module he was in were on lockdown at the same time.
Witnesses testify that Schroeder sharpened a broken drawer handle to stab Noll. She says she was struck on her face, back and shoulder.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A third teenager has been charged with first-degree murder in connection to a fatal shooting outside at a fast-food restaurant in Kansas.
The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that 19-year-old Ernest Williams IV has been charged in the death of 18-year-old Justice Mitchell.
Topeka police say Williams was in the passenger seat of a car driven by Mitchell on June 26, when another suspect, 17-year-old Lamero Dunstan, was trying to buy marijuana from Mitchell.
Authorities say Dustan told investigators he heard a click of a gun held by Williams that failed to fire. Authorities say Dunstan then fired two shots at Mitchell because he assumed Mitchell had a gun.
Williams is jailed on a $1 million bond. A court date hasn’t been scheduled.
Dunstan and another 17-year-old are also charged in the case.
HARPER COUNTY — A third earthquake this week shook portions of Kansas Wednesday. The quake at 6:29p.m. measured a magnitude 3.1 and was centered approximately ten miles northwest of Harper, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
On Tuesday a magnitude 2.5 quake was centered approximately 19 miles southeast of Salina, according to the USGS. On Sunday a 2.6 magnitude quake was centered four miles east of Harper.
There are no reports of damage or injury from Wednesday’s quake.
SALINE COUNTY — Law enforcement authorities are investigating a scam that cost a woman hundreds of dollars.
According to Salina Police Sgt. James Feldman, a 67-year-old Salina woman had been allowing the suspect who claimed to work with a company called Front Ridge allegedly from California to access to her computer for an unknown amount of time as they optimized it and removed viruses.
The woman received a call Tuesday saying that they were going to send her a refund check but accidentally deposited an extra $5,000 into her bank account.
Sgt. Feldman said that it was later determined that the money came from a different bank account that also belonged to the victim, but when she called the bank it looked like there was an extra $5,000 in her account.
She was informed that they needed the money back and they requested a wire transfer. Sgt. Feldman said that the woman told them that she didn’t want to do a wire transfer. Then the computer firm informed her that they would also take Walmart gift cards.
The victim gave the suspect the card numbers and personal identification numbers to $4,500 worth of gift cards. She became suspicious and called authorities after they requested another $6,000.
Sgt. Feldman said that the victim is out $4,500 because once a suspect has the card information for gift cards, they can transfer the money and it is untraceable. He added that a legitimate business will never ask for gift cards.
