HAYS, Kan. – Tatyana Legette and Whitney Randall both had double-doubles to lead the fourth-ranked Fort Hays State women to a hard fought 73-59 win over Lincoln in front of 3,187 Saturday afternoon at Gross Coliseum. The Tigers (23-1, 14-1 MIAA) have won eight straight and maintain their two-game lead over Washburn atop the MIAA.
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Game Highlights
After a slow start, the Tigers used runs of 8-2 and 9-2 to build a nine-point lead after the first quarter. They pushed that to 15 late in the second quarter and were up as many as 17 midway through the third.
Lincoln (10-14, 2-13 MIAA) went on a 14-6 run to pull within eight with a little over three minutes to play in the fourth but the Tigers scored the final six points to put the game away.
Legette scored 15 had 11 rebounds and six assists while Randall scored 10 and pulled down 10 boards for her first career double-double. Belle Barbiere added 15 points and Lanie Page 10. Page hit two of FHSU’s five threes as they finish 5-for-24 from beyond the arc.
Zhanesha Dickerson led the Blue Tigers with 15 points and 13 rebounds.
MITCHELL COUNTY — Law enforcement authorities are investigating a report of theft and asking the public to help identify a suspect.
Security camera images courtesy Beloit Police
On Friday, a man wearing a Hollister hoodie and a gas monkey hat used several generated cards to extract money from ATM’s in Beloit, according to a social media report from Beloit Police.
The suspect is thought to be driving a White in color Chrysler minivan with 60 day plates.
The Beloit Police Department is offering a $500 dollar reward for the arrest or conviction of this individual and you will remain anonymous.
If you see him or the possible vehicle notify Law Enforcement immediately and do not approach him or the vehicle.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A new $4.4 million facility is being built at the Robert J. Dole VA Medical Center in Wichita to treat veterans’ addictions.
Image courtesy Robert J. Dole VA Medical Center
Medical center director Rick Ament said at a groundbreaking Friday that the inpatient center is “a badly needed service for veterans between Kansas City and Oklahoma City.”
The hospital sends between 15 and 20 veterans every month to Leavenworth or Kansas City for residential treatment for substance abuse.
VA spokesman Akeam Ashford says the new facility will have 12 beds to treat veterans in Wichita. There are currently 183 veterans enrolled in the outpatient substance abuse program in Wichita.
Construction is expected to be completed in October, with patient treatments starting in January.
SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) — Lawmakers say a federal budget compromise approved by Congress and signed by President Donald Trump provides $50 million of additional federal funding to maintain Amtrak rail passenger service through New Mexico, Colorado and Kansas.
New Mexico Sens. Tom Udall and Martin Heinrich and Rep. Ben Ray Lujan said Friday the funding for the Southwest Chief route will enable Amtrak to pay matching funding for a grant to pay for maintenance and safety improvements to the Southwest Chief route.
Amtrak officials previously proposed replacing train service with bus service between Dodge City, Kansas, and Albuquerque, New Mexico — about a quarter of the 2,265-mile (3,645-kilometer) route providing daily train service between Los Angeles and Chicago.
The New Mexico lawmakers said the funding was also pushed by senators from Colorado and Kansas.
The Hays High School chess team won its first tournament in Concordia on Saturday, Feb. 9. Due to the team’s number of participants, they were able to take two teams to the competition.
The second team won third place overall in the tournament. All of the chess team members from HHS placed individually. The chess club is sponsored by Erin Holder.
Amelia Kathryn “Emma” Kaiser, 90, of Grainfield, Kansas, passed away on February 13th, 2019.
Emma was born Amelia Kathryn Hartman in Grainfield, Kansas on April 20th,1928 to Adam and Kathryn (Zimmerman) Hartman. She graduated from Grainfield High School in 1946.
Emma was married to George Kaiser on August 28th, 1950 at the Sacred Heart Church in Park Kansas. They were married for 56 years before his death in 2007.
Following her marriage to George they settled in Park, Kansas where Emma worked for Tony Wildeman at the Park grocery store for several years. The couple then moved to Barstow, California where Emma worked as an office clerk at the Army base. In 1955 the Marine base where George was employed closed down so they made the decision to move back to Kansas so that George could farm. Shortly after returning to Kansas they purchased the family farm 2 miles west of Gove.
Emma worked for the US Postal Service in Gove, Kansas beginning as a clerk on Saturday mornings and ultimately became the Postmaster where she worked until 1992 when she retired after 23 years. In August of 2000, Emma and George moved from the family farm to Grainfield Kansas.
After beating breast cancer, Emma became a volunteer with “Reach for Recovery”, where she counseled women who suffered from the disease in the Gove County area. During her own recovery she began quilting and crocheting as a form of therapy and this quickly turned into a hobby. During her time at the post office, Emma began collecting stamps and also occasionally spoke to local children about the history of stamps. She also was an avid collector of salt and pepper shakers, building a very impressive collection. In her later years Emma enjoyed watching the Royals baseball and college basketball.
Emma was a very devout Catholic and a lifelong member of the St. Agnes Catholic Ladies of Grainfield, Kansas. Countless numbers of rosaries were said daily for family and friends. Also, mountains of blessed candles were burned for traveling family members often hearing those infamous words “I’ll light a candle for you”.
Emma is survived by her four children: David (Louella) of Wakeeney, KS, Norma Weber (Tom) of Grainfield, KS, Alan (Phyllis) of Grainfield, KS, and Duane (Karen) of Littleton, Co. She is also survived by eight grandchildren: Lee, Adam, Eric, Ryan, Janneke, Ty, Alexandra and Dylan; and five great-grandchildren.
Emma is preceded in death by husband George, grandson Paul, brothers George, Frank and Joe Hartman; Sisters Helen Robben, Mary Struble, Anna Karlin and Judy Albers.
Mass of Christian Burial will be 11:00 a.m., Monday, February 18, 2019 at Sacred Heart Catholic Church, Park. Burial will be in the church cemetery.
Visitation will be Sunday, from 5 to 7 p.m. at the funeral home in Quinter.
IN LIEU OF FLOWERS, memorial contributions are suggested to Hospice Services, Inc. Donations made to the organization may be sent to Schmitt Funeral Home, 901 South Main, Quinter, KS 67752.
SALINA, Kan. – Today, the Vatican announced that former Archbishop Theodore McCarrick has been dismissed from the clerical state. This type of dismissal is specifically known as laicization, a scenario in which a member of the clergy, through the use of the Church’s legal apparatus, is not permitted to act as a priest. He will no longer be permitted to celebrate the sacraments or exercise sacred ministry in the Church.
McCarrick
Last summer, Pope Francis asked that McCarrick live a life of prayer and penance until a thorough investigation of allegations against him took place. He took residence at St. Fidelis Friary in Victoria beginning on September 28, 2018. Mr. McCarrick will continue to reside at the St. Fidelis Friary in Victoria until a decision of permanent residence is finalized.
Bishop Gerald L. Vincke, Bishop of the Catholic Diocese of Salina, said he hopes that this decision may help bring healing to all affected by sexual abuse and those hurt by this scandal.
He also expresses his gratitude to the Capuchins at St. Fidelis Friary for their charity and compassion shown to all who seek refuge in the Church, as well as the remarkable people of Victoria for their mercy in this difficult situation.
CAMDENTON, Mo. (AP) — The parents of two suburban Kansas City victims of a Lake of the Ozarks boat crash have filed a lawsuit.
First responders working the fatal accident -photo courtesy Missouri State Highway Patrol
The suit was filed in Camden County, Missouri, Circuit Court on behalf of the families of 23-year-old Joseph LeMark, of Overland Park, Kansas, and 21-year-old Hailey Hochandel, of Olathe, Kansas.
They were killed in May along with 24-year-old Daniel Lewis, who was driving the boat when it slammed into a rock bluff in the dark. Two others were injured, including the boat’s owner, 22-year-old Hayden Frazier.
The suit alleges that Lewis was intoxicated and operated the craft in a negligent and careless manner. It says Frazier was negligent in allowing him to do so.
The suit seeks an unspecified amount in damages.
Ashley Lamb a 22-year-old senior at Kansas State University was also injured in the crash.
TOPEKA KAN. – The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Kansas collected $6.5 million in criminal and civil actions in FY 2018, U.S. Attorney Stephen McAllister said Friday. Of this amount, $3.9 million was collected in criminal actions and $2.6 million was collected in civil actions.
“Our attorneys and investigators are very successful in recovering money owed to victims and to the government,” McAllister said. “They are one of the reasons that crime really doesn’t pay.”
As a whole, the Justice Department collected nearly $15 billion in civil and criminal actions in the fiscal year ending Sept. 30, 2018. The $14,839,821,650 in collections in FY 2018 represents nearly seven times the appropriated $2.13 billion ($2,136,750,000) budget for the 94 U.S. Attorneys’ offices.
The U.S. Attorneys’ Offices, along with the department’s litigating divisions, are responsible for enforcing and collecting civil and criminal debts owed to the U.S. and criminal debts owed to federal crime victims. The law requires defendants to pay restitution to victims of certain federal crimes who have suffered a physical injury or financial loss. While restitution is paid to the victim, criminal fines and felony assessments are paid to the department’s Crime Victims Fund, which distributes the funds collected to federal and state victim compensation and victim assistance programs.
Recent examples in the District of Kansas include recovering more than $140,000 from a CPA who made false statements on tax returns, more than $77,000 from a former Kansas bank teller who embezzled the money, more than $185,000 from the owner of a diagnostic testing facility who was convicted of health care fraud and more than $200,000 from a man who was convicted of failing to report income from illegal bookmaking.
“The men and women of the U.S. Attorneys’ offices across the country work diligently, day in and day out, to see that the citizens of our nation receive justice. The money that we are able to recover for victims and this country as a whole is a direct result of their hard work,” Director James A. Crowell, IV, Executive Office for U.S. Attorneys.
The largest civil collections were from affirmative civil enforcement cases, in which the United States recovered government money lost to fraud or other misconduct or collected fines imposed on individuals and/or corporations for violations of federal health, safety, civil rights or environmental laws. In addition, civil debts were collected on behalf of several federal agencies, including the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Department of Health and Human Services, the Internal Revenue Service, the Small Business Administration and the Department of Education.
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis has defrocked former U.S. Cardinal Theodore McCarrick after Vatican officials found him guilty of soliciting for sex while hearing confession and sexual crimes against minors and adults, the Holy See said Saturday.
McCarrick
McCarrick, 88, is the highest-ranking churchman to be laicized, as the process is called. It means he can no longer celebrate Mass or other sacraments, wear clerical vestments or be addressed by any religious title.
The scandal swirling around him was particularly damning to the church’s reputation in the eyes of the faithful because it apparently was an open secret that he slept with adult seminarians. Francis removed McCarrick as a cardinal in July after a U.S. church investigation determined that an allegation he fondled a teenage altar boy in the 1970s was credible.
The punishment for the once-powerful prelate, who had served as the archbishop of Washington and had been an influential fundraiser for the church, was announced five days before Francis is set to lead an extraordinary gathering of bishops from around the world to help the church grapple with the crisis of sex abuse by clergy and systematic cover-ups by church hierarchy. The decades-long scandals have shaken the faith of many Catholics and threatened Francis’ papacy.
The Vatican’s press office said that on Jan. 11, the Holy See’s doctrinal watchdog office, the Congregation of the Doctrine of the Faith, had found McCarrick guilty of “solicitation in the sacrament of confession, and sins against the Sixth Commandment with minors and adults, with the aggravating factor of the abuse of power.” The commandment forbids adultery.
The officials “imposed on him the penalty of dismissal from the clerical state.”
McCarrick, when he was ordained a priest his native New York City in 1958, took a vow of celibacy, in accordance with church rules on priests.
The pope “has recognized the definitive nature of this decision made in accordance with (church) law, rendering it as ‘res iudicata,'” the Vatican said, using the Latin phrase for admitting no further recourse.
“Today I am happy that the pope believed me,” said one of McCarrick’s chief accusers, James Grein.
In a statement issued through his lawyer, Grein also expressed hope that McCarrick “will no longer be able to use the power of Jesus’ church to manipulate families and sexually abuse children.”
Grein had testified to church officials that, among other abuses, McCarrick had repeatedly groped him during confession.
Saying it’s “time for us to cleanse the church,” Grein said pressure needs to be put on state attorney generals and senators to change the statute of limitations. “Hundreds of priests, bishops and cardinals are hiding behind man-made law,” he said.
McCarrick moved from his Washington retirement home to a Kansas religious residence after Francis ordered him to live in penance and prayer while the investigation continued.
McCarrick’s civil lawyer, Barry Coburn, told The AP that for the time being his client had no comment. Coburn also declined to say if McCarrick was still residing at the friary in Victoria, Kansas.
McCarrick had appealed his penalty, but the doctrinal officials earlier this week rejected that, and he was notified of the decision on Friday, the Vatican announcement said.
The archdiocese of Washington, D.C., where McCarrick was posted at the pinnacle of his clerical career, from 2001-2006, said in a statement it hoped that the Vatican decision “serves to help the healing process for survivors of abuse, as well as those who have experienced disappointment or disillusionment because of what former Archbishop McCarrick has done.”
Complaints were also made about McCarrick’s conduct in the New Jersey dioceses of Newark and Metuchen, where he previously served.
It marks a remarkable downfall for the globe-trotting powerbroker and influential church fundraiser who mingled with presidents and popes but preferred to be called “Uncle Ted” by the young men he courted.
The Vatican summit, running Feb. 21-24, draws church leaders from around the world to talk about preventing abuse. It was called in part to respond to the McCarrick scandal as well as to the explosion of the abuse crisis in Chile and its escalation in the United States last year.
Despite the apparent common knowledge in church circles of his sexual behavior, McCarrick rose to the heights of church power. He even acted as the spokesman for U.S. bishops when they enacted a “zero tolerance” policy against sexually abusive priests in 2002.
That perceived hypocrisy, coupled with allegations in the Pennsylvania grand jury report detailing decades of abuse and cover-up in six dioceses, outraged many among the rank-and-file faithful who had trusted church leaders to reform how they handled sex abuse after 2002.
The allegation regarding the altar boy was the first known to involve a minor — a far more serious offense than sleeping with adult seminarians.
Francis himself became implicated in the decade-long McCarrick cover-up after a former Vatican ambassador to the U.S. accused the pope of rehabilitating the cardinal from sanctions imposed by Pope Benedict XVI despite being told of his penchant for young men.
Francis hasn’t responded to the claims. But he has ordered a limited Vatican investigation. The Vatican has acknowledged the outcome may produce evidence that mistakes were made, but said Francis would “follow the path of truth, wherever it may lead.”
Vatican watchers have compared the McCarrick cover-up scandal to that of the Rev. Marcial Maciel, perhaps the 20th-century Catholic Church’s most notorious pedophile. Maciel’s sex crimes against children were ignored for decades by a Vatican impressed by his ability to bring in donations and vocations. Among Maciel’s staunchest admirers was Pope John Paul II, who later became a saint.
Like Maciel, McCarrick was a powerful and popular prelate who funneled millions in donations to the Vatican. He apparently got a calculated pass for what many in the church hierarchy would have either discounted as ideological-fueled rumor or brushed off as a mere “moral lapse” in sleeping with adult men.
Christopher Knowlton of the New York Times took a closer look at the new biography of Jame Butler “Wild Bill” Hickok “Wild Bill: the True Story of the American Frontier’s First Gunfighter.”
Included in the book, authored by Tom Clavin, are stories from the early days of Hays and Abilene.
Ron Wilson is director of the Huck Boyd National Institute for Rural Development at Kansas State University.
By RON WILSON Huck Boyd National Institute for Rural Development
A motorcyclist rides into town – and then another, and another. It’s a motorcycle rally – and not just any rally, but a rally to support a rural community and ultimately, to bring people together.
Dusty Turner is organizer and promoter of special events in Kansas and Oklahoma. He grew up in northeastern Oklahoma where, at an early age, he discovered a passion for motorcycles.
One year he and a teenage friend decided they wanted to take a motorcycle trip. They calculated how far they could go on the gas money that they had and looked at a roadmap. “We saw the name Cedar Vale on a map and decided to go,” Dusty said.
“We were a couple of typical kids who set off totally unprepared,” Dusty said with a smile. “We got there and couldn’t afford a hotel room. We asked around if there was anyplace we could camp, and they sent us to Hewins Park. People were really nice.”
It was a memorable trip. The trip happened to take place around the time of Dusty’s birthday in late April. A late spring journey to Cedar Vale became an annual pilgrimage for Dusty as he grew up.
Dusty joined the military. After the service, he worked in the restaurant business and then did painting and contracting work in Oklahoma and Texas before moving back to Muskogee. Through it all, his love of motorcycles remained strong. After riding various kinds of motorcycles throughout his life, Dusty discovered a brand of motorcycles called Moto Guzzi. These motorcycles are produced by a company in Italy, and they have a small, but passionate following around the globe.
“Moto Guzzi produces maybe 8,000 motorcycles in a year,” Dusty said. (That’s in contrast to bigger companies which may produce 60,000 in a single quarter.) But Dusty and others are big fans of Moto Guzzi. “It’s a basic twin-cylinder motorcycle that’s simple to repair,” Dusty said. “It can eat up the miles, but also works well on curvy mountain roads.”
Dusty got his own Moto Guzzi and then joined an online forum of Moto Guzzi enthusiasts. He eventually became an administrator on the site.
One day, Dusty noticed that his birthday was coming up. For old times’ sake, he decided to make a motorcycle trip to Cedar Vale. “I announced on the board, `Does anybody want to meet me?’” Dusty said. “I thought I might get one or two, but we had eight.” It was so much fun that it became an annual event. Each year on the first weekend of May, a Moto Guzzi rally is now held in the community of Cedar Vale.
In the years since, the Moto Guzzi rally has attracted as many as 70 people from 30 states, from Seattle to New Jersey and as far away as Holland and Germany.
Organizers have turned the event into a fundraiser for the city of Cedar Vale, as well as an opportunity for big city visitors to experience life in a rural community. Part of the registration fees go to the city. Donation jars are put out at all events. Funds are used to support projects like the local museum and the poolhouse at the swimming pool. More than $2,000 has been raised. The Lions Club, local chamber of commerce, and museum help provide meals for donations.
The gathering takes place primarily at Hewins Park, where Dusty first camped decades ago. “We interact with the locals,” Dusty said. “The city has been great.”
Dusty is assisted in this project by a friend from the online forum who knows rural Kansas. That friend is John Peters from the rural community of Walton, population 235 people. Now, that’s rural.
It’s time to leave this Moto Guzzi rally which is helping raise money for a rural Kansas community as well as sharing small town life. We commend all the Moto Guzzi riders for making a difference with this fun initiative. It makes for a good ride.
And there’s more. This event has inspired another gathering in Cedar Vale. We’ll learn about that next week.
Donna KrugHow did a pinhole leak in a main water supply line change my schedule last Sunday? As I was pressing a couple of shirts in the laundry room, I heard a hissing sound. When I followed the sound to our water treatment system, I saw a puddle that led me to three boxes and a large basket of soaked items.
As my husband, John, made his list for the hardware store, I started sorting through the soaked treasures.
What I found brought back a flood of memories. From the tulle left over from making my daughter, Kristen’s wedding veil, to the three shirts from my late father’s closet that I plan to make into pillows, I didn’t want to take a break for lunch. Two boxes full of denim jeans I have collected for “some day” projects and scraps of fabric leftover from quilts I have made through the years rounded out the treasures I found.
Sorting through the items that had gotten wet felt great. That thought is where I am going with this week’s news column. A publication written several years ago titled, “Cut the Clutter and Get Organized” has some great tips we can all learn from. The fact sheet suggests using the box approach to sort clutter. Sort items into boxes labeled Keep, Store, Give Away/Sell, Throw Away and, if you are indecisive, you can use a fifth box labeled Maybe. The items you intend to keep need to be returned to their proper places. Items you no longer use or no longer fit could be the beginning of your next yard sale or donation to Goodwill.
The publication goes on to provide tips for maintaining a clutter-free home. Involve family members to help keep items picked up and put away. Remember, tasks need to be appropriate for family members’ ages and abilities. And you may need to share your ideas and expectations of what is acceptable.
Feel free to give me a call or drop by either of the offices in the Cottonwood Extension District for your copy of Cut the Clutter and Get Organized. It is also available on the KSRE web site if you search for publication number MF2879.
Donna Krug is the District Director and Family & Consumer Science Agent with K-State Research and Extension – Cottonwood District. You may reach her at: [email protected] or (620)793-1910.
