BUHLER — A 17-year-old from Buhler escaped serious injury after he rolled his vehicle just before 7 a.m. Wednesday.
The teen was driving south on Buhler Road when he crossed the center line, over-corrected, left the road on the right side and rolled his vehicle.
He was treated by EMS on scene and was transported to Hutchinson Regional Medical Center by his mother with non-life threatening injuries.
He was wearing his seat belt at the time of the accident.
UPDATE: 3:30 p.m. Thursday
TOPEKA – Agents from the Kansas Department of Revenue accompanied by the Saline Sheriff Department executed tax warrants and closed Rod’s Convenience Stores for nonpayment of Retailers Sales Tax totaling $49,540.23.
The warrants were filed in Saline County. The businesses affected are located at 1717 W Crawford St, 1401 S Santa Fe Ave, 1339 N 9th, 220 W Magnolia Rd, 1619 W Magnolia Rd, 2140 W Crawford St, 680 S Phillips Ave, Salina KS.
The owner of the business has until Monday, July 15th to enter into a mutual arrangement otherwise the businesses will be closed permanently.
It is KDOR’s policy and practice to work with taxpayers in delinquent status to voluntarily enter into repayment agreements. It is only after these efforts and multiple failed collection attempts that the Department is forced to execute a tax warrant, utilizing such actions as bank levies, till taps, and ultimately asset seizure to ensure compliance with the law.
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SALINA — Rod’s locations in Salina have been seized by the State of Kansas for nonpayment of taxes, according to signs from the Kansas Department of Revenue that were taped on doors and gas pumps.
By BECKY KISER
Hays Post
Officials from the city of Hays are on the site of a leak in a forced sewer main line near the intersection of West 27th and the U.S. 183 Bypass.
The location is alongside Big Creek. The sewer line is buried underneath the creek.
According to Jeff Crispin, water resources director, he called the Kansas Department of Health and Environment after-hours emergency number Wednesday night as required.
Darrell Shippy, of the Northwest Kansas KDHE Water Supply and Wastewater Unit in Hays, was at the site Thursday morning for a short time, Crispin noted, as work got underway to locate the leak.
Crispin says a farmer contacted the city late Wednesday afternoon when he noticed water coming from the side of the bank of Big Creek.
City staff confirmed the water influx and immediately shut down the sewer line and the nearby lift station that serves that line.
“We notified KDHE last night,” Crispin said late Thursday morning. “We want to ensure public safety first. We’re working with them to see if something moves towards the public stream flow [of Big Creek].”
There is no contamination of the city water supply, he added, nor is there any interruption of water or sewer service to city customers.
“A local contractor is currently digging to find the line. It seems there’s been a break,” Crispin said. “Once we find it, we’ll do a temporary fix and then a permanent replacement of the line.”
City Department of Water Resources employees are now manually pumping the sewer line contents into trucks as needed and transporting it to the city wastewater treatment plant.
Check Hays Post for more as details become available.
GUTHRIE, Okla. (AP) — Police in Oklahoma say they found a rattlesnake, a canister of radioactive powdered uranium and an open bottle of Kentucky Deluxe whiskey during a traffic stop of a vehicle that had been reported stolen.
The traffic stop happened June 26 in Guthrie, about 30 miles north of Oklahoma City. Guthrie police Sgt. Anthony Gibbs told Oklahoma City TV station KFOR that police don’t know why the uranium was in the vehicle or how it was obtained, though uranium ore can be bought on Amazon.
Gibbs says police also found a gun in the console and a terrarium in the backseat containing a pet timber rattlesnake.
Gibbs says the driver, Stephen Jennings, was charged with possession of a stolen vehicle, transporting an open container of liquor and driving with a suspended license.
Jennings remains jailed in Logan County.
Tyler James Kuhn was born November 9, 1996, to his loving parents, Toby and Marla (VanDerVeen) Kuhn, in Hays, Kansas. He passed away July 9, 2019, in Norton County, Kansas, at the age of 22.
Tyler grew up in Norton where he attended the Norton schools graduating with the NCHS class of 2015. He also attended Kansas State University for one year. He moved to Colorado and had recently returned to Norton, where he was working as an IT technician and farming with his VanDerVeen family.
Tyler loved spending time in the outdoors hunting, fishing, farming and he enjoyed restoring firearms. His greatest joy in life was spending time with his family, especially watching his sister play basketball and spending special time with his grandparents.
Survivors include his parents, Toby and Marla, and his sister, Taryn Kuhn, of Norton; his paternal grandmother, Nettie Kuhn-Verdi, Norton; his paternal grandfather, Alphonse “Ollie” Kuhn, Victoria, Kansas; his maternal grandmother, Wauneta VanDerVeen, Prairie View, Kansas; his uncle and aunt, Curtis and Tiffany VanDerVeen, Phillipsburg, Kansas; his cousins, Michael and Chloe VanDerVeen, Phillipsburg; and Cheyenne Todd, Omaha, Nebraska; other relatives and friends.
Tyler was preceded in death by his maternal grandfather, Marvin VanDerVeen, his paternal step-grandfather, Jerry Verdi, his uncle, Tim Kuhn, and his special great-aunt, Henrietta Kuhn.
FUNERAL SERVICE – Saturday, July 13, 2019 – 10:30 a.m.
PLACE – First United Methodist Church – Norton, KS
INTERMENT – Luctor Cemetery – Prairie View, KS
VISITATION – Friday, July 12, 2019 – 5:00 p.m. until 7:00 p.m.
PLACE – Enfield Funeral Home – 215 W. Main – Norton, KS
MEMORIAL – OK Kids Day at the Prairie Dog State Park
Betty Ann Weigel, 83 of Westminster, Colo., died Tuesday, July 2, 2019, at North Suburban Medical Center.
She was born on May 29, 1936 in Ellis, Kansas, to Wendelin Anton Engel and Rose Celcilia Phillipp.
Betty graduated from Ft Hays State University in 1959 and spent the next 34 years doing what she loved by becoming a teacher.
She married Milton Weigel in June 11, 1960. He preceded her in death.
She was a founding member of St. Marks Catholic Church, where she selflessly served. She was a reader, eucharistic minister, weekly reading coordinator and was the leader of the grief ministry program
Survivors include one son, Wendell (Rebekah) Weigel of Palmer, AK, daughter Rachel (Fred) Louisville, Kentucky. Grandchildren: Harley and Sydney Gilman and Juliann and Michael Weigel. Siblings: LeRoy Engel, Edna Lowman, Ellen Farrell and Joseph Engel. Betty will also be missed by many nieces, nephews, friends and her church family.
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The Missouri Department of Transportation tweeted that at least three lanes of westbound Interstate 670 were closed Thursday because of the spill, and that an emergency response truck with a snow plow blade was sent to the scene to help clean up the mess.
Transportation officials urged drivers to, “Find an alternate snout. Sorry, alternate route.”
SALINA — A Salina man wanted on active warrants out of Saline and Kiowa counties led law enforcement personnel on a chase Wednesday from Salina into Ottawa County before turning around and finally stopping near where the chase began.
Saline County Sheriff Roger Soldan said Thursday that at 10:52 a.m. Wednesday, a deputy was at the Red Carpet Inn, 222 E. Diamond Drive, to serve a warrant when he observed Lance Smith, 33, of Salina. Knowing that Smith had an active warrant from Saline County District Court for failure to appear, the deputy attempted to apprehend Smith, however, Smith took off in a 2010 Ford F150, Soldan said.
Smith then led the deputy and other law enforcement personnel on a chase along the following route, Soldan said.
Soldan said Salina Police personnel set up spikes near the Saline River bridge, which took out the pickup’s tires. Smith continued south, finally coming to a stop in the middle turn lane of the 2400 block of North Ninth Street, which is just north of the Interstate 70 interchange, Soldan said.
After coming to a stop, Smith jumped out of the pickup and ran a short distance into a ditch, where he tripped and was apprehended, Soldan said.
In addition to the Saline County warrant and the warrant out of Kiowa County for probation violation, Soldan said Smith was arrested on suspicion of the following.
Corresponding move to be made prior to Friday’s game
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Royals today selected the contract of Bubba Starling from its Omaha (AAA) affiliate and placed him on the active 25-man roster. The ball club will make a corresponding 40-man roster move prior to Friday night’s 7:15 p.m. game against the Detroit Tigers.
Starling, 26, is enjoying his best overall minor league season, hitting .310 (81-for-261) in 72 games for Omaha, with 11 doubles, two triples, seven home runs and 38 RBI, his first full season at the AAA level. He has an on-base pct. of .358 and a slugging pct. of .448 for an OPS of .806. He has also swiped nine bases in 12 attempts.
Bubba earned a spot in the Triple-A All-Star Game, where he went 0-for-2 with a run scored last night as the Pacific Coast League squad defeated a team from the International League, 9-3 in El Paso, TX.
He has batted at a .355 clip (11-for-31) in his last eight games with the Storm Chasers, a stretch that included five straight two-hit games. Starling also had a 10-game hitting streak in early June in which he batted .436 (17-for-39)
A native of nearby Gardner, KS, Starling was a three-sport letterman at Gardner-Edgerton High School before being drafted by the Royals in the first round of the 2011 draft (fifth overall). As a senior, he was a First Team Rawlings Preseason All-America and batted .481 in his final high school season.
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DSNWK
A $279,000 grant from the Dane G. Hansen Foundation and a $50,000 grant from the Robert E. and Patricia Schmidt Foundation will help Developmental Services of Northwest Kansas make needed repairs and improvements, the most costly being the renovation and expansion of an Ellis County group home.
The renovation and expansion of the home will allow for needed updates, and increase the service capacity from 5 to 7 individuals. This group home is one of 15 in DSNWK’s residential services.
The grant from the Dane G. Hansen Foundation will also go towards replacing parts of the roof at Frontier Developmental Center in Norton, and at the DSNWK administrative offices in Hays.
All the grant money from the Robert E. and Patricia Schmidt Foundation will go towards the group home renovation.
These grants further the efforts of DSNWK’s Stronger Forever Together campaign. One of the priority areas of the campaign is to make needed repairs and improvements to aging facilities.
In addition, DSNWK received grants from Heartland Community Foundation to sustain the Collaborative Art Project, and Norton County Community Foundation to purchase a portable body lift system and shower chair.
DSNWK is a 501(c)3 Non-profit serving those with intellectual and developmental disabilities in the 18 most northwestern Kansas counties. Visit www.dsnwk.org to learn more about services and ways to support.
