Immaculate Heart of Mary CYO Haunted House 2019
Horror Movie Theatre located in the old pathology lab Next to UPS/Hays compost site on East 13th Street.
Thursday October 31st 6:00 p.m. – 10:00 p.m.
(Live Version- $7 per person)
Funds raised used to offset costs of travel to conferences and mission trip while providing a fun and safe activity for the community.
Thanks for the continued support!
Bring the kiddos out in their costumes to TMP-Marian on Halloween from 4-6 p.m. for the Monarch Masquerade! Tricks and treats will be plentiful all over the main building provided by the Junior High and many other organizations. This is a great way to have fun, safe and warm trick-or-treating!
City of Hays
Oct. 31 is a fifth Thursday of the month; therefore, there will not be a Hays City Commission work session that evening.
Voters statewide will decide Nov. 5 whether to approve a proposed amendment to the Kansas Constitution to eliminate a requirement for the state to adjust federal census figures when the Legislature redistricts itself. The adjustment counts college students and military personnel not where they’re living but in a “permanent” home elsewhere — outside Kansas for thousands of them.
Kansas is among only a few states that adjust federal census figures for redistricting, and before it started doing it in the 1990s, it did its own population counts for more than a century. Critics see the adjustment as archaic and expensive, and the proposed amendment had overwhelming bipartisan support as it slipped quietly through the Republican-controlled Legislature earlier this year.
The biggest winners from the change likely would be Lawrence and Manhattan, home to the main campuses of the University of Kansas and Kansas State University. When the state last adjusted census figures in 2011, their counties lost 13% of their combined populations, more than 23,000 people, enough for a Kansas House seat between them.
“It is a matter of fairness,” said Lawrence Mayor Lisa Larsen. “The students live here. They contribute to our economy. They’re contributing to our community in a great way.”
Secretary of State Scott Schwab urged legislators to put the amendment on the ballot. He is doing media interviews and has a website promoting it and says the next adjustment would cost the state $835,000. There is no organized opposition to the amendment ahead of an election otherwise set for filling city offices and local school board seats.
Kansas is the last state to adjust census figures for college students or military personnel after Alaska in the late 1990s dropped a policy of adjusting its military population downward. But Maryland and New York count prison inmates in their hometowns rather than where they’re incarcerated to avoid what critics call “prison gerrymandering.”
Kansas lawmakers expect to revise legislative districts again in 2022. Adjusting the college and military populations is a remnant of the state’s longtime practice, ended in the 1990s, of doing its own census for redistricting purposes.
Schwab said the next adjustment would be expensive because his office would have to hire a contractor to track down people to ask them where they want to be counted, and that’s more difficult now than in the past because cellphones have increasingly replaced landline telephones.
Supporters of the adjustment in the past have argued that people living temporarily in a college town or on a military base should be allowed to choose where they’re counted. They’ve also suggested that the policy helps rural communities.
But no rural county saw its population adjusted upward by 3% in 2011, and a few even lost a little population. Overall, when all the shifts were taken into account, the state’s total population declined by about 13,700 residents, or less than 0.5%.
“It’s a no-brainer to vote for that amendment,” said Senate Majority Leader Jim Denning, an Overland Park Republican.
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MCPHERSON COUNTY —Crews were on the scene of a fire at the city landfill north of McPherson Sunday, according to a social media report from the McPherson Fire Department.
The fire had toxic substances in the smoke and a plume model from the National Weather Service has indicated the City of McPherson would be directly affected.
All residents are encouraged to go inside, close all windows and doors, stay tuned to Radio/TV/Social Media for further updates.
Late Sunday, the fire department reported fire suppression operations were halted at the landfill. Air quality monitoring has been deployed on the north side of McPherson city limits. As of 2 am they have not detected anything out of normal ranges. We will continue to monitor the air quality throughout the night and into Monday morning.
They also encouraged residents to utilize 911 for emergencies only.
KANSAS CITY– Two Kansas men were sentenced in federal court Friday for a violent, hours-long crime spree in which they kidnapped, robbed, and terrorized three women, according to the United State’s Attorney.
Anthony B. Williams, 37, and Jamerl M. Wortham, 34, were sentenced in separate appearances before U.S. District Judge Brian Wimes. Williams was sentenced to four consecutive terms of life in federal prison without parole. Wortham was sentenced to 60 years in federal prison without parole.
Williams was sentenced as an armed career criminal and “three strikes” violent felon, due to his prior felony convictions.
On Feb. 14, 2019, Williams and Wortham were each found guilty at trial of all 17 counts contained in a federal indictment. Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling in June 2019 that the statutory definition of a “crime of violence” is unconstitutionally vague, three of those counts (possession of a short-barreled shotgun in furtherance of kidnapping) have been dismissed.
Williams and Wortham were sentenced today on their convictions of one count of conspiracy to commit kidnapping, three counts of kidnapping, one count of carjacking, one count of conspiracy to commit armed robbery, one count of attempted armed robbery, one count of distribution of PCP, three counts of possession of a short-barreled shotgun in furtherance of a crime of violence or drug trafficking crime, one count of being felons in possession of a firearm, one count of possession of an unregistered short-barreled shotgun, and one count of possession of a firearm with an obliterated serial number.
During the early morning hours of April 9, 2016, Wortham and Williams, along with another man who is not identified in court records, stole a Jaguar in Kansas City, Kansas, then set off to Kansas City, Missouri, with a plan to rob people at ATM machines. While driving around the Westport entertainment district, at approximately 1:30 a.m., the men came across M.M., a woman who was waiting to be picked up by an Uber car. One of the men stepped out of the stolen Jaguar, put his arm around M.M., and corralled her into the vehicle.
They drove to a set of ATMs located in the River Market neighborhood of Kansas City, Missouri. They waited until a red Toyota Camry pulled up to use the ATM at approximately 2 a.m.
They drove up behind the Camry, where two women, T.J. and Y.C., were attempting to deposit money into the ATM. One of the defendants and the other man approached the Camry, pointed a loaded sawed-off shotgun at the driver and passenger, demanded money, then forced them into the backseat of the Camry. The two men then got in the driver and passenger seats of the vehicle and sped away towards Kansas City, Kansas, with the stolen Jaguar (with M.M. a passenger) following close behind.
Once in Kansas City, Kansas, Williams and Wortham forced all of the victims into the Camry. They took the victims to another ATM in Kansas City, Kansas, and told them to withdraw as much money as they could from their bank accounts.
After leaving the ATM, Williams and Wortham forced M.M. and Y.C. to smoke PCP while they drove for hours around the Kansas City metro area. During the entirety of this time, the victims were consistently threatened with death and bodily harm while the defendants pointed the sawed-off shotgun in the victims’ direction. Williams also indicated he was armed with a handgun. Williams and Wortham intended to find a discrete location in which they could sexually assault the victims.
At about 5 a.m., the men split the victims up into two separate cars – with Wortham in the stolen Jaguar with T.J., and Williams in the stolen Camry with M.M. and Y.C. While they caravanned through Kansas City, Kansas, police officers recognized the stolen Jaguar and engaged it in pursuit.
The Jaguar fled at a high rate of speed, lost control, then crashed with T.J. in the passenger seat of the vehicle. After the crash, Wortham fled from the vehicle on foot but was apprehended shortly after and placed under arrest. T.J. was unhurt in the crash.
Discovered inside of the vehicle was a loaded Coast to Coast 20-gauge shotgun that had approximately 12-inches of the barrel sawed off, along with the shotgun stock shortened.
In the stolen Camry, Williams and another man drove M.M. and Y.C. throughout the Kansas City metro area in search of drugs and a house to use. At approximately 8 a.m., the other man was dropped off at an unknown location. With only Williams in the vehicle, M.M. found an opportunity to jump out of the Camry at a stop sign, run into a convenience store, and call the police.
Soon after, Y.C. also attempted to escape the vehicle, but had to fight Williams to get out of his grasp. Once out of his grasp, Y.C. ran down a residential street, with Williams chasing behind. She used the panic button on her key fob to set off her car alarm, which stopped Williams from pursuing. Y.C. ran for at least three blocks until she found someone to help her, then called the police.
O’FALLON, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri mom has been charged with helping beat up a 14-year-old boy who she says refused to return an expensive shirt to her son.
43-year-old Tonya Carrillo was charged last week with endangering a minor in connection with the July assault.
Court documents say Carrillo told police she hopes the victim “learns from this incident” because his parents don’t seem to care about his behavior.
The victim was treated for a dislocated nose and cuts and scrapes after the assault, which was captured on surveillance video.
Carrillo is being held in lieu of $25,000 bond. Police are still looking for another man who was involved in the incident.
HAYS, Kan. – On another cold afternoon at FHSU Soccer Stadium, the Fort Hays State women’s soccer team fell victim to Northeastern State, 1-0. The Tigers now stand at 8-4-2 (4-2-2 MIAA), while Northeastern State improved its record to 11-4-1 (6-3-0 MIAA).
The first half told the story of the match. Going into a fierce north wind, Cailey Perkins attempted a shot just 90 seconds into the game. That proved to be the only offense the Tigers could muster until the 58th minute. After testing Megan Kneefel early with five shots, the RiverHawks were able to score on their sixth attempt of the match off the foot of Paulina Chavez. Chavez received a pass from Megan Chase and found an opening in the defense before sending the ball past a diving Kneefel. Northeastern State put up another five shots before the half with an 11-1 edge in shots.
With the wind now at their backs, the Tigers fought back in the second half. They put up six shots in the last 30 minutes of the match, testing the defense of the RiverHawks from every angle. However, Northeastern State’s defense withstood the test, allowing the RiverHawks to hang on for the 1-0 victory.
Five different Tigers attempted shots throughout the match, with Perkins and Taryn Schnell taking two shots and Chloe Montano, Jenna Prince and Darby Hirsch adding one shot each. Hirsch was responsible for the only shot on goal. Kneefel (7-3-2) made five saves in the match, including a sprawling save late in the first half to keep the Tigers within one.
The Tigers will play host to Nebraska-Kearney on Friday night (Nov. 1) for their final home match of the regular season. Senior night between the Tigers and Lopers will kick off at 7 p.m. at FHSU Soccer Stadium.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man has been sentenced to three life terms for 25 felony sex crimes with six children.
41-year-old Damian Isaac Hallacy is appealing the sentence ordered Wednesday.
The investigation started in 2017 after a man found sexual messages from Hallacy on his wife’s phone. The probable cause affidavit says the woman sexually abused her 8-year-old daughter at Hallacy’s request, and investigators found photos of the abuse on her phone.
The woman is expected to be sentenced next month. Her plea agreement called for her to testify against Hallacy and receive a life prison sentence without the possibility of parole for 25 years.
Authorities are not naming her to protect the identity of her daughter because the girl is a victim of a sex crime.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Adam Vinatieri made a 51-yard field goal with 22 seconds left Sunday to help the Indianapolis Colts rally for a 15-13 victory over Denver.
The NFL’s career scoring leader overcame two earlier misses to keep Indy (5-2) atop the AFC South with its third straight victory.
Denver (2-6) has lost two in a row.
The difference this time was the Broncos settled for two short field goals on time-consuming drives in the first half. Brandon McManus made a 21-yarder to cap a 17-play drive that consumed nearly eight minutes and a 29-yarder on their next possession when the Broncos burned nearly 5½ minutes in 13 plays to make it 6-0.
Indy finally answered with Vinatieri’s 55-yard field goal that dropped over the crossbar to make it 6-3 at the half.
Denver took a 13-3 lead when Royce Freeman weaved his way through the Colts defense on a 4-yard score to make it 13-3.
The Colts thought they had tied it when Marlon Mack followed Vinatieri’s second field goal with a 10-yard TD run. Instead, Vinatieri missed his fourth extra point of the season and Indy didn’t get a chance to take the lead until Jacoby Brissett took the Colts 56 yards in 86 seconds to set up Vinatieri’s third field goal of the day.
STAT SHEET
Broncos: Joe Flacco as 20 of 32 with 174 yards. … Phillip Lindsay had 14 carries for 56 yards, and Freeman has 12 carries for 40 yards. … Courtland Sutton had three receptions for 76 yards.
Colts: Brissett was 15 of 25 with 202 yards. … Mack had 19 carries for 76 yards, and Jack Doyle had four catches for 61 yards.
INJURY REPORT
Broncos: Right tackle Ja’Wuan James left in the first half with what appeared to be an injured right knee. He limped to the sideline then was carted to the locker room. He did not return. Left guard Dalton Risner hurt his ankle, but did return. Tight end Jeff Heuerman also injured his knee.
Colts: Rookie safety Khari Willis was ruled out after hurting his foot in the third quarter. Defensive tackles Grover Stewart and Denico Autry both left.
UP NEXT
Broncos: Host Cleveland next Sunday.
Colts: Visit Pittsburgh next Sunday.
DOUGLAS COUNTY — Law enforcement authorities are investigating a shooting and continue to search for a suspect.
Just before 6:30 p.m. Saturday, police were called to the McDonalds at 1309 W. 6th Street in Lawrance in response to a shooting that had just occurred, according to office Patrick Compton. Upon arriving, officers discovered a 50-year-old man who had been shot in his car.
This individual was treated at the scene and transported to an area hospital with significant injuries.
Police are currently looking for a suspect described as a black male wearing a red hoodie, red sweat pants and carrying a black bag or backpack in connection to this shooting.
BEIRUT (AP) — The Latest on the alleged death of Islamic State group leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in a U.S.-led operation in northern Syria (all times local):
12:15 p.m.
Vice President Mike Pence is disclosing more details about the U.S. military raid that killed Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi in Syria.
Pence says that by Thursday afternoon, he and President Donald Trump learned that there was “a high probability” that al-Baghdadi would be at his compound in Syria’s Idlib province.
Pence tells CBS’ “Face the Nation” that Trump directed commanders to come up with military options and present them to him on Friday morning.
Pence says that by Saturday morning, “we received the actionable intelligence” that allowed the operation that Trump had approved to go ahead.
And it was on Sunday morning when Trump told the nation that the raid had resulted in al-Baghdadi’s death.
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12:05 p.m.
The head of the foreign affairs committee in Russia’s upper house of parliament says the death of Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi would be welcome news, but he’s playing down its possible impact in the fight against terrorism.
Konstantin Kosachev is pointing out that President Donald Trump’s announcement Sunday in Washington that al-Baghdadi was killed in a U.S. military raid in Syria isn’t the first time the leader’s death has been reported.
Kosachev says “countering terrorism is a much more difficult task than the physical destruction of its leaders, even the most implacable.”
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10:30 a.m.
Some information is emerging about how the United States might have been able to track Islamic State leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi.
A senior Iraqi intelligence official says that a few months ago, an Iraqi aide to al-Baghdadi was killed in western Iraq by a U.S. airstrike. The official says the aide’s wife was arrested in the operation and handed over by the Americans to Iraqi authorities.
The official says the wife ended up being a key source of information on al-Baghdadi’s whereabouts and that through her, the Iraqis ultimately were able to pass along to the United States coordinates on al-Baghdadi.
A second Iraqi security official says al-Baghdadi’s brother-in-law was recently arrested by the Iraqis and also helped with information about Abu Bakr’s whereabouts
The officials weren’t authorized to publicly discuss intelligence operations and spoke on condition of anonymity.
10a.m.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is criticizing the White House for failing to notify congressional leaders before the U.S. raid in Syria that President Donald Trump says killed the leader of the Islamic State group.
She notes that the U.S. let Russia know the raid was in the works.
Trump said U.S. military helicopters flew over territory controlled by Russian and Syrian forces before landing at Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s compound. He also said he kept lawmakers out of the loop because he was fearful of leaks.
Pelosi says the Trump administration must brief Congress on the operation and on the administration’s overall strategy for the Mideast.
Before the 2011 raid in Pakistan that killed al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden, the Obama administration did give advance word to the top two Democrats and Republicans in the House and Senate as well as the four leaders of the congressional intelligence committees.
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9:25 a.m.
President Donald Trump says Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is dead after a U.S. military operation in Syria targeted the Islamic State group leader.
Trump says in a statement to the nation from the White House’s Diplomatic Room that “al-Baghdadi is dead” — fulfilling the top national security priority of his administration.
He says no U.S. personnel were lost in the mission.
Al-Baghdadi presided over IS’s global jihad and became arguably the world’s most wanted man.
Trump say Al-Baghdadi detonated suicide vest during US raid, killing himself and three of his children.
The announcement comes as Trump has been on the receiving end of bipartisan criticism in Washington following the recent pullback of U.S. troops from northeastern Syria. Critics fear that move will allow the militant group to regain strength after it had lost vast stretches of territory it had once controlled
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4p.m.
The commander of the Syrian Kurdish-led forces says five months of joint intelligence cooperation with the U.S.-led coalition led to the killing of the leader of the Islamic State group.
Mazloum Abdi said in a tweet Sunday that the reported killing of Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi took place in a joint operation following “cooperation on the ground and accurate monitoring” for five months. He called it a “successful and historic” joint intelligence work with the U.S.
The U.S. raid with helicopters took place in the Barisha area north of Idlib city a few kilometers from the Turkish border.
The Kurdish-led forces cooperated with the U.S.-coalition for at least four years to fight IS in Syria until they declared military victory against the group in March.
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3:40 p.m.
A senior Turkish official says “to the best of my knowledge” Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi arrived at a location in Syria 48 hours prior to the U.S. military raid that is believed to have targeted the Islamic State group leader.
The Turkish official said in a written statement Sunday that there has been “close coordination” among relevant parties and the Turkish military had advanced knowledge of the raid.
In a tweet earlier, the Turkish army said it had “information exchanged and coordination” with U.S. military authorities prior to the operation but did not elaborate.
The official added: “I can neither confirm nor deny that any intelligence was shared to facilitate last night’s operation.”
The U.S. raid with helicopters took place in the Barisha area north of Idlib city a few kilometers from the Turkish border.
— By Zeynep Bilginsoy
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7:45 a.m.
The leader of the Islamic State militant network is believed dead after being targeted by a U.S. military raid in Syria.
A U.S. official told The Associated Press late Saturday that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi was targeted in Syria’s Idlib province. The official said confirmation that the IS chief was killed in an explosion is pending.
President Donald Trump teased a major announcement, tweeting Saturday night that “Something very big has just happened!”
A White House spokesman, Hogan Gidley, would say only that the president would be making a “major statement” at 9 a.m. EDT Sunday.
As the U.S. median age increases, there will be a smaller ratio of workers in the labor force able to pay the payroll tax that funds Social Security payments to people of retirement age. In 15 years, the number of people over age 65 will be larger than the number of children for the first time in U.S. history, according to the presentation at a Southern Demographic Association meeting in New Orleans.
A “demographic tidal wave” is one big reason for the nation’s expected aging and the eventual drop in natural population increase from births outpacing deaths. That wave is the Baby Boomers, born between the end of World War Two and around the time of the American invasion of The Beatles.
“The youngest Baby Boomers are 55 and older now, said Allison Plyer, a demographer attending the meeting. “In 10 years, they will be 65 and older, and as those folks pass away over the decades, that’s a very larger section of our population reaching an age where they will likely experience mortality,” Plyer said.
As the U.S. grows older, it will also become more diverse, with children leading the way. By next year, no single race group alone will make up more than half of U.S. children, the projections show.
Although non-Hispanic whites currently are a majority in the U.S., their numbers will dip below 50% of the population in 40 years, declining from 199 million next year to 179 million in 2060, the projections show.
“Immigrants do continue to fill in the ranks of working-age population and workforce as the Baby Boomers age,” Plyer said. “The most likely people to replace them will be people of color, particularly Latinos who are already here and have children.”
People who identify as two or more races will be the fastest-growing group in the next 40 years, with their population expanding as births outpace deaths.
Other fast-growing groups include Asians, whose growth will be driven by migration, and Hispanics, whose growth in the U.S. will be driven by natural increases, according to the projections.
The U.S. is expected to cross the 400 million-person threshold by 2058, as it adds 79 million more people in 40 years, but annual growth will slow down. The U.S. has about 326 million people today.
Population growth, currently 2.3 million people per year, is expected to slow to 1.6 million people a year by 2060.
Growth comes from immigration and from births outpacing deaths, but that natural increase will decline as the nation ages. The nation’s median age is expected to go from 38 today to 43 by 2060.
Young adults are getting married and having children at older ages than their parents and grandparents, and they won’t be having children in the numbers to replace the Baby Boomers, said Andrew Beveridge, a demographer at the City University of New York.
As the number of people over age 65 grows, the share of working-age adults — who pay, along with their employers, for Social Security through a payroll tax — will also decline. Next year, there are expected to be 3.5 working-age adults for every person of retirement age, but that ratio declines to 2.5 by 2060, according to the projections.
That ratio will put the U.S. more in line with Europe, though it won’t be as severe as in Japan, which for years has had an aging population without the help of migration to add to the population, the demographers said.
“It’s definitely a shift, but we’re not going to be like Japan,” Beveridge said.
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