KANSAS CITY(AP) — An 18-year-old was sentenced to life in prison for his role in the stabbing death of a woman.
Henry -photo Jackson Co.
Trevon Henry was sentenced Friday to two life sentences plus 50 years in prison for the death of Tanya Chamberlain in Lee’s Summit.
Henry was 14 when Chamberlain was stabbed or cut 49 times after he and another juvenile approached her at a car wash.
The teens got into Chamberlain’s car with her and drove away before she was stabbed. She was found dead in the car after the teens fled when an officer stopped the vehicle.
The other teenager, Joshua Tagg, pleaded guilty in November to second-degree murder and is awaiting sentencing.
TOPEKA – The Women and Minority Business Development office of the Kansas Department of Commerce announces the start of the Minority and Women Business Spotlight program.
The purpose for the program is to highlight Kansas small, minority and women-owned businesses. To be eligible, applicants must be small, minority and/or woman owned businesses headquartered in Kansas.
Every month, one business will be selected for the Spotlight. That business will be featured on Kansas Commerce social media and KansasCommerce.gov. The selected company will be featured in an article on KansasCentral.com.
“It is our goal to feature Kansas minority and/or women-owned businesses through our spotlight to assist in their growth and development,” said Rhonda Harris, Director of the Office of Minority and Women Business Development for the Kansas Department of Commerce. “By bringing awareness to these companies and the services and products they provide, we hope to promote a broader outreach to potential customers that may be able to utilize the services offered.”
TOPEKA — Up-to-the-minute information on the 2019 Kansas Legislature is only a phone call or chat away. Kansas residents can access information about the Kansas Legislature, bill status, legislative process and more by calling 1-800-432-3924 Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Questions are answered by experienced reference/research librarians at the State Library of Kansas and are kept confidential.
In addition to calling the hotline, Kansans can chat with a librarian instantly through the library’s Ask A Librarian service found at kslib.info/ask or use their phone to text questions to 785-256-0733. TTY users should call 711. Questions can also be emailed to [email protected] or by visiting the State Library.
Callers can also leave brief messages to be delivered to their legislators as well as request copies of bills, journals, and other legislative documents.
The State Library is located on the third floor, north wing of the Kansas Capitol Building. The library’s hours are Monday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.
NAMI Hays will present “The Adolescent Brain” by Ken Windholz, MS, LCP, LMLP, instructor in the Department of Psychology at Fort Hays State University, from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. on Monday, Jan. 7 at Center for Life Experience.
The center recently moved to a new location at 205 E. Seventh St., Suite 257, (Hadley Center), Hays.
There will be no support group meetings that night.
Supervised child care will be available.
For more information, contact Ann Leiker at 785-259-6859.
Mary Ann (Pfannenstiel) Schmeidler, age 88, of Hays, Kansas passed away Friday, January 4, 2019 at her home. She was born March 25, 1930 in Hays to Joe M. and Sophie (Rupp) Pfannenstiel. She attended Girl’s Catholic High and on March 1, 1954 she married Gilbert J. Schmeidler at St. Joseph’s Catholic Church in Hays. He preceded her in death June 18, 2009.
Mary Ann was a Homemaker and assisted Gilbert with the family farming activities. Before marriage she completed Nurses aide training and worked at St. Anthony Hospital in Hays. She was known to make sure the day ended with a full hot meal and made sure that there were baked goods available for all that stopped by. She was a member of St. Catherine Church.
She is survived by a Son, Terry Schmeidler and Carla Kriley of Walker, KS; two Daughters, Debra Schmeidler and friend Neal Rajewski, Kaylene Kruse and husband Dave all of Hays; a Sister, Rita Bieker of Hays; a Sister-in-law, Doris Pfannenstiel of Hays; Brothers-in-law, Cyril Schmeidler and wife Alice of Catharine, KS and Harold Schmeidler of Walker, KS; Grandchildren, Lance (Tracy) Schmeidler, Lynn (Michael) Schmeidler, Lacey (Caleb) Schmeidler, Tyler (Amanda) Kruse and Breanne Kruse as well as Great Grandchildren, Landon Schmeidler and Melanie Kruse.
She was preceded in death by her parents; her husband; Brothers, Ignatius and Edward Pfannenstiel; Sisters, Sr. Carmelyn “Irene”, Jeanette, Edna Jane Pfannenstiel, Philomena “Minnie” Lang and Matilda “Tillie” Wittman.
Funeral services will be 10 AM on Tuesday, January 8, 2019 at St. Catherine’s Catholic Church in Catharine, KS. With burial to follow in the church cemetery.
Visitation will be Monday, January 7th 4 PM – 8 PM and Tuesday, January 8th 8:30 AM – 9:30 AM all at Brock’s-Keithley Funeral Chapel and Crematory 2509 Vine Hays, KS 67601.
A St. Catherine Christian Mothers rosary will be at 6:45 PM Monday followed by a parish vigil service all at the funeral home chapel.
Memorial contributions are suggested to St. Catherine Church, Angel’s Care Home Health or HaysMed Hospice.
Condolences may be left by guest book at www.keithleyfuneralchapels.com or by email at [email protected]
The Hays Public Library has hired Sara Schoenthaler to serve as its early literacy coordinator. This position will organize storytimes and other early childhood literacy efforts.
Schoenthaler, originally from Hays, is a graduate of Hays High School and Wichita State University. She will receive her master’s of library and information science from Emporia State in May.
As a graduate student, Schoenthaler created a Literacy Adventure Kit, which is intended to be an at-home reading education activity for parents to use with their children. She worked at the library at Emporia High School and the Emporia Public Library.
Schoenthaler began working at the Hays Public Library on Jan. 2.
FHSU President Tisa Mason visits with students at the 2018 Dodge City Student Recognition Program in February.
FHSU University Relations
Denver will be President Tisa Mason’s first stop of 2019 in Fort Hays State University’s annual month-long, 12-city, three-state tour to recognize high school and transfer students who have been awarded scholarships from the university. The event also provides an overview of what makes FHSU a special place, both in and out of the classroom.
The Denver Student Recognition Program begins at 1 p.m. Mountain Time Sunday, Jan. 20, at the Renaissance Denver Hotel, 3801 Quebec St.
A highlight at each event is when President Mason individually recognizes students who have already been awarded scholarships to FHSU for the next academic year. Other university officers, administrators and faculty also attend the programs to answer questions and to visit with prospective students and their families and friends.
Another highlight is the dessert or pizza buffet after the recognition portion of the program. Dessert is served at the Denver SRP. Students and their friends and families have the opportunity to mingle with FHSU faculty, staff and administrators before and after the scholarship presentations.
Since its beginning in the 1987-88 year, Fort Hays State’s SRP program – unique in higher education – has had the mission of recognizing all students interested in college, and their friends and families. The events provide them with the opportunity to meet faculty and staff from the university. The public is welcome to attend.
Students and families in Kansas, Colorado and Nebraska can sign up now to attend programs in their areas. High school juniors, seniors and transfer students have already been invited to Student Recognition Programs in their areas.
Many high school seniors and transfer students will receive certificates for a variety of scholarships awarded to them by FHSU.
Scholarships to be awarded at the SRPs include the $3,500 Presidential Award of Distinction, the $2,000 University Scholar Award, the $1,500 Hays City Scholar Award, and the $1,000 Traditions Scholar Award. All are awarded only to incoming freshmen enrolling in college for the first time, but each is renewable provided students maintain the minimum required academic standing.
A renewable $1,500 scholarship is available for transfer students, and a $1,000 non-renewable transfer scholarship is also available.
Other one-time awards recognized at the SRPs are the $900 or $500 Academic Opportunity Awards, given to scholars by individual academic departments.
Each SRP event also features two scholarship drawings – a $400 FHSU Student Recognition Program Scholarship and a $600 textbook scholarship – and a drawing for a laptop computer. Four $400 SRP scholarships are awarded at the reception in Hays.
The SRP schedule includes the core area served at each program site, but students are welcome to attend any SRP program. However, they must RSVP by calling 785-628-5673 or by signing up online through the RSVP link at www.fhsu.edu/admissions/srp/.
The program schedule: Denver, 1 p.m. Mountain time Sunday, Jan. 20, at the Renaissance Denver Hotel, 3801 Quebec St. Dessert will be served. The Denver SRP serves students from all Colorado counties except for Bent, Baca, Cheyenne, Kiowa, Kit Carson and Prowers counties, which are served by SRP programs in Colby and Garden City.
Wichita, 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 27, at the Marriott, 9100 Corporate Hills Drive. Dessert will be served. The Wichita SRP serves students from 19 south-central and southeast Kansas counties: Barber, Butler, Chautauqua, Cherokee, Cowley, Crawford, Elk, Greenwood, Harper, Harvey, Kingman, Labette, Montgomery, Neosho, Reno, Sedgwick, Sumner, Wilson and Woodson.
Salina, 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Jan. 27, at the Hilton-Garden Inn, 3320 S. Ninth St. Pizza will be served. Students from eight counties are invited to Salina: Chase, Clay, Dickinson, Ellsworth, Marion, McPherson, Ottawa and Saline.
Great Bend, 6:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 4, at Great Bend High School, 19th and Morton (east entrance door). Pizza will be served. Students invited to the Great Bend SRP are from Barton, Pawnee, Pratt, Rice, Russell and Stafford counties and from the cities of Bison and Otis in Rush County.
Colby, 6:30 p.m. Thursday, Feb. 7, at Colby High School, 1890 S. Franklin. Pizza will be served. Students from nine Kansas counties, two Colorado counties and four Nebraska counties are invited to the Colby SRP: Cheyenne, Decatur, Gove, Logan, Rawlins, Sheridan, Sherman, Thomas and Wallace in Kansas; Cheyenne and Kit Carson in Colorado; and Chase, Dundy, Hayes and Hitchcock counties in Nebraska.
Overland Park, 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 10, at the Doubletree Hotel, 10100 College Blvd., serving 12 eastern Kansas counties and the Kansas City metropolitan area. Dessert will be served. The Kansas counties served are Allen, Anderson, Atchison, Bourbon, Doniphan, Douglas, Franklin, Johnson, Leavenworth, Linn, Miami and Wyandotte.
Topeka, 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 10, at the Ramada Inn, 420 SE Sixth St. Dessert will be served. Topeka serves students from 14 counties: Brown, Coffey, Geary, Jackson, Jefferson, Lyon, Marshall, Morris, Nemaha, Osage, Pottawatomie, Riley, Shawnee and Wabaunsee.
Beloit, 6:30 p.m. Monday, Feb. 11, at Beloit High School, 1711 Walnut. Pizza will be served. The Beloit SRP is for students from the Kansas counties of Cloud, Jewell, Lincoln, Mitchell, Republic and Washington and from the cities of Osborne and Downs in Osborne County. Students from the Nebraska counties of Clay, Jefferson, Nuckolls and Thayer are also invited.
Kearney, Neb., 1 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 17, at the Holiday Inn, 110 S. Second Ave. Dessert will be served. Students from 14 Nebraska counties are invited to the Kearney SRP: Adams, Buffalo, Dawson, Franklin, Frontier, Furnas, Gosper, Hall, Harlan, Kearney, Lincoln, Phelps, Red Willow and Webster.
Hays, 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 17, in the Fort Hays Ballroom of FHSU’s Memorial Union, 700 College Drive. Dessert will be served. The Hays SRP serves students from seven counties: Ellis, Graham, Norton, Phillips, Rooks, Smith and Trego counties and from the cities of La Crosse in Rush County, Natoma in Osborne County, and Ransom in Ness County.
Garden City, 2 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 24, at Garden City High School, 2720 Buffalo Way. Dessert will be served. Garden City serves students from 13 southwest Kansas counties and four southeast Colorado counties: Finney, Grant, Greeley, Hamilton, Haskell, Kearny, Lane, Morton, Scott, Seward, Stanton, Stevens and Wichita in Kansas; and Baca, Bent, Kiowa and Prowers counties in Colorado.
Dodge City, 6:30 p.m. Sunday, Feb. 24, at Dodge City High School, 2201 W. Ross Road. Pizza will be served. The Dodge City SRP serves eight counties – Clark, Comanche, Edwards, Ford, Gray, Hodgeman, Kiowa and Meade – and Ness City in Ness County.
BILLINGS, Mont. (AP) — Montana State University’s play-by-play broadcaster for football and men’s basketball has resigned after the university investigated a reporter’s complaint that he sexually harassed her, an allegation that he denies.
Sanderson photo courtesy KXLB
Jay Sanderson told The Billings Gazette that he left his position as “the voice of the Bobcats” last month and was moving to help an ill family member in his hometown of Wichita.
He denies former Missoulian reporter Amie Just’s allegations that he touched her inappropriately and sent her sexually suggestive text messages.
Just granted permission to use her name to The Associated Press, which normally does not name alleged sexual harassment victims.
Internal university documents provided to the Gazette and the AP show the university’s Office of Institutional Equality investigated Sanderson after Just filed a complaint in September.
A draft report written at the end of November concluded that Sanderson more likely than not “engaged in unwelcome conduct of a sexual nature” by sending multiple sexually harassing text messages to Just, making sexually explicit statements and by making unwanted sexual contact.
The schools interim Title IX coordinator, Emily Stark, also issued a “no contact” order in October barring Sanderson and Just from any communication with each other.
A final report is expected this month.
The investigation included interviews with witnesses who said Just appeared shaken at a Big Sky football event in July and told them that Sanderson had touched her inappropriately, according to the report. Just also provided the investigator with suggestive text messages Sanderson sent her in February.
Just, who now covers Louisiana State University sports for the Times-Picayune, said Sanderson created a hostile environment and hurt her ability to do her job, the report said.
Montana State University vice president of communications Tracy Ellig said the university does not comment on individual cases and that the investigatory report is not a public document, though he acknowledged that the document exists.
Sanderson had been in his position since 2014 as a part-time employee of the university and a full-time employee of Learfield Sports. The university has jurisdiction to investigate Sanderson because of his employment and because he was “the public face for MSU Athletics,” the report said.
He resigned at the end of December and said in a tweet that he was moving to Wichita because “members of my family have been befallen by devastating health issues.” He told the Gazette that the allegations are untrue, he considered Just a friend and that the investigation had nothing to do with his resignation.
“Not one bit. I would’ve resigned if there had not been any of this going on,” Sanderson said.
Just reported on the University of Montana’s football team for 1½ seasons.
“I wouldn’t wish this on anyone,” she told the Gazette. “I want to move forward with my life. I hope everyone involved can do the same.”
TOPEKA – The Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) and the Kansas Department of Wildlife, Parks and Tourism (KDWPT) are issuing fish consumption advisories for 2019. The advisories identify types of fish or other aquatic animals that should be eaten in limited quantities or, in some cases, avoided altogether because of contamination. General advice and Internet resources are also provided to aid the public in making informed decisions regarding the benefits as well as the risks associated with eating locally caught fish from Kansas waters.
Definitions:
Bottom-feeding fish: buffalos, carp, carpsuckers, catfishes (except blue and flathead catfish), sturgeons, and suckers.
Predatory fish: black basses, blue catfish, crappies, drum, flathead catfish, perches, sunfish, white bass, wiper, striper, walleye, saugeye, and sauger.
Shellfish: mussels, clams, and crayfish.
General Population: Men and women 18 years of age or older.
Sensitive Populations: Women who are pregnant, may become pregnant, or are nursing and children age 17 or younger.
Meal size (skinless fish fillets before cooking):
Adults and Children age 13 and older = 8 ounces
Children age 6 to 12 = 4 ounces
Children younger than 6 = 2 ounces
Statewide Advisories
Kansas recommends the following consumption restrictions because of mercury in fish:
Sensitive Populations should restrict consumption of all types of locally caught fish, from waters or species of fish not specifically covered by an advisory to one meal per week because of mercury.
Largemouth, smallmouth, and spotted bass (black basses):
Sensitive Populations should restrict consumption of these species to one meal per month because of mercury.
General Public should restrict consumption of these species to one meal per week because of mercury.
Waterbody specific advisories for all consumers
Kansas recommends restricting consumption of bottom-feeding fish to one meal per week from the following location because of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs):
Cow Creek in Hutchinson and downstream to the confluence with the Arkansas River (Reno County);
The Kansas River from Lawrence (below Bowersock Dam) downstream to Eudora at the confluence of the Wakarusa River (Douglas and Leavenworth counties);
The Little Arkansas River from the Main Street Bridge immediately west of Valley Center to the confluence with the Arkansas River in Wichita (Sedgwick County).
Kansas recommends restricting consumption of bottom-feeding fish to one meal per month from the following location because of PCBs:
K-96 Lake in Wichita (Sedgwick County).
Kansas recommends not eating specified fish or aquatic life from the following locations:
The Arkansas River from the Lincoln Street dam in Wichita downstream to the confluence with Cowskin Creek near Belle Plaine (Sedgwick and Sumner counties); bottom-feeding fish because of PCBs.
Shoal Creek from the Missouri/Kansas border to Empire Lake (Cherokee County); shellfish because of lead and cadmium.
The Spring River from the confluence of Center Creek to the Kansas/Oklahoma border (Cherokee County); shellfish because of lead and cadmium.
Antioch Park Lake South in Antioch Park, Overland Park (Johnson County); all fish because of the pesticides dieldrin, heptachlor epoxide, chlordane, and dichlorophenyltrichloroethanes (DDTs).
Arkalon Park Lakes in Liberal (Seward County) – Kansas recommends not eating fish or other aquatic life because the lakes are sustained solely by treated municipal wastewater.
General advice for eating locally caught fish in Kansas
Sensitive populations should consider restricting their total mercury intake for both supermarket fish and locally caught species. Concerned parents and other persons may wish to consult with a physician about eating fish and mercury exposure.
Mercury exposure can be reduced by limiting the consumption of large predatory fish. Larger/older fish of all types are more likely to have higher concentrations of mercury.
Avoid the consumption of fish parts other than fillets, especially when eating bottom-feeding fish. Fatty internal organs tend to accumulate higher levels of fat-soluble contaminants such as chlordane and PCBs than fillets.
Consumers can reduce their ingestion of fat-soluble contaminants such as chlordane and PCBs by trimming fat from fillets, and cooking in a manner in which fat drips away from the fillet.
Avoid subsistence level (relying on wild-caught fish for daily nutritional needs) fishing activities in large rivers within or immediately downstream of large urban/industrial areas and wastewater outfalls. Fish in these areas are more likely to contain traces of chemical contaminants.
Kansas recommends not eating fish or aquatic life from surface waters sustained solely by municipal or industrial wastewater because of unknown, yet potentially present pathogens, metals, organic chemicals or other emerging contaminants. This advisory includes consumption of any aquatic life present in wastewater outfalls, waste treatment lagoons or stormwater detention ponds.
In waterbodies where watches or warnings related to harmful algae blooms have been applied, fish should be consumed in moderation and care taken to only consume skinless fillets. Avoid cutting into internal organs and rinse fillets with clean water prior to cooking or freezing.
Internet resources from KDHE, KDWPT, EPA, FDA, and the American Heart Association
For information about fishing in Kansas including licensing, regulations, fishing reports and fishing forecasts please visit the KDWPT fishing website: https://ksoutdoors.com/Fishing
For technical information regarding the EPA risk assessment methods used to determine advisory consumption limits please visit: https://www2.epa.gov/fish-tech
The TMP-Marian boys and girls basketball teams split a non-conference doubleheader Saturday at Salina Sacred Heart.
Girls: TMP 73, Sacred Heart 51
The TMP girls had four players score in double-figures and outscored Sacred Heart 44-22 in the second half on their way to a 73-51 win Saturday in Salina.
The two teams traded baskets for the entire first-half with neither team building a more than five-point lead with the two teams finishing tied at 29 at halftime.
The Knights took a two-point lead to open the second-half but Adell Riedel hit her first of three second-half three-points and sparked a 16-3 run to gave the Monarchs a 45-34 third quarter lead. They would never trail again on their way to their third win in-a-row.
Riedel finished with a game-high 17 and Emilee Lane recorded her first career double-double with 16 points and 10 rebounds.
The Monarchs improve to 5-3 on the season.
Rose McFarland postgame interview
Game highlights
Boys: Sacred Heart 57, TMP 34
For the second night in-a-row the TMP boys jumped out to an early lead only to come up short falling 57-34 to Sacred Heart.
TMP’s Ryan Karlin scored seven of the Monarchs first eight points as they took an early 8-2 lead. Sacred Heart would answer right back though, using a 12-2 run to end the first quarter to build a 14-10 lead.
The Knights carried the momentum into the second-quarter opening the quarter on an 11-2 run to take a 25-14 lead as they cruised to the win.
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A 37-year-old man who fatally shot one man and tried to kill two others outside a bar has been sentenced to nearly 19 years in prison.
Danny Queen -photo Douglas Co.
Danny Queen, of Eudora, was sentenced Friday for the June 2017 death of 32-year-old Bo Hopson outside D-Dubs Bar and Grill in Eudora. He also was sentenced for attempted second-degree murder and attempted voluntary manslaughter for trying to kill two other bar patrons.
Prosecutors say his gun jammed when he tried to shoot the two other men.
Queen was kicked out of the bar after making offensive comments to women. When Hopson offered to find Queen a ride home, Hopson instead pulled a gun and shot Hopson, who was the bar’s security guard.
TOPEKA – The Kansas Department of Commerce, in partnership with KANSASWORKS, will host the KANSASWORKS Statewide Job Fair on March 7, 2019. The annual job fair will provide employers, veterans, and job seekers with the unique opportunity to connect face-to-face.
“Meeting the workforce needs of Kansas employers is a primary goal for this Department,” said Interim Kansas Department of Commerce Secretary Robert North. “The Statewide Job Fair offers the opportunity to unite the businesses we work so closely with to the skilled and valuable employees they need to fill crucial positions within their companies.”
The Statewide Job Fair is also an opportunity for veterans of any status and their families to meet with a variety of employers in various industries and fields. Veterans at any stage in their career search are invited, including active duty, reservists, or National Guard.
“The Kansas workforce is made up of talented, highly-skilled individuals with a passion and drive that brings an inherent value to everything they do,” said Mike Beene, Kansas Department of Commerce Director of Employment Services. “Our workers make up the fabric of this state, holding it together through their commitments to hard work and excellence.”
The event will take place at 11 different locations across the state, including Colby, El Dorado, Independence, Kansas City, Lawrence, Leavenworth, Manhattan, Overland Park, Salina, Topeka, and Wichita. The job fair will be open to all job seekers from 2:00 p.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Registration for the Statewide Job Fair can be done via the following links:
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