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State agencies partnering to award scholarships to Kansas high school seniors

Posted on January 13, 2018January 9, 2018

KID

TOPEKA — Kansas Securities Commissioner John Wine, State Bank Commissioner Miki Bowman, and Kansas Insurance Commissioner Ken Selzer announced the opening of the 2018 Kansas Financial Scholars Essay Scholarship Contest today. The contest will run from January 8 through March 27, 2018.

Students participating in the contest will have the opportunity to win one of nine possible awards ranging from $250 to $2500. The teachers of participating students are eligible to win gift cards ranging from $100 to $150.

Students who choose to participate in the competition will be asked to write a two-part essay. Part 1 requires students to select one of two financial challenges and write a 1 to 2-page essay on the chosen topic. In Part 2, students will analyze and detail the financial decisions they are making now in preparation for their future.

Complete contest rules can be found at www.ksc.ks.gov/EssayContest.

“Financial education and planning are important tools to help students to succeed in their careers,” said Ken Selzer, CPA, Kansas Commissioner of Insurance. “This scholarship contest is a great example of Kansas state agency cooperation in helping Kansas students to succeed in those life skills.”

To be eligible, students must be in their senior year and attending a Kansas public or private school or homeschool. They must plan to attend a Kansas technical school, college or university after high school graduation. Lastly, students are required to participate in at least one of the following agency-sponsored programs: EverFi/Kansas Financial Scholars Program, The Stock Market Game or the Personal Finance Challenge.

“As interest in these financial programs has grown, so has participation in the scholarship contest,” said Securities Commissioner John Wine. “To date, more than 300 students have submitted essays to our judges and over $23,000 in scholarships has been awarded to Kansas high school seniors.” State Bank Commissioner Miki Bowman added, “We are very pleased to continue supporting programs that provide students with a background of financial knowledge to begin building toward their futures. Our scholarship draws upon the knowledge students acquire through these programs and provides them an opportunity to demonstrate what they have learned. We look forward to reviewing the essay submissions for this year.”

Teachers, parents or students may inquire with the Director of Investor Education at [email protected] or 785-296-1055 to sign up today for one of the complimentary prerequisite programs.

First Amendment: ‘Weakening’ libel laws is not the right tactic — for anyone

Posted on January 13, 2018January 11, 2018

Making it easier to sue people for libel is not a good idea — for our democracy in general, and even for President Trump and a few of his personal lawyers, in particular.

Trump has railed against existing legal protections, most recently following the publication of journalist Michael Wolff’s searing book “Fire and Fury: Inside the Trump White House.” On Wednesday, Trump said he will take a “strong look” at the country’s libel laws because they are a “sham and a disgrace and do not represent American values and American fairness.”

Just hours earlier, Trump’s personal attorney Michael Cohen sued BuzzFeed Inc. and consulting firm Fusion GPS for defamation, claiming they had made unproven or erroneous allegations about him in a controversial “Russia dossier” compiled by Fusion and later published by BuzzFeed.

The laws that Trump wants to tinker with are rooted in a 1964 U.S. Supreme Court decision, New York Times v. Sullivan, which protects critics of public officials, even if their offending speech contains error — as did the newspaper advertisement at the heart of that legal dispute.

Most certainly that decision and others that followed it are not license to fabricate and defame without concern. The Times v. Sullivan decision stakes out conditions in which defamatory material is not protected: Material disseminated with “malicious intent” — that is, with the knowledge it is false — or with reckless disregard of whether it was false or not.

But absent those circumstances, the Court said, the need for a democracy to have an “uninhibited, robust and wide open” discussion on matters of public interest requires that we accept that those discussions likely will contain “vehement, caustic and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.”

“I consider [the book] a work of fiction,” Trump told reporters on Jan. 6, at a meeting at Camp David, Md. “The libel laws are very weak in this country. If they were strong, it would be very helpful. You wouldn’t have things like that happen where you can say whatever comes to your head.”

Actually, the very point of the First Amendment’s protection for free speech and a free press is that we get to say “whatever” comes into our heads, with very few restraints, without fear of being prevented or punished by the government. The Sullivan standard accepts inadvertent error in the effort to inform citizens on matters of public interest.

In response to Cohen’s lawsuit, a spokesman for BuzzFeed said that “The dossier is, and continues to be, the subject of active investigations by Congress and intelligence agencies. It was presented to two successive presidents, and has been described in detail by news outlets around the world. Its interest to the public is obvious.” The spokesman added, “This is not the first time Trump’s personal lawyer has attacked the free press, and we look forward to defending our First Amendment rights in court.”

Cohen relies, ironically, on the very standard in Sullivan that Trump would alter or remove: That the material in the dossier was published with knowledge that it was false.

As has been noted by many experts following Trump’s multiple threats to change libel law, it isn’t possible to make changes with the stroke of a presidential pen, or even an act of Congress. Libel laws are state laws, so changes would have to take place in 51 sets of statutes (including Washington, D.C.), through a Supreme Court decision, or through constitutional changes. Neither is likely.

The best tactic in defending Trump against the criticism in Wolff’s book or the allegations in the Fusion dossier may well be to use the power already in the hands of Trump and his cohorts: The power public officials have to respond effectively to negative and damaging comments (which is so much more than that of non-celebrities that in Times v. Sullivan public officials — and later all public figures — were granted less protection against such comments).

Clearly, Trump and his legal representatives have plenty of means to counter virtually any allegation, including Tweet storms, via sympathetic news outlets, and from the daily platform of the White House briefing room.

In other words, Trump can use the “Bully Pulpit” that is the White House — and, if you will, the “Bully Tweets” that he relies on so much. He shouldn’t try to silence the news media for reporting what the public needs to know, but instead encourage journalists to report the claims on all sides, including his own.

Trump needs to join in the “uninhibited, robust and wide open” discussion that is democracy’s lifeblood, rather than trying to silence others in this ongoing national conversation.

Gene Policinski is president and chief operating officer of the Newseum Institute. He can be reached at [email protected], or follow him on Twitter at @genefac.

Funding now available for locally-focused environmental education grants

Posted on January 13, 2018January 8, 2018

EPA

LENEXA — EPA is pleased to announce that up to $3 million in funding for locally-focused environmental education grants will be available under the 2018 EE Local Grant Program. EPA will award three to four grants in each of EPA’s ten regions, for no less than $50,000 and no more than $100,000 each, for a total of 30-35 grants nationwide. Proposals are due March 15, 2018. The Requests for Proposals will be posted on www.grants.gov later this week.

In addition to other environmental topics, the 2018 EE Local Grant Program includes support for projects that reflect the intersection of environmental issues and agricultural best-practices, conservation of natural resources, food waste management, and natural disaster preparedness.

Funded projects will increase public awareness of those topics and help participants to develop the skills needed to make informed decisions. A Request for Proposals (also called a Solicitation Notice) containing details will be issued by each of the ten EPA Regions.

“By recognizing these locally-based learning and awareness opportunities, the Environmental Protection Agency is taking both a local and national leadership role in promoting sound agricultural conservation practices, environmental disaster preparedness, adequate food waste management and other important environmental best-practices,” said Administrator Scott Pruitt. “Environmental education starts locally in our own backyards, classrooms and in the fields of farmers who work the land directly, and I’m proud to play a role in enhancing such learning opportunities.”

Through this grant program, EPA intends to provide financial support for projects that design, demonstrate; and/or disseminate environmental education practices, methods, or techniques, as described in this notice, that will serve to increase environmental and conservation literacy, and encourage behavior that will benefit the environment in the local community/ies in which they are located.

Since 1992, EPA has distributed between $2 million and $3.5 million in annual grant funding under this program, supporting more than 3,700 grants.

Proposals are due by March 15, 2018. The full solicitation notices will be posted later this week at www.grants.gov and at https://www.epa.gov/education/environmental-education-ee-grant-solicitation-notice.

Find background on the EE Grants Program and resources for applicants at https://www.epa.gov/education/environmental-education-ee-grants.

Now That’s Rural: Jake Worcester, Manhattan Meat Market

Posted on January 13, 2018January 10, 2018

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

Let’s go to New York City to a high-end restaurant and order a Braveheart steak. The steak is delicious. These steaks are available in high quality restaurants across the country – but there is only one place in the nation where a person can get one of these steaks to cook at home. That place is not Manhattan, New York, but Manhattan, Kansas.

Jake Worcester and his partners are the owners of Manhattan Meat Market in Manhattan, Kansas. Jake and his friends wanted high quality, locally-sourced meat so they started this meat market of their own.

Jake grew up on a farm in northwest Kansas where his family consumed meat they raised themselves. (That takes the “know your farmer, know your food” concept to a whole new level!) Jake was active in 4-H and FFA, went to K-State where he was elected student body president, served as Kansas assistant secretary of agriculture, and now is president and CEO of the Kansas 4-H Foundation.

“We noticed a resurgence of interest in specialty meats and local meat products,” Jake said. In recent years, he talked about this with friends and former co-workers at the Kansas Department of Agriculture and elsewhere. In order to respond to this consumer demand, Jake and these friends opened Manhattan Meat Market in June 2017.

“Our goal is to provide great local products with great customer service to the Manhattan community,” Jake said. “In a larger sense, we also want to tell the story of Kansas farmers and ranchers who have such a great product.”

“Our first decision was that we wanted to distribute Braveheart beef,” Jake said. These steaks are produced by the Beef Marketing Group in Kansas and typically go to high-end restaurants including Harry’s in Manhattan and many on the east coast. Manhattan Meat Market is the first in the country where a consumer can buy those steaks and cook them on his or her own grill.

“Our second decision was that we wanted to feature local producers – and we mean local,” Jake said. For example, Manhattan Meat Market offers many products grown in rural Riley, Pottawatomie, and surrounding counties. These include lamb from Glenn Brunkow near Westmoreland, meat goats from Brenda Jordan at Riley, bison from Rick Eyestone near Junction City, and pork from Josh Wendland near Barnes, population 159 people. Now, that’s rural.

These products are supplemented with other products as needed, such as additional pork from Nebraska and seafood from the coasts. The meat is brought in to Manhattan Meat Market as primal or sub-primal cuts. There is no slaughtering done at Manhattan Meat Market. The store offers pre-packaged products or the staff can custom-cut an order.

“Because we don’t have mass volume, we’re able to get to know and serve our customers,” Jake said. The store also offers related products such as rubs and sauces and local favorites such as Alma Cheese and Holy Goat Creamery cheese, plus much more. Occasionally, items such as striped bass and steelhead salmon are available.

One partner, Chad Bontrager, helps source products through his ownership of locker plants in Frankfort and Meriden, plus Yoder Meats. “We’ve got the right kind of team to serve the customer,” Jake said.

“If there’s a place in Kansas to buy great meat, Manhattan ought to be the place,” Jake said. “We’re situated in the Flint Hills next to the nation’s leading land-grant university and one of the country’s finest meat science departments.”

Food safety and quality are top priorities. “We want to help educate people that the U.S. food system is the safest in the world,” Jake said. The focus is also on superior quality and service. “We believe there is a market for high-end, locally-sourced, premium product.”

For more information, go to www.mhkmeats.com.

It’s time to leave New York City where we found a steak that can only be purchased for home use in Manhattan, Kansas. We salute Jake Worcester and all those involved for making a difference with entrepreneurship in the protein business. Manhattan Meat Market is a place where high quality and customer service can meet.

Gubernatorial candidate in Hays Sat. for Coffee with Kloos

Posted on January 13, 2018January 12, 2018

TOPEKA – You are invited to spend some time with Rick Kloos, independent candidate for Kansas governor. Rick is currently the only candidate on the ballot.

He is the founder and director of God’s Storehouse, a local nonprofit thrift store in Topeka.

Rick and his campaign team will be hosting a meet and greet event “Coffee with Kloos” at Paisley Pear Wine Bar, Bistro & Market, 1100 Main St., Hays, on Saturday, January 13, beginning at 3:00 P.M.

Rick wants to hear from you. He wants to know what issues concern you as he heads into the 2018 gubernatorial race. At 3:30 P.M. he will share his vision for Kansas and how he plans to “Keep Kansas Home.”

You can learn more about Rick Kloos and his campaign at www.kloosforkansas.com.

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Kan, Child Welfare Wants More Money So Children Can Sleep In Homes Instead Of Offices

Posted on January 13, 2018January 12, 2018

Gina Meier-Hummel started her job as secretary of the Kansas Department for Children and Families on Dec. 1, and announces plans to address some of the the high-profile problems with Kansas’s foster care system.
Photo by MADELINE FOX / KANSAS NEWS SERVICE

By MADELINE FOX

Kansas’ troubled child welfare agency asked lawmakers Monday for money to solve mounting problems — foster kids sleeping on offices, children lost in the system, and a skyrocketing caseload.

Legislators and advocates expressed outrage earlier at news that children slept in foster care contractors’ offices because foster homes had no room. Department for Children and Families secretary Gina Meier-Hummel said some of the requested money would go toward holding beds open for hard-to-place kids.

The money, $16.5 million over two years, would also allow DCF to hire more people to find kids who have run away or otherwise disappeared from their foster care placements.

Meier-Hummel’s predecessor, Phyllis Gilmore, was criticized for being seemingly unaware that three sisters had been missing from their foster home in Tonganoxie for months. Meier-Hummel has been getting a daily report of missing kids since taking office Nov. 1. She said about 70 kids are currently missing from their foster care placements.

The secretary said $6.55 million of the added money would go toward keeping children safely with their families — and out of foster care.

“We (should) do the right thing by keeping children in families, but first, they have to be safe,” Meier-Hummel said.

Colyer said the appointment of a new DCF secretary, as well as the legislative interest around a child welfare task force that was created last year, has created an opportunity for change.

“We’re at a juncture where we have legislative support, we have some new ideas and we’re going to be doing a top-to-bottom review – we want to deal with problems,” said Colyer, who’s taking the lead on child welfare in the expectation that he’ll soon replace Sam Brownback as governor. He’s also running to be elected governor in November.

Rep. Linda Gallagher, a Lenexa Republican, said the recommendation for more money tells her Brownback intends to make child welfare a priority this legislative session.

“All of the additional funds are needed, and they all address problems areas that we heard about last year,” said Gallagher, who is a member of the Child Welfare Task Force. “Most of the legislature is aware of the problems in the system, and has the willingness to address it with additional funding.”

Madeline Fox is a reporter for the Kansas News Service, a collaboration of KCUR, Kansas Public Radio, KMUW and High Plains Public Radio covering health, education and politics. You can reach her on Twitter @maddycfox. Kansas News Service stories and photos may be republished at no cost with proper attribution and a link back to kcur.org.

FHSU Virtual College again named a gold-level Military Friendly® school

Posted on January 13, 2018January 9, 2018

FHSU University Relations and Marketing

Fort Hays State University’s Virtual College has once again been named a Military Friendly® Gold School by Victory Media, originator of a family of Military Friendly employment, entrepreneurship and education resources for veterans and their families.

Fort Hays State also earned Military Friendly-Gold recognition in 2017.

Military Friendly is the standard that Victory Media uses to measure an organization’s commitment, effort and success in creating sustainable and meaningful benefit for the military community.

“Institutions earning the Military Friendly® School designation were evaluated using both public data sources and responses from a proprietary survey completed by the school,” says the Victory Media website.

Institutions earning the Military Friendly® School designation were evaluated using both public data sources and responses from a proprietary survey completed by the school, and for the first time, data from a student satisfaction survey was included this year in the material evaluated.

The student survey was voluntary this year, but institutions will be required to provide student satisfaction data for next year’s rankings. More than 1,300 schools participated in the 2017-2018 survey with 849 earning the Military Friendly designation, said Victory Media.

Less than 200 earned Gold level recognition across the 11 categories. That number includes Victory Media’s Top 10 institutions in each category and the institutions in each category that scored within 10 percent of the point value awarded to No. 10 institution.

The categories are Online/Vocational; Non-Traditional; Graduate School, Small Community College; Large Community College; Small Public; Large Public; Private Offering Doctorate; Private Not Offering Doctorate; Tier 1 Research Institution; and Tier 2 Research Institution.

Fort Hays State is listed in the Online/Vocational category by Victory Media.

The Military Friendly® Schools list, now in its 16th year, is a comprehensive guide for veterans and their families using data sources from federal agencies, veteran students and proprietary survey information from participating organizations.

The 2017-2018 Military Friendly® Schools list is in the December issue of G.I. Jobs magazine and can be found at www.militaryfriendly.com.

The statement on methodology issued by Victory Media says, “Methodology, criteria, and weightings were determined by Victory Media with input from the Military Friendly® Advisory Council of independent leaders in the higher education and military recruitment community. Final ratings were determined by combining the institution’s survey scores with the assessment of the institution’s ability to meet thresholds for student retention, graduation, job placement, loan repayment, persistence (degree advancement or transfer) and loan default rates for all students and, specifically, for student veterans.”

“Our ability to apply a clear, consistent standard to colleges creates a competitive atmosphere that encourages colleges to invest in programs to provide educational outcomes that are better for veterans,” said Victory Media’s chief product officer Daniel Nichols.

About Military Friendly® Schools:
The annual Military Friendly® Schools list is based on extensive research using public data sources for more than 8,800 schools nationwide, input from student veterans, and responses to the proprietary, data-driven Military Friendly® Schools survey from participating institutions.

About Victory Media:
Victory Media, founded in 2001, is a service-disabled, veteran-owned small business that connects the military community to civilian employment, educational and entrepreneurial opportunities through its G.I. Jobs® and Military Friendly® brands. Victory Media and its brands are not a part of or endorsed by the U.S. Department of Defense or any federal government entity. Learn more about Victory Media at www.victorymedia.com. Media Contact: Brian O’Malley, [email protected] or 602-274-1988

Partly cloudy, cold Saturday

Posted on January 13, 2018January 13, 2018

Today
Partly cloudy, with a high near 20. Wind chill values as low as -7. Light and variable wind becoming south 5 to 8 mph in the afternoon.

Tonight
Mostly cloudy, with a low around 14. Wind chill values as low as 3. Southeast wind around 8 mph becoming southwest after midnight.

Sunday
Sunny, with a high near 47. Southwest wind 7 to 9 mph becoming west northwest in the afternoon.

Sunday Night
A 20 percent chance of snow after midnight. Mostly cloudy, with a low around 21. West wind 6 to 11 mph becoming north northeast 13 to 18 mph after midnight. Winds could gust as high as 28 mph.

M.L.King Day
A 30 percent chance of snow before noon. Mostly cloudy, with a temperature falling to around 15 by 5pm. Blustery, with a north wind 14 to 20 mph.

Monday Night
Mostly clear, with a low around -3.

Tuesday
Sunny, with a high near 21.

Tuesday Night
Mostly clear, with a low around 5.

Wednesday
Sunny, with a high near 34.

Sewer cleaning continues Sat. and Mon. in east-central Hays

Posted on January 13, 2018January 12, 2018

CITY OF HAYS

The City of Hays Water Resources Department has contracted Infra Track to conduct sewer line cleaning and inspections at the locations described and shown on the map.

On Saturday, January 13, 2018 and Monday, January 15, 2018, crews will finish working on Highway 40 heading west and continue in the areas of:

On Fort Street between 16th St. & 15th St.
Between Elm St. & Canal Blvd.from 35th St. South to 33rd St.
Between Haney St. & Henry St. from 25th St. & 24th St.
Between Whittier St. & Marshall St. from 20th St. to 19th St.

Door hanger notices will be placed on homes and businesses affected before the cleaning.

The City of Hays apologizes for any inconvenience this may impose. Performing this preventative maintenance by cleaning the sanitary sewer will improve the sewer’s performance and significantly reduce the chance for future sewer backups and related problems.

Should you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us at the Water Resources Office at 785-628-7380 or via email [email protected].

KDHE: 300 drug poisoning deaths in 2016

Posted on January 13, 2018January 12, 2018

KDHE

TOPEKA – This week the Kansas Department of Health and Environment (KDHE) began promoting the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC) Rx Awareness media campaign. The goal of Rx Awareness is to raise awareness of the risks of prescription opioids, as part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ five priorities to address the national opioid crisis.

According to the National Center for Health Statistics, drug poisonings are the leading cause of unintentional injury death in the United States. In 2016, the number of drug poisoning deaths reached an all-time high of more than 63,600 deaths – reducing life expectancy in the U.S. for the second consecutive year. This increase in drug poisoning deaths also placed unintentional injuries as the third leading cause of death in 2016, as compared to the fourth leading cause in 2015.

The majority of drug poisoning deaths involve either a prescription or an illicit opioid. Every day in the U.S., over 1,000 people receive treatment in emergency departments for misusing prescription opioids, and 40 individuals die from prescription opioid overdose. From 1999 to 2016, the total number of U.S. poisoning deaths related to all non-heroin opioids exceeded 340,000.

The opioid epidemic is affecting Kansas. In 2016, there were more than 300 drug-poisoning deaths, and approximately one-third involved a prescription opioid. In addition to other efforts to address this public health crisis, KDHE is promoting Rx Awareness.

The campaign will utilize the tagline, “It Only Takes a Little to Lose a Lot” in videos, digital and social media, and out-of-home advertisements to highlight the physical, emotional, and economic toll opioid use disorder and overdose can take on individuals, families, and communities. Rx Awareness will target high-risk regions in Kansas based on the Kansas Prescription Drug Monitoring Program (K-TRACS) opioid prescription dispensing data.

This project is supported by the CDC’s Prescription Drug Overdose: Data-Driven Prevention Initiative program. For more information on Rx Awareness, visit CDC.gov/RxAwareness. For more information on Kansas’ efforts to prevent prescription opioid overdose, please visit preventoverdoseks.org.

Friday night high school basketball scoreboard

Posted on January 12, 2018

Girls

Western Athletic Conference
Hays 54 Garden City 30
Buhler 38 Great Bend 52
Dodge City 27 Liberal 47

Mid-Continent League
Hill City 61 Ellis 36
Norton 49 Phillipsburg 54
Stockton 56 Oakley 46
Smith Center 41 TMP 55

Central Prairie League
LaCrosse 31 Otis-Bison 41
*Trego 55 Ness City 26
Victoria 29 Central Plains 95
Macksville 41 Ellinwood 30

North Central Activities Association
Sacred Heart 39 Ellsworth 62

Northwest Kansas League
Hoxie 52 Decatur Com. 20

Central Kansas League
Nickerson 60 Lyons 50
Pratt 37 Larned 23

Western Kansas Liberty League
Logan 41 Triplains 53
Northern Valley 68 Palco 41
Golden Plains 66 Western Plains 19
Wheatland-Grinnell 47 Cheylin 52

Great Western Kansas League
Scott 50 Hugoton 41
Ulysses 52 Goodland 22
Holcomb 39 Colby 43

Northern Plains Tournament 1^st Round @ Lincoln
Lincoln 19 Chase 37
Natoma 24 St. Johns-Tipton 58
Lakeside 46 Rock Hills 24
Southern Cloud 40 Pike Valley 37
Osborne 56 Tescott 25

Western Athletic Conference
Hays 82 Garden City 53
Buhler 44 Great Bend 36
Dodge City 59 Liberal 56

Mid-Continent League
Hill City 40 Ellis 56
Norton 22 Phillipsburg 66
Stockton 34 Oakley 65
Smith Center 42 TMP 75

Central Prairie League
LaCrosse 39 Otis-Bison 38
*Trego 32 Ness City 60
Victoria 27 Central Plains 80
Macksville 54 Ellinwood 26
*Kinsley 46 Kiowa Co. 51

North Central Activities Association
Sacred Heart 62 Ellsworth 47

Central Kansas League
Nickerson 32 Lyons 34
Pratt 49 Larned 42

Western Kansas Liberty League
Logan 50 Triplains 39
Golden Plains 70 Western Plains 54

Great Western Kansas League
Scott 65 Hugoton 67
Ulysses 54 Goodland 53
Holcomb 66 Colby 41

Northern Plains Tournament 1^st Round @ Lincoln
Chase 25 Lakeside 53
Tescott 27 Pike Valley 52
Thunder Ridge 44 Wilson 51
Southern Cloud 58 Natoma 31
Lincoln 23 St. Johns-Tipton 47

*Non-league
AP-KS–Kansas Prep Scores, 2nd Ld-Writethru,1088
Friday’s Scores
By The Associated Press
BOYS’ BASKETBALL
Abilene 62, Clay Center 48
Augusta 35, Wellington 26
Basehor-Linwood 44, KC Turner 42
Baxter Springs 58, Neodesha 40
Beloit 56, Minneapolis 40
Bonner Springs 73, KC Piper 61
Buhler 44, Great Bend 36
Burrton 63, Attica 52
BV West 49, Mill Valley 47
Caney Valley 83, Fredonia 33
Central Plains 80, Victoria 27
Chanute 54, Parsons 35
Chaparral 68, Garden Plain 65
Cheney 58, Belle Plaine 37
Cherryvale 61, Humboldt 54
Circle 68, Clearwater 53
Concordia 62, Chapman 55
DeSoto 65, Louisburg 48
Dodge City 76, Liberal 68
El Dorado 54, Mulvane 42
Ellis 56, Hill City 40
Elyria Christian 53, Goessel 29
Emporia 61, Junction City 51
Eudora 45, Ottawa 31
Fort Scott 70, Independence 57
Frontenac 63, St. Paul 33
Galena 62, Uniontown 14
Goddard-Eisenhower 57, Andover Central 44
Hays 82, Garden City 53
Hays-TMP-Marian 75, Smith Center 42
Hillsboro 63, Haven 53
Holcomb 66, Colby 41
Holton 44, Hiawatha 39
Hugoton 67, Scott City 65
Hutchinson Central Christian 69, Stafford 46
Jefferson West 58, Perry-Lecompton 53
KC Schlagle 73, Atchison 44
KC Wyandotte 59, KC Washington 57
Kingman 67, Smoky Valley 61
Kiowa County 51, Kinsley 46
La Crosse 39, Otis-Bison 38
Labette County 55, Coffeyville 48
Lawrence 72, SM North 64
Lawrence Free State 56, Olathe Northwest 50
Lyons 34, Nickerson 32
Maize 52, Salina Central 29
Maranatha Academy 82, Pleasant Ridge 46
Marmaton Valley 65, Pleasanton 54
McLouth 60, Valley Falls 35
McPherson 36, Andale 34
Medicine Lodge 51, Douglass 46
Oakley 65, Stockton 34
Pratt 49, Larned 42
Pratt Skyline 56, Fairfield 37
Riverside 45, Atchison County 38
Rock Creek 65, Wabaunsee 29
Sabetha 68, Royal Valley 44
Salina Sacred Heart 62, Ellsworth 47
Sedan 79, Oswego 19
Sedgwick 68, Moundridge 52
SM Northwest 54, SM East 51
Solomon 65, Canton-Galva 34
Southeast Saline 69, Republic County 53
St. Thomas Aquinas 56, Bishop Miege 51
Sterling 74, Remington 37
Topeka Seaman 62, Topeka Hayden 47
Udall 44, Flinthills 31
Wellsville 66, Iola 31
West Elk 78, South Haven 39
AVCTL – GWAL Challenge
Hutchinson 67, Wichita West 59
Wichita Bishop Carroll 56, Arkansas City 53
Wichita South 80, Derby 68
Northern Plains League Tournament
Play-In
Glasco/Miltonvale-Southern Cloud 58, Natoma 31
Lakeside 53, Chase 25
Pike Valley 52, Tescott 27
St. John’s Beloit-Tipton 47, Lincoln 23
Wilson 51, Thunder Ridge 44
GIRLS’ BASKETBALL
Andover Central 53, Goddard-Eisenhower 43
Atchison County 63, Riverside 26
Augusta 35, Wellington 26
Baldwin 61, Spring Hill 44
Basehor-Linwood 53, KC Turner 26
Beloit 47, Minneapolis 37
BV Southwest 54, St. James Academy 43
Canton-Galva 57, Solomon 18
Central Plains 95, Victoria 29
Chanute 54, Parsons 35
Cheney 71, Belle Plaine 17
Cherryvale 36, Humboldt 32
Cheylin 52, Wheatland-Grinnell 47
Cimarron 33, Syracuse 7
Circle 60, Clearwater 17
Clay Center 60, Abilene 55
Colby 43, Holcomb 39
Council Grove 49, West Franklin 35
DeSoto 54, Louisburg 40
El Dorado 34, Mulvane 22
Ellsworth 62, Salina Sacred Heart 39
Emporia 54, Junction City 31
Eudora 40, Ottawa 30
Eureka 66, Erie 61
Fairfield 45, Pratt Skyline 36
Fredonia 46, Caney Valley 36
Galena 62, Uniontown 14
Garden Plain 50, Chaparral 18
Goessel 45, Elyria Christian 28
Golden Plains 66, Western Plains-Healy 19
Great Bend 52, Buhler 38
Haven 59, Hillsboro 41
Hays 54, Garden City 34
Hays-TMP-Marian 55, Smith Center 41
Heritage Christian 59, University Academy, Mo. 50
Hill City 61, Ellis 36
Holton 58, Hiawatha 18
Hoxie 52, Oberlin-Decatur 20
Hutchinson Central Christian 38, Stafford 31
Hutchinson Trinity 44, Inman 40
Jefferson North 61, Oskaloosa 30
Jefferson West 55, Perry-Lecompton 16
KC Piper 59, Bonner Springs 20
KC Schlagle 68, Atchison 41
KC Sumner 86, KC Harmon 5
Kingman 57, Smoky Valley 31
Labette County 74, Coffeyville 26
Lansing 48, Tonganoxie 31
Lawrence 62, SM North 30
Liberal 47, Dodge City 27
Little River 50, Herington 32
Macksville 41, Ellinwood 30
Madison/Hamilton 31, Southern Coffey 21
Manhattan 47, Topeka West 23
Marion 35, Bennington 25
McPherson 50, Andale 46
Medicine Lodge 41, Douglass 31
Nickerson 60, Lyons 50
Northern Valley 68, Palco 41
Olathe East 58, Gardner-Edgerton 44
Olathe North 42, Leavenworth 25
Olathe Northwest 60, Lawrence Free State 50
Osage City 43, Lyndon 38, OT
Osawatomie 48, Prairie View 39
Otis-Bison 41, La Crosse 31
Oxford 40, Cedar Vale/Dexter 32
Pawnee Heights 49, Satanta 37
Phillipsburg 54, Norton 49
Pittsburg 56, Girard 25
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AVCTL – GWAL Challenge
Arkansas City 54, Wichita West 38
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Wichita East 34, Goddard 29
Northern Plains League Tournament
Play-In
Chase 37, Lincoln 19
Glasco/Miltonvale-Southern Cloud 40, Pike Valley 37
Lakeside 46, Rock Hills 24
Osborne 56, Tescott 25
St. John’s Beloit-Tipton 58, Natoma 24

TMP takes a pair from Smith Center

Posted on January 12, 2018

By JEREMY McGUIRE
Hays Post

Girls: TMP 55, Smith Center 41

HAYS, Kan.-Defense was the name of the game for the TMP Lady Monarchs as they forced Smith Center into 12 first half turnovers and held the Lady Red to just two first half field goals in a 55-41 victory. 12 of Smith Center’s first half points came from the free throw line. TMP led 32-16 thanks to 13 points in the first half from Kayla Vitztum and 6 points from Savannah Yost and 5 points from Jillian Lowe.

Smith Center closed the gap to 15 points by the end of the third quarter and they came out firing in the fourth quarter. The Lady Red scored the first six points of the fourth quarter to make it a single digit game at 41-32. TMP would score the next five points to build the lead back to double digits and would not see the lead dip again.

Vitztum finished with a game high 18 points. Kendra Maydew led Smith Center with 13 points. Smith Center drops to 8-1 on the year and 4-1 in the Mid Continent League. TMP improves to 9-1 on the year and 5-0 in the league. Both teams are off until Monday when they will host opening round games of the MCL Tournament.

ROSE MCFARLAND INTERVIEW

GAME HIGHLIGHTS

Boys: TMP 75, Smith Center 42

HAYS, Kan.-Foul trouble plagued TMP as David McFarland and Creighton Renz picked up two first quarter fouls and Smith Center took advantage as they raced to a six point lead in the first quarter. TMP would close the gap to three points, 18-15, after the first quarter. TMP would turn the tables in the second quarter as they would regain the lead and push it to nine at the end of the first half, 33-24 thanks to a 12-2 run to end the first half.

Colby Benoit paced Smith Center with 11 first half points, Jesse Staples had 9. David McFarland led a balanced TMP attack with 9 points in the opening half.

TMP extended their lead to 19 points after three quarters of play and slammed the door shut in the fourth quarter outscoring the Redmen 24-10 in the 75-42 victory. Benoit and Jesse Staples led the way for the Redmen (2-7, 1-4) with 13 points each. Michael Lager led TMP (8-2, 5-0) with 16 points. Smith Center will open up MCL Tournament play on Saturday against Trego. TMP will play the winner of Stockton and Hill City on Tuesday.

JOE HERTEL INTERVIEW

GAME HIGHLIGHTS

Kan. woman sentenced in theft of vehicle with 3-year-old inside

Posted on January 12, 2018January 12, 2018

Surveillance video of the the suspect-courtesy KCK Police

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A woman has been sentenced to four years and nine months in prison for stealing a car from a Kansas City, Kansas, gas station as a 3-year-old girl slept in the back seat.

The Kansas City Star reports that 30-year-old Karri Reich was sentenced Friday for attempted kidnapping. She pleaded no contest to the charge last month in Wyandotte County District Court.

KSHB-TV station crew aboard a helicopter spotted the abandoned vehicle in nearby Tonganoxie about an hour after the July theft. Video showed the girl as she ran to an officer. Police say the girl wasn’t hurt but went to a hospital as a precaution.

A co-defendant seen on surveillance video pointing the car out before the theft was previously sentenced to three years and eight months in prison.