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INDIANAPOLIS – For the first time in program history the Ouachita Baptist wrestling team will have a wrestler of the week award; the Great Lakes Valley Conference announced this morning that senior wrestler Tyler Mann (Little Rock, Ark.) had earned the honor of wrestler of the week. Mann a former All-American in the 165 weight division moved down a class this season and has excelled in the 157 division. This past weekend Mann finished third in the Gold Division at the Lindenwood Open and finished with a 5-1 record in competition. The Natural S...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Attorney General Mike Hunter says a website has been set up for artists duped by a defunct publisher to retrieve their digital book and music files. Hunter said Tuesday his office has sent a letter to more than 1,100 victims of Mustang-based Tate Publishing, which closed last year. Hunter says it provides step-by-step instructions for downloading documents. Hunter says his office has received about 2,200 worldwide complaints against Tate and that 1,560 files belonging to 1,130 authors and musicians have been r...
NORMAN, Okla. (AP) — A new University of Oklahoma program will help cover the school fees of students who receive Oklahoma's Promise tuition scholarships, school officials said. The new Crimson Commitment program will cover up to $8,000 worth of a student's fees per year beginning in the fall 2019 semester, The Oklahoman reported . The university plans to invest more than $1.5 million per year in the program through federal, state and institutional aid sources. Crimson Commitment will operate in conjunction with the Oklahoma's Promise s...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A former Kansas City-area teacher and swim coach has pleaded guilty to secretly filming a sexual encounter with a minor in 2013. The Kansas City Star reports that 54-year-old James Russell Green of Blue Springs, Missouri, entered the plea Tuesday in federal court, but still faces several sex crime charges in state court. Green taught and coached swimming in the North Kansas City School District and at Blue Springs South High School in Missouri. He coached at Hallbrook Country Club in Leawood, Kansas. He pleaded guilty t...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say they have located and recovered 18 missing children who ran away from foster homes in Kansas. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation said in a news release Tuesday that the joint effort last week to find runaways from the Kansas Foster Care Program involved more than 100 federal, state and local law enforcement officers. It focused on Sedgwick, Johnson and Wyandotte counties although the effort ultimately spanned several other Kansas counties and generated leads forwarded to other states. Operation Hope was l...
Real Estate Transfers Book 836 page 966: QS Enterprises, party of the first part, convey unto Blue Door Shanty LLC, party of the second part, lots 21 and 22 in block 41, Town of Helena, Alfalfa County, Oklahoma. Quit claim deed. Book 836 page 976: Michael L. Smith and Charlene K. Smith, husband and wife, grantors, quit claim to Michael L. Smith and Charlene K. Smith, co-trustees under the Michael L. Smith Revocable Trust dated November 8, 2010, grantee, the undivided half interest in the southeast quarter of section 10 in township 28 north of...
Real Estate Transfers Book 143 page 551: Randall D. Blunk and Roxie L. Blunk, husband and wife, convey unto Randall D. Blunk and Roxie L Blunk Living Trust. The southwest quarter, the east half of the northeast quarter and the northwest quarter of section 28, township 34, range 13 west of the 6th prime meridian, Barber County, Kansas. Warranty deed. Book 143 page 557: David Lynn Kirkbride and Mary Kirkbride, husband and wife, grantors, convey unto John H. Kirkbride, grantee. The south half of the northeast quarter and the southeast quarter of...
November 12, 2018 Sgt. Paasch investigated a vehicle that slid off Kansas Highway 2. Medicine Lodge ambulance transported patient from Medicine Lodge Memorial Hospital to Andover. November 13, 2018 Sgt. Passch investigated a suspicious vehicle on U.S. Highway 281 south of Medicine Lodge. Union Chapel Fire Department responded to a gas well on fire on southwest Dry Creek Road. Medicine Lodge ambulance transported patient from Medicine Lodge Memorial Hospital to Hutchinson. November 14, 2018 Deputy Woods investigated a complaint of a traffic...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — A group of Kansas residents is pushing for a Kansas City suburb to release records regarding how a 911 call to check on a teenager's welfare ended with an officer fatally shooting the teen. The city of Overland Park has denied most of the records requests by Johnson County citizens group JOCO United over the January shooting of 17-year-old John Albers, the Kansas City Star reported. The demand for records comes after authorities released dashcam video of the encounter in which an officer fired 13 times into a m...
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A temporary replacement has been named to lead Haskell Indian Nations University after a scathing federal report. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that the Bureau of Indian Education says Haskell professor Daniel Wildcat will serve as acting president beginning Tuesday. For as long as the next 60 days, Haskell Indian Nations University President Venida Chenault will be on "special assignment for the BIE." Haskell faculty learned of the change in an email from the Haskell president's office. The email says the change i...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Florida nonprofit recently awarded a four-year grant for family preservation services in Kansas has been under intense scrutiny in its home state. Eckerd Connects, which administers foster care in the Tampa Bay area, will serve much of Kansas starting next year. The announcement was made earlier this month by the Kansas Department for Children and Families. But the Kansas City Star reports that Eckerd has been plagued by problems such as foster children roaming unsupervised while skipping school, young people staying in d...
LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) — A white county official in Kansas has resigned under pressure after saying at a meeting that he belongs to "the master race." Louis Klemp said in the letter submitted Tuesday resigning his seat on the Leavenworth County Commission that the remark was "well-meaning" and "not racially motivated." Klemp cited the master race — the Nazi ideology of Aryan supremacy — last week while responding to a presentation by a black official, Triveece Penelton. Klemp was appointed to fill a Republican vacancy in the county just west...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Room is running out for names on the memorial honoring Kansas law enforcement officers killed in the line of duty, so it will soon be expanded. Gov. Jeff Colyer and Attorney General Derek Schmidt were among those announcing expansion plans on Monday, the Lawrence Journal-World reported. The project is expected to cost $500,000, funded with private donations. Organizers have already raised about $425,000. The memorial is outside the Kansas Statehouse. It includes the names of 281 officers, with room for 39 more. Plans call fo...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A second man has been sentenced for stealing guns from an undercover Sedgwick County Sheriff's vehicle. The Wichita Eagle reports that 37-year-old Justin Winger was sentenced Monday to two years and nine months in prison after he pleaded guilty to failure to report a crime. Winger admitted in his plea that he was with 38-year-old Travis Keller, when Keller broke into an undercover sheriff's car and stole guns. Kansas Department of Corrections records show Winger was on parole at the time. Keller previously was sentenced t...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The family of a teen who was killed in a crash with an off-duty officer outside the stadium where the Kansas City Chiefs play has filed a wrongful death lawsuit. The Kansas City Star reports that the lawsuit was filed in Jackson County Circuit Court against Terrell Watkins. He was driving a police van to an off-duty security assignment at Arrowhead Stadium in heavy pregame traffic last month when he slammed into the back of a car. The crash killed the car's driver, 17-year-old Chandan Rajanna, of Overland Park, K...
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. (AP) — The Florida sheriff's captain who oversaw the initial response to February's Parkland high school massacre resigned Tuesday and the first sergeant to arrive at the scene has been suspended over what other law enforcement officials saw as their inaction during the initial minutes after the first shots were fired. The Broward Sheriff's Office announced that Capt. Jan Jordan resigned and Sgt. Brian Miller was placed on paid suspension pending an internal investigation. He was ordered to surrender his gun, badge and c...
JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A group of young Americans who campaigned against gun violence after surviving a deadly shooting at their Florida school have received a prize from former South African archbishop Desmond Tutu. Tutu said in a statement Tuesday that the students showed that "children can move the world" and he compared the U.S. movement for gun control that they started to other big peace movements. The Nobel laureate, who is 87 and has health problems, attended the ceremony in Cape Town, South Africa for the International Children's Peace P...
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A 20-year-old man has been sentenced to seven years in prison for fatally shooting a man on a light rail train near the University of Missouri-St. Louis. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Djion Oates, of Berkeley, admitted through a plea deal to a reduced charge of involuntary manslaughter in the April 2017 death of 22-year-old Jesse Boone. He also pleaded guilty to armed criminal action and unlawful gun possession. The sentence was imposed earlier this month. Police say Oates and Boone were involved in an argument t...
BEIJING (AP) — A Chinese university's plan to conduct a blanket search of student and staff electronic devices has come under fire, illustrating the limits of the population's tolerance for surveillance and raising the prospect that tactics used on Muslim minorities may be creeping into the rest of the country. The Guilin University of Electronic Technology is reconsidering a search of cellphones, computers, external hard disks and USB drives after a copy of the order leaked online and triggered such an intense backlash that it drew rare c...
TORONTO (AP) — Police arrested six students from a prestigious private all-boys Catholic school in Toronto on Monday and charged them with sexual assault related to a video that was posted on the internet. Toronto Police Inspector Dominic Sinopoli said the teens, who are all 14 and 15, are from St. Michael's College and were charged with assault, gang sexual assault and sexual assault with a weapon. The high school is known for its sports programs and has produced many National Hockey League players over the years. Sinopoli said the school f...
LONDON (AP) — Interpol is facing a pivotal — some say possibly fatal — moment in its history as members decide whether to hand its presidency to a man who represents Vladimir Putin's Russia. Kremlin critics fear they could soon face arrest wherever they go. Western governments worry that Russia could use the post to undermine the rule of law. Interpol, which elects a new president Wednesday , has weathered many challenges in its 95 years. While Hollywood has portrayed it as a hive of swashbuckling agents, in reality it's an organization sometim...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump declared Tuesday he would not further punish Saudi Arabia for the murder of U.S.-based columnist Jamal Khashoggi — making clear in an exclamation-filled statement that the benefits of good relations with the kingdom outweigh the possibility its crown prince ordered the killing. The president condemned the brutal slaying of Khashoggi inside the Saudi consulate in Istanbul as a "horrible crime ... that our country does not condone." But he rejected calls by many in Congress, including members of his own...
VENDOR, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas environmental regulatory agency denied a permit for a hog farm Monday because of concerns that pig waste might be contaminating the nearby Buffalo River. The Arkansas Department of Environmental Quality issued a final decision that C&H Hog Farm in Vendor can no longer operate. Its decision followed a period of public comment after the department initially denied the permit for the farm in September. The department first denied the farm's permit in January, but the farm appealed to the Arkansas Pollution Control a...
The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) Intensive livestock farming is a huge global industry that serves up millions of tons of beef, pork and poultry every year. When I asked one producer recently to name something his industry thinks about that consumers don’t, he replied, “Beaks and butts.” This was his shorthand for animal parts that consumers – especially in wealthy nations – don’t choose to eat. On Thanksgiving, turkeys will adorn close to 90...
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) This holiday season millions of families will come together to celebrate their respective festivals and engage in myriad rituals. These may include exchanging gifts, singing songs, giving thanks, and most importantly, preparing and consuming the holiday feast. Archaeological evidence shows that such communally shared meals have long been vital components of human rituals. My colleague Leore Grosman and I...
