CLAY CENTER – A Kansas man was injured in an accident just before 2 p.m. on Tuesday in Clay County.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 1996 Toyota Tacoma driven by
Galen L. Parry, 81, Morganville, was eastbound on Crawford just north of downtown Clay Center.
The driver lost control of the vehicle in the snow and hit a 1999 International Truck in the driver’s side.
Parry was transported to transported to Clay County Hospital.
The driver of the International Anthony L. Sisk, 33, Morganville, was not injured.
The KHP reported Parry was not wearing a seat belt.
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The museum that houses the National Toy Hall of Fame is establishing a World Video Game Hall of Fame.
The Strong museum in Rochester says the video hall announced Tuesday will recognize electronic games of all types: arcade, console, computer, handheld and mobile.
The toy hall of fame will provide the model for the video version. Anyone will be able to nominate a video game, and an internal advisory committee will choose finalists. An international selection committee of experts will choose inductees from there, based on four criteria: icon-status, longevity, geographical reach and influence.
Nominations for the inaugural class are being accepted through the end of March.
The Strong has been preserving and collecting video games and artifacts for years through its International Center for the History of Electronic Games.
Chapman- Law enforcement authorities in Dickinson County have made an arrest in connection with a marijuana growing operation.
The Dickinson County Sheriff’s Office Drug Enforcement Unit reported the Chapman Police used a search warrant in the 400 Block of 6th Street in Chapman.
They discovered and seized a marijuana growing operation.
Approximately 20 marijuana plants, in various states of growth and maturity, were seized.
Along with the marijuana plants, watering systems, ventilation systems and grow lamps were also seized.
Agents also located processed marijuana and drug paraphernalia consistent with sales.
The resident of the home Eric J Vernnon, 33, was not at home at the time of the search.
Police arrested him when he returned home on February 12.
Vernnon is being held in the Dickinson County Jail on charges of manufacture of a controlled substance, possession of marijuana with intent to sell, possession of marijuana, failure to obtain a Kansas drug tax stamp, and criminal use of a weapon.
The search warrant was issued as a result of a Chapman Police Officer conducting a follow up in the area after smelling marijuana coming from the residence.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Schools would be barred from giving sex education lessons to students without their parents’ consent under a bill before the Kansas Legislature.
The House Education Committee held a hearing on the bill Tuesday that would require school districts to share any sexual education materials with parents and obtain their written consent before teaching it to their children. Several parents and teachers testified in favor of the bill, saying that while some districts have already instituted similar policies, many districts do not properly inform parents about potentially inappropriate material in curriculums.
Opponents included two pastors and a priest, who testified the bill would deprive children of information important to their health.
An identical bill was endorsed by the committee last year, but did not pass beyond the House floor.
Officers stopping the vehicle on I-70 in Russell County
GORHAM – The Kansas Highway Patrol chased a suspect and made an arrest just after 11 a.m. on Tuesday in Russell County.
The Kansas Highway Patrol spokesman Tod Heilman said a Kansas State Trooper stopped a rental vehicle west of Hays on Interstate 70 for a moving infraction.
The trooper suspected criminal activity and called for a K9. While waiting, the driver took off.
The trooper chased the vehicle to near the Gorham exit.
The suspect avoided three sets of spike sticks. The fourth attempt blew two tires on the suspect’s vehicle.
The suspect Tyler Nally, 26, Louisville, KY, stopped and was arrested without further incident for possession of marijuana with intent to distribute and felony fleeing and eluding officers according to Heilman.
Officers from Victoria and the Ellis County Sheriff’s office also were involved in the arrest.
On an annual basis, the Barton County Commission recognizes employees for years of services during a regular agenda meeting.
Tuesday morning, the Commission recognized those employees for 5, 10, 15, 20 and every five years thereafter.
Commission Chair Kenny Schremmer thanked the workers for their service after those in attendance received a plaque from the county.
Kenny Schremmer Audio
5 Years of Service
Homer Kruckenberg – Commissioners
Karla Newport – Register of Deeds
Pam Stiles – Health
Wes Knox – Sheriff’s Office
Maria Hammeke – Attorney’s Office
10 Years of Service
Patty Reynolds – Health
Darlene Moore – Health
Jeanette Sanders – Health
Janice Klug – Administrator’s Office
Travis Doze – Sheriff’s Office
15 years of Service
Paula (Lloyd) Haughton – Sheriff’s Office
Marissa Woodmansee – 20th Judicial District Juvenile Services
20 Years of Service
Yolanda Schaben – Public Health
25 Years of Service
Dave Smith – Sheriff’s Office
Lloyd Lewis – Sheriff’s Office
Mike Patton – Road and Bridge
35 Years of Service
Warren Peterson – Sheriff’s Office
Bruce Green – Sheriff’s Office
News surfaced this month that struggling electronics retailer RadioShack has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection and will sell up to 2,400 stores.
Those closings will include the store in Great Bend.
Great Bend Chamber of Commerce President Jan Peters expects the store to shut down later this year.
Jan Peters Audio
Along with Great Bend, five locations in Wichita, one in Newton, Hutchinson, Emporia, and Pittsburg are expected to close.
Peters continued with her economic development report by telling city council members the old Sears building on south Main Street has received a heavy makeover.
Jan Peters Audio
The owner has made three different locations on the end caps of the structure. The Goodwill Store is plopped down in the middle. Peters believed one of those sections was about 8,0000 square feet, another close to 4,000, and the final one roughly 1,500 square feet.
Within in the next few months the City of Great Bend and the owner would like to have an open house of sorts to showcase the renovated buildings for any business looking for a starting location or to relocate.
The Great Bend Police Department is working on ways to improve both the officer and public safety in traffic enforcement.
A strong effort has been placed on the monitoring of window tinting. The police department used to have two tinting meters they could use to determine the percentage of light going through.
As Lieutenant Bill Browne tells us, the old meters caused a safety issue and needed to be replaced.
Bill Browne Audio
The city code says the total light transmission shall not be less than 35% when a sun screening device is used. The problem is that anyone can buy cheap window tinting kits at Wal-Mart and other retail stores that go well below the 35% mark.
Sergeant Jay Bacher states the issue goes well beyond a safety concern.
Jay Bacher Audio
Tinting can be hazardous to the driver too. Every driver needs to be able to clearly see cross traffic, pedestrians, bicyclists, or anything that may suddenly dart into the street.
Great Bend Police Officers will allow the public who might be in violation to bring their vehicles in this week during regular business hours for a free tinting screening. During this screening, officers will test and educate those concerned, no tickets will be given if the screening fails. However, full enforcement of window tint monitoring will begin next week.
Fines up to $500 and a month in jail can be handed down for improperly tinted windows.
LIBERAL, Kan. (AP) — Without a three-time champion competing, a yearly pancake race between women from England’s Olney and a southwestern Kansas town was a griddle riddle until Hannah Belton put that to rest for the Americans.
The 24-year-old second-grade teacher and middle-school cross country coach from Liberal, Kansas, won Shrove Tuesday’s International Pancake Day Race in her hometown. Olney’s Emma Maitland finished six seconds slower.
Shrove Tuesday traditionally is the last day for merrymaking before the start of Lent. Pancakes were thought to be a good way for Christians to consume the fat they were supposed to give up during the 40 days before Easter.
The run’s competitors wear aprons and scarves and run the course with a pancake in their pan, flipping it at the beginning and end of the race.
CLAY CENTER – A Kansas man was injured in an accident just before 2 p.m. on Tuesday in Clay County.
