CHICAGO (AP) — Welington Castillo homered and drove in the winning run with a 10th-inning single, giving the Chicago Cubs a 4-3 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals that tightened the NL Central race Tuesday night.
St. Louis’ lead was reduced to 1 1/2 games over second-place Pittsburgh, which clinched a playoff berth by beating Atlanta. With four games to play, the Cardinals, who secured a postseason spot last weekend, still have a magic number of four to wrap up their second consecutive division crown.
Castillo finished 2 for 5 with three RBIs. Zac Rosscup (1-0) pitched a scoreless inning for his first major league win.
SEYBERT (AP) – The body of a fisherman who disappeared last week has been recovered in a southwest Missouri lake.
Crews had been searching for 61-year-old Rodney David, of Golden City, since his empty boat was spotted Friday evening running in circles in the middle of Stockton Lake.
The Highway Patrol says David’s body was found around 10:30 a.m. Tuesday and released to the Dade County coroner. Authorities said the death appears to be drowning, but the patrol will continue investigating how David went into the water.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A group of dissident former Republican legislators has endorsed Democrat Jean Schodorf in her campaign against Republican Secretary of State Kris Kobach.
Schodorf had a news conference Tuesday outside the Statehouse to publicize her endorsement by Traditional Republicans for Common Sense.
Schodorf is a former moderate GOP state senator from Wichita who switched parties after losing her seat to a conservative challenger in 2012. She was among the founding members of Traditional Republicans for Common Sense but no longer belongs to it.
The group has also endorsed independent candidate Greg Orman for U.S. Senate, and many of its members back Democrat Paul Davis for governor.
Kobach said the group’s move isn’t surprising and said it is as little a Republican group as he is a Democrat.
The Missouri Western men’s golf team finished in tenth place at the 16th Annual NSU Golf Classic. MWSU finished with a team score of 916 after three rounds of golf. Central Oklahoma took the team crown after posting a score of 879 during the tournament.
The Griffons leader was Corey Knight scoring a 219 in his three rounds which allowed him to finish in eighth place. Jakob Rudosky also had a solid tournament for MWSU shooting a 227 and finished tied for 30th.
Individually Central Oklahoma’s Wesley Jackson and West Texas A&M’s Oscar Spolander each shot a 214 to lead the field.
Missouri Western will wrap up their fall season with the MWSU Drury Inn Central Region Invitational on Oct. 12 – Oct. 14.
A new survey from the Pew Research Center indicates American support for gay marriage could be leveling off.
The study’s authors caution it’s too soon to draw any definitive conclusion. But the new poll released Monday found a 5 percentage point drop since February in Americans who want legal recognition for same-sex relationships.
Last month, 49 percent of Americans said last month they support same-sex marriage, compared to 54 percent in February. The margin of error for the new poll is plus or minus 2.5 percentage points.
The latest Gallup survey on gay marriage found acceptance of gay marriage was at 55 percent in May, but support was increasing by smaller margins than it had in previous years.
Bus driver transported to hospital after he loses consciousness and drives into utility pole on St. Joseph Ave.
A bus driver was transported to the hospital after he ran his bus into a utility pole just off of St. Joseph Avenue a little after 4 p.m. Tuesday.
Bystanders told the St. Joseph Post they pulled the unconscious bus driver out of his vehicle to try and stabilize him in time for paramedics to make it on scene.
“We heard the crash and saw the power lines bouncing we came down to see what was going on and noticed it was a bus so me and my friend ran over here and somebody was prying the doors open,” said 25-year-old, bystander Jason Blanchard of St. Joseph. “We got up on the bus and I checked his pulse and we checked to make sure there were no kids on the bus and we got him out of the seat and laid him down and made sure his head was tilted to the side.”
28-Year-old Chris Kean of St. Joseph was with his friend Blanchard and said the driver’s foot was still on the accelerator when he helped Blanchard and another man pull the driver out of the smoking bus.
“One guy was trying to pry the doors open when I got enough room I jumped in,” said Kean. “We unbuckled him and laid him down in the isle.”
Blanchard said once they got the bus driver off of the bus he seemed to have regained consciousness for a little while.
St. Joseph Traffic Officer Scott Gary said the bus had been traveling Northbound on St. Joseph Avenue when he had a medical issue that caused him to drive into the utility pole.
“Thankfully there were no kids on the bus,” said Gary. “This could very easily have been worse.”
Gary said the bus driver was conscious when he was transported by ambulance to the hospital.
Traffic was diverted on St. Joseph Avenue from Karnes to Savannah Road, and power was cut off to many locations around the area due to the damage from the utility pole. Gary said Kansas City Power & Light is working to replace the pole and restore power. During that time the road will remain partially closed.
WASHINGTON (AP) — Convicted national security leaker Chelsea Manning is suing the Defense Department for hormone therapy.
Lawyers for the Army private formerly known as Bradley Manning and the American Civil Liberties Union filed the lawsuit Tuesday in Washington.
It seeks an order for the Defense Department to provide Manning with hormone therapy and other treatment for her gender identity condition at the U.S. Disciplinary Barracks at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
Army Lt. Col. Alayne Conway said she could not comment on pending litigation, per military policy.
Manning also seeks to be allowed to follow female grooming standards, including dress and hair length.
The 26-year-old former intelligence analyst is serving a 35-year sentence for sending classified documents to the WikiLeaks website. She changed her legal name in April after disclosing at her court-martial last year that she had been diagnosed with gender dysphoria.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Pulaski County authorities say an inmate who escaped in Little Rock while being taken to a court hearing has been recaptured.
Sheriff’s Lt. Carl Minden says Anael Castro-Hernandez was captured Tuesday by U.S. Marshals Fugitive Task Force members from Kansas City, Missouri, and Kansas City, Kansas. Minden says a source provided Arkansas authorities with information that Castro-Hernandez was in the Kansas City metro area.
Castro-Hernandez was being taken to the county courthouse for a hearing in August when authorities say he slipped out of his handcuffs and ran away as the jail transport van was being unloaded.
Minden has said Castro-Hernandez was being held on rape charges and was due in court for a hearing regarding his mental state when he escaped.
From In Memory Of Mekhi Patrick Dean Boone Facebook
HIAWATHA, Kan. (AP) — A northeast Kansas woman has been sentenced to more than 10 years in prison for the beating death of her boyfriend’s 4-year-old son.
KNZA-FM reports 30-year-old Janice Summerford, of Hiawatha, was sentenced Monday in Brown County District Court.
Mekhi Boone died in March 2013, two days after he was taken unresponsive to a hospital. His father, Lee Davis IV, is serving nearly 20 years for second-degree murder and felony child abuse.
Prosecutors said Summerford was the father’s live-in girlfriend and the little boy’s primary caregiver. She entered Alford pleas last month to second-degree murder, child abuse and interfering with law enforcement.
An Alford plea does not admit guilt but acknowledges that prosecutors can likely prove the charge.
Courtesy Allied Arts Council. New artwork selected for downtown St. Joseph traffic box on 10th and Felix.
Between October 6-10 (weather permitting) the corner of 10th & Felix will get a little brighter with the Allied Arts Council’s third traffic box installation. This is the first themed project, but the committee felt a literary theme was appropriate as the traffic box is right next to the library.
After reviewing multiple submissions, the selection committee chose Grace McCammond, from St. Louis, MO, as the artist for the third traffic box (submitted artwork above). The committee included Jody Carlson, City of St. Joseph Director of Public Works & Transportation; Mary Robertson, City of St. Joseph Communications Manager; Amy Heath, Co-owner of Lucky Tiger; Mary Beth Revels, St. Joseph Public Library Director; and Rhabecca Boerkircher, Executive Director of the Downtown Partnership.
“I found myself thinking about the continuity of literacy thru the ages and the connection between past and present and how they weave together, the past informing the present and the present illuminating the past. The imagery of the open book, parchment, quill and ink, and hurricane lamp interwoven with books on shelves- the bright colors and bold lines linked in a style reminiscent of stained glass- is meant to convey a sense of the past and the present literacy as both a continuum and interconnected. Using St. and Joseph as book titles is a way of grounding that concept to a sense of place and indicating St. Joseph exists as part of and within that continuum of past and present,” said McCammond.
McCammond is not new to the public art scene. She began in the mid 80’s as a photo retoucher and B/W lab technician, and returned to school in 1993 completing her BA from the University of Montana. In 1997, hoping to pursue art full time she moved in St. Louis, and purchased and rehabbed a building with friends opening Signature Arts. McCammond has a long list of professional artwork ranging from beer labels, several traffic signal boxes, murals and much more.
“Some artists create great art that make people think, make a statement or comments on important issues of the day and I think that is a wonderful use of art. But, for me, I view my work as acting on a much more modest scale… public art becomes part of our daily lives and engages us as we move through our day… public art can be like a friend seen on the street, we may not have time to stop and visit long but we can wave, say hi and move on with a smile. And that’s what I try to do with public artwork that I create,” said McCammond.
CHICAGO (AP) — Welington Castillo homered and drove in the winning run with a 10th-inning single, giving the Chicago Cubs a 4-3 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals that tightened the NL Central race Tuesday night.
