SAVANNAH- A woman was injured in an accident just after 5 p.m. on Sunday in Andrew County.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported a 2006 Kawasaki motorcycle driven by Shari A. Pawline, 36, Savannah, was southbound in the yard of a residence at 14326 Country Road three miles south of Savannah.
The driver lost control of the motorcycle and struck the passenger side of a parked 2001 Dodge Town and Country van. Pawline was transported to Heartland Regional Medical Center.
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) – The Missouri Department of Insurance is offering free help to seniors who want to review their coverage or enroll in Medicare.
Open enrollment for the federal health insurance program for anyone aged 65 and over runs Oct. 15 through Dec. 7.
Those who want to review their current plan, change their drug coverage or enroll can meet in person or talk on the phone with the state’s Community Leaders Assisting the Insured of Missouri program.
Counselors can help low-income residents determine if they qualify for federal or state assistance in paying for prescription drugs.
Interested residents can call 800-390-3330 or visit missouriclaim.org for help.
SPRINGFIELD (AP) – A judge has found sufficient evidence to try an 18-year-old on charges tied to the accidental discharge of a gun at a Springfield high school.
The Springfield News-Leader reports that Larvern Hale was bound over for arraignment at the conclusion of his preliminary hearing Friday. He is charged in Greene County with unlawful use of a weapon, delivery of a controlled substance and resisting arrest.
Witnesses at the hearing testified that the loaded weapon moved undetected for about three hours last month through Central High School. The gun was in a backpack when it was dropped and discharged.
No one else has been charged in the case, but police spokeswoman Lisa Cox says the investigation is ongoing.
Hale was represented by a public defender.
The Missouri Western women’s soccer team won its fourth consecutive game Sunday afternoon as they beat Emporia State 1-0 inside Spratt Stadium. The four straight wins is the longest in school history as they improve to 7-4-1 and 4-3-1 in the MIAA.
In the first half, the Griffons created three shots on goal but couldn’t find the back of the net. The Griffons defense held strong again allowing the Hornets only one shot.
Missouri Western was able to strike early in the second half and create multiple opportunities. Missouri Western scored in the 48th minute when Tara Russell found the back of the net from 10 yards out. The assist came from Sydney Cluck.
Sarah Lyle recorded two saves on the night and now has seven shut outs this season. It’s her seventh shutout of the season, the most for any Griffon goalkeeper in a single season.
MWSU accumulated 18 shots with seven of those on goal and only allowed three total shots for Emporia State.
Missouri Western is back in action Friday as they travel to Nebraska-Kearney at 7:00 p.m.
— MWSU Sports Information —
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Kolten Wong hit a leadoff home run in the bottom of the ninth inning and the resilient St. Louis Cardinals beat the San Francisco Giants 5-4 Sunday night, evening the NL Championship Series at one game apiece.
The Cardinals won after losing All-Star catcher Yadier Molina to a strained oblique muscle in the sixth. Molina was getting further tests and manager Mike Matheny said it “didn’t look real good.”
“We just knew we had to keep grinding,” Wong said. “When you lose someone like Yadi, it’s definitely tough for us, but we told ourselves we’ve been going through this all year. Grinding up and down, not getting any easy pass, so we’re all so confident.”
In a back-and-forth game, St. Louis then got late homers from rookie pinch-hitter Oscar Taveras in the seventh and Matt Adams in the eighth to take a 4-3 lead.
It was a rare postseason failure for the reliable San Francisco bullpen, which allowed a home run in each of the final three innings.
“They are the reason we’re in this situation, and you give (the Cardinals) credit,” manager Bruce Bochy said. “They threw out some good at-bats and we made a couple of mistakes and they took advantage of them.”
The Giants tied it when pinch-runner Matt Duffy dashed home from second base on a two-out wild pitch in the ninth. San Francisco wound up losing for just the second time in its last 14 postseason games.
The best-of-seven series resumes Tuesday night with Game 3 in San Francisco with John Lackey going for St. Louis and Tim Hudson starting for the Giants.
Wong hit an 0-1 pitch from Sergio Romo for his second big home run this postseason. The rookie’s seventh-inning drive was the decisive blow in Game 3 of the NL Division Series against the Los Angeles Dodgers.
St. Louis, last in the NL with 105 home runs during the regular season, has hit 11 homers in six playoff games — seven in the seventh inning or later. Earlier, Matt Carpenter connected for the fourth time this postseason.
Seth Maness retired Pablo Sandoval on a comebacker with the bases loaded to end the top of the ninth, and got the win.
Maness came on after closer Trevor Rosenthal couldn’t hold a one-run lead. Rosenthal’s pitch bounced off the glove off backup catcher Tony Cruz and Duffy, running on a full count, never broke stride and slid home with the tying run.
Molina bent over in pain after a swing and didn’t make it out of the batter’s box on a double-play ball in the sixth. Wincing, he gingerly walked off the field.
Adams, whose three-run shot off Clayton Kershaw put St. Louis in front for good in their clinching playoff win over Dodgers, homered off Giants reliever Hunter Strickland.
Gregor Blanco’s fourth postseason hit in 31 at-bats put the Giants up 3-2 in the seventh, but Taveras re-tied it in the bottom half with a homer off Jean Machi just inside the right-field foul pole.
Carpenter hit a solo home run off Jake Peavy in the third. Randal Grichuk singled with the bases loaded in the fourth to make it 2-0.
The Giants came back against Lance Lynn.
UP NEXT
Giants: Hudson pitched well vs. Washington in Game 2 of the Division Series, allowing a run in 7 1/3 innings.
Cardinals: Lackey has a win each of the last three postseason series and is the active leader with 111 postseason innings.
— Associated Press —
SPRINGFIELD (AP) – Springfield police say dismissal was delayed at an elementary school after a mother brandished a knife.
The Springfield News-Leader reports that the mother doesn’t have custody of her daughter, and problems arose when she showed up Friday afternoon at the child’s school. When the mother saw her daughter leaving Pittman Elementary in a guardian’s car, she became upset.
The principal was helping with dismissal outside the school and agreed the mother couldn’t take the child.
After the principal said she planned to get school security, the woman reportedly pulled a knife out of a holster – which “looked similar to a gun” holster. The woman then stormed off but was arrested a short time later.
The school was briefly placed under lockdown, which delayed the dismissal of other students.
BLUE SPRINGS (AP) – A Colorado man has been charged with fatally shooting a man at a motel outside Kansas City.
Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker announced Sunday that 25-year-old Michael Page of Rifle, Colorado, has been charged with second-degree murder and armed criminal action in the death of Shane Bossow. It wasn’t immediately clear if he had an attorney.
Court records say police responded Saturday to the motel in Blue Springs after receiving a report that shots had been fired. Officers found Bossow’s body in a room.
Page was standing in front of a nearby restaurant with a gun when police first encountered him. The probable cause statement said Page later told police he pulled the trigger and had probably “flipped out from the dope.”
Prosecutors are requesting a $150,000 cash bond.
PITTSBURG, Kan. (AP) — Pittsburg police are offering a reward for help locating two more suspects in the killing of a Pittsburg State University student.
KOAM-TV reports that $1,000 is being offered for information leading to the arrest of the two 19-year-old suspects from Pittsburg. Two other men, ages 21 and 24, were arrested Friday on suspicion of first-degree murder in the death of 20-year-old Taylor C. Thomas and several other felonies.
Officers responding to a disturbance call at an off-campus home where Thomas lived found him wounded around 2 a.m. Thursday. The junior in mechanical engineering was pronounced dead at Via Christi Hospital.
An obituary posted on the Bath-Naylor Funeral Home website said he died after a burglary. An autopsy listed the cause of death as a single gunshot wound.
JOHN HANNA, AP Political Writer
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The re-emergence of gay marriage as a hot legal issue nationally has complicated Democrat Paul Davis’ bid in Kansas to unseat conservative Republican Gov. Sam Brownback.
Davis has represented a safely Democratic seat as a Kansas House member and voted three times in 2004 and 2005 against proposals to ban gay marriage in the state constitution. Voters amended the constitution in 2005.
But Davis is avoiding a public declaration of support for gay marriage.
His chances of defeating Brownback depend upon winning support from disaffected Republicans and unaffiliated voters. Davis’ foes could more easily paint him as a liberal if he explicitly supports gay marriage.
Also, a declaration could raise doubts for voters with some conservative religious views who otherwise might be receptive to his message on fiscal issues.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A new report shows women are approaching parity with men on owning businesses in Kansas.
The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that about 70,900 businesses in the state were at least 51 percent owned by a female in 2014. That means 42 percent of the roughly 168,700 businesses the Secretary of State’s office had on record in September were owned by women.
Kansas saw businesses owned by women grow by close to 30 percent between 1997 and 2014. While that was one of the lowest rates in the country, it still represented a substantial change relative to total business growth in those years.
Most businesses owned by women are relatively small, with 70,900 businesses employing only an estimated 73,300 people in Kansas. Sales this year were estimated at about $10.5 billion.
