BERNICE, Okla. (AP) – The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says a Missouri man has died in a motorcycle crash in northeastern Oklahoma.
Authorities say the wreck occurred Sunday afternoon on State Highway 125 in Delaware County. According to a preliminary report, 51-year-old Raymond Hilsabeck of Seneca, Missouri, died after losing control of his motorcycle while negotiating a curve.
The highway patrol says Hilsabeck was pronounced dead at the scene. The report says Hilsabeck was not wearing a helmet
NWMSU Media Release
Northwest Missouri State University’s Provost Search Committee has scheduled an on-campus interview with provost candidate Dr. Timothy Mottet on Thursday, June 5, and Friday, June 6.
An open forum will be 1 to 2 p.m. Thursday, June 5, in the J.W. Jones Student Union Boardroom and all employees are invited to attend. Employees also may have additional interaction with Mottet during a reception in the Boardroom after the forum.
The Northwest community is invited to attend or watch a live online stream of the forum at www.nwmissouri.edu/live/
Mottet is dean of fine arts and communication at Texas State University in San Marcos, Texas. He has more than 15 years of experience in higher education.
Prior to his work as dean of fine arts and communication at Texas State University, Mottet worked for the University of Texas-Pan America in Edinburg, Texas, from 2007 to 2011, serving as a professor, endowed chair in communication, and assistant chair and chair of the Department of Communication. Between 1999 and 2007, Mottet held assistant professor and associate professor roles in the Department of Communication Studies at Texas State University.
Prior to working in higher education, Mottet worked for Northwest Airlines from 1986 to 1993 as the director of inflight service operations.
He earned his bachelor’s degree in communication from William Jewell College in Liberty, his master’s degree in mass communication from Boston University in Boston, Mass., and his education doctorate in communication and learning/higher education from West Virginia University in Morgantown, W.V.
Northwest’s provost role is vacant after the resignation of Dr. Doug Dunham who accepted the role of vice president for academic affairs at Rockhurst University in Kansas City. The provost serves as the University’s chief academic officer.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The filing deadline for the Aug. 5 Kansas primary elections is arriving with most candidates who were expected to declare for office already on the ballot.
One question remaining ahead of Monday’s noon deadline was whether state Sen. Dennis Pyle would join the race for U.S. Senate.
The conservative Republican from Hiawatha has spent the past couple of weeks gauging support for a potential challenge to incumbent GOP Sen. Pat Roberts.
Another Republican, Leawood radiologist Milton Wolf, filed to run against Roberts in January and has drawn endorsements from tea party groups. Pyle has been asking conservatives whether he should join the race as well and whether he or Wolf would be the stronger threat to Roberts.
LATHROP–A Missouri man was seriously injured in a Sunday rollover accident in Clinton County.
The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported a 2002 Ford SUV driven by Andrew B. Kain, 30, Kansas City, was eastbound on MO. 116 two miles east of Lathrop. The vehicle went off the north side of the road, stuck a wire fence and overturned several times. The driver was ejected.
Lifenet transported Kain to Liberty Hospital
The MSHP reported Kain was not properly restrained at the time of the accident.
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) – State transportation officials plan to release a list of projects by June 13 that could be funded if Missouri voters approve a sales tax increase.
The proposed three-quarter-cent sales tax for transportation is to appear on the August ballot. If approved, the tax is projected to generate about $534 million annually for the next 10 years.
The Missouri Department of Transportation says its project list will include roads and bridges as well as other modes of transportation.
There will be a weeklong public comment period until June 20. The Missouri Highways and Transportation Commission is to vote on the final project list on June 26.
State lawmakers referred the transportation tax to the ballot. Gov. Jay Nixon set it for an August election instead of November.
KANSAS CITY, Kan- Three people were injured in a crash just after 9 p.m. on Sunday in Wyandotte County.
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2004 Olds Alero driven by Mary Lu Jones, 47, Chillicothe, Mo., was southbound on U.S. 73. The vehicle made an illegal left turn on a red light and struck a 2006 Jeep Liberty driven by Charles Allen Gillespie II, 22, Easton.
Jones and Gillespie were transported to KU Medical Center. A passenger in the jeep Kelsey Nicole Addie, 19, Bonner Springs was possibly injured. The KHP report did not indicate where she received treatment.
The KHP reported all were properly restrained at the time of the accident.
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) – Missourians could get a matching contribution for the money they save for their children’s college tuition.
The matching grant program is for the MOST 529 college savings plan and is worth up to $500. Applicants must be the account owners with a household adjusted income of less than $75,000.
Both the matching grant applicant and beneficiary must be Missouri residents. And the beneficiary must be 13 years old or younger when the first matching grant was approved, though older students approved for a matching grant would remain eligible.
Applicants must be postmarked by June 30, and the matching funds will be distributed by Jan. 31, 2015.
KANSAS CITY (AP) – Missouri transportation officials say they’re interested in learning about ways large devices that blast loud sounds to motorists can help protect highway workers.
In November the Missouri Department of Transportation placed several “sound cannons” on Interstate 435 in Kansas City and on Interstate 70 near Columbia to see if they could make drivers slow down in work zones.
The Kansas City Star reports the devices were provided by San Diego-based LRAD Corp., which initially developed the long-range acoustic devices to warn strangers getting too close to U.S. ships following the USS Cole attack in Yemen in 2000.
Critics complain that the technology startles divers inside of their cars, and last month lawmakers in Jefferson City questioned whether MoDOT had spent money on the devices, which it didn’t.
JOPLIN (AP) – A Joplin High School teacher is accused of sending 25 to 40 nude images of herself to one 16-year-old student and having sex twice with another 16-year-old student.
The Joplin Globe reports 32-year-old Jessica Low was charged Friday with statutory rape and statutory sodomy, both felonies, and a misdemeanor count of furnishing pornographic material to a minor.
A probable cause statement says the father of one of the students discovered the images on the phone, and that Low admitted sending the images when confronted by the father and his wife.
Joplin police arrested Low earlier in the week at the ninth- and 10th-grade campus after school officials received a tip about the teacher’s alleged actions.
Electronic court records don’t indicate whether Low has acquired an attorney.
MOBERLY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri landowners who are opposed to a 750-mile network of high-voltage transmission lines say they’re against the $2 billion project for reasons other than they don’t want it in their back yard.
The Columbia Tribune reports folks like Laurie and Dennis Smith of Moberly don’t like the idea of using eminent domain to get access to private property, but they’re even more adamant in their opposition because of potential health problems caused by the power Grain Belt Express.
Houston-based Clean Line Energy is proposing to build a transmission network that would funnel power from western Kansas wind farms to utilities, load-serving entities and clean-energy generators in Missouri, Illinois and Indiana.
The project has past most regulatory hurdles in Kansas and Indiana, b9ut still needs approval in Missouri and Illinois.
