LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) A Missouri woman whos charged with killing her 5-year-old daughter and critically injuring her 1-year-old son by intentionally driving into the Kansas River told authorities she wanted to die and didnt want anyone else to have her children.
The Lawrence Journal-World reports that the affidavit released Wednesday says Scharron Renea Dingledine of Columbia, Missouri, told police shed been voluntarily admitted to a psychiatric hospital for several hours on Aug. 2, one day before plunging into the river near downtown Lawrence.
After being released, her boyfriend agreed to take her to a shelter. She said that when he stopped at a store, she drove off in his car, with the children inside. She says she later stole another vehicle and was feeling depressed and worried about the consequences of her actions.
39 donate at blood drive
A blood drive through the Community Blood Center Wednesday at the North Community Building registered 39 donors. Six potential donors were deferred. Six gave blood through the Alyx Component Collection System, which doubles the amount of red blood cells collected.
Corrections
Zaden Mellen of Iola was pictured with kindergarten teacher Shelly Meadows at an open house for McKinley Elementary School. He was identified as another child in Wednesdays edition.
Also, in a story regarding the Allen County Commission, it was reported that Alana Kinzle had secured $1,000 from the Iola Elks as well as their help in constructing the Veterans Memorial Garden of Allen County on the courthouse square. Neither is correct. Kinzles connection with the Elks is purely on an organizational level, she said this morning.
The Register regrets the errors.
Music icon dies
DETROIT (AP) Aretha Franklin, the undisputed Queen of Soul who sang with matchless style on such classics as Think, I Say a Little Prayer and her signature song, Respect, and stood as a cultural icon around the globe, has died at age 76 from advance pancreatic cancer.
Publicist Gwendolyn Quinn said Franklin died this morning at her home in Detroit. The statement said Franklins official cause of death was due to advance pancreatic cancer of the neuroendocrine type, which was confirmed by Franklins oncologist, Dr. Philip Phillips of Karmanos Cancer Institute in Detroit.
The family added: In one of the darkest moments of our lives, we are not able to find the appropriate words to express the pain in our heart. We have lost the matriarch and rock of our family.
Letter to the editor — August 16, 2018
Dear editor,
While walking down the sidewalk I have been assaulted by tree limbs knocking off my hat.
As a courtesy, property owners should trim low-lying branches near the sidewalks.
Sincerely,
Rick Schulenberg,
Iola, Kan.
A look back in time
50 Years Ago
August 1968
Marilyn Sutton, Cheryl Stiles, and Jacki Staley won three first places and one second place in the cheerleaders clinic held at Rock Springs Ranch, near Junction City, July 30-Aug. 3. This is the first time that the Iola Senior High cheerleaders have won any mention in the clinic. They also brought home the honorary spirit stick.
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Harmon Helman, Jerry Guatney and Lorraine Cleaver are pleased with a 75-pound yellow catfish they caught on the Neosho River northwest of Iola last Thursday night. The flathead is the largest caught in Kansas this year and is only 12 pounds off the state record for yellow cats.
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The Iola Jaycee Jaynes all-star girls softball team won the championship of the double elimination district tournament at Garnett last night. Winning the tourney boosted Iola to the state tournament which starts at Clay Center today. The Iola team going to state will be made up of Dee Ann Paxton, Terese Yetzbacher, Paula Boyd, Debbie Sicka, Debbie Rourk, Mary Ellen Bradfield, Nancy Womack, Lou Ann Lind, Penny Northway, Linda Redfearn, Nancy Sutton, Susan Murphy and Mary Beth Rosacker. They will be joined by two girls from Garnett, Ruth Brummel and Cindy Bowen. Coaches of the team are Glen Thompson, Calvin Sutton and Doyle Bradfield.
Dont turn outer space into zone for conflict
One of humanitys greatest achievements was to go from a teetering aircraft at Kitty Hawk to a man on the moon in just a few decades. For most of that time and since, space has been a place of exploration, wonder, and yes, the serious and expensive nationalistic space race. Not war.
President Donald Trump does not seem as enamored of our peaceful galactic achievements. Last week, Vice President Mike Pence announced the administrations intention to create a new branch of the military a Space Force as early as 2020.
Space Force proponents argue convincingly that countries already are angling to use space for strategic advantage. Modern warfare and so much else in contemporary life are guided by satellites orbiting the globe. It would be unwise to ignore necessary defenses. The Department of Defense already has members on that mission.
Defenses can always be improved. But it is disheartening to hear Trump and Pence talk of space as a war-fighting domain where we must have American dominance.
Thats all well and good for an entertaining movie franchise or three. But peace in space is not a game. It has been the norm since we first darted past gravity, preventing heavenly exploration from becoming just another way for humans to rain down havoc upon one another. The peace is worth keeping.
Newsday
Father, son die in SEK flooding
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) A strong storm system moving across the central Plains left a father and son dead in Kansas, damaged roads in Oklahoma and led to several water rescues in both states.
Montgomery County, Kansas, Sheriff Bobby Dierks said Wednesday that Dennis Clark Catron Sr., 72, and Dennis Clark Catron Jr., 39, both of Elk City, drowned Tuesday night when their vehicle was swept off a road into an overflowing creek. Their bodies were found inside the vehicle.
They had apparently stopped their car and put it in park, then were swept off the road, Dierks said.
Rains also damaged the shoulder of Interstate 44 in southwestern Oklahoma City, according to Oklahoma Department of Transportation spokeswoman Lisa Shearer-Salim, and officials in the college town of Norman said a portion of the citys Main Street buckled due to the rain.
Its all part of the same general (storm) system, but multiple clusters of storms, said meteorologist John Hart with the National Weather Services Storm Prediction Center.
The storm in Oklahoma produced 5.06 inches of rain at Will Rogers World Airport in Oklahoma City, breaking the record of 4.62 inches set on Aug. 11, 2008, according to forecaster Vivek Mahale with the National Weather Service.
Since 1890, when records started, we havent gotten 5.06 inches on any one calendar day in August, Mahale said.
Meteorologist Andy Kleinsasser in Wichita, Kansas, described the storms as similar to a tropical storm, about 30,000 feet in height, as opposed to the typical storm in the Plains states that are 50,000-70,000 feet in height.
It was very short in height, and because theyre short, theyre very, very efficient rain producers, Kleinsasser said.
Kleinsasser said 7 to 11 inches of rain fell in parts of southeastern Kansas, but it wasnt immediately known if any rainfall records were broken.
Officials in both states also reported dozens of people were rescued from vehicles stranded in high water, but no additional deaths.
Blue Jays grand slam tops Royals
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Curtis Granderson hit a grand slam, Marco Estrada pitched effectively into the seventh inning and the Toronto Blue Jays beat the Kansas City Royals 6-5 on Wednesday night.
Jorge Lopez (0-2), who was making his Royals debut after being acquired July 27 from Milwaukee as part of the Mike Moustakas trade, threw a 2-0 fastball that Granderson drove over the Royals right-field bullpen gate with two outs in the fourth inning.
It was Grandersons 10th career grand slam and his second this year, both against the Royals. The first was April 18 in Toronto. He has 19 home runs and 50 RBIs in 106 games against Kansas City.
Royals pitchers have yielded a major league-leading 10 grand slams.
Kevin Pillar singled home Teoscar Hernandez with the first run of the fourth and contributed an RBI single in the second for the Blue Jays, who have won three of four.
Lopez was removed after 4 2/3 innings, allowing six runs on eight hits, two walks and a hit batter.
Estrada (6-9) gave up four runs on six hits over 6 2/3 innings to pick up his first career victory at Kauffman Stadium.
Salvador Perez homered twice in the loss, his fifth career multi-homer game.
Perez connected in the first with Whit Merrifield aboard and led off the fourth with his 21st home run. Perez has hit at least 20 homers in four consecutive seasons, joining .John Mayberry, Steve Balboni, Bo Jackson and Mike Sweeney among the Royals to accomplish that feat.
Brett Phillips tripled in the seventh and scored on Alcides Escobars two-out single for the other run off Estrada.
Ken Giles allowed a pinch-hit homer to Ryan OHearn but still earned his 15th save in as many chances and his third with the Blue Jays.
Rain delayed the start of the game by 15 minutes.
HES THAT FAST
Adalberto Mondesi stole three bases, including one when he was picked off first base, on Tuesday. Royals manager Ned Yost compared Mondesis acceleration to former Kansas City speedsters Jarrod Dyson and Terrance Gore. Its up there, Yost said. Its very easy, quick, hard speed. Its just, boom, hes gone. Its like the Road Runner. You expect a little pillow of dust following him. Hes that fast.
ROSTER MOVES
Blue Jays: LHP Tim Mayza was recalled from Triple-A Buffalo. LHP Thomas Pannone was optioned to the Bisons.
Royals: RHP Blaine Boyer, who yielded a two-run eighth inning homer on Tuesday in a 6-5 loss to Toronto, was released. Boyer had a 12.05 ERA in 21 relief appearances. … The Royals sent Gore to the Cubs for cash considerations. In parts of four seasons with Kansas City, Gore was primarily used as a pinch runner, stealing 21 of 25 bases and scoring 24 runs, but went 0-for-11 in 49 games.
TRAINERS ROOM
Blue Jays: RHP Aaron Sanchez (bruised right index finger) made a rehab start for Class-A Dunedin in the Class A Florida State League, going 3 2/3 innings and allowing one run on two hits, while walking four and striking out three. He threw 35 strikes in 74 pitches.
Royals: OF Brian Goodwin (left groin strain) will begin a rehab assignment Thursday with Triple-A Omaha.
UP NEXT
Blue Jays: RHP Sam Gaviglio (2-5, 4.86 ERA), who was with the Royals last September and traded to Toronto in spring training, will start the series finale.
Royals: RHP Glenn Sparkman (0-1, 5.06) will make his first career start after eight relief appearances.
Six players starring for losing teams
(AP) Football being, in many ways, the ultimate team game can make it difficult for good players to shine when the players around them are … not so good.
Stars toiling on losing teams rarely get much recognition. They almost never win the big awards or get selected to the All-America teams. Time to give some love to those overlooked players whose teams did not reach the postseason last year and might have a hard time climbing back into it in 2018.
Marquise Copeland, DT, Cincinnati
The Bearcats are in the second year of a rebuild under coach Luke Fickell, who brought in the top-ranked recruiting class in the American Athletic Conference this year. Copeland was one of the few real keepers Fickell inherited and probably the team’s best player last year. The senior had 63 tackles and 3.5 sacks in 2017. Undersized at 6-foot-2 and 282 pounds, Copeland could develop into an NFL draft pick.
Eric Dungey, QB, Syracuse
Dungey has been starting for the Orange since his freshman season. The problem is he has not been finishing the seasons healthy. When healthy, Dungey is a two-way threat with athleticism and size (6-4, 228) that could draw NFL attention. He enters 2018 as the only active quarterback in FBS with at least 6,000 yards passing and 1,000 yards rushing. The Orange have not been bowl-eligible since 2013. A full season for Dungey is a must for Syracuse to have any chance to get back, but just in case, best catch him in the regular season.
Joe Dineen, LB,
Kansas
The fifth-year senior has played on teams that have won six games in four seasons. He also lost most of his 2016 season, when he was poised for a breakout as team captain, to hamstring injury. That big breakout came last season when Dineen led the nation in solo tackles per game (7.6) and set a school record with 25 tackles for loss. Yes, the Jayhawks defense spends a lot of time on the field and that inflates some stats. But Dineen had almost twice as many tackles as any other Kansas defender. Also, deserving of a shoutout on Kansas is defensive tackle Daniel Wise (16 tackles for loss and seven sacks), who is probably an even better pro prospect than Dineen.
Denzel Mims, WR, Baylor
The Bears managed just one victory in 2017, but Mims was a problem for opponents. He caught 61 passes for 1,087 yards and eight touchdowns. His three-touchdown performance against Oklahoma gave the Sooners a legitimate scare. Mims was by far Baylors best receiver last season, but this year the Bears hope the return of senior Chris Platt from injury and the addition of Tennessee transfer Jalen Hurd, the running back-turned-receiver, gives them one of the best sets of pass-catchers in the Big 12.
Stanley Morgan Jr., WR, Nebraska
Cornhuskers fans are looking toward a hopeful future with new coach Scott Frost after going 4-8 last season under Mike Riley. There is much rebuilding to do, and Nebraska has a difficult schedule in 2018 with road games at Michigan, Ohio State and Wisconsin. A major turnaround would take a minor miracle by Frost. Morgan, though, should be one of the best receivers in the Big Ten as a senior. He caught 61 passes for 986 yards and 10 touchdowns last year.
Trey Smith, OT,
Tennessee
Smith stepped into the Volunteers starting lineup last season as a freshman and played like a veteran. He started games at guard and tackle, and during an ugly year in Knoxville, Smiths performance was a thing of beauty. The offseason provided a scare. He was treated for blood clots in his lungs. Cleared to play, Smith is a 6-foot-6, 320-pound building block for new coach Jeremy Pruitt.
EXTRA POINT
Six more players to watch on teams that had losing records last season:
Trevon Brown, WR, East Carolina
Trevor Morris, LB, Rutgers
Steven Montez, QB, Colorado
Kyle Shurmur, QB, Vanderbilt
Lexington Thomas, RB, UNLV
Oshane Ximines, DE, Old Dominion