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by Alan Hoskins, KCKCC Their home playoff hopes dashed by Jayhawk East champion Cowley College, Kansas City Kansas Community College’s Blue Devils will close out their home season Tuesday with a single 9-inning game against State Fair at 1 p.m. Ranked No. 13 nationally, Cowley completed a four-game sweep of the Blue Devils Saturday, winning 10-3 and 10-1. The losses dropped KCKCC (17-19) into a tie with Independence for sixth and seventh in the Jayhawk East and sends KCKCC into opening Region VI playoff action Friday at Butler County, the runnerup in the Jayhawk West at 20-12. Game two of…

by Jim McLean, Kansas News Service Listening to news reports while driving to the Statehouse on the day after the deadly high school shooting in Florida, Kansas Sen. Barbara Bollier decided to redouble her efforts to put a “red flag” law on the books in Kansas. She wants a system for temporarily confiscating guns from people deemed a risk to themselves or others. “It’s not something that tramples on somebody’s rights,” said Bollier, a Mission Hills Republican. “It just puts a temporary hold on a situation until things calm down.” Only three states — California, Washington and Oregon — have…

by Alan Hoskins, KCKCC Sportswriter Grantland Rice once wrote: “When the One Great Scorer comes to mark against your name, he writes, not that you won or lost – but how you played the game.” Kansas City Kansas Community College’s short-handed Blue Devils didn’t upset No. 3 seeded Fort Scott Wednesday night but it wasn’t because of a lack of determination and effort in a 69-63 loss to the Greyhounds in first-round Region VI Division II playoff action. Juvan Davenport’s driving layup with 40.5 seconds left cut Fort Scott’s lead to 63-61 but the Blue Devils couldn’t get the stop…

A student from Kansas City, Kansas, recently was named to the fall dean’s list at Trevecca Nazarene University, Nashville, Tennessee. James Shultz, Kansas City, Kansas, and other students on the dean’s list had a grade point average of 3.5 or higher on a 4.0 scale during the fall semester. Trevecca University is a Christian university in Nashville that was founded in 1901. Send your news to Wyandotte Daily at news@wyandottedaily.com. Do you have news to share about people, places and events in Wyandotte County? Or would you like to share a photo of Wyandotte County? Send your news to Wyandotte…

A student from Kansas City, Kansas, recently was named to the fall dean’s list at Trevecca Nazarene University, Nashville, Tennessee. James Shultz, Kansas City, Kansas, and other students on the dean’s list had a grade point average of 3.5 or higher on a 4.0 scale during the fall semester. Trevecca University is a Christian university in Nashville that was founded in 1901. Send your news to Wyandotte Daily at news@wyandottedaily.com. Do you have news to share about people, places and events in Wyandotte County? Or would you like to share a photo of Wyandotte County? Send your news to Wyandotte…

Family story time planned A family story time is planned from 10:30 to 11 a.m. Saturday, March 31, at the Main Kansas City, Kansas, Public Library youth services craft room, 625 Minnesota Ave. The story time, for ages 2-6, will include stories, dancing and singing. KCK schools to hold public ‘listening tour’ today Members of the Kansas City, Kansas, Board of Education will meet the district’s parents, students and community in a public listening tour. The board will listen to what is important to parents, students and the community concerning the Kansas City, Kansas, Public School district. The listening tours…

by Stephen Koranda, Kansas News Service Kansas has repeatedly dipped into its highway fund in recent years to balance the budget for all of state government. Now lawmakers are contemplating a task force to study what that’s meant for the state’s roads and bridges. Following the borrowing, road projects saw delays across the state. The task force would study the sidelined projects and suggest long-term transportation strategies for Kansas. Lawmakers in a Senate committee amended the proposal Wednesday to add more representatives from trade groups, growing the size of the task force to more than 30 people. However, they’re waiting…

by Jim McLean, Kansas News Service The Republican race for governor remains crowded, but a little less so with Ed O’Malley’s announcement Thursday that he’s ending his campaign. O’Malley, a former Kansas House member who last fall took a leave of absence from his job as CEO of the Wichita-based Kansas Leadership Center to campaign, said his inability to keep pace on the fundraising front prompted the decision to withdraw. “I have realized that the funding necessary to remain competitive through August (when Kansas holds its primary voting) and then November is beyond our reach,” O’Malley said in a media…

The Unified Government Ethics Commission is scheduled to meet at 4 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 4. The meeting will take place on the second floor of the Wyandotte County Courthouse, Division 18, in the old county commissioners’ chambers, 710 N. 7th, Kansas City, Kansas. National Weather Service graphic A wind chill advisory will remain in effect through noon Tuesday for all of the area, according to the National Weather Service. Temperatures will climb into the upper teens to lower 20s this afternoon, ending the main blast of arctic air in the area the last few days, the weather service said. Temperatures…

The Rev. Calvin O. Butts III “Continuing the Dream through Love and Peace in Times Like These” will be the theme of the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday celebration Monday, Jan. 15, at the Reardon Center, 5th and Minnesota Avenue, Kansas City, Kansas. Pre-service events start at 10:45 a.m. with the formal program beginning at 11 a.m. The Rev. Dr. Calvin O. Butts III of New York, N.Y., is the featured speaker. He is the pastor of the Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem. He and his church are active in civil rights, social justice and economic development. Dr. Butts founded…