KC Baseball Great Buck O'Neil Inducted into Hall of Fame
UNDATED (KPR) - Baseball great Buck O'Neil is being inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame this weekend. O'Neil is one of seven players being inducted Sunday in Cooperstown, New York. O'Neil played with the Kansas City Monarchs in the 1930s and 1940s, primarily on first base, then managed the Monarchs for eight years. His career spanned eight decades as a player, coach, manager, scout, and executive. He became the first Black coach in Major League Baseball and helped establish the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City. He was passed over the for Baseball Hall of Fame shortly before his death in 2006. O'Neil was honored by the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum and the Kansas City Royals Saturday at a bunch called "Thanks a Million, Buck." The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum is hosting a watch party for the Hall of Fame induction ceremony. Fans who attend Sunday's Kansas City Royals game at Kauffman Stadium will receive a NFT commemorating the occasion.
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Iowa Triple Murder Victims Have Kansas Ties
LAWRENCE, Kan. (KPR) - The victims of a triple murder at an Iowa park have ties to Kansas. Forty-two-year-old Tyler Schmidt, his wife, 42-year-old Sarah Schmidt, and their 6-year-old daughter were camping at the Maquoketa Caves State Park Friday, where they were fatally shot. The couple's 9-year-old son survived the attack. A family member told the Associated Press that the Cedar Falls, Iowa, couple lived in Lawrence from 2002 to 2018, where Sarah attended and worked at the University of Kansas. KSHB-41 reports that Tyler Schmidt worked for a software company in Overland Park. The suspected gunman, 23-year-old Anthony Sherwin of LaVista, Nebraska, was found dead elsewhere in the park Friday with a self-inflicted gunshot wound. A motive for the killing has not been determined.
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Kansas Court: Secretary of State Violated Open Records Law
TOPEKA, Kan. (KNS/AP) - The Kansas Court of Appeals says the state's top election official violated the state's open records law when he had office computer software altered. The decision directed a lower court judge to order Secretary of State Scott Schwab to reverse the change so that software can again produce a statewide report on provisional ballots. The date was sought by the voting rights group Loud Light.