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Fort Hays State University’s Honors College has moved its application deadline from Feb. 15 to March 5 for 2016.
The new deadline will allow students attending student recognition programs sponsored by the university to apply, as well as students taking the ACT test on Feb. 6, 2016, and the SAT test on Jan. 23, 2016, according to the university.
Kansas poet laureate Eric McHenry will speak and read from his work on Tuesday, Jan. 5, at the Bonner Springs City Library, 201 N. Nettleton Ave., Bonner Springs, Kan.
The event starts at 6 p.m. It is free and open to the public. Registration is not required.
McHenry, of Lawrence, is a nationally known poet and associate professor of English at Washburn University in Topeka, according to his biographical information on the Kansas Humanities Council website.
He also is an associate professor of English at Washburn University, Topeka. He has won several awards for his poetry.
“Potscrubber Lullabies,” his first book, earned the Kate Tufts Discovery Award in 2007. “Odd Evening,” his third book of poems, will be published by Waywiser Press in 2016.
A 38-year-old Kansas City, Kan., woman was arrested Dec. 16 in Daviess County, Mo., according to Missouri Highway Patrol arrest reports.
She was charged with possession of a controlled substance, receiving stolen property and no insurance, according to the arrest report. She was being held in the Daviess-DeKalb Jail.
According to Missouri Highway Patrol reports, the same woman was in a crash at 8:35 a.m. Dec. 16 in Daviess County on I-35 southbound.
She was a passenger in a vehicle southbound on I-35 that went into the median, overcorrected and then overturned, going off the west side of the road, the crash report stated. The vehicle came to rest on its wheels facing east, the report stated.
The woman suffered minor injuries and was taken to a hospital, according to the report.