September 2024

New era begins for Eagle football

CANTON, Kansas – With a long run of successful football behind them, the Canton/Galva Eagles begin 2024 without long time coach Shelby Hoppes, leaving the leadership role to veteran assistant coach Ted Regehr.Regehr walked the sidelines for seven seasons with Hoppes where they went 65-13 overall, made yearly deep runs into the state playoffs, won a state championship, and closed out the 2023 season at 8-2 after losing to Frankfort in the second round of the 8-Man, Division I state playoffs.Along with assistants Zac Hoppes and Jerrid Nightingale, coach Regehr will face the daunting task of replacing five key seniors in Lane McMannis, Wyatt Collins, Leyton Witte, Jory Ratzlaff, Isom Marston, and Jaden Ediger.“Heading into last season we had also lost a big senior class of key position players,” explained coach Regehr.

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Special prosecutor in Marion raid: More details will surface, no other charges without new evidence

TOPEKA — One of the special prosecutors tasked with reviewing the actions of law enforcement officers who raided the Marion County Record says more details will become public as criminal and civil cases proceed.But for now, Riley County Attorney Barry Wilkerson would prefer to let the report that he and Sedgwick County District Attorney Marc Bennett released earlier this month speak for itself.Their report cleared former Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody and other officers of criminal wrongdoing in planning or carrying out the raid, even though the officers had imagined a nonexistent crime, and ignored state and federal laws and constitutional protections.

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