Brothers killed in wreck

Plains — Two brothers were killed when a car driven by their older brother apparently failed to yield at an intersection and was struck by a pickup truck, the Kansas Highway Patrol said.

Seth B. Hacker, 14, and Thomas G. Hacker, 15, were killed Friday afternoon in the collision on a Meade County road six miles south of Plains. The driver, 17-year-old Jeremy Hacker, a passenger in his truck, Stormy Stanley, 17, of Plains, and the driver of the pickup, Lewis Denton Blevins, 58, of Plains, were hospitalized.

“The kids had lots of friends and got along well at school,” said Robert Kaberlein, a counselor at Southwestern Heights High School. “They were good kids. These kids sometimes touch people’s lives in a way that we don’t always know about. The whole community is saddened.”

Basketball: KU players teach Special Olympics clinic

The Kansas University men’s basketball team played host to 119 Special Olympics athletes at Allen Fieldhouse for the 19th annual KU Basketball Clinic on Sunday.

KU players and coach Roy Williams ran the athletes through drills to help sharpen their basketball skills, and encouraged players in a scrimmage before answering questions during an autograph session.

“The KU Basketball Clinic provides the opportunity for Special Olympics athletes to experience the aura of Allen Fieldhouse while learning fundamental basketball skills from some pretty outstanding players and coaches,” said Chris Hahn, president and chief executive officer of Special Olympics Kansas.

Above, Billy Wilson, 23, of the Wichita Independents tries to elude KU guard Kirk Hinrich during a dribbling drill.

Newspaper: Former publisher of Star James Hale dies at 75

Kansas City, Mo. — Retired newspaper executive James H. Hale, whose career took him from his native Texas to both coasts with a stint from 1977 to 1992 as publisher of The Kansas City Star, died Sunday. He was 75.

Hale died at Texoma Medical Center in Denison, Tex., of natural causes, said his son, Robert O. Hale, publisher of The Walton Tribune in Monroe, Ga.

Art Brisbane, current publisher of The Star, credits Hale with raising business standards in the company.

Among Hale’s other survivors is a daughter, Nancy Hale Sowell.

A graveside service will be Tuesday at 11 a.m. at Ebenezer Cemetery near Arp, Tex.