NEW YORK (AP) — A federal judge has refused to impose bail for an Adidas representative embroiled in a bribery scandal that’s thrown college basketball into turmoil.

At a hearing Thursday in federal court in Manhattan, prosecutors urged Judge Katherine Parker to require that James Gatto post $100,000 bond to keep his freedom. The judge instead continued the no-bail conditions set at an earlier court appearance in Oregon.

Lamont Evans, an assistant coach at Oklahoma State who was fired after being charged in the case, appeared on Thursday in the same courtroom. He was freed on $100,000 bond.

Both men and eight other defendants were charged last month in an alleged scheme to bribe assistant coaches in exchange for steering top-flight NBA prospects to a particular agent or financial adviser.

According to documents in the case, Evans expected $2,000 a month for his services. Evans said it was necessary to use his influence over the youngsters early in their college careers because many of them are “one and done,” meaning they play one year of college ball before joining the NBA, according to court papers.

Evans graduated with a degree in social science from K-State in 2009. He worked with the Wildcat basketball program as a Student Assistant from 2008-09, a Graduate Manager from 2009-2011, and an  Assistant Coach 2011-12, according to his OSU bio.

Filipino veterans of World War Two will be honored during a Congressional Gold Medal ceremony October 25th in Washington D.C.

One Junction City resident, Nita Miller, will be in attendance representing her late father, Juan R. Fabia, who was as survivor of the Bataan Death March in the Philippines during the war and later served as a Filipino scout for the U.S. Army.

Miller stated, “There is a group that wants to recognize the Filipino veterans of World War Two, something that happened right after the war where they were not included for any benefits whatsoever, were not recognized. ” In 2016 there was a public law to recognize them.

Miller received an invitation this week to be present at the formal ceremony on the 25th in Emancipation Hall at the U.S. Capitol Visitor

Center. She said there will be a symbolic presentation of one minted gold medal prepared for this occasion. That ceremony will be led by the

Speaker of the U.S. House Paul Ryan and Senator Nancy Pelosi. Later that same evening, family members and veterans will receive a replica at a formal celebration at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel.

Miller said her father was a member of the Philippine scouts.He was assigned to Corregidor and when it fell he became a prisoner. “He was a prisoner and had to march the Bataan Death March. He had malaria and a lot of prisoners out of 75,000 were very sick and weak. there were more prisoners than there were Japanese guards so a lot of times from what my father said a lot of them were killed on the way just to get rid of them, the prisoners.”

The ceremony will shown via live-stream at speaker.gov./live from 11 a.m. to noon ( CST ) on the 25th.

ALLEN COUNTY — A Kansas woman was injured in an accident just after 9a.m. Thursday in Allen County.

The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2007 Chevy Uplander driven by Lisa Marie Strickland, 28, Coffeyville, was northbound on U.S. 169 four miles south of Iola.

The vehicle crossed the center line and stuck a head-on.

Strickland was pronounced dead at the scene. The semi driver Andrew Jeremiah Robinson, 38, St. Mary’s, was not injured. Both drivers were properly restrained at the time of the accident, according to the KHP.

The Junction City Police Department will be a part of the National Prescription Drug Take Back Day on Saturday, October 28th.

From 10 a.m. until 2 p.m. that day you can bring your unused or expired prescriptions to the lobby of the police department at 210 East 9th Street.

This is the 14th year for the National Prescription Drug Take Back Day.