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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - The American Red Cross in Wichita is ending a free service that provides the elderly with rides to medical appointments. Michelle Jantz, executive director of the American Red Cross Midway Kansas Chapter, said in a statement that no other organization so far has announced plans to take over the program. It ends ...

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - If Kansas legislators increase aid to poor school districts to satisfy a recent state Supreme Court order, much of the money would go to dropping local property taxes instead of classroom spending. That bothers many Republicans. The Legislature convenes Thursday for a special session to address the court's order last month declaring that ...

10 years ago
LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) - A northeast Kansas woman has been sentenced to more than nine years in prison for causing a deadly crash while using drugs. Thirty-seven-year-old Jaime Carter, of rural Linwood, was sentenced Thursday in Leavenworth County District Court for the May 2014 crash that killed 49-year-old Mary Steuber and led to the amputation of ...

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LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) - A northeast Kansas daily newspaper that has been owned by the same family for nearly 125 years is being sold to a different family-owned operation based in West Virginia. Lawrence Journal-World Editor Dolph C. Simons Jr. on Friday announced the pending sale to Ogden Newspapers Inc., which publishes 40 daily newspapers, several ...

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - The Kansas Board of Regents has voted not to raise the salaries of five of the six state university CEOs for fiscal 2017. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that the board also voted Thursday to raise the base salary of Pittsburg State University President Steve Scott by 2 percent. His raise will come ...

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - A judge has ruled that a 17-year-old can be tried as an adult in a Topeka killing. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the decision to move the case against Christopher Shawn Pattillo to adult court was made Thursday in Shawnee County. Patillo was 16 in April when Brian Miller was fatally shot. ...

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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - A Kansas judge is standing by his earlier ruling that Secretary of State Kris Kobach has no legal right to bar people who register to vote using a federal form from voting in local and state elections. This week, Shawnee County District Judge Franklin Theis (Tice) rejected Kobach's request to reconsider his ...

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LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) - A fired University of Kansas assistant professor is claiming anti-German discrimination and a hostile work environment in a civil rights lawsuit against the school. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that Catherine Joritz is asking the court to reinstate her in the suit filed this week in Douglas County District Court. Issues arose when students ...

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HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) - Harris Enterprises has announced plans to sell its six newspapers. John Montgomery, vice president of Harris Enterprises and publisher of The Hutchinson News, announced Friday that the company's newspapers are up for sale. The Hutchinson-based company said it has hired a firm to sell the chain. Bruce Buchanan, president of Harris Enterprises, said ...

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - A Kansas lawmaker has stirred up the debate over education funding with a brief history lesson about school finance and the state's founding. Republican Sen. Greg Smith of Overland Park distributed a computer run showing how state aid to school districts would have been distributed under language on public education originally included ...

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Health officials are warning people of toxic levels of blue-green algae in several lakes. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment has issued health warnings for Cheney Lake in south-central Kansas, the Sebelius Reservoir in northwest Kansas and the Marion Reservoir in central Kansas. The health warning for the Marion Reservoir does not include Marion County ...