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OTTAWA, Kan. (AP) - The Kansas Bureau of Investigation is looking into the death of a 35-year-old inmate at an eastern Kansas jail. Authorities said Benjamin F. Mastel, of Ottawa, Kansas, was found unresponsive in his cell at the Franklin County jail late Friday night. He was rushed to a hospital where he was pronounced dead. The ...

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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - Federal immigration authorities recently arrested dozens of people in Kansas and Missouri as part of a monthlong operation. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement says in a release that the agency arrested 31 people in Kansas and 34 in Missouri during the investigation, which began in May and ended Monday. The agency says ...

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - State officials say a contractor underrepresented the scope of the state's backlog of applications for Medicaid eligibility. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the contractor for the Kansas Department of Health and Environment miscounted by about 12,000 people. KDHE Secretary Susan Mosier told federal officials in early June that Accenture relied upon a flawed method ...

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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 ...

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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 ...