10 years ago
The University of Kansas Endowment is using its own crowdfunding campaign to raise money for smaller projects on campus. The campaign, called Launch KU, is designed to bring in money for projects such as replacing 10 musicians' chairs at Swarthout Recital hall or bringing therapy dogs to campus. The Lawrence Journal-World reports (http://bit.ly/1RCUgbn) the first seven projects ...

10 years ago
A split vote last month on an abortion issue is the first time in Kansas Court of Appeals' history that it has reached a deadlock. The 14-member court was evenly divided in a Jan. 22 vote on whether the Kansas Constitution guarantees the right to an abortion. The main reasons there have been no previous ties is ...

10 years ago
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Kansas lawmakers want to restrict public access to law enforcement body camera footage in an effort to protect the privacy of people caught on camera. A bill introduced by the House judiciary committee last week would limit release of the video to the people in the footage, their attorneys and their parents ...

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Sunday started much the same way Saturday ended, with the ground shaking in parts of the Midwest. According to the U.S. Geological Survey, three earthquakes were recorded along the Kansas / Oklahoma border before 7:00 in the morning. Early morning quakes included: 2.8 at 4:41 AM 3.9 at 5:25 AM 2.9 at 6:35 AM The three quakes came just ...

10 years ago
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - A Kansas City woman who worked as a teacher and lived on a pension left $2 million to a Catholic order when she died at age 100. The Star reports that Anna Kurzweil donated $2 million to the Society of Jesus, a Catholic order known as Jesuits, upon her death in ...

10 years ago
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) - A 19-year-old Kansas City man accused of trying to kill a Wyandotte County deputy has been sentenced on an unrelated robbery charge. Charles Bowser is one of three men charged with shooting Deputy Scott Wood during a convenience store robbery last March in Kansas City, Kansas. The Star reports that two other ...

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Topeka police are investigating the death of a 2-month-old baby. Police Captain Ash Kaboudan said officers were called Friday evening to a home on a report of a pediatric emergency, and crews took the girl by ambulance to a hospital, where she was pronounced dead. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that police haven't released ...

10 years ago
BONNER SPRINGS, Kan. (AP) - Two Oklahoma men have died in a single-vehicle crash in northeast Kansas. Police said the accident occurred late Thursday in Bonner Springs when the pickup they were in veered off a road and struck several trees. The Kansas City Star reports that police identified the two men killed in the crash as ...

10 years ago
Kansas senators are working to keep Gov. Sam Brownback's administration from approving new economic development projects that cost the state sales tax revenue. Senators approved a budget bill Thursday with an amendment preventing the Department of Commerce from approving new STAR bonds projects this and next fiscal year. The program has been used to finance construction ...

10 years ago
The Republican president of the Kansas Senate has ousted Sen. Mary Pilcher-Cook from leadership of the Senate's health committee. Pilcher-Cook, a Shawnee Republican, said in an emailed statement Friday that Senate President Susan Wagle removed her from her post as chair of the Senate's Public Health and Welfare Committee. Pilcher-Cook said she was removed because of ...

10 years ago
Kansas legislators are preparing to close a deficit largely with budget juggling, and a growing number are seeing broad problems with how the state is managing its finances. Conservative Republican Gov. Sam Brownback's critics blame his aggressive tax-cutting policies for crises across state government. The problems include inadequate pay at state prisons and short staffing in ...