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A group of Kansas Highway Patrol recruits had their badges pinned on Thursday afternoon in Salina and officially became troopers. The 20 new state troopers were part of KHP Recruit Class #55, the latest graduates from the Kansas Highway Patrol Training Academy. A large portion of the new troopers have a special bond with the agency. ...

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Saline County Health Department Director Jason Tiller joined in on the KSAL Morning News Thursday to better define a local syphilis outbreak. On Tuesday, Tiller reported to the Health Advisory Council that 16 cases of syphilis in Saline County had been lab confirmed. According to Tiller data on those people who are infected is still being analyzed. He ...

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Student leaders at the University of Kansas have passed legislation that seeks to improve inclusion on campus just hours after a student protest. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that the Student Senate unanimously approved a motion Wednesday night to create a wheelchair basketball team. The Student Senate also passed a bill to expand adoption of gender-neutral language. ...

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A Kansas Amber Alert prompted by a missing baby in Topeka was cancelled early Thursday afternoon, about an hour and a half after it was issued. According to the Kansas Bureau of Investigation, 1-month-old Kaleb Thomas had taken by his non-custodial father at approximately 10:00 Thursday morning. The suspected abductor was 19-year-old Edward Alberty. At around 12:40 ...

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Salina Police Department is searching for a 1998 gold Ford Explorer with Kansas tags that was driving at dangerous speeds this morning on 9th Street. The vehicle was spotted at 4:04 this morning driving eastbound on the 500 block of West North Street with tags that didn't match the vehicle description. Police attempted to follow him ...

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FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) - Backlash over the images of protesters in Ferguson, Missouri clashing with officers in combat gear drove an ongoing national push to scale back the militarization of police. Now, in the span of six days, police suddenly have a pair of poster cases for the use of such gear. California police officers deployed ...

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By day, they are just a bunch of ordinary guys who go to work just like everyone else. But at night they transform into characters with names like "The Natester", "Chaos", "Havoc", "Blade", "Zero", "Chris Crazy", and "Maliki". They are the wrestlers of XWE. Salinan Nathan McClanahan is the president of XWE Entertainment, a grass-roots professional ...

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Consultants have made several recommendations to Kansas lawmakers to save and generate cash, including centralizing the leasing of state office space and having the state transportation department sell off rarely used equipment. Alvarez and Marsal, which is conducting an efficiency study of state government, presented some of their recommendations Tuesday to the ...

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Supreme Court is taking up a case dealing with its administrative power that could jeopardize the judiciary's entire budget. The high court hears arguments Thursday on a 2014 law that strips it of its authority to appoint the chief judges in the state's 31 judicial districts. The law gave the ...

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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) - A study shows that Medicaid expansion could potentially turn into a moneymaker for Kansas. The Wichita Eagle reports that the study was released Tuesday. Study author Deborah Bachrach says the fact that Kansas is facing a budget crisis is "exactly the reason why it needs to evaluate the economics of expansion." Kansas is ...

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - A lawsuit against a Kansas ban on a common second-trimester procedure has forced the state Court of Appeals to consider how much the state constitution protects abortion rights. The full 14-member court heard arguments Wednesday in the state's appeal of a Shawnee County judge's July ruling temporarily blocking enforcement of the first-in-the-nation ...