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The Kansas attorney general's office has spent slightly more than $1 million on outside attorneys defending anti-abortion laws enacted in the past three years. Attorney General Derek Schmidt's office disclosed the figures Wednesday at the request of The Associated Press. The costs include $179,000 in attorneys' fees and expenses associated with federal and state lawsuits filed ...

12 years ago
A judge has set an evidentiary hearing next month on requests by Kansas and Arizona for a court order forcing federal election officials to modify voter registration forms to require proof-of-citizenship documentation for their residents. U.S. District Judge Eric Melgren on Wednesday scheduled a two-day hearing beginning Feb. 11 in federal court in Wichita. The hearing comes ...

12 years ago
Anti-abortion leaders have told hundreds of people at the Kansas Statehouse that history is on the side of abortion opponents as they work to eventually end the procedure nationwide. The rally Wednesday marked the 41st anniversary of the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court decision legalizing abortion across the nation. Since then, abortion opponents have enacted restrictions on ...

12 years ago
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach says reviewing the state's birth records will allow election officials to remove 7,700 people from the list of voters whose registrations are on hold for failing to meet a proof-of-citizenship requirement. Kobach told The Associated Press on Wednesday that he expects registrations for the new voters to be validated by ...

12 years ago
Kansas Chief Justice Lawton Nuss is thanking legislators for passage of a pay increase for certain non-judicial employees, hoping that the deal leads to resolution of other funding needs. Nuss says Wednesday during his annual State of the Judiciary address that a measure passed earlier in the day by the House would provide some salary increase ...

12 years ago
The Provost at Kansas Wesleyan University is retiring. According to the school, Dr. A. Wayne Lowen, Executive Vice President and Provost at Kansas Wesleyan University, has announced his plan to retire from his position at the end of June 2014. Dr. Lowen has ably led the university’s academic areas since his appointment in July 2010. During ...

12 years ago
Multiple guns are stolen from a truck in Brookville. The Saline County Sheriff's Office is investigating after someone removed 3 guns and more from a vehicle parked in the 600 block of Brookville. Leonard Johnson told deputies he left his truck unlocked and then found the door left open on Tuesday morning and discovered his Walther P22 ...

12 years ago
Salina Police are investigating after a gun was stolen from a truck that was parked near the Hangar Indoor Sports Complex, 2720 Arnold. Police say the 2005 Dodge pickup was left unlocked and an AK-47 semi automatic rifle was stolen from the vehicle sometime Monday night between 7pm and 9pm. The rifle, valued at $500 ...

12 years ago
Police arrest a man found in the early morning hours with a hammer and flashlight. Devin Unrein, 19 of Salina was arrested Wednesday morning at 2:48am, after officers found him walking near the area where someone had just tried to break into a business. A man associated with TPJ Cycle Works, 662 E. North Street, was inside ...

12 years ago
A northeast Kansas couple has renewed a fight against an adult store along Interstate 70 west of Abilene that sells sex toys and explicit videos. Phillip Cosby spearheaded protests and sought remedies after the Lion’s Den Superstore opened in 2003. He and his wife, Cathy, moved to the Kansas City area and worked for various groups ...

12 years ago
Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt's office is supporting a proposal to form a two-person unit in the office to investigate possible violations of the state's open meetings and open records laws. Kansas Press Association executive director Doug Anstaett told the House Judiciary Committee Tuesday that having an open government unit in the attorney general's office ...