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Legislation revamping a Kansas law imposing an automatic 50-year sentence on some convicted murderers is now in the state Senate. The House passed the measure 122-0 Tuesday on the first day of a special session prompted by a U.S. Supreme Court decision that struck down a similar law in Virginia. The Senate Judiciary Committee was scheduled to ...

12 years ago
The Army psychiatrist sentenced to death for the Fort Hood shooting rampage has been forcibly shaved. Maj. Nidal Hasan began growing a beard in the years after the November 2009 shooting that left 13 dead and 30 wounded. The beard prompted delays to his court-martial because it violated Army grooming regulations. Hasan is at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., ...

12 years ago
A former Kansas Court of Appeals research attorney faces a disciplinary hearing for derogatory comments she tweeted during the same kind of hearing last year for former state Attorney General Phill Kline. WIBW-AM reports  the hearing for Sarah Peterson Herr was scheduled Tuesday for Dec. 20. Herr posted the comments last Nov. 15 while Kline was appearing ...

12 years ago
The Kansas House has approved changes to a state law that automatically imposes a 50-year sentence on some convicted murderers, a move sparked by a recent U.S. Supreme Court decision striking down a similar law in Virginia. Tuesday's 122-0 vote came on the first day of a special session called by Gov. Sam Brownback to fix ...

12 years ago
A judge has ordered a southeast Kansas woman to spend 30 days in jail followed by three years' probation for the death of her 4-month-old son. KOAM-TV reports 25-year-old Heather Buckalew, of Arma, was sentenced Tuesday in Crawford County District Court. Buckalew pleaded no contest in July to involuntary manslaughter in the death of Memphis Cash Harvey ...

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President Barack Obama is appointing a known critic of the planned Dwight D. Eisenhower Memorial design to serve on the federal commission that oversees the project, weighing into a lingering debate over the memorial's future. The White House announced plans to appoint former National Endowment for the Humanities chairman Bruce Cole last month, but ...

12 years ago
A Salina man falls victim to a new twist on an internet scam. Police say that a 33-year-old Salina man had been applying for jobs online. He received word that he had been hired by Shell Global to work in London, England. The man was sent forms to fill out, including a work permit that he was ...

12 years ago
Critics of a Kansas law requiring new voters to provide proof of their U.S. citizenship when registering want legislators to repeal it during their special session. The American Civil Liberties Union said Tuesday that lawmakers must act because more than 15,000 legal residents have their voter registrations on hold because they haven't provided proof of ...

12 years ago
Salina police are investigating the theft of more than $1,000 in jet fuel from a fuel business. Police Lt. Scott Siemsen says 144 gallons of fuel were stolen from two trucks at Flower Aviation between June 20 and Aug. 14. The business reported the theft Friday. Siemsen says the fuel costs $7 a gallon; leaving a loss ...

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More than 30 Kansans are going to Georgia this month to recreate a 150-year-old Civil War battle. Besides re-enacting the Battle of Chickamauga, the soldiers will hold a memorial service to honor the spot where the 8th Kansas Volunteer Regiment experienced its worst moment. The regiment was organized in 1861, months after the start of the ...

12 years ago
Bestselling author James Patterson has given $48,000 to pay for scholarships for Emporia State University teaching students. Patterson has funded similar scholarships at several other universities, including Vanderbilt. Patterson said in a news release that his passion is to "get more and more kids excited about reading" and that training teachers is "essential to that mission." Patterson's ...