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Kansas voters protect abortion rights, block path to ban
Kansas voters have protected abortion rights by rejecting a measure that would have allowed the Republican-controlled Legislature to tighten abortion restrictions or ban it outright.
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Kansas’s prairie is rapidly shrinking. Its future depends on private landowners like Lorna Harder.
How she’s trying to save the vital ecosystem, acre by acre.
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Kansas lawmaker charged with kicking student in groin pleads guilty to disorderly conduct
A Kansas lawmaker who was accused of kicking a high school student in the groin and threatening to “unleash the wrath of God” pleaded guilty to three counts of disorderly conduct, court records show. State Rep. Mark Samsel was sentenced to 12 months of probation and ordered by a judge not to use his personal social media accounts, a district court order in Franklin County shows.
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Archaeologists with drones discover pre-Columbian earthworks in Kansas
The ditched enclosure is one of just a handful ever found.
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America’s ‘fried chicken war’
How immigration, ingenuity and the American spirit shaped a US fried chicken “war” that’s been simmering for four generations.
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Kansas City Chiefs win first Super Bowl in 50 years
Patrick Mahomes keeps rewriting the NFL history books, and the wait for the Chiefs -- and for their head coach -- is finally over.
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US gamer jailed after hoax police call leads to fatal shooting
A US man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for making a hoax 911 call that led to police shooting an innocent man dead. Tyler Barriss, 26, told emergency services he had fatally shot his father and was holding the rest of his family hostage as part of a "swatting" prank. Swatting is a form of retaliation which involves falsely reporting a crime so that a massive police response - often involving SWAT teams - is sent to a target's home.
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Charges Filed, McDonald's Worker Tainted Deputy's Drink
The Allen County, Kansas Attorney files one count of aggravated battery of a law enforcement officer today against a 22-year-old Iola, Kansas resident (Sept. 26, 2018). On September 12th, 2018, Iola police arrested 22-year-old Trevor Hockaday. Authorities say Hockaday was working at McDonald's and put a peroxide-based cleaner in an Allen County Deputy's drink. According to investigators, the deputy picked up their food and drink while going through the restaurant's drive-thru. Officials say a short time later, the deputy experienced flu-like symptoms.
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Kansas woman told birth certificate wasn’t enough to prove citizenship for passport
Birtherism for everyone: Born and raised in Kansas, Gwyneth Barbara didn’t expect this kind of hassle.
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Archaeologists explore a rural field in Kansas, and a lost city emerges
A Kansas archaeology professor believes he's found the lost city of Etzanoa, spurring a rethinking of traditional views on the Native Americans' early settlement of the Midwest.
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Mailman Finds Gigantic Snake Wrapped Around Mailbox, Calls For Help
A mailman in Kansas, US, out doing his job, found a huge surprise waiting for him - a gigantic snake wrapped around a mailbox. A tweet posted by Overland Park Police shows pictures of the huge reptile and, we warn you, they aren't for the fainthearted.
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Kansas man gets life sentence for killing Indian engineer in a bar
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Kansas City doctors team up to pay off $1.4 million in medical debt for local patients
A reported 1 in 5 Americans have delinquent medical debt on their credit reports—and that doesn’t even account for other Americans who struggle with medical costs in other ways. It’s a large problem that is preventable in one of the richest countries...
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders Are Trying to Prove Their Case in Kansas
Ocasio-Cortez and Sanders have more expansive aims than electing Brent Welder. They want to prove their theory of the progressive case. By David Dayen.
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Vandals cause serious flood damage at Buck O’Neil Education and Research Center in KC
The new Buck O'Neil Education and Research Center was hit by vandals Friday, causing serious damage. Police say around 11 a.m. Friday an alarm went off. They said someone broke into the historic, multi-purpose center and cut a water pipe on the second floor. It caused extensive flooding to the first floor and basement. See footage of the damage in the video above.
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3 Charged In Fatal Kansas ‘Swatting’ Attack
Federal prosecutors have charged three men with carrying out a deadly hoax known as “swatting,” in which perpetrators call or message a target’s local 911 operators claiming a fake hostage situation or a bomb threat in progress at the target’s address — with the expectation that local police may respond to the scene with deadly force. While only one of the three men is accused of making the phony call to police that got an innocent man shot and killed, investigators say the other two men’s efforts to taunt and deceive one another ultimately helped point the gun.
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Finally, Kansas cops can't have sex with perps during traffic stops
Gov. Jeff Colyer signs a law banning police from having sex with people they stop for traffic violations or investigate in criminal cases.
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Kansas Police No Longer Allowed to Have Sex With People They Pull Over
Police in Kansas are finally going to have to stop having sex with people they pull over for traffic violations.
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Designer of Waterslide That Killed Boy Charged With Murder
A water park company co-owner accused of making a spur of the moment decision to build the world’s tallest waterslide and rushing it into service, and a designer accused of shoddy planning, were charged Tuesday in the 2016 death of a 10-year-old boy who was decapitated on the ride when the raft he was on went airborne and hit an overhead hoop.
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Chilling legal documents reveal just how shitty the "planning" behind lethal "world's tallest" waterslide really was
A Kansas grand jury handed down a 20-count indictment against the management of well-known water park company Schlitterbahn today, accusing the company’s leaders of a long string of criminal mistakes, incompetencies, and deceptions that all reportedly contributed to the death of a 10-year-old boy. The incident in question—which happened when a raft on the company’s record-setting Verrückt water raft ride went airborne, causing the child to be decapitated when his neck struck a series of “safety” bars suspended over the ride—happened in 2016, but, as the court documents make clear, the seeds of the moment were allegedly laid years in advance.
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