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Kansas attorney general says Colorado marijuana’s impact is big, but not all negative
“The criminal justice system is moving in the direction of what appears to be changes in public attitude,” Schmidt said. “Obviously not moving as far as some people would like, but there is obviously an evolution or a change, and this showed that it has reached the enforcement level as well.”
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Toxic Plume Spurs Evacuations in Kansas Town
Many residents of Atchison, Kansas, are being allowed to return to their homes and go outside, following a scare over a toxic plume of chlorine that hovers over the city on Friday. City officials told residents via Twitter that it was now safe for them to go outside. Atchison City Manager Trey Cocking said in a press conference that 18 people were being treated for "respiratory discomfort," and are currently being monitored.
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Kansas Ends Bad Economic News by Not Reporting It
Republican Governor Sam Brownback canceled the regular updates that were supposed to show how tax cuts helped growth. By Barry Ritzholtz.
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Equality House vandalized with anti-gay graffiti, bullet holes
The Equality House in Topeka, Kansas, which stands directly across the street from the notoriously anti-gay Westboro Baptist Church, has been a symbol of the LGBTQ rights movement since it was first painted Pride flag colors in March of 2013. This week, however, the colorful symbol of equality was subjected to hate when spray-painted slurs and bullet holes were found on the home's exterior.
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Oklahoma earthquake: Strong tremor strikes near Stillwater, felt in Kansas
A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.3 has struck near Stillwater in Oklahoma, with shaking felt in Tulsa, Oklahoma City and nearby states such as Kansas and Missouri, seismologists and residents say.
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Baby missing in Kansas, mother shot dead
The FBI joined the search Friday for a newborn girl after her father found the baby's mother shot to death in their Kansas home, police announced. The father came home in Wichita Thursday to find Sofia Victoria Gonzalez Abarca had disappeared and her 27-year-old mother was dead, police Lt. Todd Ojile said during a news conference. The child is believed to be in danger.
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Donations soar for Indian 'hate crime' victim
More than half a million dollars has been raised in a day for the family of an Indian man shot dead in a suspected hate crime at a Kansas bar. The killing of Srinivas Kuchibhotla, 32, an engineer originally from Hyderabad, has made headlines in his home country. Some people on social media have blamed it on intolerance and distrust sparked by President Donald Trump's tough stance on immigration. Adam Purinton, 51, a US Navy veteran has been charged with premeditated first-degree murder and two counts of attempted premeditated murder.
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The wealthy are going underground as luxury doomsday bunkers sprawl across Kansas
For many, the world just doesn’t feel like a safe place anymore. Pandemics, the re-emerging threat of nuclear war, terrorist attacks, and even the threat of a good old fashioned natural disaster have many scanning prepper sites online and stockpiling food in their basements. For some people, though, that just isn’t good enough. Those with the means to do so are flocking to snap up luxury survival condos built on the site of a converted missile silo in Concordia, three hours north of Kansas City.
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After years waiting for Google Fiber, KC residents get cancellation e-mails
ome Kansas City residents who have been waiting years for Google Fiber to install service at their homes recently received e-mails canceling their installations, with no word on whether they'll ever get Internet service from the company. KSHB 41 Action News in Kansas City, Missouri, "spoke to several people, living in different parts of the metro, all who have recently received cancellation e-mails," the station reported last week. "The e-mails do not provide a specific reason for the cancellations. Instead they say the company was 'unable to build our network to connect your home or business at this time.'"
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Republicans sweat surprisingly close Kansas congressional race
Kansas has been reliably Republican in federal elections, but GOP operatives head into Tuesday uncertain of an easy victory when the deep-red state holds the first congressional election since President Donald Trump’s inauguration. By Bryan Lowry.
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A Berniecrat Takes on Trump and the Koch Brothers in Kansas
Republicans are pouring money into the race in an attempt to save a GOP seat. By John Nichols.
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Woman whose 10-year-old daughter was killed in 1999 loses second daughter to murder
Kansas police announced Sunday the capture of a man who they say murdered a woman near the playground named for the victim's sister -- who was just 10 when she was abducted and killed in 1999. Emenencio Lansdown, the subject of a massive manhunt, was taken into custody after an overnight standoff, according to reports.
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Man who tricked women into having sex with promise of porn movie stardom pleads guilty
A 34-year-old Raymore man pleaded guilty Friday to federal charges stemming from a long-running scheme to dupe women into having sex. Mario Ambrose Antoine pleaded guilty in U.S. District Court in Kansas City to one count of wire fraud. Attorneys will jointly recommend a prison sentence of 10 years as part of the plea agreement.
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The Gnomist
Deep in the forest of Overland Park, Kansas little gnomes made a home. But how did they get there? Experience the feel-good story of paying it forward, one tiny magical house at a time.
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Legislature overrides [Kansas Gov.] Brownback’s veto of bill that rolls back his 2012 tax cuts
A third tax bracket would be brought back into state law under the bill, all three individual tax rates would increase and the tax exemption for business owners would also come to an end. By Hunter Woodall.
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Kansans consider the corpse of Sam Brownback’s tax plan: ‘It needed to happen’
If the voices of these Kansans are any indication, the mood of many people seems to be one of relief. The overall sentiment: “What took so long?” By Eric Adler.
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Man's body decomposed for eight months in airport parking while family searched the states
Randy Potter's body decomposed for eight long months at the airport parking while his friends and family searched him across the states. Despite many searches, including the location from where his dead body has been recovered now, family had no clue about him going missing all of a sudden. “What kills me the most was I was there … he could’ve been found the first week,” Potter's wife Carolina said.
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Transcripts detail trio's plot to bomb Somali refugees in Kansas and kill their white landlord
Three men accused of conspiring to bomb a Kansas mosque and an apartment complex housing Somali refugees also allegedly discussed killing the refugees’ white landlord because he rented to Muslims, a move prosecutors say was meant to ensure the attack fully conveyed their anti-Muslim message.
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Kansas Tried a Tax Plan Similar to Trump’s. It Failed
The state’s experiment with tax cuts on so-called pass-through entities did not heat up its economy — but did help some very rich people. By Jim Tankersley.
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ACLU Free Speech Case Challenges Law Aimed at Anti-Israel Boycotts
The American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit today arguing that a Kansas law requiring a high school educator to certify that she won’t boycott Israel violates her First Amendment rights.
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