TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas Senate has given first-round approval to a bill prohibiting doctors from terminating a pregnancy solely because a woman doesn’t want a baby of a certain gender. The bill advanced on a voice vote Tuesday. The Senate is expected to give the measure final approval Wednesday and send it to the House. The bill makes a misdemeanor the first time a doctor is convicted of performing a sex-selection abortion and a felony each time afterward. A woman’s husband could sue a doctor over such a procedure, as could a parent or guardian of a girl under…
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas is closer to ending a constitutionally questionable ban on out-of-state residents circulating petitions to put candidates on the ballot or gain recognition for political parties. The state House approved a bill Monday to repeal the prohibition. The 118-1 vote sends the measure to the Senate. The bill results from a federal lawsuit filed in 2010 by the Constitution Party. The state hasn’t enforced its ban since, acknowledging that it likely violates rights to freedom of speech and association. The Constitution Party isn’t recognized in Kansas. Voters can’t list themselves as being affiliated with it when they…
Authorities don’t know the motive in Tuesday’s rampage of carjackings and shootings across California’s Orange County. Three people were killed before the gunman ended the rampage by taking his own life.
The Obama administration says the U.S. will continue to strengthen its defenses and discuss cyber theft with top Chinese officials following a security report that blamed China’s military for recent cyberattacks on key industries.
It was a day of reviewing goals from the past year and looking toward the coming year for the Riley County Law Board Tuesday. Progress indicators in 2012 were basically met, according to Riley County Police Director Brad Schoen, who went over the approximate half dozen goals. Some of those are improving traffic safety, reducing crime, increasing public satisfaction, and making use of available technological advances. One particular goal that created discussion involved mental health housing needs, with an ad hoc working group discussing the matter. Board member Wynn Butler indicates he wants to see something concrete and less talk. Director Schoen…
A horse with a knack for opening stall doors at a Michigan farm is getting attention after a video of her escape-artist antics was posted online.
President Hugo Chavez returned to Venezuela early Monday after more than two months of treatment in Cuba following cancer surgery, triggering street celebrations by supporters who welcomed him home while he remained out of sight.
Will Spradling scored a season-high 19 points, and K-State easily spoiled Bob Huggins’ return to Manhattan in a 71-61 over West Virginia on Monday night at Bramlage Coliseum. The Cats jumped out to an 18-4 lead thanks to a 12-0 run, and held a 33-20 edge at halftime. The lead stretched to as many as 21 points in the second half, both shortly after Mountaineer technical fouls, one on Huggins and the other on guard Eron Harris. K-State (21-5, 10-3) had four other players in double figures, Nino Williams scored 13 points, Angel Rodriguez and Thomas Gipson had 11, and…
Cathy has returned from her vacation and sits down to talk with Linda Knupp, Director of the Manhattan Public Library Book Sale, Heather Lansdowne, Library Association President, and Gary Jeffrey, MLA book sale chair, followed by C.Clyde Jones, Diana Chapel, and Beverly Olson, with Shepherd’s Crossing, on today’s InFocus. [mp3-jplayer]
HOLTON, Kan. (AP) A northeast Kansas high school cheerleader is expected to undergo at least two more surgeries after her team’s van rolled off an icy road and into a ditch. WIBW-TV reports Christa Merriman already has had surgery to reconstruct her nose after the accident Friday night as she and fellow Holton cheerleaders were coming home from a game. The van carrying Christa, three teammates and their supervisor hit black ice on a bridge just north of Topeka and went into the ditch. Christa says everyone had their seatbelts on but she somehow ended up in a storage part…