Alex Rodriguez denied a newspaper report that accused him of buying human growth hormone and other performance-enhancing substances from a Miami-area clinic.
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Declaring ‘now is the time’ to fix broken immigration laws, President Barack Obama heralded a rare show of bipartisanship between the White House and Senate lawmakers on principles for making millions of illegal immigrants citizens.
GTM Sportswear held a ribbon cutting ceremony for the opening of a new state-of-the-art UltraFuse Sublimation Center at the GTM Campus in Manhattan. Owner and CEO of GTM Sportswear, Dave Dreiling; Kansas Governor, Sam Brownback; Manhattan Mayor, Loren Pepperd and President of the Manhattan Chamber of Commerce, Lyle Butler took part in the ceremony. GTM’s new UltraFuse uniforms are created with an advanced dye sublimation technology in which graphics, names and logos are heat-infused directly into fabric. The Sublimation process allows for greater design detail and more color possibilities for GTM’s athletic wear. Competitors are building sublimation technology overseas, which causes UltraFuse uniform…
On today’s InFocus, Cathy talks with Ella Casey with Sunset Zoo, followed by Jared Bixby, with the Flint Hills Discovery Center and Linda Rousser with the Wamego Dutch Mill Sweet Adelines. [mp3-jplayer]
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A lobbyist for the Kansas Bankers Association is telling legislators that bank stockholders are paying $2.5 million more a year in taxes because of a law passed last year to eliminate income taxes for thousands of business owners. Lobbyist Douglas Wareham on Tuesday urged the Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee to correct what he sees as an unintentional flaw in the law. The law exempted the owners of 191,000 businesses from income taxes. But banking companies pay what’s known as the privilege tax, a special income tax applied only to financial institutions. Wareham said when legislators exempted…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas legislators are done revising their rules, and one new provision limits the consideration of new spending when the House and Senate debate budget bills. The Senate voted 28-12 on Tuesday to approve rules governing interactions between the two chambers. The House approved the same measure Monday on a vote of 81-41. The biggest change is a joint rule barring members of both chambers from proposing increased spending during budget debates without proposing an offsetting cut elsewhere. The Kansas House had such a rule in place for the past two years. The Senate didn’t, but GOP conservatives…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A Kansas driver has now been charged for a crash that killed a 6-year-old girl last summer in southeast Wichita. KAKE-TV reports Raudel Sandoval, 19, was charged Tuesday with second-degree reckless murder. He was being held on $100,000 bond. The little girl, Feodora Two-Hatchett, was killed the night of June 26 when her mother’s car was hit by another vehicle in the middle of an intersection. Witnesses said Feodora’s mother might not have completely stopped at a stop sign, but they also said the other car was speeding. Police said Sandoval was driving 60 to 70 mph…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas Revenue Secretary Nick Jordan is telling legislators that Kansas must further reduce individual income tax rates to remain competitive economically. Jordan testified Tuesday before the Senate Assessment and Taxation Committee on its first of three days of hearings on tax proposals from conservative Republican Gov. Sam Brownback. Brownback wants to phase in additional cuts in individual income tax rates over three years, following up on aggressive income tax cuts last year. But to keep the budget stable, he also wants to eliminate two popular income tax deductions for homeowners and raise additional sales tax revenues. Jordan…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Authorities are searching for a 25-year-old inmate who escaped from a north-central Kansas jail. Joseph Mosier was being held at the Osborne County Detention Center on charges from Sedgwick County. The Sedgwick County sheriff’s office says Mosier escaped sometime over the weekend from the fenced-in exercise yard at the Osborne facility. His disappearance wasn’t noticed until a head count at 10 p.m. Sunday. He was last seen Monday afternoon in the Augusta area of Butler County, where he has friends and family. Authorities believe Mosier stole a truck in Osborne that was found Monday in Augusta, as…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A bill proposed in the Kansas Senate would increase penalties for human trafficking and try to protect victims under the age of 18. The bill introduced Monday would create the new crime of commercial sexual exploitation of a child. It also would allow authorities to treat those caught in human trafficking as victims. And it would create coordinated training for human trafficking enforcement. The Wichita Eagle reports a main part of the bill is creating response teams that would provide various placement options for victims. And it would create a human trafficking victim assistance fund. The bill…