TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Top Kansas officials have approved a $100,000 settlement in a lawsuit on behalf of a former state hospital patient who was assaulted and contracted a sexually transmitted disease. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Gov. Sam Brownback and legislative leaders agreed Tuesday that the state will pay the former patient $96,000; an additional $4,000 would go to the Disability Rights Center of Kansas, which represented the disabled woman. The woman’s guardian sued in Shawnee County in 2009 after the woman left the Kansas Neurological Institute in Topeka. The lawsuit said she’d been repeatedly assaulted. The state had argued…
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas expects to rely less heavily on internal borrowing to pay its bills on time during the fiscal year starting in July. Gov. Sam Brownback and legislative leaders on Tuesday unanimously approved $300 million in loans to the state’s general fund from other accounts. By law, the loan must be paid by the end of June 2014. The general fund is the state’s main bank account. It is used to finance general government programs and provide aid to public school districts. Because revenues don’t flow in consistently, the state has resorted annually to internal borrowing to temporarily…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A nonprofit group from Illinois is asking the Kansas Corporation Commission to support its efforts to seek a surcharge on natural gas utilities. The Gas Technology Institute, based in Des Plaines, Ill., says the surcharge would raise money to support safety and research. A representative from the institute told the KCC last week that the proposed surcharge would be about 90 cents per customer per year, and raise an estimated $845,000. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the institute argues customers would benefit from research on how to make appliances and homes more efficient and pipelines safer. A spokeswoman…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A realtors association says home sales in Kansas in May were the highest in the state since 2007. The Kansas Association of Realtors says sales increased 14.2 percent in May, to 3,727 units sold to 3,265 in 2012. Nationwide sales rose 12.9 percent in May. This is all done through various lead generation tools that bring customers to a business through both organic and through alternative methods to drive greater sales, having a looking into DemandForce reviews further we can see they’ve had a rapid increase over the past year in orders for lead generation services from…
SALINA, Kan. (AP) Salina residents will not be allowed to carry concealed weapons into the city’s public buildings for at least six months. The city commission voted unanimously Monday to exempt until Jan. 1 more than 30 public buildings from a new law that allows concealed weapons. A law that takes effect July 1 allows people with concealed-carry permits to take weapons into public buildings unless the buildings have adequate security. The law gives cities and counties the right to exempt their buildings for six months. City Manager Jason Gage says it would cost the city thousands of dollars to…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) After months of debate, the Wichita school board decided to build a new Southeast High School, rather than renovate the current building. The board voted Monday night to proceed with construction of a $54 million high school about six miles from the current building. It isn’t expected to open until 2016. The project will be funded with money from a 2008 bond issue, which was originally targeted to renovating the old school and building a new one. But board members said a reduction of nearly $60 million in state aid since that bond issue passed made it…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas officials are preparing to auction off a 100-year-old Topeka home built by a prominent attorney and banker. The Department of Administration scheduled Tuesday’s auction after rejecting two bids for the Hiram Price Dillon home in February. The higher two bids was $351,000, from a law firm. The 12,000-square-foot home near the Statehouse was built in 1913 by Dillon. It’s on the National Register of Historic Places and is known for its Italian Renaissance-style architecture. The state has owned the house since 1998, when a church nearby traded the property for a parking lot. The house has…
It’s time to check in with Pottawatomie County as Cathy sits down with Commission Chair Pat Weixelman, Sheriff Greg Riat, and Julie Roller with Pottawatomie County Economic Development corporation. [mp3-jplayer]
Attorney General Eric Holder says he is ‘deeply disappointed’ in the Supreme Court’s decision on a voting rights case. He says the Justice Department will still use any means available to challenge discriminatory voting laws.
President Barack Obama says scientists concur that the Earth warming and that human activity contributes to it. Obama says that the debate over climate change has been put to rest.