Three of eight murder charges were thrown out Tuesday against a Philadelphia abortion provider apparently because the judge had not heard sufficient evidence that the three babies were viable, born alive and then killed.
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Charges were dropped Tuesday against the Mississippi man accused of sending ricin-laced letters to President Barack Obama and others, while authorities searched at another man’s home in connection with the case.
Off-duty firefighter Matt Patterson immediately applied a tourniquet to 7-year old Jane Richard and got her to an ambulance after the Boston Marathon bombing, helping to save her life.
Update: Thursday morning–The K-18 traffic switch is now scheduled to take place Thursday afternoon, April 25 due to the strong potential of rain now forecasted for tomorrow, Friday, April 26. Older report: Eastbound and westbound K-18 from 56th Avenue to just west of K-113/Seth Child Road will be moved to the new westbound K-18 lanes and reduced to one lane in each direction for pavement reconstruction work beginning on Friday, April 26, weather permitting. These lane closures will remain in place until late fall 2013. In the case of inclement weather on Friday, April 26, crews will complete the K-18 traffic switch…
After the announcement last week by the FAA of furloughs for air traffic controllers and closures of air traffic control towers across the nation, U.S. Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.) held a press conference Tuesday to discuss the issue. During the conference, Moran commented on the issue of the towers, but doesn’t see why it has come to this stage. “We have taken a significant effort to get some common sense into the Department of Transportation,” said Moran. “The closing of air traffic control towers and the furloughing of air traffic control tower controllers seems to me to make no sense. There is no…
On Tuesday night two years of work from the Wildcat Creek Watershed Working Group came to the floor of the Manhattan city commission. City staff gave an initial briefing on the management plan which will be going forward in its final adjustments before possible adoption by city and county officials in July. The plan includes policy, and other preventative measures to help mitigate flood damage in the area. Some infrastructure changes have already been implemented such as three high tech gauges placed strategically across the watershed area that give experts a clear picture of water flows, and automated advanced…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The American Civil Liberties Union is demanding more information from a southwest Kansas school district about assemblies this week that featured a speaker from a creationist group. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the ACLU of Kansas and Western Missouri is requesting that the Hugoton district release emails between its staff and employees of the Oklahoma-based Creation Truth Foundation. The ACLU also wants copies of materials used at the assemblies and other documents. Hugoton Superintendent Mark Crawford said Tuesday that his district would fulfill the ACLU’s request. But he said the group tried to intimidate the district into…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A Kansas prosecutor says he’s planning to retry a capital murder suspect rather than ask the U.S. Supreme Court to reinstate the man’s convictions for killing two women in Topeka. The Kansas Supreme Court overturned Phillip Cheatham Jr.’s convictions in January, finding that his lawyer did a poor job at his 2005 trial. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports Shawnee County District Attorney Chad Taylor announced Tuesday his conclusion that it would be “ill-advised” to appeal the state court’s ruling. Cheatham was sentenced to die for the 2003 shooting deaths of two women at a Topeka duplex. He was…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Cool spring temperatures in Kansas are squeezing drought-weary cattle producers even further by delaying the growth of pasture grasses and the first cutting of alfalfa fields. Steve Hessman, hay market reporter for the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s office in Dodge City, says development of all forage grasses is running almost three weeks behind normal. That means the grass in pastures has not grown enough for ranchers to turn their cattle out to graze as usual. Some ranchers in western Kansas and eastern Colorado are running out of winter-stockpiled hay to feed their cattle and have begun selling…
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) The Hall Family Foundation has donated $2.7 million to support research at the University of Kansas’ Hall Center of Humanities. The Kansas University Endowment Association announced the latest gift from the Hall family on Monday. It said the donation will fund a new distinguished professorship and create two new research fellowships at the center. The Lawrence Journal-World reports $500,000 of the donation will be used to attract a leading researcher to the new distinguished professorship. Another $1 million will create a postdoctoral fellowship for a researcher in digital humanities, and another $1 million will create a mid-career…