Republican Mitt Romney says a video clip in which he called nearly half of Americans “victims” was “not elegantly stated” and was “spoken off the cuff.”
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt says he’ll appeal a state Supreme Court ruling ordering a new trial for a man sentenced to die for the 2005 killing of a sheriff. Scott Cheever was convicted of capital murder in the shooting death of Greenwood County Sheriff Matt Samuels. The sheriff was killed while serving a warrant at a southeastern Kansas home where authorities say meth was being made. The Kansas court ruled last month that Cheever’s rights were violated during his trial when a psychiatrist disclosed his psychological records without his consent. Schmidt said Monday he has taken…
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) Prosecutors in northeastern Kansas have charged a suspect with murdering a South Carolina pediatrician who was in the area for a medical conference earlier this month. The body of 39-year-old Dr. Franchesca Brown, of Myrtle Beach, was discovered Sept. 12 in a field near an Overland Park hotel. The suspect was identified Monday as John Meredith Hodges, believed to be from Virginia. Police say Hodges fled to South America and has been captured in Colombia. He’s expected to be returned to the Kansas City area this week. Overland Park and Johnson County authorities said Hodges was…
EMPORIA, Kan. (AP) Kansas is getting a visit from U.S. Education Secretary Arne Duncan. Duncan is due in Emporia Tuesday for a town hall meeting at Emporia State University. He’s also scheduled to visit Topeka, with a stop planned at the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic site. Duncan is on a 10-day national tour that ends Friday in Washington. In Emporia, he plans an afternoon town hall at Emporia State University as well as a visit to the National Teachers Hall of Fame, which is located on the Emporia campus.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has named a former state House member as the top elections official in one of the state’s most populous counties. The appointment of 43-year-old Andrew Howell as Shawnee County election commissioner was announced Monday. Howell replaces Elizabeth Ensley Deiter,who stepped down last week to become a magistrate judge for four northeast Kansas counties. Shawnee County is home to the city of Topeka and the state Capitol. Howell runs a small home-renovation company in the Topeka area. He served in the Kansas House from 1995 through 2004. He is a Republican like…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) More than $11 million in raises for thousands of Kansas state employees have cleared a final step. The increases were given formal approval Monday by the State Finance Council, made up of Gov. Sam Brownback and top legislative leaders. Kansas lawmakers approved $11.2 million for the raises in May as part of the state budget for the fiscal year that began in July. Nearly 4,300 state employees will benefit, including some Highway Patrol troopers and corrections officers at state prisons and juvenile detention centers. This is the fourth round of annual raises under a plan approved by…
OLATHE, Kan. (AP) A northeastern Kansas man has avoided a trial by pleading no contest in the killing of his wife earlier this year. Thirty-seven-year-old Dominic Camacho had been scheduled to go on trial Monday in Johnson County District Court on a charge of first-degree murder. The Kansas City Star reports the Lenexa man instead pleaded no contest to a charge of second-degree murder. Camacho’s wife, 35-year-old Leslie Camacho, was found strangled March 13 in the couple’s suburban Kansas City home. Police went to the home when relatives became worried after being unable to reach Leslie Camacho. The victim worked…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) The public is invited to next month’s inauguration of Wichita State University’s new president. John Bardo succeeds Donald Beggs, who stepped down over the summer after 12 years in the job. Gov. Sam Brownback is scheduled to speak at the ceremony the afternoon of Oct. 12 in the Hughes Metropolitan Complex, about a mile north of the Wichita State campus. Bardo began his academic career at Wichita State. He chaired the sociology and social work department from 1978 to 1983. He later worked at the University of North Florida and Bridgewater State College in Massachusetts. More recently,…
After an extensive four year period, Riley County Commissioners have finally made headway on the 101 Noon Street property. The house is located in Fairmont Park and commissioners have been trying to gain the property in hopes of furthering renovations within the park. Assistant County Counselor, Craig Cox, brought the purchase contract forward, during Monday’s meeting, after receiving it from Atlantic Coast Housing LLC. Cox explained the extensive search for the official deed was the main reason it has taken so long to make it to this point. Commissioners unanimously approved of the signing of the contract and the $20,000 for…
Special teams definitely played a huge factor in K-State’s closer than expected 35-21 victory over North Texas. After North Texas took a 7-0 lead in the first quarter, Wildcat sophomore Tyler Lockett took the ensuing kickoff 96 yards to the house. Lockett was named Big 12 special teams player of the week on Monday. The touchdown was the third on a kickoff return in his career, and helped propell K-State to the win. Lockett also received the Big 12 honor after returning kickoffs for scores last season against Texas Tech and Kansas.