Lance Armstrong confessed to using performance-enhancing drugs to win the Tour de France during an interview with Oprah Winfrey, reversing more than a decade of denial.
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British Prime Minister David Cameron says Algerian forces are pursuing terrorists and possibly hostages, following an attack on a gas plant.
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Operation Rescue has filed a formal complaint with Wichita officials about ongoing renovations at the former clinic of slain abortion provider George Tiller. The anti-abortion group’s policy director, Cheryl Sullenger, contended Thursday the building’s new owners did not obtain required city permits to resurface the parking lot, do landscaping and remodel the clinic. The complaint also alleges the owners improperly completed architectural plans and met with contractors. The building was bought last August by the abortion rights group Trust Women Foundation Inc., which plans to offer a full range of reproductive health care services, including abortions. Trust…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) Police in Wichita say a man found dead in a wooded area near railroad tracks had been reported missing days earlier. Construction workers came across the frozen body Wednesday morning in the northeastern part of the city. Police said Thursday they’ve identified the 34-year-old man, but his name was being withheld while relatives were notified. Investigators are calling the death suspicious, partly because there were signs the body had been moved from somewhere else. An autopsy was being conducted Thursday. Police said the man’s girlfriend last saw him Friday at a business in west Wichita. She reported…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A former executive of a struggling Kansas high-tech company has been given probation for defrauding the United States by creating false invoices on government contracts. Aaron Madison was executive vice president and chief operating officer of Manhattan-based NanoScale, a small company that makes advanced chemistry products. He pleaded guilty earlier to wire fraud. The U.S. attorney’s office says Madison was sentenced Thursday to two years of probation and ordered to pay slightly more than $17,211 in restitution. Federal prosecutors said 90 percent of NanoScale’s business came from government contracts, most with the Defense Department. Madison was accused…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback is proposing a big cut in state funding for public radio and TV stations, but he also appears to have abandoned a previous effort to eliminate the funding altogether. Brownback told The Associated Press on Thursday that he tried to draft budget proposals for the next two fiscal years that can pass the Legislature. He added that his administration, in his words, “has a lot of irons in the fire.” Brownback is proposing $600,000 in funding for public TV and radio in each of the next two fiscal years, down 42 percent from…
LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) The Leavenworth County attorney says he’s still deciding whether to appeal a court order that a woman convicted in her son’s death be given a new trial. The Leavenworth Daily Times reports Tuesday is the deadline to ask the Kansas Supreme Court to review the case of 31-year-old Monica Rivera, who was convicted in August 2010 of involuntary manslaughter and endangering a child. She is serving three years and five months in the 2009 death of her 4-year-old son, Gabriel. He died while Rivera’s fiance, Jason L. Jones, was caring for him. Jones was convicted of second-degree…
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) A University of Kansas graduate says he wanted to do something to support a team that has won five national championships and has 14 Final Four appearances. But David Pittaway wasn’t thinking of the school’s vaunted basketball program when he donated $500,000 to the university. Instead, he wanted to honor Kansas’ nationally known debate team. The university says Pittaway’s donation is the largest ever given to the debate team. It will be used to create an endowed professorship for the team’s head coach. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that Pittaway is a senior managing director of a private…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A Topeka man has been convicted in a double shooting that left one woman dead and her life partner seriously injured. A Shawnee County jury on Wednesday convicted 19-year-old Jimmy Jermal Netherland of felony first-degree murder and five other charges. He will be sentenced March 8. Netherland was one of nine people charged in the July 2011 death of 40-year-old Natalie Gibson and the wounding of 43-year-old Lori Allison. The women were shot in their driveway after returning from a birthday celebration for Gibson. Prosecutors say the suspects drove to the women’s home to steal a TV…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Gov. Sam Brownback’s budget proposals would hold state spending on its higher education system flat over the two fiscal years that begin in July. The recommendations outlined Wednesday by Brownback would keep total spending on state universities, community colleges and vocational colleges around $2.5 billion for the fiscal year that begins in July and the following fiscal year. Current spending is a little more than $2.5 billion, or about 1.7 percent higher than Brownback is proposing for both of the following fiscal years. But his budget proposals assume less funding for infrastructure projects and don’t include any…