54 of 54 Precincts Counted Republican State Senator 22nd District Riley County Joe Knopp 1701 Bob Reader 2402 Roger Reitz 1719 Republican St. Rep. 51st district Riley County Ron Highland 19 Dee McKee 49 Keen Umbehr 18 Democrat St. Rep. 51st district Riley County Scott Briggs 5 Richard Pikul 4 Riley County Commissioner 2nd District Robert Boyd 788 (Unofficial tallies name Boyd winner) Jeffrey Holmes 666 Larry Larson 506 Riley County Commissioner 3rd District David Fiser 950 Ron Wells 1115 (Unofficial tallies name Wells winner) Democrat State Board of Education Riley County Carol Viar 193 Usha Reddi 1254 The State…
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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A judge has refused to dismiss the case against an anti-abortion activist accused of threatening a Wichita doctor who was training to offer abortions. Angel Dillard’s argued the case should be dismissed because Dr. Mila Means is not providing abortions. U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten on Tuesday rejected that argument. He also rejected Dillard’s move to counter-sue the government for allegedly violating of her First Amendment rights. The Valley Center woman sent Means a letter saying she would have to check her car every day because someone might place an explosive under it. The Justice Department…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach says turnout in the state’s primary election varies based on whether a county has a hot state Senate race. Kobach said Tuesday afternoon that it’s too early to tell whether turnout will exceed his prediction of 18 percent statewide. That’s a relatively low figure, and it would mean about 310,000 of the state’s 1.7 million registered voters casting ballots. He said turnout at a Wyandotte County site he visited was steady but light. His reported that about 2,200 people had cast ballots in the county by noon. In Topeka, reports from…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Gov. Sam Brownback’s administration resubmitted a Medicaid waiver proposal to the federal government after the first proposal needed to be withdrawn. The state needs the waiver in order to use federal Medicaid dollars for the Brownback administration’s managed care plan, called KanCare. State officials withdrew a proposal that was submitted April 26 after realizing that they had not notified Haskell Health Center in Lawrence and the White Cloud Health Station. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the administration consulted with those two American Indian groups and hosted more public forums before resubmitting the proposed waiver to the federal Centers…
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) Three people are jailed after being arrested in 15 burglaries in Hutchinson. The crimes began April 10 with a burglary at a convenience store. Targets also included seven churches and Hutchinson High School. The suspects were arrested Monday after Hutchinson police received an anonymous tip. Prosecutors have charged 24-year-old Justin Lee Branscom and 19-year-old Tyler Schmucker of Hutchinson with multiple counts of burglary, criminal damage, criminal trespass and theft. A 16-year-old faces similar charges. Branscom and Schmucker are in custody of the Reno County Sheriff, each on a $45,000 bond. The teenager is in a juvenile facility.
SEVERY, Kan. (AP) A suspect in custody in the stabbing death of a 40-year-old man in Severy is scheduled to make his first court appearance. The Greenwood County Sheriff and the Kansas Bureau of Investigation are investigating the death of Dominic Angelo, who was found dead at his home on Sunday. A 48-year-old man from Hamilton was arrested east of Eureka shortly after Angelo’s body was found. Severy has less than 300 residents. Mayor Rodney Craig told KAKE-TV that no other murder has been reported in his hometown in the 42 years he’s live there. Greenwood County Sheriff Rusty Bitler…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A retired Wichita school administrator hopes to oust a Republican from the State Board of Education in Kansas’ primary elections. And in another state school board race Tuesday, Democrats were picking their nominee for a district covering northeast and north-central Kansas. They were the only contested primary races for State Board of Education seats. In the Wichita contest, incumbent Republican Walt Chappell faces Kathy Busch, a retired assistant superintendent and principal. No Democratic candidate is running. In the other race, Usha Reddi, a Manhattan first-grade teacher, and Carol Viar, a Salina accountant and member of a local…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Republican primary voters could reshape the Kansas Legislature as conservatives try to oust moderate GOP incumbents from the state Senate. Tuesday’s party primaries feature contested races in a majority of the 40 Senate and 125 House districts. Both chambers have Republican majorities. The hottest contests were in a dozen Senate districts in which moderate Republican incumbents faced more conservative challengers. They targeted moderates included Senate President Steve Morris, of Hugoton. Republican moderates were getting help from the state’s largest teacher’s union and other labor groups. The conservative push to remake the Senate was backed by the powerful…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Five Democrats are on the ballots in two Kansas congressional districts seeking the right to challenge Republican incumbents in the U.S. House. In south-central Kansas, political newcomers Robert Tillman and Esau Freeman, of Wichita, are vying Tuesday in the Democratic primary. The winner will face 4th District Congressman Mike Pompeo in November. In the 2nd District of eastern Kansas, the Democratic primary features Ottawa farmer Scott Barnhart, Lawrence attorney Robert Eye and Topeka minister Tobias Schlingensiepen (shling-ehn-SEE’-pehn). The winner will challenge two-term Congresswoman Lynn Jenkins in November. The other two Kansas incumbents Tim Huelskamp in the 1st…
K-State’s Erik Kynard is the silver medalist in the 2012 London Olympics in the men’s high jump. Kynard cleared the first three heights with only one miss, and then became one of two competitors to jump seven feet, seven and three quarter inches. He missed his first try at seven feet, nine inches, and Ivan Ukhov of Russia made a clean jump. Kynard would then try two greater heights in attempt to beat Ukhov but missed on both. He becomes the first Wildcat to earn an Olympic medal with remaining eligibility since Thane Baker in 1952.