TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) State health officials say two people who were treated at a northwest Kansas hospital in 2010 have tested positive for a strain of hepatitis C “closely related” to a cluster of cases in New Hampshire. Kansas officials notified more than 400 former Hays Medical Center patients last month that they may have been exposed to the disease by a traveling hospital technician who’s accused of causing an outbreak in New Hampshire. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment said Friday that of 334 patients who submitted blood as of Thursday, 311 were negative for hepatitis C. Tests…
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EMPORIA, Kan. (AP) An Emporia woman has been sentenced to nearly 13 years in prison after being found guilty earlier of putting her newborn son in a trash bin. KVOE-AM reports that Lyon County District Judge Merlin Wheeler on Friday sentenced 26-year-old Christina Devine to 155 months in prison. She was convicted in July of attempted first-degree murder. Workers at an Emporia apartment complex found the 7-pound, 10-ounce baby alive in a trash bin in October 2010. Authorities said Devine’s route to the complex took her past several places where she could have left the infant. Under the Kansas law,…
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) A Kansas rancher has filed suit claiming the National Cattlemen’s Beef Association is improperly using “beef checkoff” funds to influence government action and policy. The federal lawsuit by Michael Callicrate names the U.S. Agriculture Department, the Cattlemen’s Beef Promotion and Research Board and three other defendants. It seeks to bar the USDA from giving any checkoff dollars to the Cattlemen’s Beef Association. The filing was announced Friday in Kansas City, Mo., at a conference of the Organization for Competitive Markets. The organization has been critical of the checkoff program and supports the lawsuit. The checkoff program generates…
Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney has selected Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan to be his running mate.
Hundreds of people streamed into a Wisconsin high school Friday to pay their final respects to six worshippers gunned down by a white supremacist at a Sikh temple in suburban Milwaukee.
A man in an Afghan army uniform shot and killed three American service members on Friday morning in southern Afghanistan, the U.S. military command said, the third attack on coalition forces by their Afghan counterparts in a week.
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LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) A Lawrence officer says a 7-year-old girl found bound at a Walmart told him she was hitting her siblings and asked to be tied up. Officer James Miller testified Friday about his conversation with the girl during a preliminary hearing for the girl’s parents, Adolfo and Deborah Gomez. The suburban Chicago couple was arrested in June after the 7-year-old and her bound 5-year-old brother were found outside the family’s vehicle. Three older children weren’t restrained. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that another officer, Charles Stewart, testified that the 5-year-old said Adolfo Gomez told the boy not to take…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Gov. Sam Brownback is warning Kansas residents against lighting outdoor fires because of the state’s ongoing severe drought. Brownback spoke at a meeting Friday on responding to what he describes as a historic drought. All 105 counties are now covered by a drought disaster declaration, and most have imposed burn bans. Brownback says the conditions are so dry that any outdoor burning could set off a widespread blaze. Adjutant General Maj. Gen. Lee Tafanelli and Kansas Agriculture Secretary Dale Rodman were also at the meeting, where Brownback announced a new website providing information on the drought.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A junior at Topeka High School is on a mission to make school a more pleasant place for special education students. Jack Hishmeh recruited fellow students and adults to help paint the special education room this week. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that’s the latest project Hishmeh began to befriend the nearly 20 special education students at the high school. Last year, he formed a group called “Lunch Buddies,” who lunched with special education students in the cafeteria. Previously, the students rarely left the room set aside for them, not even for lunch. Lunch Buddies eventually became “Special…