TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The Kansas attorney general’s office has paid outside lawyers $476,000 in defending abortion laws enacted this year. The office says it has paid nearly $258,000 to a Wichita law firm involved in defending a provision of the state budget that denied federal family planning dollars for non-abortion services to Planned Parenthood. The group is challenging the provision in a federal lawsuit. The attorney general’s office has paid $138,000 to a Lawrence firm helping the state defend new health and safety regulations for abortion providers. Two Kansas City-area physicians are challenging the rules in both state and federal…
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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) A suspect is in custody in the Christmas Eve slaying of a Topeka liquor store clerk. The Topeka Capital-Journal (http://bit.ly/w4AFl4 ) reported that the 44-year-old man was arrested at 3:30 p.m. Thursday and booked into the Shawnee County Jail. He is being held on suspicion of aggravated robbery and first-degree murder in the death of in the death of 41-year-old Matthew Hill. Surveillance video had shown a man entering Hudson Liquor Store last Saturday and beating Hill with a pry bar before shooting him. The suspect also is accused of stealing money from the cash register and…
The K-State baseball facilities have undergone a serious overhaul in the past decade. Most recently, a new playing surface was installed over this past offseason. One of the last pieces still needed at Tointon Family Stadium is an upgrade of the sound system for in-house music and the public address announcer. K-State baseball is holding a fundraising campaign to upgrade the sound system, and the Purple Invasion Golf Tournament will be held next week in Dallas-Fort Worth. The tournament is open to all K-State fans headed for the Cotton Bowl, and will be held at Riverside Golf Club, located just minutes from Dallas Cowboys Stadium. Tournament organizer Jay Kvasnicka says…
A public hearing to finalize 2011 budget amendments was held in the Riley County commission building Thursday. One large item, that was not budget for at the beginning of the year, was “Resourceful Kansas’ ” $1.2 million grant. “Its a grant we got midway through the year,” Riley County commission chair Karen McCulloh said. “We had to make sure appeared in the budget at the end of the year.” In addition to the grant, the register of deeds, capital improvement, city auction, landfill closure, Riley County police department, and juvenile services funds all required adjustments. The money needed to make…
The Pottawatomie County Appraiser’s office has reported a couple of circumstances lately involving a man who is asking about sales information, asking to take interior inspections of property and asking other information about properties which are located in Pottawatomie County. He claims to be from the appraiser’s office and he tells them he is gathering information for that office. County Appraiser Lois Schlegel has verified it cannot be anyone from her office, and is a reason for concern. Schlegel stresses her field appraisers who have to verify sale information and ask questions about the interior of a house that has…
The K-State women’s basketball team will play on Thursday night in the Empire State for the first time in over three decades. The Cats take on traditional power Marist for their final non-conference game before Big 12 play begins next week. K-State has never faced the Red Foxes, although Marist has travelled to Manhattan before, but didn’t meet the Wildcats in last year’s Commerce Bank Wildcat Classic. K-State is 8-3, and is coming off a trip to Las Vegas with wins over North Dakota State and Northwestern, and a loss to UNLV. The Red Foxes are 5-5. The K-State women…
SAN DIEGO (AP) David Ash threw for one touchdown and caught a TD pass to lead Texas to a 21-10 victory against California in the Holiday Bowl on Wednesday night. The Longhorns (8-5) had five takeaways and sacked Cal’s Zach Maynard six times. The Golden Bears (7-6) are winless in five games against the Longhorns dating to 1959. Ash caught a 4-yard pass from wide receiver Jaxon Shipley in the second quarter to join BYU’s Steve Young, Texas A&M’s Bucky Richardson and Oregon’s Joey Harrington as quarterbacks who’ve caught scoring passes in the Holiday Bowl. Texas coach Mack Brown…
DALLAS (AP) Pierre Jackson drove for a layup with 28 seconds left and No. 6 Baylor remained undefeated with a 54-52 victory over No. 15 Mississippi State on Wednesday night. The Bears (13-0) are off to their best start in school history. Jackson had a game-high 14 points, the last when he drove around Dee Bost to make up for a series of mistakes only a couple of minutes earlier when Baylor trailed. Mississippi State (12-2), which had its 11-game winning streak snapped, had one more chance but Rodney Hood lost control of the ball going up for a…