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'Mothers, sisters and daughters': After years of rehabilitation, four ...
WEBNov 28, 2021 · TOPEKA — While serving time at the Topeka Correctional Facility for a nonviolent property crime, Sarah Jaillite has endeavored to turn her life around and prepare for a transition back into her community. Jaillite is among 108 applicants for clemency working with the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas. Beginning May 2020, amid COVID-19, the […]
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WEB6 days ago · BY: Ariana Figueroa - September 23, 2024. WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors Monday said the man accused of trying to assassinate former President Donald Trump at his private golf club in Florida stalked the GOP presidential nominee for a month and in a note offered $150,000 to anyone who could “finish the job,” according to …
Nonprofit report calls for closing last juvenile prison, keeping kids ...
WEBOct 15, 2021 · Incarcerating young Kansans is more costly and inhumane than providing community services, education and mentoring to keep them out of the juvenile justice system, according to a new report by a nonprofit pushing the state to shutter its last juvenile prison.. Kansas-based Progeny, which focuses on juvenile justice reform, released a report Thursday outlining steps it believes lawmakers should ...
Kansas Senate backs gradual elimination of sales tax on food by …
WEBApr 27, 2022 · The plan would take a year-by-year approach to scale down the food sales tax, dropping from 6.5% to 4% on Jan. 1, 2023, then 2% the following year and eliminating the tax altogether in 2025. While the vote was 39-0, Democrats argued the Legislature should eliminate the sales tax entirely or begin the reduction in July.
History of challenges adds to current stresses for Kansas farmers …
WEBApr 3, 2022 · It was a long, slow-moving and cold ride to D.C. that February in 1979 for hundreds of farmers in their tractors, grain trucks and campers. When they finally reached the capital, they paraded through the streets and were corralled on the National Mall, establishing a base from which to stage their protests and …
'We can't wait 15 years': Legislative committee works to overhaul ...
WEBFeb 20, 2022 · Time to protect water in Kansas is running short. Parts of the aquifer in far western Kansas may only have 10 years of water left. Small towns are struggling to provide clean drinking water, and upgrading their facilities would bankrupt them.. If the state is going to preserve its water resources, it has to act soon, say proponents of an overhaul to the state’s water regulation.
New law helps drivers with suspended licenses get back on the road
WEBMay 14, 2021 · TOPEKA — A new law now in effect gives Kansans with suspended driver’s licenses a clearer avenue to get back on the road. Under the law, Kansans who are struggling to pay fines and fees can ask a Judge to reduce or waive the charges based on hardships. The law also removes a 90-day suspension or revocation period that drivers had to meet after satisfying the terms of the original suspension.
'Ball of rolling fire and smoke': Wildfires rip through north-central ...
WEBDec 20, 2021 · Huge swaths of land in north-central Kansas are blackened by wildfires that swept through last week. (Allison Kite/Kansas Reflector) Smoke billows from a fire crews worked to put out in Ellis County on Friday. More than 365,000 acres burned in Ellis, Rooks, Osborne and Russell counties last week.
Governor signs bill honoring memory of abused Kansas boy fed to …
WEBBy: Tim Carpenter - May 21, 2021 12:38 pm. Sen. David Haley, a Democrat from Kansas City, Kansas, lauded legislation honoring Adrian Jones, a severely abused 7-year-old boy killed in 2015 and his body fed to hogs. Allegations of abuse had come to attention of officials in Kansas and Missouri. (Sherman Smith/Kansas Reflector)