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Senate To Debate Gambling Law Changes

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Published May 7, 2010 at 6:13 a.m.

The Senate is considering a bill attempting to revive the state's racing industry with racetrack slot machines ...

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Kansas Senate Approves Tax Increase

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Published May 6, 2010 at 10:12 p.m.

Senate approves bill increasing the state's sales tax to avoid more cuts. The House suspends work on its budget plan ...

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Wichita State's return to prominence: Looking back at the decade

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Published Feb. 14, 2010 at 12:52 a.m.

In 1999, it was hard to fall in love with Wichita State men’s basketball. Following the Shockers meant enduring losing, coaching changes and smelly subterranean restrooms in decaying Levitt Arena ... That is the situation Jim Schaus inherited when hired as athletic director. Levitt Arena stood at least a decade or two past its prime. Schaus knew the next decade hinged on fixing the building that housed his teams ... “That was the one single activity that transformed our program,” Schaus said

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Measure to repeal state's death penalty on hold

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Published Feb. 13, 2010 at 1:06 a.m.

TOPEKA — The debate over Kansas' death penalty appears to be near death ... A measure to repeal capital punishment in the Sunflower State emerged from a Senate committee last month, but there are no plans for the full Senate to debate or vote on it, according to Senate Majority Leader Derek Schmidt, an Independence Republican ... Schmidt said no decision had been made on whether to hold the debate ...

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Victims' families urge senators not to put a price on the death penalty

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Published Jan. 21, 2010 at 6:08 p.m.

The state's death penalty should be retained as justice for the deaths of those killed by likes of the Carr brothers or Justin Thurber, lawmakers heard Thursday ... The penalty shouldn't be weighed in terms of cost, victims' family members said ... "You cannot put a price tag on my sisters' life," Jennifer Sanderholm told the Senate Judiciary Committee. "That is ultimately what you will do if you abolish the death penalty” ...

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Plan To Expand Gambling Introduced

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Published Jan. 21, 2010 at 2:21 p.m.

Kansas lawmakers are pursuing proposals to bring slot machines to racetracks and attract a casino to the state's southeast corner ...

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K-State drubs Cleveland State

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Published Dec. 30, 2009 at 12:36 a.m.

MANHATTAN — In the early moments of Kansas State's 85-56 blowout over Cleveland State on Tuesday night, it looked as if the Vikings were going to give the Wildcats a real test ... D'Aundray Brown started the game by making a mid-range jumper, and teammate Norris Cole made another easy shot moments later. Less than a minute in, Cleveland State owned a two-possession lead ... Over the past few years, Cleveland State has built leads on big-name opponents and made a name for itself by holding onto

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State's flu rate down, but still double the norm

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Published Nov. 18, 2009 at 1:05 a.m.

TOPEKA — The percentage of people reporting flulike symptoms at outpatient clinics has declined slightly but is still twice the number of reports normally seen this time of year, Kansas health officials say ... Usually about 2 percent of patients at outpatient clinics have flulike symptoms at this time of year, but clinics reported that 5.6 percent of their patients last week had flulike symptoms, said state epidemiologist Charlie Hunt ... Despite a small decline from the previous two weeks,

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Gov.: Schools' lawsuit threat won't sway cuts

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Published Nov. 18, 2009 at 1:05 a.m.

TOPEKA — Kansas' governor said Tuesday that the threat of a lawsuit over education funding won't influence the spending cuts he'll make to keep the current state budget in balance ... Gov. Mark Parkinson plans to announce next week how he'll make nearly $260 million in cuts and other budget adjustments. The changes are designed to prevent a deficit when the state's 2010 fiscal year ends June 30 ... Some of Kansas' 293 school districts already are contemplating suing the state because it has

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Lawmaker: Deporting foreign inmates may save money

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Published Nov. 11, 2009 at 12:17 p.m.

Nearly 300 inmates in Kansas prisons identify themselves as foreign nationals, which has prompted a key state legislator to suggest some should be deported to help ease the state's budget problems ... Corrections Secretary Roger Werholtz, though, is wary of a broad effort to deport dozens of the 293 inmates in question, the Topeka Capital-Journal reported Wednesday. Werholtz said some inmates might not be held in prison in their home nations and might try to return illegally to the United States

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