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TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas on Friday launched a new program to provide short-term, no-interest loans to bars, restaurants, taverns and motels struggling to cover operating expenses because of the economic toll of the coronavirus pandemic. The program announced by Gov. Laura Kelly and state Commerce Secretary David Toland will make up to $5 million in [...]

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OSKALOOSA, Kan. — A Baldwin City woman has been sentenced to life in prison for her role in the 2018 shooting death of her mother’s boyfriend. Jefferson County Attorney Josh Ney announced Wednesday that Ashlyn Hemmerling was sentenced after pleading guilty to first-degree murder last year in the March 2018 shooting death of 22-year-old Taylor [...]

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OSKALOOSA, Kan. — A Baldwin City woman has been sentenced to life in prison for her role in the 2018 shooting death of her mother’s boyfriend. Jefferson County Attorney Josh Ney announced Wednesday that Ashlyn Hemmerling was sentenced after pleading guilty to first-degree murder last year in the March 2018 shooting death of 22-year-old Taylor [...]

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OVERLAND PARK, Kan. — Johnson County Community College has hired a new president. The college’s board on Thursday hired Andrew Bowne, who is currently is senior vice president of Indiana’s 18-campus community college system. Bowne will become president in July. The Kansas City Star reports the college’s Board of Trustees met remotely and only two [...]

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators on Thursday approved a new, 10-year transportation program that many lawmakers see as a much-needed, $10 billion stimulus to counter the economic damage from the coronavirus pandemic. The Republican-controlled Legislature made funding highway, road and bridge improvements a priority as it tackled measures for addressing the new coronavirus and [...]

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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — As most of the U.S. raced to get ahead of the coronavirus pandemic, conservative Republican lawmakers in Kansas moved Wednesday to limit their Democratic governor’s emergency powers, including the ability to establish quarantine zones if the need arises. Conservatives are angry with Gov. Laura Kelly’s order to close all of the state’s K-12 [...]

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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A former Wichita State University student has been sentenced to close to five years in prison for taking lewd photos of children and up-the-skirt videos of women. The Sedgwick County prosecutor on Monday announced 30-year-old Wichita resident James Dayvault was sentenced to four years and eight months behind bars. He was [...]

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OTTAWA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas health officials on Saturday confirmed the state’s eighth novel coronavirus case in a person from Franklin County in eastern Kansas. No details about the person were released, but the news follows on the heels of the Johnson County Department of Health and Environment announcing Saturday morning the state’s seventh case [...]

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Kansas health officials say they have identified three new cases of the novel coronavirus, making four cases in the state. Mary Beverly, the interim director of the Johnson County Health Department, says the cases are three men between the ages of 35 and 65 who all attended a conference in Florida. Beverly says the men [...]

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LEON, Kan. (AP) — Emergency crews are searching for the body of a 2-year-old Kansas girl who disappeared after her father drove them both into a river. Butler County Sheriff Kelly Herzet says the man’s body was recovered from the Walnut River near Leon Wednesday night but that the girl has not been found. Herzet [...]

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