Articles from the December 28, 2018 edition
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Kansas court system granting employees paid parental leave
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas court system's employees will now receive six weeks of paid leave following the birth or adoption of a child. The Kansas Supreme Court issued an administrative order Friday covering the 1,600 judicial branch workers u...
Authorities identify body found in Kansas River
WAMEGO, Kan. (AP) — Authorities have identified the man whose body was found Christmas Eve in the Kansas River. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the Pottawatomie County Sheriff's Office identified the man as 19-year-old Jacob D. Bouck of W...
Lawyer: McCarrick repeatedly touched youth during confession
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican's sexual abuse case against ex-Cardinal Theodore McCarrick has expanded significantly after a man testified that the retired American archbishop sexually abused him for years starting when he was 11, including during c...
Kansas teen to get high school, Harvard diplomas in 1 month
ULYSSES, Kan. (AP) — A 16-year-old Kansas boy will soon earn his high school diploma — and a few days later he'll travel to Harvard to collect his bachelor's degree. Ulysses High School senior Braxton Moral will attend both commencement cer...
Gang members rounded up after Kansas double shooting
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Authorities have arrested several gang members and seized eight firearms after two people were wounded in a gang-related shooting in Kansas City, Kansas. The Kansas City Star reports that the victims drove themselves to a h...
Topeka house fire leaves man dead, woman critically injured
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a Topeka house fire has left a man dead and a woman critically injured. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that the fire started Friday morning in a neighborhood in the northeast part of the city. Fire D...
Man sought after girlfriend, her father found dead in Kansas
IOLA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities are searching for the boyfriend of a slain woman and her father after their bodies were found in eastern Kansas. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation says in a news release that 36-year-old Molly Wilson and her father, 6...
Ex-Department of Revenue employee to fill Kansas House seat
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Democrats have picked a former Kansas Department of Revenue employee to fill a vacancy in the state House. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Democratic precinct committee members on Thursday chose Freda Warfield to r...
Patrol works 29 crashes, 1 fatal, as blizzard hits Kansas
HAYS, Kan. (AP) — Dozens of drivers crashed or needed help after heavy snow and strong winds created treacherous whiteout conditions in western Kansas. Kansas Highway Patrol Lt. Stephen Larow says the agency responded to 29 crashes Thursday, i...
Man charged in deadly shooting, crash rejects plea deal
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — A Lawrence man who claims he acted in self-defense when he fatally shot an acquaintance has rejected a plea deal that also would have resolved two other cases. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that 22-year-old Steven Drake I...
Kansas has new academy to promote now-legal industrial hemp
DESOTO, Kan. (AP) — A northeast Kansas businessman is opening a new academy to train farmers to grow industrial hemp now that its production is legal. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Joe Bisogno's belief in the crop's potential inspired h...
Kansas Sen. Roberts in session by himself during shutdown
WASHINGTON (AP) — Kansas Sen. Pat Roberts was in session briefly by himself in an otherwise empty Senate chamber during the federal government's partial shutdown. The Kansas City Star reports that Roberts and his wife came Thursday to the Capitol f...
Persons of interest sought after gunfire erupts outside mall
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — Authorities are seeking two persons of interest after gunfire erupted outside a suburban Kansas City mall, shutting it down on the day after Christmas. Police in Overland Park, Kansas, asked the public for tips in a F...
Police investigate report that white man kicked black boy
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Authorities are investigating a report that a white man kicked a 1-year-old black child in the back at a Wichita grocery store and yelled racial slurs. The Wichita Eagle reports that 29-year-old Lashantai Whitaker said in an i...
Meriden man who returned lost wallet gets favor returned
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Many people have come across the scenario: You find a wallet on the ground out in public; what do you do with it? That scene played out in September for Meriden resident William Grady. While on the way to his local Thriftway g...
Circus performers find home in local warehouse
HAYSVILLE, Kan. (AP) — It takes a special kind of person to want to be in the circus. You've got to flexible, you certainly can't be afraid of heights — and it probably helps to have a fairly high pain tolerance. In the Wichita area, there is a tig...
Planted wheat acres projected to hit 100-year low
HUTCHINSON, Kan. (AP) — Over the past two years, the breadbasket of America has planted less and less wheat. Acres planted to wheat in 2017 and 2018 neared 100-year lows, with last year's 7.7 million wheat acres hitting the lowest point in 60 y...
Retired nuns prepare to move from aging Normandy facility
NORMANDY, Mo. (AP) — Last year Sister Pauline Bilbrough first heard the news: The convent was going to have to close. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that the Immaculate Heart Convent sits on 10 acres that's been owned by the Sisters of the G...
Hui poet fears for his people as China 'Sinicizes' religion
JINAN, China (AP) — Cui Haoxin is too young to remember the days of his people's oppression under Mao Zedong. The 39-year-old poet was born after the Cultural Revolution of 1966-76, when the Hui — China's second-largest Muslim ethnic group — were...
EPA targets Obama crackdown on mercury from coal plants
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Friday targeted an Obama-era regulation credited with helping dramatically reduce toxic mercury pollution from coal-fired power plants, saying the benefits to human health and the environment may not b...
Harnessing natural gas to harvest water from the air might solve 2 big problems at once
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) One of the biggest freshwater reservoirs in the world is, literally, up in the air. Between 6 and 18 million gallons...
Donation brings style, smiles to children in hospital
LAFAYETTE, La. (AP) — A cute, comfy outfit can make all the difference to a child when everything else is out of the ordinary. Families at Women's and Children's Hospital discovered that firsthand as 240 Brave Gowns were delivered to pediatric p...
Missouri Planned Parenthood asks judge to block abortion law
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A Columbia Planned Parenthood has passed its state inspection and is asking a federal judge to take action to allow the clinic to provide abortions again. The Columbia Daily Tribune reports that the clinic wants to start o...
Our fight with fat: Why is obesity getting worse?
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) Gyms across the country will be packed in the new year with people sticking, however briefly, to their New Year’s r...
New medical advances marking the end of a long reign for 'diet wizards'
(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) (THE CONVERSATION) For many years, the long-term success rates for those who attempt to lose excess body weight have hovered around...