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24, May 2012 - Kansas Supreme Court affirms Topekan's conviction for murdering man in downtown Lawrence
The Kansas Supreme Court has upheld the second-degree murder conviction of a 25-year-old Topeka man for shooting and killing another Topeka man in January 2006 in downtown Lawrence.
24, May 2012 - Kan. remap work continues as court deadline looms - WNCT
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas legislators worked Thursday on new proposals for redrawing the state's political boundaries, but a federal court could take redistricting out of their hands at the end of the month. Majority Republicans in the Senate ...
24, May 2012 - Kobach asks court to settle Kan. remap disputes - Sheboygan Press.com
TOPEKA, Kan. (WTW) — Secretary of State Kris Kobach asked a federal court Wednesday to settle redistricting issues for the Kansas Legislature, as Republican senators who've feuded for weeks over new political boundaries scrambled to find a compromise ...
24, May 2012 - Shawnee, KS Former priest convicted of murder plot
Topeka — Secretary of State Kris Kobach asked a federal court Wednesday to settle redistricting issues for the Kansas Legislature, as Republican senators who’ve feuded for weeks over new political boundaries scrambled to find a compromise ...
24, May 2012 - Topeka, KS Feds: Kansas Gang Preyed on Illegal Immigrants - KSALlink.com
Federal prosecutors say a Hispanic gang consisting mostly of U.S. citizens preyed upon illegal immigrants in Kansas who did their business in cash and were afraid to go to law enforcement. U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom on Friday announced racketeering and ...
24, May 2012 - Topeka, KS Kathleen Sebelius’s Aura of Indelibility - Article.nationalreview.com
and the nutty process dominated by the state’s lawyers and used to place legal activists, like Beier, on the bench without hearings or any other confirmation process.) Kline is now teaching law in Virginia and has no apparent wish to return to Kansas pol ...
24, May 2012 - Mission, KS House pushes Senate on proof of citizenship to vote - Wichita Eagle
TOPEKA — The state House took action today trying to force the Senate into a vote on whether to move up the deadline when new Kansas voters will be required ... “There isn’t any court in the land that is going to say that one sex has ...
24, May 2012 - Courthouse 5-17 - Concordia Blade-Empire
Torry Thomas Barleen appeared May 8 and was convicted of Criminal Damage to Property and ... 8 south range 2 west of the 6th P.M. in Cloud County Kansas except the right-of-way of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad.
24, May 2012 - Topeka, KS Kansas Supreme Court suspends Lawrence attorney for one year - LJWORLD
The Kansas Supreme Court Friday suspended Lawrence attorney Brian R. Johnson for one year ... Johnson was admitted to practice law in Kansas in 1988.
23, May 2012 - Anthony, KS Kobach asks court to settle state remap disputes
TOPEKA -- Secretary of State Kris Kobach asked a federal court Wednesday to settle redistricting issues for the Kansas Legislature, as Republican senators who've feuded for weeks about new political boundaries scrambled to find a compromise.
23, May 2012 - Anthony, KS Kan. remap work continues as court deadline looms
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -- Kansas legislators worked Thursday on new proposals for redrawing the state's political boundaries, but a federal court could take redistricting out of their hands at the end of the month.
23, May 2012 - Anthony, KS AP: Kobach asks court to settle remap disputes
TOPEKA (AP) — Secretary of State Kris Kobach asked a federal court Wednesday to settle redistricting issues for the Kansas Legislature, as Republican senators who've feuded for weeks over new political boundaries scrambled to find a compromise ending their impasse.
23, May 2012 - Kansas House rejects prison inmate policy change - Herald Times Reporter
TOPEKA, Kan. (WTW) — House members rejected an amendment Tuesday that would have restricted the types of inmates the Kansas Department of Corrections could house in county jails. The proposal was in response to the escape in April of four state prison ...
22, May 2012 - Kan. chief justice cancels court furloughs - NebraskaTV
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Kansas courts will remain open through the rest of the 2012 fiscal year after legislators approved $1.1 million in supplemental funding to cover operating expenses. Chief Justice Lawton Nuss issued a statement Monday saying that the ...
22, May 2012 - Sedgwick, KS Kansas House rejects prison inmate policy change - msnbc.com
TOPEKA, Kansas (AP ... to manage prison populations. The amendment would have prevented convicted rapists and murderers from being housed in county jails. One of the men who escaped was convicted of two murders in Sedgwick County.
22, May 2012 - Topeka, KS KS Supreme Court cancels furloughs after $1.1M in funding approved - Kansas CW
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas courts will remain open through the rest of the 2012 fiscal year after legislators approved $1.1 million in supplemental funding to cover operating expenses. Chief Justice Lawton Nuss issued a statement Monday saying ...
22, May 2012 - Kobach asks federal court to settle redistricting - LJWORLD
Topeka — Secretary of State Kris Kobach asked a federal court Wednesday to settle redistricting issues for the Kansas Legislature, as Republican senators who’ve feuded for weeks over new political boundaries scrambled to find a compromise ...
22, May 2012 - Douglas, KS Kansas House rejects prison inmate policy change - LJWORLD
Topeka — House members have rejected an amendment that would have restricted the types of inmates the Kansas Department of Correction ... in response to the escape in April of four state prison inmates who were being held in the Ottawa County ...
22, May 2012 - Topeka, KS Florida Company Banned from Doing Business in Kansas
The Attorney General’s Office alleged that the company engaged in the unlicensed practice of law and deceptive business practices.
22, May 2012 - Topeka, KS Kansas Teen Suspect Dies in Apparent Suicide - KSALlink.com
Authorities in north-central Kansas say a teenager apparently took ... for a juvenile case of identity theft, in light of new charges including theft and property damage. County Attorney Rick James says the teen suddenly ran from the building.
22, May 2012 - Topeka, KS Budget Approved Means Court Furloughs Canceled - WIBW
TOPEKA, Kan. (WIBW) - With state lawmakers approving additional funding for the Kansas courts before heading home, four remaining days of statewide court closures and court employees unpaid furloughs have been canceled. Chief Justice Lawton Nuss ...
22, May 2012 - AG pays almost $628K to defend abortion laws - Hutchinson News
TOPEKA - The Kansas attorney general's office paid outside lawyers almost ... challenged the rules first in federal court and then in state court. The same law firm also received more than $107,000 for work on a federal lawsuit filed by the American ...
22, May 2012 - Topeka, KS Federal court allowing Kan. congressman, 2 state lawmakers to intervene in redistricting suit - KWC
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Three federal judges are allowing at least 13 individuals to intervene in a lawsuit over the Kansas Legislature's failure ... But Presiding Judge Kathryn Vratil said the court wanted to make sure it did not limit the ...
22, May 2012 - Wyandotte, KS Verdict upheld in post-concert murder
The Kansas Supreme Court on Friday upheld the intentional second-degree murder conviction of a Topeka man who killed one man and wounded another on a downtown Lawrence street following a rap concert in February 2006. Rashawn T.
22, May 2012 - Topeka, KS Appeals court says Lawrence officer violated Fourth Amendment in DUI case - LJWORLD
Dugan’s DUI and traffic-related ... Douglas County District Attorney Charles Branson said Friday prosecutors were still reviewing the opinion and deciding how to proceed, including a possible appeal to the Kansas Supreme Court.
22, May 2012 - Wyandotte, KS Senate approves bill banning Muslim, other foreign laws from Kansas courts - Wichita Eagle
TOPEKA — The Senate passed and sent the governor a bill that would outlaw the use of foreign legal codes in Kansas courts, a bill broadly written but particularly aimed at Islamic “Sharia” law. The decision, which sends the bill to the ...
22, May 2012 - Topeka, KS Kansas Lawmakers Pass Anti-Islamic Law - Time
(TOPEKA ... Shariah law in Kansas as their concern. Though there are no known cases in which a Kansas judge has based a ruling on Islamic law, supporters of the bill cited a pending case in Sedgwick County in which a man seeking to divorce his wife ...
22, May 2012 - Topeka, KS Kansas lawmakers approve $14.3B budget, adjourn - Associated Press
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators approved a $14.3 billion state ... boundaries to reflect population shifts over the past decade — to a federal court. A bitter feud between GOP factions, anticipating primary elections that will ...
22, May 2012 - Topeka, KS Legislature approves bill to bar use of Islamic law, other foreign codes, in Kansas courts
TOPEKA, Kan. - A bill designed to prevent Kansas courts or government agencies from making decisions based on Islamic or other foreign legal codes has cleared the state Legislature after a contentious debate about whether the measure upholds American values or appeals to prejudice against Muslims.
22, May 2012 - Topeka, KS Court denies request to rethink pipeline tax ruling - KSNT
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - A state appeals court has refused to reconsider a decision that lets Calgary-based TransCanada avoid paying nearly $19 million in property taxes for 2011. KCLY reports the Court of Tax Appeals on Wednesday denied a Kansas Department of ...
22, May 2012 - Topeka, KS Federal court plans hearing in remap lawsuit - LJWORLD
Topeka ... to jump into a federal lawsuit over the Legislature's failure to redraw the state's political boundaries. Kobach filed his written objection only hours ahead of a hearing in U.S. District Court in Kansas City, Kan.,
22, May 2012 - Wyandotte, KS Kansas justices recuse selves from Kline case - KSN.com
TOPEKA, Kansas (AP) --Five of the seven justices of the Kansas Supreme Court have stepped aside from the attorney disciplinary case against former Attorney General Phill Kline. The justices announced their decision Friday. Kline's lawyer had asked that ...
22, May 2012 - Topeka, KS Petition process won't be easy - Salina Journal
"We are officially getting a protest petition going," Robert Noland, executive director of the Kansas Family Policy Council ... usually written by an attorney. "In the case of this law, you would have to write the question asking to rescind ...
22, May 2012 - Topeka, KS Man faces first-degree murder charge in hit-and-run death
A former Kansas University student is awaiting trial on a first-degree murder charge in the hit-and-run death of 1993 Lawrence High School graduate Spencer Schott.
22, May 2012 - Sedgwick, KS Man gets life in prison for Topeka murder - KSN.com
TOPEKA, Kansas (AP) --A Topeka man was sentenced to life in prison for killing a man during an attempted robbery. Thirty-three-year-old Kyree Marshon McClelland was sentenced Tuesday for first-degree murder and other charges in the death of 32-year-old ...
22, May 2012 - Kansas attorney general pays almost $628,000 to defend abortion laws - Kansas City Star
TOPEKA | The Kansas attorney general's office paid ... court and then in state court. The same law firm also received more than $107,000 for work on a federal lawsuit filed by the American Civil Liberties Union against a law restricting private ...
22, May 2012 - Topeka, KS Ex-AG wants 2 Kansas justices recused in ethics case - KSN.com
TOPEKA, Kansas (AP ... The case stems from Kline's criminal investigation of Kansas abortion providers that began during his one term as attorney general. The state Board for Discipline of Attorneys said Kline repeatedly misled other officials or ...
22, May 2012 - Topeka, KS Flags Lowered To Honor Rep. Bob Bethell - WIBW
I send my deepest condolences to his wife, Lorene, and his family.” The following is a statement from Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt regarding the passing of Representative Bob Bethell: “I am deeply saddened by the tragic death of our ...
22, May 2012 - Ellsworth, KS Suspect in cold case rape awaits parole decision
Joel L. Russell, a Kansas inmate charged last month with a rape committed in 1985 in Topeka, awaits a decision from the Kansas Prisoner Review Board on whether he will be released from a prison term he is serving for felonies that include rape.
22, May 2012 - Topeka, KS Clay Center man, woman plead guilty to fraud-related charges - Salina Journal
CLAY CENTER - Two Clay Center co-defendants Tuesday pleaded no contest to Medicaid fraud-related charges, according to a news release from the Kansas Attorney General’s Office. April "Michelle" Hockett, 49, pleaded no contest to unlawful acts relating to ...
22, May 2012 - Topeka, KS Skecher shoe buyers may get refunds - KSN.com
TOPEKA, Kansas --Kansas ... Schmidt joined attorneys general or consumer protection agencies of 42 other states and the Federal Trade Commission in filing agreements. Kansas’ settlement was filed today in Shawnee County District Court.
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