Garden City man dies after New Year’s fall at home
Garden City resident Raymond Cruz, 62, died Thursday at Wesley Medical Center in Wichita from injuries after a Dec 31 fall while removing Christmas lights on his house near the gutters. He drove the Senior Center mini bus and was father to Tim Cruz the Garden City commissioner and others. Funeral arrangements are pending.
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Raymond Cruz
Wesley Medical Center
Wichita
Juanita Cruz
Alice
Bush VA chief to tour Kansas veteran facilities
President Bush's Veterans Affairs Secretary Anthony Principi will visit Kansas next week. He will tour the Salina Community-Based Outpatient Clinic, meet veterans at the Eisenhower Library in Abilene, and review budgets for VA medical centers in Topeka and Leavenworth, according to Rep. Jerry Moran and Sen. Sam Brownback.
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Bush
Veterans Affairs
Kansas
GOP
Anthony Principi
Salina
Eisenhower Library
Abilene
Jerry Moran
R-Kan
Veterans Affairs Subcommittee
Sam Brownback
Jim Ryan
Principi
Veterans Administration
Topeka
Leavenworth
Swastika sprayed on car shocks Kansas City man
Kansas City Kan AP David Coleman Jr found a backward black swastika spray painted on the back window of his Mercury Tracer in his driveway around 7 am Tuesday. Police said other Black family vehicles on the block were unharmed and no suspects are identified. investigators probing whether the act is a hate crime.
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Kan
David Coleman Jr
Coleman
Henry Callahan
Kansas Wheat Commission weighs helping Cuba mill wheat
The Kansas Wheat Commission plans to vote on spending 15000 to send a flour miller to Cuba to teach milling of hard red winter wheat for the first shipment in four decades. The move follows Cuba’s purchase of 60000 tons of wheat and 10000 tons of flour, with U.S. Wheat Associates and Cuban buyers shaping a potential broader market opening.
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Kansas Wheat Commission
Kansas
Marsha Boswell
Dusti Fritz
U.S. Wheat Associates
U.S
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Canada
Argentina
Fritz
Boswell
Ray Crumbaker
Brewster
Public Records Rule on Commissioners E Mails
The state attorney general ruled that e mail messages between city commissioners saved only on private computers are not public records even if they concern city business. Assistant AG Theresa Marcel Nuckolls said records are public only if the city maintains them. The Hays Daily News had requested such e mails and mayor officials varied in supplying them amid legal debate.
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State Attorney General's Office
Theresa Marcel Nuckolls
John Bird
Hays Daily News
Mike Corn
Corn
Bird
Paper
City Commission
Sedgwick prosecutor resigns after overturned convictions
Sedgwick County prosecutor Denise Donnelly Mills has resigned after new trials were ordered in four cases she handled for prosecutorial misconduct. District Attorney Nora Foulston said Donnelly Mills will remain on payroll through sick leave and vacation time, then depart. The Supreme Court overturned an aggravated assault, a rape, and a first degree murder conviction, all citing improper closing arguments, with a fourth case to be retried.
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Sedgwick
Denise Donnelly-Mills
Nora Foulston
Kansas
Donnelly Mills
Foulston
Donnelly-Mills
Denise
District Attorney’s Office
Kansas Supreme Court
Melvin W. Holmes
George D. Cook
Cook
Taxpayers face costs for new Kansas death row retrials
Kansas taxpayers could pay at least 500000 for new sentencing trials for four death row inmates after the Kansas Supreme Court ordered a re sentencing in the Kleypas case. The ruling questions juror guidance and verdict forms, potentially affecting three Sedgwick County inmates. Costs include new juries, expert witnesses, and possible county relocation.
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Wichita
Kansas Supreme Court
Gary Kleypas
Kleypas
Carla Stovall
Sedgwick County
Stanley Elms
Michael Marsh II
Gavin Scott
Tom Klein
House Judiciary Committee
Inmates could face charges over Larned facility riot
At Larned Correctional Mental Health Facility an 11:20 p.m. Sunday disturbance followed an employee error that opened all 30 doors in the maximum security unit. Two or three inmates led the uprising, damaging detectors, cameras and lights, with over $2000 in damage. The Special Operations Response Team tried nonlethal resolution before entry at 1:30 a.m. Monday. Inmates may face charges of incitement to riot and criminal damage to property.
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Larned
Larned Correctional Mental Health Facility
Karen Rohling
Rohling
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