Money focused DCF's issues go deep
Kansas lawmakers plan a broad audit of the Department for Children and Families focusing on foster care management and potential discrimination against gay and lesbian families. Critics say problems run deeper, tracing to a 20 year old privatization decision that worsened conditions, per Sky Westerlund of the Kansas NA Social Workers chapter.
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Spencer Museum of Art Receives 50 Thousand NEA Award
The Spencer Museum of Art in Spencer Kansas has been awarded 50000 dollars by the National Endowment for the Arts. The grant supports exhibitions and programming at the museum.
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Spencer Museum of Art
National Endowment For the Arts
Suspect Confesses to Killing Ninth-Grader in Iowa Case
Authorities say Tom Bledsoe admitted to murdering Zetta Camille Artmann, a ninth grader found buried near a trash dump outside Oskaloosa in 1999. He reportedly told family and called his pastor to apologize, then led police to the body and produced the Jennings 9mm handgun used in the crime.
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Jennings
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Kansas lacks payout law for wrongfully imprisoned man
Floyd Bledsoe, freed after 15 years for a crime his brother admitted, faces no state compensation in Kansas. He can only sue for damages, while observers note the system betrayed him and question accountability.
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Kansas
Richard Ney
Wichita
Oskaloosa
Floyd Bledsoe
Bledsoe
U.S
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