Kansas House Strengthens Safe Haven Protections
The Kansas House approved a bill to strengthen protections for parents who leave newborns at safe havens such as hospitals and fire stations. The measure would allow a parent to abandon a child under 45 days old without prosecution, making the child a state ward, and moves to the Senate as an amendment to the Newborn Infant Protection Act.
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Flu season eases in state as KU reports rise in sick students
The flu season in Lawrence and across Kansas is slowing after a busy December and January. At Lawrence Memorial Hospital hospitalist Marc Scarbrough cites 251 positive flu cases through January, more than the 117 for all of 2012 13. The season runs Sept to May and while locally worse than last year, it is not as bad as five or six years ago. The predominant strain this year was H1N1.
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Tea Party Express backs Wolf in Kansas Senate race
Milton Wolf, a Leawood radiologist and Democratic candidate in the Republican primary, won a Tea Party Express endorsement. The Dallas group's support comes as Wolf focuses on Roberts and federal health care policy while highlighting anti abortion and gun rights stances amid his controversial X ray image posts.
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