Kansas voting history shaped by Bleeding Kansas era
Desra Hienerr Sprclay recounts how Kansas politics began with popular sovereignty in the Kansas Nebraska Act, drawing settlers from Missouri and New England. By 1855 the territory boasted six newspapers, a fierce vote total, and a legislative split shaping statehood amid Bleeding Kansas and Civil War tensions.
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California
Nevada
Texas
Kansas
United States
Free State
William H. Seward
Seward
New England Emigrant Aid Society
Kansas Territory
Territorial
Reeder
Kansas man dies in western Missouri traffic crash
In Rushville Missouri a pickup veered off Woolston Road near the Kansas border and rolled over. Passenger David W. Reese 27 of Atchison Kansas died. Driver Randy K. Johnston 40 of Atchison was uninjured but continued driving with Reese inside until authorities were alerted.
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Missouri
Missouri Highway Patrol
David W. Reese
Atchison, Kan
Reese
Randy K. Johnston
Atchison
Johnston
Kansas
Woolston
Former bus driver sentenced for sexual assault of passenger
James N. Lake, 47, convicted in Johnson County District Court of aggravated sexual battery, sentenced to 32 months in prison for fondling a 28 year old cerebral palsy passenger in February 1997. He received credit for 155 days in jail and must register as a sex offender after release.
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James N. Lake
Johnson County
Lake
Salina pays reward in triple killing case
A Salina woman who tipped police to Alan White’s location after seeing him on America’s Most Wanted will receive 34062.69 dollars from a city reward fund. White was convicted of the July 1996 murders of Dolores McKim, her daughter Carol Abercrombie, and her great grandson Christopher Abercrombie.
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Salina
Alan White
White
Dolores McKim
Carol Abercrombie
McKim
Christopher Abercrombie
King
Boston
Jo White
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Desra Hienerr Sprclay
Journal-World
John Stringfellow
Weston
Territory
Stringfellow
New
Kansas Star Historical Society
Kansas Shore
Century Illustrated
Rushville, MO
Hamill
Pam
Greg
Lawren Ge Journal-Wortp
Lea Blaste
Fuzzy's Factory Fireworks
Perry
American Academy of Ophthalmology
Lawrence
Mary Pat Lange
Lynn W. O'Neal
Richard A. Orchard
Medical Plaza
W. Sixth Street
Baldwin Junction
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