New group backs tax for jail expansion and health campus
Citizens for a Better Douglas County led by retired judge Jean Shepherd forms to campaign for a countywide half cent sales tax funding a $44 million jail expansion and an $11 million behavioral health campus with a crisis center. The plan would raise about $9.8 million yearly, with $5.1 million for behavioral health programming and $1 million for expanded jail operations. mail ballots go to voters April 25 and tally May 15.
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Kansas
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Lawmakers advance first part of school funding fix
Kansas lawmakers push the first part of a plan to satisfy the state Supreme Court on school funding. A Senate committee approved a bill to fix fairness in distributing more than four billion dollars in aid, not a large spending increase. The measure targets at least two provisions seen as favoring wealthier districts.
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Man in armed standoff gets probation and treatment
A Lawrence man, David M. Rainbolt, 49, was sentenced to two years of probation and placed in a treatment program after pleading no contest to aggravated assault with a deadly weapon and criminal threat from an eight hour standoff. He must write apologies to three officers, forfeit firearms, register as a violent offender for 15 years, and may face prison if probation fails.
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Olathe
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Osawatomie State Hospital
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