Labor shortages push plan to move sex predator program
An audit shows Larned State Hospital understaffed and 100 miles west of Wichita lacks workers for the growing sex predator treatment program. With 258 offenders and a 38 percent vacancy, lawmakers discuss relocating to a more viable area while wages rise and recruitment continues.
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PERA
Larned State Hospital
Kansas
Wichita
Scott Frank
Larned
House
Tom Burroughs
Kansas City
Rebecca Proctor
Kansas Organization of State Employees
Tom Kinsen
Lawmakers face budget hole as Medicaid debates loom
Rallying voices call for careful cuts as Kansas lawmakers scramble to fill a 422 million budget gap for next year. InterHab warns against harming Medicaid while Cottonwood Inc. staff stress service waits and flat reimbursement rates. Legislators debate tax increases and revenue packages to fund social services, including Medicaid and schools.
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Tom Laing
Interhab
Cottonwood Inc
Lawrence
Laing
Ron Ryckman Jr
Olathe
House Appropriations Committee
House
Ryckman
Laura Kelly
Topeka
Senate
Kelly
Schools report no serious senior pranks this year
Lawrence High School and Free State High School report no pranks rising to serious concern. The district and police say observed stunts are minor and no property damage or criminal action. Past incidents include grass clippings outside Lawrence High in 2005 and students trespassing for a prank in 2012.
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Lawrence High School
Free State
Lawrence
Julie Boyle
Boyle
Journal- World
Lawrence Police Department
Trent McKinley
McKinley
Lawrence High
The
Journal-World
Take Back the Night march held at SafeCenter in Lawrence
The first Lawrence Take Back the Night march hosted by the SafeCenter aimed at Sexual Assault Awareness Month drew participants led by Emily Schwerdtfeger and Melody Wagler. Wagler praised the turnout and the effort to shed light on dark issues despite acknowledging harmful events.
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Gadd-Nelson
Lawrence
SafeCenter
Emily Schwerdtfeger
Schwerdtfeger
Melody Wagler
Safe Center
Wagler
KU Law School names three distinguished alumni
The University of Kansas School of Law has named three alumni as Distinguished Alumni Award recipients. John W. Brand, retired Lawrence attorney from the class of 1959. Nicholas Kittrie, international criminal law expert from 1950. and Kansas Supreme Court Chief Justice Lawton Nuss, class of 1982, will receive the honor at a private weekend event.
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Kansas University School of Law
Law School
John W
Jack) Brand
Lawrence
Nicholas Kittrie
Kansas Supreme Court
Lawton Nuss
KU. Brand
Kittrie
Nuss
Births in Colony and Lawrence Describe Three Newcomers
Linsey and Zachary Jackman welcome a girl in Colony. Jon and Margaret Brumberg announce a girl in Lawrence. Samara and Antonio Bermudez celebrate the arrival of a girl in Lawrence.
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Linsey
Zachary Jackman
Colony
Jon and
Margaret Brumberg
Lawrence
Samara
Antonio Bermudez
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Associated Press
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Sex Offender Civil Commitment Programs Network
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Burroughs
Peggy Wallert
Cottonwood
Peter Hancock
Phancock
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Caitlin Doornbos
Ljworld.com
Conrad Swanson
Cswanson
KU Law School
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Brandon Woods
Alvamar
Balmoral Drive
Jan Maddox
Inverness Drive
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