Kansas

Nonprofit Kansas hospital organization honors innovative work of Wichita State president

OVERLAND PARK — The Kansas Hospital Association honored Wichita State University president Richard Muma’s leadership in developing the $300 million biomedical campus in the heart of downtown Wichita to blend all of the WSU health education programs with the University of Kansas-Wichita’s medical and pharmacy schools.Health care students and faculty from both universities and WSU Tech will share the Wichita Biomedical Campus anchored by an eight-story structure with classrooms, workspaces, laboratories, simulation rooms and other facilities for hands-on training.

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Settlement of Delaware lawsuit transfers $1.5M in unclaimed property to Kansas

TOPEKA — The state treasurer for Kansas said the bipartisan settlement of multistate litigation against Delaware regarding unclaimed property from a money-transfer company would result in $1.5 million being forwarded to Kansas for distribution to consumers.The dispute had its roots in action by Delaware to distort federal law in a way that led Delaware-incorporated MoneyGram to forward uncashed checks solely to Delaware instead of back to states where those financial instruments were purchased.

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Kansas Supreme Court closes valve in protracted dispute on illegal hog-effluent pipeline

TOPEKA — Northwest Kansas hog farmer Terry Nelson’s campaign to convince the judicial system he had a legal right to install a livestock sewage pipeline along a public road in the right-of-way on neighbors’ property without government or landowner permission has come to an end in state courts.The Kansas Supreme Court, in a unanimous opinion, affirmed previous decisions of the Kansas Court of Appeals and the Phillips County District Court that Nelson engaged in trespass in 2017 by building an unauthorized pipeline on property owned by neighbors Rodney Ross and Laura Field.

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Kansas news outlets ask judge to allow cameras in court for former Marion police chief

TOPEKA — Kansas Reflector and other news outlets have asked a district judge to reject former Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody’s attempt to banish cameras from court proceedings in his criminal case.Cody, who led the raid on the Marion County Record last year, faces a low-level felony charge for telling a woman after the raid to delete text messages the two had exchanged.

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Kansas GOP leaders drafting new roadmap for Legislature’s annual budgeting process

TOPEKA — Kansas Republicans pressing to reform the Legislature’s annual budget-writing process want to displace governors from the lead role in proposing state spending changes, alter a Statehouse culture that embraced the three-day workweek, and make it difficult for lobbyists to slip special-interest earmarks into bills.House Speaker Dan Hawkins and Senate President Ty Masterson, the Republicans who formed an interim legislative committee to work on the budgeting overhaul, said the plan involved formation of a powerful permanent committee of a dozen or so legislators who would start work on a version of the state budget as much as three months before the legislative session began in January.

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