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Possible homicide probed
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Report: $715M gap through ’16 $279 million in cuts must come out of current year budget By Peter Hancock Twitter: @LJWpqhancock
duct an autopsy, McKinley said. The victim’s identification will be released after the autopsy
Topeka — Gov. Sam Brownback and Kansas lawmakers will have to cut $279 million out of the current year’s budget, plus another $436 million in the fiscal year that starts in July. That’s the bottom line of the new revenue estimates that state budget officials released Monday showing that the tax cuts enacted in 2012 are causing a deeper reduction in state revenues than had earlier been LEGISLATURE projected. Budget Director Shawn Sullivan said he has been working on plans since June to address a possible shortfall. He said those plans will include spending reductions and looking for efficiencies within the budget, but they will not include any changes in the Brownback administration’s tax policies. That raises the likelihood that the state will have to make significant cuts in education spending and other social programs, possibly before this fiscal year is over, something Brownback said during the campaign he would not do. Senate Democratic Leader Anthony Hensley, of Topeka, accused Brownback of lying
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FROM LEFT, SCOTT COLLINS, KRYSTLE DUVALL AND COLLINS’ FATHER, ROBERT COLLINS, who live directly below an apartment where Lawrence police are investigating a suspicious death, view the apartment from their balcony Monday at Cedarwood apartments, 2411 Cedarwood Ave. They said their upstairs neighbors were the source of many noise complaints.
Police find woman’s body during welfare check “
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Lawrence police are investigating a possible homicide at Cedarwood apartments, 1727 W. 24th St. On Sunday, police were sent to the complex to check on the welfare of a female resident, Lawrence police spokesman Sgt. Trent McKinley said.
When she did not answer the door, officers entered the apartment and found the woman dead, McKinley said. Because of the condition of the woman’s apartment, McKinley said that foul play is suspected. “Preliminary examination of the scene indicates a violent incident occurred inside the apart-
Until we have someone in custody, there is a public safety issue.”
— Sgt. Trent McKinley, Lawrence police spokesman ment, resulting in the woman’s death,” McKinley said. Douglas County Coroner Erik Mitchell went to the scene and will con-
Supreme Court blocks marriage ban’s expiration By Peter Hancock Twitter: @LJWpqhancock
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor on Monday put a hold on a lower-court order that would have opened the door for same-sex couples to get married in Kansas as early as Wednesday. Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt had re-
Justice Sotomayor puts on hold lower court ruling allowing same-sex marriages quested the stay following a decision last week by U.S. District Court Judge Daniel Crabtree, who said state court officials in Douglas and Sedgwick counties must begin issuing marriage licenses to same-sex applicants starting Wednesday. Schmidt appealed that
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In his motion to Sotomayor, Schmidt said Crabtree’s order should be delayed until the federal lawsuit challenging the state’s ban on gay marriage can be fully heard on its merits and all appeals are exhausted. He also argued that the federal courts should refrain from taking
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ruling to the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, but the appellate court on Friday refused to delay Crabtree’s ruling. Schmidt then filed an emergency request with Sotomayor, who handles emergency appeals from states within the 10th Circuit.
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