http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/ks-news/ en-us Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:07:28 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050171/posts In a surprising twist to a Johnson County murder that gained nationwide attention, Edwin Hall pleaded guilty this afternoon to killing Kelsey Smith. Hall stood before Judge Peter Ruddick as he entered guilty pleas to charges of capital murder, aggravated kidnapping, rape and aggravated criminal sodomy. For the murder charge, he faces life in prison with no chance of parole. For each of the other three counts, the range of punishment is 147 to 653 months. Kansas City Star http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2050171/posts#comment Wed, 23 Jul 2008 22:07:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048675/posts LAWRENCE, Kan. -- Governor Kathleen Sebelius has found herself in the middle of the KU t-shirt turmoil. NBC Action News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2048675/posts#comment Mon, 21 Jul 2008 08:17:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047844/posts Wichita, Jul 18, 2008 / 05:55 pm (CNA).- A sixteen-year-old Kansas girl was allegedly forced by her mother to undergo an abortion on Wednesday at an abortion clinic run by the notorious late-term abortionist George Tiller. Reportedly both the teenage girl and the baby’s father, who was also sixteen, objected to the abortion. The young father arrived at the clinic too late to stop the abortion, a pro-life group says. According to an incident report from the Kansas Coalition for Life (KCFL) the sixteen-year-old girl was two months pregnant. Her mother brought her to the Women’s Health Care Services... CNA http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2047844/posts#comment Sat, 19 Jul 2008 02:29:41 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045648/posts A Kansas church well-known for its protests at the funerals of fallen American soldiers plans to picket at this week's funeral of former Press Secretary Tony Snow, declaring that Snow is "a very bad monkey" who is "now burning in hell." "He had a platform, he was given some small talent by his Creator. He was an unfaithful steward, and is now residing in hell," says a schedule on the website of the Westboro Baptist Church. "Each opportunity he had to faithfully report what the servants at WBC had to tell this country/world, Tony Snow besmirched and vilified the words... WorldNetDaily.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2045648/posts#comment Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:25:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044840/posts Daniel Gilyeat sauntered through the back door to the offices of Cycle Connections, an online motorcycle magazine, then paused and scratched his chin. He was more than a little aware that a roomful of mechanics and Hooters employees on a Saturday afternoon meant something was up. “Danny, you need to come here,” said sales manager Dave Miller. “For all the things you do to keep us safe, we wanted to give you an opportunity to get back on the road.” Miller then turned to the mechanics. “Go ahead.” Without a word, they pulled a sheet off a sparkling deep blue... KC Star http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2044840/posts#comment Sun, 13 Jul 2008 17:31:31 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043607/posts The Pentagon's announcement Wednesday that it will rebid the Air Force tanker contract was initially greeted as good news by most supporters of Boeing's bid for the $35 billion job. But U.S. Rep. Norm Dicks, D-Bremerton, emerged from a Defense Department meeting Wednesday afternoon convinced that the Pentagon is fixing the new contest in favor of Northrop Grumman and partner European Aeronautic Defence & Space, parent of Airbus. He said he learned from Pentagon acquisition chief John J. Young Jr., the man controlling the rebid, that the revised contract criteria will give credit to the larger Northrop-EADS plane for having... Seattle Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2043607/posts#comment Thu, 10 Jul 2008 20:51:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042178/posts Local scouts donate to Little Sioux camp The Boy Scouts of Troop 66 on Fort Leavenworth were recognized Wednesday for donating $1,074 to help rebuild the Little Sioux Scout Ranch near Little Sioux, Iowa. The ranch was nearly destroyed when a tornado touched down in the camp on June 11, leaving at least four people dead and more than 40 injured. Lt. Gen. William B. Caldwell IV, commanding general of Fort Leavenworth, congratulated the scouts on a job well done. Lt. Col. Chip Bircher said his son, Brion Bircher, wanted to help the scouts affected by the tragedy after seeing... leavenworthtimes.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2042178/posts#comment Tue, 8 Jul 2008 02:02:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041179/posts A year ago, Steve Howe stood in front of the Johnson County Courthouse to announce his campaign for district attorney. Behind him were about 15 supporters from a broad spectrum of the Republican Party, including his two campaign managers: Charlotte O’Hara, a conservative from Olathe, and Greg Musil of Overland Park, from the party’s moderate wing. In April, they rallied behind him again. It was a stunning show of Kansas GOP unity after many years of divisive intraparty politics. But don’t think the rift between conservative and moderate Republicans has closed. The wound may have scabbed over some, but it... Kansas City Star http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041179/posts#comment Sat, 5 Jul 2008 18:27:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041177/posts U.S. Rep. Dennis Moore, running for re-election, walks down the street in an early summer parade, finding the mood less than sunny. “Hey!” a man shouts. “When are you going to do something about gas prices?” “We’re trying,” Moore answers. A few days later, Moore’s likely opponent — Kansas Sen. Nick Jordan — sits across the table from a businessman in a Johnson County meeting room. “I don’t know if you’ve thought much about energy policy,” Jordan tells the businessman, whose company markets a medical device. “Sure I have,” he tells Jordan, interrupting. “It scares everybody.” Some elections are decided... Kansas City Star http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2041177/posts#comment Sat, 5 Jul 2008 18:23:23 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040818/posts Veteran radio talker Darla Jaye, who just celebrated her third anniversary as the host of "The Darla Jaye Show show weekdays from 9-11 a.m. on KMBZ-980, will be moving her show to the evenings. SHE WILL REPLACE SYNDICATED TALKER MARK LEVIN. Jaye's new show, "980 Live With Darla Jaye," will be expanded to three hours and run from 7-10 p.m. Her current producer, Brian Mallicoat, will move with her to the new time slot. Jaye will be on vacation until her show commences July 14. Syndicated talk show host Glenn Beck will be inserted into the 9-11 a.m. slot vacated... Bottom Line http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040818/posts#comment Fri, 4 Jul 2008 18:46:35 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040184/posts A grand jury investigating abortion provider George Tiller adjourned Wednesday afternoon without issuing a criminal indictment. Retired Sedgwick County District Judge Paul Buchanan, assigned to preside over the grand jury, said the panel returned a finding of “no true bill,” meaning criminal charges would not be filed. The grand jury was convened in January through a petition drive by anti-abortion groups seeking an investigation into whether Tiller violated state abortion laws. Kansas City Star http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2040184/posts#comment Thu, 3 Jul 2008 12:25:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2039537/posts For the second consecutive year, a gay pride parade and festival was marked by the arrest of a Wichita pastor. But for the vast majority of those who gathered Sunday afternoon at Naftzger Park for the event, the day was one of celebration. "It means a lot to me," said Ken Gehmlich, president of Wichita Pride, which sponsors the annual event. "I think it's great that we can come together as family." Organizers estimated that about 100 people walked in the parade and that more than 1,000 attended the festival, which featured live music and vendors. After the parade traversed... kansas.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2039537/posts#comment Wed, 2 Jul 2008 02:23:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036759/posts TOPEKA | You know it’s a hot congressional race when even talk of running a clean campaign turns nasty. That’s what happened when Jim Ryun asked his Republican primary opponent, Kansas Treasurer Lynn Jenkins, to make their contest a polite one. Ryun, the track star who held Kansas’ 2nd District congressional seat for 10 years, said he got no response. “She doesn’t show any interest in running anything other than a disappointing campaign,” he said last week. But Jenkins said it is Ryun who disappointed her after outside groups from Washington spent thousands to denounce Jenkins in a round of... Kansas City Star http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2036759/posts#comment Thu, 26 Jun 2008 16:00:02 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035878/posts Wichita, KS, June 24, 2008 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A murder investigation has been opened involving Shelley Sella, a California abortionist employed by George Tiller, who according to a former employee is reported to have intentionally stabbed to death an infant born alive during an abortion at Tiller's Women's Health Care Services abortion clinic in Wichita, Kansas. On the advice of an attorney, Operation Rescue reported the incident to the Wichita Police Department after a former Tiller employee, Tina Davis, told Troy Newman and Cheryl Sullenger of the stabbing in April. It is believed that the alleged infanticide took place sometime in... LifeSiteNews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035878/posts#comment Tue, 24 Jun 2008 23:19:22 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035631/posts Wichita, KS - June 24, 2008 - A murder investigation has been opened involving Shelley Sella, a California abortionist employed by George Tiller, who is reported to have intentionally stabbed to death an infant born alive during an abortion at Tiller's Women's Health Care Services abortion clinic in Wichita, Kansas. Operation Rescue reported the incident to the Wichita Police Department after a former Tiller employee, Tina Davis, told Troy Newman and Cheryl Sullenger of the stabbing in April. It is believed that the alleged infanticide took place sometime in the past two years. In addition, the incident has been reported... Operation Rescue http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2035631/posts#comment Tue, 24 Jun 2008 14:21:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034493/posts Kristi Boone of Olathe never planned to file for the Kansas Legislature when this election year began. Neither had Chris Napolitano of Lenexa nor Judy Macy of Overland Park nor Sean Tevis of Olathe. They changed their minds, though, after attending the Democratic Party’s Feb. 5 presidential caucuses in Kansas. Now they are running as Democrats in Republican-rich Johnson County. All were swept along by a tide of enthusiasm for Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, the party’s presumptive presidential nominee, and Democratic successes in Kansas in 2006. Kansas City Star http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2034493/posts#comment Sat, 21 Jun 2008 21:57:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032288/posts I am scheduled to be on Paul A. Ibbetson's 'Conscience of Kansas' radio show today at 6 p.m. EDT on 91.9 FM, the student radio station of Kansas State University. The subject is the Obama-Code Pink scandal that has been slowly reaching critical mass in the past few weeks. Ibbetson interviewed Obama bundler and Code Pink co-founder Jodie Evans two weeks ago. Evans said that Osama bin Laden had valid arguements for the 9/11 attacks. That statement made its way around the blogosphere and was picked up by the Republican National Committee in a press release issued last Saturday.Livestream link... http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032288/posts#comment Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:26:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032022/posts Kansas Senator Pat Roberts has slipped below the 50% level of support in his bid for re-election. The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey in the state found that the Republican incumbent now leads Democratic Congressmen Jim Slattery 48% to 39%. In May, Roberts attracted 52% of the vote and was up by a dozen points. Any incumbent who polls below 50% is considered potentially vulnerable. The race is particularly interesting given that Kansas has not elected a Democratic senator since 1932. Rasmussen Reports http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2032022/posts#comment Mon, 16 Jun 2008 23:44:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031847/posts Obama-Sebelius ‘08  by Aaron Goldstein  I have reason to believe Barack Obama will pick a woman to be his running mate. It just won’t be Hillary Clinton. Several months ago, I wrote that Obama did not need Hillary. He does not need her now – unless she has pictures. But short of making him an offer he can’t refuse, I believe Barack Obama will select Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius to be his number two. I am certainly not the first person to speculate about Sebelius. According to liberal blogger Ben Smith, former Democratic presidential aspirant Wesley Clark introduced Sebelius as “the next vice president... IntellectualConservative http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031847/posts#comment Mon, 16 Jun 2008 17:21:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031837/posts Dems Running on Empty by Sen. James Inhofe What a difference three years makes: In 2005, I led the charge against a massive global warming cap-and-trade bill. It was a lonely battle with few GOP members willing to join me on the Senate floor to publicly oppose it. Fast forward to June 2008: Not only was I joined by dozens of GOP Senators, but nearly 30% of the Democratic Senators rebelled against their leadership and opposed the Boxer Climate Tax Bill. In the end, Senator Boxer only had at most 35 Democratic Senators willing to vote for final passage on... Human Events http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031837/posts#comment Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:58:26 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031467/posts Quietly for now, perhaps more visibly later, Sen. Sam Brownback has set himself a missionary task. That task involves persuading the so-called "religious right," his core constituency, to get behind the John McCain presidential candidacy. .... "You get down to the raw points of it, and that's the (Supreme Court)," he said. He tells conservatives that McCain's "very reliable on that... and so (in a different way) is Barack Obama." "Barack's a good guy - I like him - but he's a very liberal Democrat," Brownback said. "If you have a liberal Democrat plus a Democratic House and Senate, that's... The Manhattan Mercury http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031467/posts#comment Sun, 15 Jun 2008 17:27:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031202/posts McCain needs to learn from the mistakes of another honored war hero who ran for the White House and lost.John McCain has long known what it's like for a teleprompter-challenged Republican senator to go up against a charismatic, made-for-TV Democrat. In 1996, McCain was Bob Dole's right-hand man. He served as one of the Kansas senator's closest traveling companions and top surrogates in the battle to unseat Bill Clinton. It was a race that began as Dole's to lose—Clinton was caught up in the Whitewater scandal. But lose he did. McCain watched as the Democrats successfully transformed the image of... Newsweek http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2031202/posts#comment Sat, 14 Jun 2008 23:28:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030811/posts Last weekend Congressman Duncan Hunter came to Kansas to campaign with Jim. Rep. Hunter, a former Presidential candidate and Ranking Member of the Armed Services Committee, represents the 52nd District of California. Rep. Hunter accompanied Jim and Team Ryun to a meet and greet in Wamego (thanks to all who helped organize it), a BBQ in Manhattan (thanks to the Addairs, our great hosts!) and even an afternoon of sporting clays. We had a great weekend of events and of course there are tons of pictures! If you had your picture taken over the weekend and would like a copy... JimRyun.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030811/posts#comment Fri, 13 Jun 2008 22:11:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030663/posts WICHITA, Kan. — Almost a year ago in Everett, Boeing's 787 Dreamliner No. 1 rolled out with an impressive exterior but completely empty inside. At the sprawling Spirit AeroSystems plant here Thursday, the cockpit door inside the 42-foot-long front section of Dreamliner No. 4 opened to reveal a finished flight deck. Though it's only the front of the plane, it seemed almost ready for takeoff. Seattle-Times http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030663/posts#comment Fri, 13 Jun 2008 17:17:05 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030315/posts SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DULUTH MN 731 PM CDT THU JUN 12 2008 CASS MN- 731 PM CDT THU JUN 12 2008 ...A tornado warning remains in effect until 8:00 p.m. CDT for Northern Cass County... AT 727 PM CDT...National Weather Service Doppler Radar continued to indicated a severe thunderstorm capable of producing a tornado. This possible tornado was located near Walker... or 12 miles West of Leech Lake moving Northeast at 33 MPH. This possible tornado will be near... 7 miles Southeast of Steamboat Lake by 735 PM... Crooked Lake and 6 miles Southeast of Wilkinson by... NOAA National Weather Service http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2030315/posts#comment Fri, 13 Jun 2008 01:19:51 GMT