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Kansas death penalty has cobwebs
It may be weeks before Kansans know if prosecutors will seek the death penalty for Kyle Flack, accused of killing four people in Franklin County this spring. It will take far longer — 10 years or more — before anyone in the state is actually put to death for a ...
Wis. budget committee approves DNA upon arrest
The Legislature's finance committee Thursday approved a plan in Republican Gov. Scott Walker's executive budget that would dramatically expand the state's powers to seize DNA from crime suspects. Wisconsin currently takes DNA only from convicted felons and sex offenders. Walker's plan would require police to seize DNA from anyone arrested ...
Michigan panel OKs 3 pct. raise for K-12 schools
Michigan's public schools would get about 3 percent more and it's community colleges and universities about 2 percent more in overall funding next fiscal year under measures approved by Republican-led budget panels Thursday. Earlier this week, lawmakers agreed on the spending targets — or how much each department will receive ...
Nebraska lawmakers advance human trafficking bill
A Nebraska bill that would expand protections for human trafficking victims won first-round approval Thursday from lawmakers. The bill focuses on minors — both female and male — who are coerced and sometimes forced into the sex trade. But the proposal was scaled back from an original bill package that ...
Jindal adviser: LSU privatization deals on track
Gov. Bobby Jindal's top budget architect said Thursday the state will have enough money to cover the costs of privatizing nearly all of the LSU-run hospitals next year without shrinking services to the poor and uninsured. Three deals have been signed, for the hospitals in New Orleans, Baton Rouge and ...
Maine governor moves out of office over TV dispute
Maine's governor, who has gained attention in the past for telling the NAACP to "kiss my butt" and comparing the Internal Revenue Service to the Gestapo, has moved out of his office at the State House and says he'll work out of the governor's mansion because of a dispute over ...
Bills seeks $2M for Teach for America
Gov. Brian Sandoval's proposal to allocate $2 million to Teach for America has new life in the Nevada Senate. SB517 was introduced Thursday and referred to the Senate Finance Committee, where the proposal was stalled earlier by partisan divide when it was considered as part of the governor's K-12 education ...
Senate passes additional Newtown-related bills
Connecticut lawmakers on Thursday began building on a package of reforms the General Assembly passed in April that addressed the Newtown school shooting, requiring annual firearms safety training for armed security in local schools and improvements in mental health services for children. Senate Minority Leader John McKinney, R-Fairfield, whose district ...
News from around Wisconsin at 5:28 a.m. CDT
Wheelchair lift out of Wis. promises more access MADISON, Wis. (AP) — An elementary school has inspired the University of Wisconsin-Madison to create a new wheelchair lift that could help make more places wheelchair accessible nationwide. The invention process started about three years ago when the principal at Emerson Elementary ...
Senate panel approves 2 cent tax on cellphones
A new 2 cent monthly tax on cellphones aimed at helping provide services for people with hearing impairment won the support Thursday of the Senate Revenue and Fiscal Affairs Committee. The House-backed bill would change the current law by reducing the amount of tax levied per month from 5 cents ...
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