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Regional Headlines for Saturday, November 3, 2012

 

Campaign Spending Heats Up as Election Approaches

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Seven groups have spent a total of nearly $167,000 over seven days to help Democratic candidates as campaigns for the Kansas Legislature near their end. With Tuesday's election approaching, the Bluestem Fund political action committee spent almost $72,000 on mailings, phone banks and other get-out-the-vote efforts.

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Democratic Leader Calls on Brownback to Pay for Brochure

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas House Democratic Leader Paul Davis says Republican Governor Sam Brownback's campaign fund should reimburse the state for the costs of a brochure about income tax cuts mailed to 146,000 business owners. Davis held a news conference yesterday to criticize the brochure and suggest it represents electioneering. The Department of Revenue began mailing them Wednesday, six days before next week's election.

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Court Rejects Appeal of Murder Sentence

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The state Supreme Court has affirmed the conviction and life sentence of an eastern Kansas man in the beating and shooting death of a store manager. Twenty-six-year-old John Backus of Bonner Springs listed six grounds for appeal in the case. The high court on Friday rejected them all.

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Computers Stolen from KU 

LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Campus police are investigating this week's theft of 18 expensive computers at the University of Kansas. The Lawrence Journal-World reports the laptops are valued at more than $30,000. Investigators aren't sure when it happened, but someone reported it to public safety officials around 9:30 a.m. Tuesday. Authorities say someone cut a lock off a cart to steal the computers.