Board to Appeal Abortion Referral Decision
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas medical board plans to appeal a court order overturning its revocation of a doctor's license over her referrals of young patients for late-term abortions. The State Board of Healing Arts made the decision yesterday (FRI) to take the case of Doctor Ann Kristin Neuhaus of Nortonville to the Kansas Court of Appeals.
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Topeka Man To Be Charged in "Voodoo" Murder
LYNDON, Kan. (AP) — A former Topeka man will be tried for the 2011 killing of another man whose head was severed in what witnesses described as a voodoo ritual. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports 29-year-old James Paul Harris was bound over for trial following a hearing yesterday (FRI) in Osage County District Court. Harris is charged with first-degree murder in the 2011 slaying of 50-year-old Topeka resident James Gerety.
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OP Police Investigating Child's Sexual Assault
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — Police in a northeast Kansas community are investigating a report of a sexual assault on an 11-year-old girl. Overland Park police said the incident was reported in an apartment complex yesterday morning (FRI) while the girl was walking to a bus stop.
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Leavenworth Escapee Found after 40 Years
DEERFIELD BEACH, Fla. (AP) — In the nearly 40 years after he escaped from a Kansas military prison, convicted killer James Robert Jones carved out a new life for himself in Florida. But it all came to an end Thursday when Jones — or Bruce Walter Keith, as the former Army private was known in Florida — was recaptured with the help of facial-recognition software.