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(Photo Credit: The Topeka Capital-Journal)TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) _ A state senator is returning a donation he received from Hallmark because of the greeting card company's decision to close its Topeka plant. Senator Anthony Hensley, a Democrat, says he'll return the $500 donation from Hallmark he received this week. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Hallmark announced this week that it's consolidating operations in Topeka, Leavenworth and Lawrence. The move is expected to cut about 300 employees. Hensley said his wife worked at the Topeka plant for 19 years as an assembly employee. He says he cannot accept a campaign contribution from a company that's leaving Topeka. Casey Moore, Hensley's Republican opponent in the upcoming election, says Hensley is right to return the donation. But he says it would have been better Henlsey "had worked to keep jobs here.''

KANSAS CITY, MO. (AP) Federal officials used last week's guilty plea by a former Jackson County (Missouri) Circuit Court administrator as a springboard to announce a new telephone hotline people can call to report public corruption. Former adminstrator Teresa York pleaded guilty Thursday to one count of mail fraud, admitting that she used credit cards issued by the court for nearly $78,000 in unauthorized purchases. Her corruption case is one of several in Kansas and Missouri in recent months, and FBI special agent Michael Kaste say they show why the public's help is needed to weed out official misdeeds. Kaste, U.S. Attorney Barry Brissom in Kansas, and U.S. Attorney Tammy Dickinson in Missouri held a joint news conference Thursday to announce the hotline. The hotline's number is 1-855-KCPCTIP or 1-855-427-2847.(Photo courtesy of Creative Commons, Flickr)

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