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A list ranking the nation's best hospitals for patient care includes six Kansas facilities. HealthGrades is a company that rates hospitals. The group ranked facilities based on Medicare patient surveys. Kristin Reed is with HealthGrades. She says the nearly 350 hospitals that came out in the top 10 percent excel in specific areas.00000184-7fa7-d6f8-a1cf-7fa799d30000Kansas hospitals in the top 10 percent of the rankings include the University of Kansas Hospital, Lawrence Memorial Hospital and St. Luke's in Overland Park.

A federal agency says the Kansas Republican Party violated campaign finance laws in 2007 and 2008. The Federal Election Commission, or FEC ("eff ee see"), audited the Republican Party's records. The FEC released the final version of the audit this week. KPR's Stephen Koranda has more on the findings.00000184-7fa7-d6f8-a1cf-7fa7999d0000

Lawrence City Hall remains closed after Monday’s fatal shooting … Kansas Republicans have given up on their push to redraw the state’s congressional map … and Kansas officials say they’re no longer interested in luring the Kansas City Royals across the state line. These stories and more can be found in this commercial-free summary of KPR news headlines, which is made possible by KPR listener-members. This summary is generally posted by 10 am weekdays and updated through 7 pm.

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The Kansas Democratic Party has fired its communications director over comments he made about southeast Kansas. KPR’s Stephen Koranda reports.00000184-7fa7-d6f8-a1cf-7fa7d1a90000(SCRIPT)The executive director of the Kansas Democratic Party, Jason Perkey, calls Dakota Loomis’s online comments “reprehensible” and says the party is offended by them.The posting was made in an online KU sports forum, where Loomis suggested several southeast Kansas towns were contenders for the “most craphole small towns in Kansas.”In a statement, Loomis apologized, saying the comments were “callous” and “insensitive.” He asks people not to hold his words against Kansas Democrats.Some Republican members of the Kansas Legislature called for Loomis to be fired earlier this week.

Surprises nevertheless abound in the top 10, as a vinyl reissue lands cult singer-songwriter Ethel Cain on the Billboard 200 for the first time ever and two artists — Alex Warren and BigXthaPlug — experience their first-ever top 10 singles.

This is the final debate organized by the state Republican Party.

Some Kansas Democrats are switching political parties in order to vote in the GOP primary in August, where traditionally, many legislative races have been decided. In this report, we hear about a party-switching effort underway in Reno County, designed to unseat Kansas Senate Majority Leader Terry Bruce, a political ally of Republican Governor Sam Brownback.

What began as a movement of farmers opposed to environmental rules is now one of the country's dominant political parties. The nation's agricultural exports are second only to the United States.