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Father Donald McGuire was convicted last year of sexually abusing two teenaged boys in the 1960s. Jesuit leaders insist they had no knowledge of any other abuses by McGuire, but documents reveal they were alerted by concerned parents many times over the past 38 years.

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Del. Don Scott, a rising star among Virginia Democrats with a unique personal story, was voted in as speaker of the Virginia Statehouse.

Kansas Considers Moving Dates of Local ElectionsTOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas Senate committee plans to review a proposal this week to change the dates of local elections so they occur on the same schedule as legislative and statewide contests. The bill on the Senate Ethics and Elections Committee's agenda Wednesday is a modified version of a proposal from the Kansas Republican Party. The GOP argues the bill would boost turnout. Kansas holds city and school board elections in the spring of odd-numbered years, and turnout is typically low. The bill would move the elections to even-numbered years, with primaries in August and general elections in November. GOP officials also pushed to make the elections partisan, but the committee rejected that idea. Many local officials oppose the change, arguing their races would get lost on a longer ballot.===============Kansas Lawmakers Reviewing School Funding DecisionTOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas legislators are starting work on school funding issues after a state Supreme Court ruling, and Attorney General Derek Schmidt is telling them they have many options. Schmidt was briefing House Republicans on Monday. He said the high court left legislators with some discretion in addressing constitutional flaws in the state's school funding system. The court ruled Friday that the state must boost aid to poor school districts and gave legislators until July 1 to address the problems. It also ordered more lower-court hearings on whether the state is spending enough money overall. The state Department of Education said boosting aid to poor districts could cost $129 million a year. House Speaker Ray Merrick said the chamber's budget-writing Appropriations Committee will handle school funding legislation.===============Attorney Calls Kansas Death Penalty DiscriminatoryTOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The attorney for a Kansas man convicted of killing two women and trying to kill a third says the case should be thrown out because the state's death penalty discriminates against blacks. John Val Wachtel is representing Phillip Cheatham Junior, who was convicted in 2005 of killing Annette Roberson and Gloria Jones and trying to kill Annetta Thomas in 2003. Last year the Kansas Supreme Court overturned his convictions and death sentence because he had received ineffective counsel during his first trial. He awaits a retrial on capital murder and attempted first-degree murder charges. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports Wachtel argued Friday at a motions hearing that 37.5 percent of the men on Kansas' death row are black, while black men comprise only 5.5 percent of the state's population.===============Judge Sides with KS Doctor in Abortion CaseTOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A judge has overturned a Kansas board's revocation of a doctor's license over referrals of young patients for late-term abortions. Shawnee County District Judge Franklin Theis said the State Board of Healing Arts failed to show that mental health exams provided by Dr. Ann Kristin Neuhaus in 2003 were inadequate. In an order that was made public Monday, Theis ordered the board to reconsider its sanctions. The board revoked Neuhaus's license to provide charity care in 2012 over her exams of 11 patients, ages 10 to 18. Neuhaus provided second opinions that the late Dr. George Tiller needed under Kansas law to legally terminate the pregnancies. The board concluded Neuhaus failed to meet accepted standards of care because her records didn't document adequate exams.===============Police ID Man Found Dead Near Kansas RiverLAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Police in Lawrence have identified a man found dead near the Kansas River, but the cause and circumstances of the death are still unknown. A volunteer with a river cleanup crew found the body just before 9 am Saturday. Police issued a statement Monday identifying the man as 44-year-old Lawrence resident Troy A. Straub. A preliminary examination found no signs of foul play. A report from the coroner's office is pending. The body was discovered near an area where homeless camps have been found and unattended deaths have been reported several times since at least 2008. Police said Saturday they did not know if the man was between homes at the time of his death.===============Advocates Urge Oxygen Tests for Kansas NewbornsOLATHE, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas chapter of the American Heart Association says state health officials aren't acting quickly enough to require a screening test that could save newborn babies' lives. The screening, called a pulse oximetry test, measures a baby's oxygen level and can help identify congenital heart defects. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment started an improvement project last November in many mostly rural hospitals and birthing centers that don't routinely do the test. A health department official says all babies will be screened by the end of the year. But the heart association says the state should make the test mandatory immediately, the Kansas City Star reports. The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services added critical heart defects to its list of recommended routine screenings in 2011.=============== Topeka Family Finally Returns to U.S. From UkraineTOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas couple and their four newly adopted children have made it home after a grueling trip to Ukraine, where civil unrest delayed their return for weeks. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports Don and Lisa Jenkins arrived in Ukraine on February 2th and had hoped to finalize the adoptions of their four children by Valentine's Day. Those plans came to a halt when thousands of people took to the streets to protest the Viktor Yanukovich-led government. Much of the street fighting in Kiev happened just a mile from the apartment where the Jenkinses were staying. After the fighting died down, the family faced numerous delays in getting paperwork from the Ukrainian government. They left Kiev at 6:30 am Saturday and landed in Kansas City, Missouri around 9 pm that night.=============== Ford County Removes Its No-Weapons SignsDODGE CITY, Kan. (AP) — Ford County in southwest Kansas has removed its signage barring concealed weapons in government buildings. The Dodge City Globe reports a 2013 state law removes exemptions to government buildings and requires local governments to open their buildings for concealed weapons or secure their buildings against all weapons. Ford County Administrator Ed Elam says the cost to secure buildings with locking doors or staffed checkpoints with metal detectors would have ranged in the hundreds of thousands of dollars for just equipment. Ford County schools remain exempt from allowing legally carried weapons, but the library, City Hall and courts are not exempt. Ford County, like most local governments in Kansas, took a six-month extension to make a decision. The extension expired January 1.=============== Meteorologist: Myths No Protection from TornadoesLAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Weather experts in Kansas say people should not trust in myths to keep them safe during severe weather. A legend about the so-called "Tonganoxie Split," for example, purports that hills near that area divert severe weather away from the Kansas City metropolitan area, Lawrence and Tonganoxie. But in fact, a tornado hit Tonganoxie in 2000, causing $2.1 million in damage to more than 200 homes and nine businesses. The Lawrence Journal-World reports other area weather myths officials say shouldn't be believed are that tornadoes can't jump Burnett's Mound, a high point in the southwest part of Topeka, and that tornadoes can't cross rivers or form at high altitudes. National Weather Service meteorologist Brian Barjenbruch warns against having a false sense of security based on myths, and says residents should always have safety plans.===============Police: Man Used 7-Year-Old Son in BurglarySALINA, Kan. (AP) — A central Kansas man is accused of enlisting an unusual accomplice in a home burglary: his 7-year-old son. KSAL-AM reports that the break-in happened Friday afternoon at a home in Salina. Police responding to a report of a burglary in progress arrested the 32-year-old father as he emerged from the house with an electronic cable in his hand and his son by his side. Investigators allege the father helped the little boy enter the home through a basement window so the child could unlock a door and let him in. The boy was released to his mother. Charges against the father were pending Monday.===============Kansas City Woman Charged in Wrong-Way DeathKANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Jackson County (Missouri) prosecutors charged a Kansas City woman with involuntary manslaughter after a fatal wrong-way accident on Interstate 70. Thirty-two-year-old Lanelle D. Griffin was also charged Monday with driving with a revoked license in the February crash that killed 35-year-old Karl Silvey. Police say Silvey was a passenger in Griffin's car when she drove west in the eastbound lanes of Interstate 70 in Kansas City and collided head-on with a semi-trailer truck. Court records indicate Griffin's blood contained high levels of cocaine and her blood-alcohol reading was .206 at the time of the crash. Griffin remained in jail Monday in lieu of a $100,000 bond. Online records do not indicate that she has a lawyer.===============Woman Shot to Death Outside Wichita Bikers' ClubWICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Police in Wichita say they're getting little help from witnesses to a fatal shooting outside an after-hours club over the weekend. KAKE-TV reports that police on Monday identified the victim as 23-year-old Kelsey Shaw. Investigators don't believe she was a target of the shooting just after 3 a.m. Sunday. Police said Shaw and two other people were in line outside the private club run by a biker group when a disturbance broke out nearby. Several shots were fired from the street toward the building, one of them hitting Shaw in the back of the head. Two people had been kicked out of the club earlier, but it's unclear if there's any connection to the shooting. Investigators are hoping to hear from anyone with information about the case.===============KU Students to Vote on Eliminating Athletics FeeLAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The University of Kansas Student Senate will vote this week on whether to eliminate a fee students have paid to the athletics department for more than 30 years. Students pay $25 each in the fall and spring and $10 in the summer, with the revenue going to women's and non-revenue sports. The fee raised $1.1 million for Kansas Athletics Inc. last year. The Lawrence Journal-World reports the fee began being charged in the late 1970s to help the university comply with a federal law requiring universities to support women's sports. An advisory board suggested in February that the fee be eliminated or reduced, citing the athletic department's increasing revenues and budget. The Student Senate will vote on Wednesday as part of its regular review of all student fees.===============Company Plans Gas Processing Plant in KSHAVEN, Kan. (AP) — A Texas company plans to build a new multimillion-dollar natural gas processing plant in south-central Kansas. Houston-based Next Generation Processing expects to start building the Tenawa Gas Processing plant near Haven this month. It is expected to employ 12 to 15 people. The Hutchinson News reports that the new plant uses a process that cools the natural gas flowing through an interstate pipeline and extracts the resulting liquids. Those liquids are processed into different components and sold to various industries. Company officials say the plant will process 1.3 billion cubic feet of gas a day. The plant's location near Haven is a junction of three different pipelines that bring gas from the Oklahoma Panhandle, northern Oklahoma and Texas.===============1-Year-Old Child Falls From Moving Car on HighwayLEE'S SUMMIT, Mo. (AP) — Police are investigating how a 1-year-old child fell out of a moving car on a Missouri highway. The child suffered only minor injuries after falling out of the car Sunday night in Lee's Summit. A passing driver stopped immediately and helped the child until emergency crews arrived. Police say the driver told officers that the child fell out of a rear passenger door when the car turned onto an entrance ramp for U.S. 50 in the Kansas City suburb. Officers are trying to determine if the child was sitting in a child's car seat that was in the vehicle.=============== Few Kansas City School Families Seeking Transfers Due to Accreditation LossKANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City school district officials say only 12 families have asked to transfer out of the district next year to nearby accredited districts. Officials with the district, and surrounding suburban districts, had raised concerns that a flood of students would seek to transfer out of Kansas City, which is one of three unaccredited districts in the state. In two unaccredited St. Louis-area districts, more than 2,000 students left. A state law requires unaccredited districts to pay tuition and transportation for students to transfer to a nearby accredited school. Several of the districts in suburban Kansas City had tried unsuccessfully to have the state courts declare the transfer law unconstitutional. The Kansas City Star reports that the 12 families seeking to transfer have a total of 23 students in the district.===============Woman Must Pay $25,000 Fine for Selling Fake GoodsWICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A federal judge spared a Wichita businesswoman from prison, but imposed a $25,000 fine for selling fake luxury goods. U.S. District Judge Eric Melgren on Monday sentenced Glenda Sue Morgan to five years of probation and ordered her to make payments of not less than $500 a month toward the fine. She pleaded guilty in October on one count of trafficking in goods bearing counterfeit designer labels such as Prada and Chanel at her shop, called The Fabulous Store. Morgan tearfully apologized to the court before sentencing. The judge said he was deeply troubled by the fact Morgan apparently didn't learn from a prior encounter with law enforcement in which no criminal charges were filed. Investigators seized 400 replica items with a retail value of $14,000 from Morgan's shop.===============Kansas Family to Accept Honor for WWII HeroFORT SCOTT, Kan. (AP) — Nearly 70 years after Nebraska-born soldier Donald Schwab knocked out a German machine gun position on a French battlefield, his descendants are heading to the White House this month to accept the Medal of Honor on his behalf. The delegation representing the late Army lieutenant will include his son Terry Schwab, a physician in Fort Scott, Kansas, and Terry Schwab's daughter, Missouri Southern State University student Savannah Schwab. The Joplin Globe reports the March 18th visit will supplement a project Savannah Schwab already had begun for her government class at the Joplin school — a blog called "Letters to My Grandfather." She and her father remember Donald Schwab as a humble man who spoke little of his World War II experiences with the Army's 3rd Infantry Division.===============KU Expects C Joel Embiid to Play in NCAA TournamentLAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — University of Kansas men's basketball coach Bill Self says he expects center Joel Embiid to play in the NCAA tournament. Embiid is in Los Angeles to get a second opinion from a back specialist about his ailing lower back, a trip Self said was planned. Self says he hopes to know late Monday whether Embiid will play in this week's Big 12 Tournament. Embiid is averaging 11.2 points, 8.1 rebounds and 2.6 blocks per game for 10th-ranked Kansas, which will open the tournament Thursday. ===============K-State Women's Hoops Coach Patterson FiredMANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Kansas State University has fired women's basketball coach Deb Patterson, athletic director John Currie said Sunday. The Wildcats' season ended with an 87-84 overtime loss to Kansas in the first round of the Big 12 tournament Friday. Kansas State was 11-19 this season, going 5-13 in the conference. Patterson was 350-226 in 18 seasons at the school. She helped guide the team to nine NCAA tournaments and Big 12 titles in 2004 and 2008. Associate head coach Kamie Ethridge will oversee the program until a new head coach is hired.===============Salina Facing Competition for Women's TournamentSALINA, Kan. (AP) — Lubbock, Texas, is challenging Salina for the right to host the national junior college women's basketball tournament, which has been held in the Kansas city for more than 15 years. The NJCAA Women's Basketball Championship is under a contract for two more years to hold its weeklong tournament in Salina. The event brings in about $600,000 to Salina. Dennis Lauver, president of the Salina Area Chamber of Commerce, says Salina will increase its financial package in order to counter competition from Lubbock. He declined to say what the financial offering will be. The Salina Journal reports the NJCAA is expected to make a decision sometime in April. This year's tournament runs from March 16 through 22 at the Salina Bicentennial Center.===============Iowa State's Melvin Ejim AP Big 12 Player of YearUNDATED (AP) — Iowa State senior forward Melvin Ejim is The Associated Press Big 12 Player of the Year. The AP awards were announced Monday, when Ejim and Kansas freshman Andrew Wiggins were unanimous picks on the All-Big 12 first team. Wiggins is the league's Freshman of the Year. Ejim was second in the Big 12 with both his 18.2 points and 8.6 rebounds a game. No other league player ranked in the top 10 in both of those categories. Ejim and Wiggins are joined on the first team by league scoring leader Juwan Staten from West Virginia, Oklahoma State's Marcus Smart and Iowa State's DeAndre Kane, the Marshall transfer who was the unanimous choice as the Big 12 Newcomer of the Year. Oklahoma's Lon Kruger was selected as the AP's Big 12 Coach of the Year.

Kansas House Bill Would Void Academic StandardsTOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A new proposal before the Kansas Legislature would nullify reading, math and science standards for public schools adopted previously by the State Board of Education. The measure is sponsored by the House Education Committee and was introduced this week. The bill also says that new standards would be drafted "solely" by the Kansas board with help from an advisory committee. Conservative Republican legislators tried unsuccessfully last year to block the board from putting into effect the multistate Common Core standards for reading and math. The board adopted the standards in 2010. Because the federal government has encouraged states to adopt them, critics see them as federal education standards, and costly to implement as well. The bill also would nullify multistate, evolution-friendly science standards adopted by the Kansas board last year.===============Testimony Given on KS House Climate Change ResolutionTOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas House committee is weighing a resolution urging Congress to resist following President Barack Obama's plan for addressing climate change Members of the House Energy and Environment Committee took nearly two hours of testimony Thursday about the measure. It declares that the federal goals for addressing climate change are based on false assumptions about the role of carbon dioxide and human activity. Supporters point to data suggesting warming is occurring naturally and human influence is overstated. Environmentalists argue that the resolution is based on bad science and ignores data that emissions and humans are altering sea levels and weather patterns. The resolution cites Obama's 2013 plan that calls for a reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and encourages development of renewable forms of energy.===============House Passes 2015 KS Prison BudgetTOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas House has approved the 2015 budget for the Department of Corrections, authorizing more than $390 million for state prisons and programs. The bill passed 79-41 on Thursday, sending the measure to the Senate and restoring the funding that was vetoed last year by Governor Sam Brownback. The spending covers the fiscal year beginning July 1 and includes funding for additional corrections officers and increased health care costs. Lawmakers amended the bill Wednesday to place restrictions on where the Department of Corrections could locate parole offices. The restrictions were prompted by the agency's plan to open a parole office next door to a daycare center in Kansas City, Kansas. Parents and city officials have protested, saying they don't want convicted sex offenders visiting an office so close to children.===============KS Senate Approves Death Penalty Appeals ChangesTOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas senators have approved a measure shortening the time for inmates to appeal death sentences to the state Supreme Court, despite concerns from opponents about the state rushing to judgment. Thursday's 27-13 vote sent the bill to the House. The measure creates a 3½-year time limit for the appeals to be heard and decided by the court. The measure would not affect any subsequent appeals, including those made to the U.S. Supreme Court.It also sets limits on the length of documents that can be filed in death penalty to appeals to the state court, and requires the appeals to be placed ahead of all other cases pending before the justices. Opponents argued the changes weaken the death penalty's integrity and increase the chances an innocent person will be executed.===============Leawood Couple Wants KS to Open RecordsTOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Johnson County couple who were the focus of a failed marijuana search is supporting proposed legislation making it easier to get police investigative reports. The failed search for marijuana two years ago at the Leawood home of Robert and Adlynn Harte launched the Hartes on a crusade for documents to shed light on what led to the search, which produced no charges or evidence. The Hartes spent $25,000 working to get the records. The Kansas City Star reports the Hartes appeared before lawmakers Wednesday asking them to make public police documents called probable-cause affidavits, which are used to justify arrests or searches. The Hartes support a bill introduced by Shawnee Republican Representative John Rubin, which would require prosecutors to convince a judge that the records should remain private.===============Found Body Might Be That of Junction City WomanJUNCTION CITY, Kan. (AP) — Police say a body found in rural Geary County matches the description of a missing Junction City woman. Junction City police say in a news release Thursday that the body matches the description of 24-year-old Amanda Clemons, although a positive identification has not been confirmed. Authorities went to the scene late Wednesday after serving a search warrant at Fort Riley and interviewing people throughout the day. A 22-year-old Colorado woman and a 23-year-old man living at Fort Riley were arrested. Formal charges have not been filed. Clemons was last seen on February 7. Witnesses said they saw her being placed into a car at the Budget Host Hotel in Junction City.===============Former KBI Official Charged with Child Sex CrimeTOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A former Kansas Bureau of Investigation deputy director has been charged with sexual exploitation of a child and trying to destroy evidence. The Shawnee County prosecutor filed the charges Thursday against 57-year-old Kyle G. Smith, of Topeka. County jail officials said he was released around 5:20 pm after posting a $15,000 surety bond. Prosecutors allege Smith possessed a photo of a minor engaged in sexually explicit conduct. He's also charged with two counts of interference with law enforcement, alleging he tried to destroy evidence on a telephone and on a computer. Smith's attorney, Thomas Haney, didn't immediately return a message from The Associated Press seeking comment. Smith doesn't have a listed phone number. The KBI said in November that Smith was no longer with the agency but would not say why.===============Police: Body Found in KCK Freezer Was Arizona TruckerKANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Police say a body discovered in a freezer at a property in Kansas is an Arizona trucker who was reported missing in October. The body of 53-year-old Lawrence Peter Muirhead was found Sunday inside the freezer in a garage behind a home in Kansas City, Kansas. City police said Thursday Muirhead's death is considered a homicide. They have provided no details on how he died. Muirhead's family reported him missing October 1 when he didn't return home to Tucson after a trip to Pennsylvania. Relatives said their last contact with him was September 28. The truck he was driving was found abandoned October 4 in Merriam, 8 miles southwest of Kansas City. City police spokesman Patrick McCallop declined to say who lived at the home or found the body.===============Suspect Arrested in Radio Company Employee's DeathWICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Wichita police have arrested a suspect in the killing of a communications company employee earlier this week. KAKE-TV reports that police arrested the suspect Wednesday night after receiving an anonymous tip in the death of 25-year-old Daniel Flores. His body was found early Monday at Steckline Communications. Police say when they stopped the suspect's car the driver stabbed himself in the stomach. He is currently under police watch at a Wichita hospital. Lieutenant Todd Ojile says the suspect is an ex-boyfriend of someone who works at Steckline. He says Flores didn't know the suspect and apparently was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Ojile said that the suspect will be booked for felony murder when he's released from the hospital. No other suspects are being sought.===============KC Arts Leader to Be Nominated for NEA PostKANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The chairman of Kansas City's Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts says President Obama chose wisely in selecting the center's president to lead the National Endowment for the Arts. The White House said Wednesday that President Barack Obama intends to nominate Jane Chu, president and CEO of the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, as chair of the National Endowment for the Arts. Chu has been president and CEO of the Kauffman Center since 2006. The Senate will have to confirm Chu's nomination to the NEA, an independent federal agency that supports and helps fund artistic exhibits. Julia Irene Kauffman, chairman of the Kauffman Center, says Obama "has chosen wisely," and Chu's nomination is a validation of the important role the Kauffman Center plays in the performing arts.===============Construction Trade Group Releases National PlanTOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A national construction trade group has unveiled a new national plan to address looming workforce shortages as firms add jobs after a lengthy downturn. The Arlington, Virginia-based Associated General Contractors of America released the plan Thursday during a visit to the Washburn Institute of Technology in Topeka. Group spokesman Brian Turmail says Kansas was chosen as the release site because of a state-funded program that offers high school juniors and seniors free, college-credit technical training in high-demand fields. Turmail says the association wants to nudge other states to do the same thing. The plan outlines measures to make it easier for schools, construction firms and local construction associations to establish career and technical training programs. It also calls for significant reforms to federal career and technical education programs.===============Man Arrested on Bus Admits Robbing Kansas BankKANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A northeast Kansas man whose getaway vehicle was a city bus has pleaded guilty to robbing a bank. The U.S. Attorney's office says 29-year-old Jamarr Dale faces up to 20 years in federal prison after pleading guilty Thursday to one count of bank robbery. The holdup occurred January 2 at a Security Bank branch in Dale's hometown of Kansas City, Kansas. Dale admitted handing a teller a note that said, "I need $3,000 or I will start shooting." He left after the teller gave him a drawerful of cash. Police received a call saying the robber had boarded a city bus outside a nearby WalMart. Officers boarded the bus within minutes and arrested Dale with what was described as a large amount of cash, but no gun.===============Man Pleads Guilty in Hit-and-Run Involving HorseWICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Wichita man pleaded guilty to two felonies for a hit-and-run accident that killed a man who was riding a horse. A boy also was injured after a car driven by 26-year-old George Childers hit the horse last July 5 and then fled. The horse had to be euthanized. Childers hit a horse being ridden by 49-year-old Lloyd Ferguson and 6-year-old Eddie Caddell. The Wichita Eagle reports Childers will be sentenced April 2 for leaving the scene of an accident and one count of interference with law enforcement. He was scheduled to go to trial this week.===============School in Lawsuit Tries to Shield Criminal Past of EmployeesWICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas military boarding school embroiled in a lawsuit alleging widespread abuse of its cadets is asking a federal judge to keep any mention about prior arrests or criminal convictions of its employees away from jurors at next month's trial. The request comes amid 21 sealed motions filed on Wednesday by St. John's Military School in Salina seeking to restrict evidence when trial begins March 4 in federal court in Kansas City, Kansas. The school also seeks to keep out of the trial a police report, findings by a state child welfare agency and certain testimony. Four sealed motions also were filed by the ex-cadets seeking to exclude references about illicit drug use, their own "prior bad acts," and references to Adolf Hitler and the Nazi Party.===============Trial Date Set for 3 Accused in Robbery of Dying WomanWICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A Sedgwick County judge has set a trial date for three men accused of stealing a wedding ring and other items from a dying Wichita woman. A preliminary hearing was held Thursday for Daquantrius Johnson, Quanique Thomas-Hameen and Keith Hickles Jr. All three are charged with robbery, theft and aggravated burglary. They're accused of robbing 43-year-old Danielle Zimmerman after she suffered a brain aneurysm at a Wichita Taco Bell on December 29. While she was unconscious, someone took her purse, a cellphone and wedding ring. She died the next day. The Wichita Eagle reports that after a preliminary hearing Thursday, District Judge Christopher Magana bound all three men over for trial and set the case on the April 7 jury trial docket.===============Kansan Sentenced to Life for Child Sex CrimeMEDICINE LODGE, Kan. (AP) — A south-central Kansas man was sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole for at least 25 years for sex crimes involving a child. A Barber County judge on Wednesday sentenced 22-year-old Robert Pruitt of Kiowa under the state's Jessica Law, which imposes longer sentences for sex crimes involving children. Pruitt also was ordered to wear electronic monitoring for life and lifetime registration as a sex offender. The Hutchinson News reports that Pruitt pleaded guilty in October 2013 to one count of rape of a child younger than 14.=============== Man Convicted of Child Abuse Pleads in EscapeSALINA, Kan. (AP) — A man serving life in prison for killing his girlfriend's young son was sentenced to nearly two years of additional jail time for escaping from prison while awaiting sentencing in the murder case. Thirty-year-old Antonio Brown Sr. pleaded guilty Wednesday to aggravated escape and was sentenced to 21 months in prison. The Salina Journal reports Brown will serve that sentence after completion of his sentences for two counts of child abuse and one count of first-degree murder in the October 2011 death of his girlfriend's 14-month-old son, Clayden Urbanek. Last February, Brown walked out of a Saline County jail holding cell after a door was inadvertently opened. He surrendered in Wichita two days later.===============Topeka Debaters to Spar at Brown v. Board SiteTOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — High school debaters will take on the issue of ongoing public school segregation during a Black History Month event at the Brown v. Board of Education National Historic Site. A sixty-minute debate gets under way Friday at the Topeka site that tells the story of the U.S. Supreme Court decision that ended legally segregated public schools. Debaters from Topeka High School will spar over whether socio-economic issues must be the focus of polices aimed at ending school segregation.===============KC to Host 24-Hour Computer Coding MarathonKANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City will be the site for a 24-hour coding marathon designed to encourage and inspire youths to learn the language of computer coding. The Kansas City Star reports all high school and college students who like to write computer code can participate in CodeDay KC's event February 15 and 16. The city is one of six that are hosting the marathons. Participants in Kansas City can come to the Sprint Accelerator in groups or as individuals and form teams, participate in workshops and pitch ideas. Tickets purchased before Friday cost $10. Regular tickets will be $20 and include lunch and dinner February 15, a midnight snack and breakfast on February 16. Registration is available online at kansascity.codeday.org.=============== TECT Commits $100K for WSU ProgramWICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A company that supplies components for the aircraft industry is committing $100,000 over five years to help Wichita State University develop a mentoring program. The Wichita Eagle reports the university will use the gift from TECT Aerospace to raise interest among public school students in careers in science, technology, engineering and math. The mentoring program will be aimed at low-income youth and students of color from kindergarten through 12th grade. Wichita State says the program will recruit professionals in the relevant fields to volunteer with mentoring and other activities. The gift was made with help from The Glass Foundation, which supports philanthropic endeavors on behalf of Kenneth Glass and family, which owns the TECT family of businesses.=============== Driver Sideswipes Bus Carrying Disabled Students in KCMOKANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri education officials say no one was injured when a driver sideswiped a bus carrying six students from a school that serves the severely disabled. The Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education says reports indicate the driver may have run a stop sign before Thursday's crash at a Kansas City intersection. A nurse on board the bus at the time evaluated the students from B.W. Sheperd State School before they were transferred to another bus. When the students arrived at their school, they were evaluated again. B.W. Sheperd is one of 35 schools for the severely disabled in Missouri. It serves kindergarten to 12th-graders.

ACLU Notifies Kansas of Possible Suit over Voter Registration LawTOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The American Civil Liberties Union has notified Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach that it intends to file a federal lawsuit over a state law requiring new voters to provide proof of their U.S. citizenship. The ACLU sent Kobach a notice Tuesday, telling him that Kansas is not in compliance with federal election laws because it requires new voters to provide a birth certificate, passport or other acceptable document. Federal law requires someone to give state officials 90 days' notice of a potential lawsuit. The ACLU argued that states must allow people to register to vote at driver's license offices and can't add a proof-of-citizenship requirement. More than 14,000 prospective Kansas voters have their registrations in "suspense" because they've filled out registration forms but not provided proof of citizenship.=================Kobach Standing by Kansas Voter Citizenship RuleTOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Secretary of State Kris Kobach says Kansas will continue to enforce a law requiring new voters to provide proof of their U.S. citizenship despite a threatened lawsuit. Kobach said in a statement Tuesday that he's not surprised the American Civil Liberties Union is threatening to sue on behalf of other groups, including the NAACP and League of Women Voters. He said liberal groups have made it clear they oppose the rule. Federal law says groups intending to sue over such issues must give 90 days' notice. The ACLU did that Tuesday. Kobach said Kansas will keep taking its requirement "seriously." The ACLU contends Kansas is violating a federal election law aimed at ensuring people can register to vote at state driver's license offices.================='In Cold Blood' Killers' DNA Not Linked to Florida Quadruple MurderST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) — DNA testing on the two men who killed a Kansas family and were profiled in the book "In Cold Blood" does not link them to a quadruple murder in Florida more than 50 years ago. Captain Jeff Bell of the Sarasota Sheriff's Office told The Associated Press on Tuesday they were unable to make a match between killers Perry Smith or Richard Hickock to Christine Walker, who was killed in Sarasota in 1959 with her husband and two children. Authorities say there's uncertainty because only partial DNA profiles were taken from the exhumed bodies and the Walker samples were degraded. No more tests are set. Smith and Hickock fled to Florida after killing Kansas farmer Herb Clutter, his wife and two of their children.=================Moran Plans Visit with Kansas Business LeadersWICHITA, Kan. (AP) — U.S. Senator Jerry Moran is planning to meet with business leaders and hospital administrators in south-central Kansas. The Kansas Republican scheduled a Tuesday morning tour of the National Institute for Aviation Research, followed by remarks at the monthly meeting of the Wichita Independent Business Association. Moran travels to neighboring El Dorado in the afternoon to attend the Kansas Hospital Association meeting at the Susan B. Allen Memorial Hospital. The meeting includes discussions with hospital administrators from across the state and a tour of the hospital facilities.=================Kansas Education Board Revokes 6 Teacher LicensesTOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Board of Education has yanked the licenses of six teachers, including four convicted of sex crimes. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Calvin J. Andrews of El Dorado lost his license Tuesday because he was convicted of one count of lewd and lascivious behavior. Jacob Douglas Lull of Cloud County was convicted of one count of indecent solicitation of a child. And Kurt M. Brundage and Cathleen M. Balman — both of Sedgwick County — had convictions for indecent liberties with a child. Two other teachers with burglary and bribery convictions also had their licenses removed. Some board members said more is needed. They said some county and district attorneys aren't reporting felony convictions monthly so the Department of Education can check them against employment rosters.=================Former Municipal Wastewater Manager IndictedWICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The former wastewater manager for the city of Hays has been charged with violating the Clean Water Act by lying about nitrogen levels in the city's discharges. The U.S. attorney's office says a four-count federal indictment Tuesday accuses 57-year-old Charles L. Blair with making false statements about nitrogen levels in effluent at the city's wastewater treatment plant. Three counts relate to statements made in discharge monitoring reports. One count charges him with lying to agents of the Environmental Protection Agency when he said he had provided accurate levels for the report. Blair retired last year. He told The Associated Press on Tuesday he did not know why he was indicted because he had not lied. Hays City Manager Toby Dougherty said the city cooperated fully with the EPA investigation.=================Kansas Board of Ed to Review Rule on 'Freedom' WeekTOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas State Board of Education members are reviewing a proposed regulation outlining requirements for a new "Celebrate Freedom Week" in public schools. The board scheduled a discussion of a draft version Tuesday afternoon. A new law that took effect in July requires public schools to hold "Celebrate Freedom Week" in kindergarten through eighth grade. It's designated for the week of September 17, the anniversary of the U.S. Constitution's signing in 1787. The law says the aim is teaching students about the values upon which the nation was founded. In keeping with the law, the board's regulation says schools can't censor the founders' religious views. The board will set a public hearing on the rule after it's reviewed by the attorney general and Department of Administration.=================Federal Court Rejects Appeal from Kansas Man Convicted of Killing DeputyWICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A federal court has rejected an appeal from a Kansas man convicted of killing a sheriff's deputy during a 2005 hostage rescue. The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday dismissed the appeal of Gregory Moore stemming from a standoff at his Newton home. Moore fatally shot one officer and critically wounded another when they barged into his house to rescue a woman during a domestic dispute. Moore is serving a life sentence for gunning down Harvey County Deputy Kurt Ford. He was also convicted in 2006 of attempted capital murder and aggravated kidnapping. Moore argued in his failed appeal that he should have been allowed to present a case at trial contending he was so intoxicated that he had an honest belief in the need to defend himself.=================Judge Approves Narrowing of Planned Parenthood LawsuitTOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A federal judge has narrowed Planned Parenthood's lawsuit against a new Kansas abortion law to a single requirement dealing with providers' websites. U.S. District Judge Kathryn Vratil on Monday approved an agreement filed last week between attorneys for Planned Parenthood and the state. Planned Parenthood will drop its challenge to provisions of the law that took effect in July requiring abortion providers to give patients information with certain statements the providers find objectionable. The state agrees that providers are complying with those provisions if they give patients access to materials from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. The only remaining issue is a new rule that the home pages of providers' websites link to a department site on abortion and say the material is accurate.=================Abortion Foes Resurrect Zoning Challenge to ClinicWICHITA, Kan. (AP) — The Wichita City Council has taken no action on efforts by abortion foes to use zoning laws to drive out an abortion clinic. Representatives from four groups asked the council on Tuesday to rezone the property of the South Wind Women's Center to prohibit abortions. A similar effort earlier this year to rezone it was rejected by the city planning commission. Wichita-based nonprofit Trust Women Foundation opened a clinic earlier this year in the building owned by slain abortion provider George Tiller. The property had been used for medical purposes since 1937 and was zoned to allow a medical office when the abortion rights group bought it. The latest anti-abortion move is spearheaded Kansans for Life, Operation Rescue, World of Life Church and the Kansas Coalition for Life.=================KS Crop Outlook Improves in Wake of RainWICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas crops and pastures are mostly faring better in the wake of heavy rain that brought much-needed moisture to arid western sections but swamped some fields elsewhere. The National Agricultural Statistics Service reported Monday that supplies of stock water improved, but remain short to very short in 26 percent of Kansas. Pastures remain in poor to very poor shape across 39 percent of the state. Corn condition is 26 percent poor to very poor, 33 percent fair, 35 percent good and 6 percent excellent. Sorghum is rated as 15 percent poor to very poor, 36 percent fair, 43 percent good and 6 percent excellent. About 9 percent of soybeans remain in poor to very poor condition, with 29 percent rated fair, 54 percent good and 8 percent excellent.=================Lawrence Library Gets $250K Grant to Start SeriesLAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — The Lawrence Public Library has received a $250,000 grant to help make the city a stopping place for prominent authors. The Lawrence Journal-World reports that the grant comes from the Lawrence-based Ross and Marianna Beach Foundation. The money will be used to create an annual speakers' series to bring in authors who are making news on the national or international stage. Library director Brad Allen says the goal is to "prove to publishers and authors that this is a town that supports reading and loves it when authors show up." The library hopes to have the first event in the speaker series in the summer of 2014. The event will be tied to the completion of an $18 million expansion of the downtown-area library.=================Kansas Regulators Work With Law School to Train Oil & Gas LawyersWICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas utility regulators and the Washburn University School of Law have formed a new partnership to train the next generation of oil and gas attorneys. The Wichita Eagle reports that it's a growing area of law as hydraulic fracturing expands. As part of the new effort, lawyers recently stood before members of the Kansas Corporation Commission re-enacting an Ellis County case decided two years ago. The case was picked because it highlights some of the main issues that come up in oil and gas cases. They include getting as much product out of the ground as possible and protecting the environment. Washburn Law professor David Pierce says the re-enactment capped a weekend seminar that pulled in about 50 students and graduates from as far away as Hawaii.=================Siblings Save Toddler from Drowning in Topeka PoolTOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Two young siblings are credited with saving a toddler from drowning in an apartment pool in Topeka. Six-year-old Crystal Canul and her 11-year-old brother, Josias, rushed to the pool Monday night after their mother spotted the 2-year-old struggling while looking out a window of their second-floor unit. The Topeka Capital-Journal reportsthat the mother wasn't a strong swimmer, so she asked her children to help. Crystal jumped into the pool to rescue the 2-year-old. Meanwhile, Josias waited to pull the toddler from the water. The brother and sister later received hugs from Topeka police Sergeant Steve Roth as he lauded their efforts. The toddler was returned to her parents after emergency personnel deemed her OK. Roth says the girl had wandered out of an apartment.==================Suspect in Former Oklahoma Officer's Death Sought in KansasBLACKWELL, Okla. (AP) — The Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation says a man wanted in connection with the stabbing death of a former Blackwell police officer is believed to be in Kansas. The OSBI says 29-year-old Luis Octavio Frias is believed to have been in the Wichita area on August 8th and 9th, visiting relatives and friends. The agency said Monday that agents believe Frias may still be in the Wichita area. Kay County prosecutors have filed a first-degree murder charge against Frias in the stabbing death of 29-year-old former officer Janett Reyna. The OSBI says Reyna was found stabbed to death in her apartment in Blackwell on August 8. The couple's three children were inside the apartment at the time and have been placed in protective custody.=================2nd Victim Identified in Fatal Kansas City AccidentKANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Police say a 39-year-old Nebraska man was the second person to die after a weekend hit-and-run crash in Kansas City. Police say Thomas G. Salistean of Omaha, Nebraska died after being injured in the accident Sunday. His girlfriend, 36-year-old Elvia P. Walters, of Lee's Summit, also died when Salistean's car was hit by a vehicle at a Kansas City intersection. The driver of the car fled on foot and has not been captured. He left a seriously injured passenger in his car. The Kansas City Star reports that Salistean was declared brain dead and the process to donate his organs began Monday.=================Tech in Multi-State Hepatitis Outbreak to Plead GuiltyCONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A hospital technician accused of causing a multi-state outbreak of hepatitis C last year is set to plead guilty in New Hampshire federal court in exchange for a prison term of 30 to 40 years. A plea agreement filed Monday says the deal would allow David Kwiatkowski to avoid criminal charges in Kansas, Maryland and Georgia. Kwiatkowski is accused of injecting himself with the painkiller fentanyl using stolen syringes, then replacing the drug with saline before the tainted syringes were used on patients. The plea deal says dozens of patients were infected and hepatitis C genetically linked to Kwiatkowski's strain played a "contributing role" in one Kansas patient's death. The agreement says the traveling cardiac technologist will plead guilty to seven counts each of tampering with a consumer product and obtaining controlled substances by fraud.=================Federal Plea Deal in NH Details Hepatitis C MiseryCONCORD, N.H. (AP) — The plea agreement reached by a traveling hospital worker accused of stealing drugs and infecting patients with hepatitis C in New Hampshire describes in new detail the distress and pain some of them have suffered. One man hasn't been able to return to work. Another has trouble sleeping. A third won't kiss his wife on the lips even though the blood-borne virus can't be spread that way. All were prepared to testify against David Kwiatkowski at trial. Instead, he is scheduled to plead guilty Wednesday to 14 drug charges in exchange for 30 to 40 years in prison. Forty-six people in four states in hospitals where Kwiatkowski worked have been diagnosed with the same strain of hepatitis C he carries. With the plea, he will avoid criminal charges elsewhere.=================Kansan Sentenced in Scheme That Led to Arson DeathMANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — A man involved in a convenience store robbery that set off a chain of events leading to the death of a Kansas State University researcher has been sentenced to nearly four years in prison. KAKE-TV reports that 23-year-old Frank Joseph Hanson of Manhattan pleaded guilty earlier this year to brandishing a weapon during a robbery at the convenience store in Manhattan. Hanson was sentenced Monday to 42 months in prison. After the robbery, two other people set a fire at a Manhattan apartment complex to distract police investigating the robbery. The fire killed 34-year-old Vasanta Pallem, a postdoctoral researcher in chemical engineering at Kansas State. Hanson was one of five people charged in incidents February 6 that led to the fire. Three others have been sentenced, and one more awaits trial.================= Hays Day Care License Suspended After Child DeathHAYS, Kan. (AP) — The license of a Hays day care center is temporarily suspended while authorities investigate the cause of an 8-week-old infant's death. Hays Police Chief Don Scheibler says the infant died Saturday at a Wichita hospital. The child was hospitalized after emergency personnel went to Michelle M. Sarver's home day care on Wednesday because the infant was not breathing. The Kansas Department of Health and Environment announced Monday that Sarver's license was temporarily suspended. The Hays Daily News reports that a suspension order says the child was put down for a nap on a bed, propped up by pillows and blankets. Sarver later found the infant on its stomach and unresponsive. Scheibler says he sought the temporary suspension to err on the side of caution.=================Wichita Elementary School Fire Leaves Students in FluxWICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Wichita officials are unsure where students at an elementary school that was damaged by fire will attend classes when the school year begins on Wednesday. The fire hit College Hill Elementary School on Monday, the day the school had scheduled an open house and celebration to mark the end of a $1.2 million bond project. Teachers and a few students were in the building but no one was injured. Superintendent John Allison told the school board Monday night that students might have to be relocated for the beginning of the school year. The bond issue funded a new multipurpose room that will also serve as a storm shelter. The cause of the fire has not been determined.=================KC Police Identify Man Shot, Killed by OfficersKANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Police in Kansas City have identified a man shot and killed by officers last week as a suspected parole violator. The Kansas City Star reports that the man was identified Tuesday as 44-year-old Michael Ray Bitters, of Kansas City. Officers were called to a convenience store in the northern part of the city Thursday night after someone recognized Bitters and knew he had an outstanding warrant for a parole violation. Witnesses said Bitters appeared to bait the officers, pretending to have a gun and abruptly pulling his hand from his waistband. Four officers then opened fire. Bitters was on parole for a theft conviction and on probation for a 2012 drug conviction.=================Child Recovering After Wall MishapWICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A 2-year-old Kansas girl who was critically injured when a stone wall fell on her is surprising her family with her quick recovery. Trayleigh Humphries of Halstead was injured Friday night while trying to crawl on the 6 ½-foot wall, when 2-inch thick bricks fell on her. Her falther, Steven Humphries, says she suffered a skull fracture, broken leg and a dislocated hip. He tells KWCH-TVthat she has pins in her hip and a metal plate in her head but is awake, talking and playing. She might be able to return home from the hospital Tuesday. The family believes wet weather weakened the wall. They credit quick response from emergency responders for helping their daughter's recovery.=================Missing Tortoise Returned to Its NE Kansas HomeJUNCTION CITY, Kan. (AP) — A 50-pound tortoise that disappeared from outside its northeast Kansas has been found and returned home. Geary County Sheriff Tony Wolf says the brown African spurred tortoise was found Friday. The animal was unharmed but stuck on a ledge in a ravine behind its owners' home outside Junction City. Wolf says the tortoise wasn't injured but was a little hungry. The Daily Union in Junction City reports that the family pet was reported missing on August 5. Authorities investigated the case as a possible theft. But they also say the pen's gate may have been left open by accident or that the tortoise was frightened by stormy weather and burrowed underground.=================Male Black Bear at Great Bend Zoo DiesGREAT BEND, Kan. (AP) — A male black bear at the Great Bend zoo has died. The Great Bend Tribune reports that the bear — named Clyde — was euthanized Sunday. The bear had undergone emergency surgery Thursday. But zoo director Scott Gregory commented at the time that the procedure was risky and Clyde's condition was critical. Clyde's problem stemmed from a procedure done seven years ago when an issue with his reproductive system required surgery. But when Clyde required emergency surgery in July, scar tissue from the previous surgery became infected. His body then became toxic because he refused to eat or drink. Yet another surgery was required in July, and Clyde's condition had improved considerably by the end of the month. But his temporary recovery ended last week.=================Kansas Accountant Sentenced for EmbezzlementTOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A northeast Kansas accountant has been sentenced to 33 months in federal prison for embezzling more than $500,000 from the construction company where he worked. The U.S. Attorney's office says 64-year-old Larry Lord, of Manhattan, must also pay about $640,000 in restitution under the sentence he received Monday. Lord worked as an accountant at Cheney Construction in Manhattan. In a guilty plea in March, he admitted writing more than $535,000 in checks on the company's account from 1995 to 2012 and using some of the money to pay personal expenses. Lord also admitted avoiding nearly $104,000 in taxes by failing to report the stolen funds as income.=================University of Kansas to Promote RecyclingLAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Fans at University of Kansas sporting events will have a chance to go green while cheering on the Jayhawks. Kansas Athletics and KU Recycling will team up this year to launch Rock Chalk Recycle. 6News Lawrence reports that the program will start this fall. It will encourage recycling and composting inside and outside all university sports complexes. The program will accept plastic, glass, aluminum, and cardboard materials, as well as items for compost. Waste stations with color-coded bags will be placed near the facilities, with blue for recycling, green for compost and grey for trash. The recycling bags also will be distributed to tailgaters, and at soccer and volleyball matches. KU Recycling will record the weights for trash, composting, and recycling after each game to track progress during the season.=================Dutch Man Hopes to Return Dog Tag to Kansas Soldier's Family GREAT BEND, Kan. (AP) — A Dutch man who uses a metal detector to search for World War II relics has found the long-buried dog tag of Kansas soldier. Now, 29-year-old Rico Peters is looking for relatives of Jesse G. Burris. The Great Bend Tribune reports that Peters learned through his research that Burris was born in Great Bend in 1916. Burris joined the Army in 1941 as a warrant officer. He survived the war and died in 2001 at the age of 85, and is buried in the Kansas City area. For now Peters is keeping the dog tag in a small museum he's started. Other relics he's uncovered in the woods around his home of Kerkrade include tooth brushes, tubes of shaving cream, buttons and shell casings.=================Chiefs Running Back Jamaal Charles Sits Out PracticeST. JOSEPH, Mo. (AP) — Pro Bowl running back Jamaal Charles sat out Kansas City Chiefs practice on Tuesday after straining his right foot the previous day's work out. Charles was working with the team's number-one offense against the Chiefs' first-team defense near the goal line when he walked toward the medical tent. He spent a couple minutes talking to trainers before climbing into a cart and being driven to the locker room. Chiefs coach Andy Reid said following the workout that Charles would play in Friday night's preseason game against San Francisco only if he's able. Charles attended Tuesday's practice but joined the rest of the injured Chiefs away from the practice field. He wasn't wearing a boot and didn't appear to be limping.

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Here's a summary of today's news headlines from the Associated Press, as compiled by the KPR staff.

Here's a summary of the day's Kansas news headlines from the Associated Press, compiled by KPR staff.

Here's the latest Kansas and regional news from the Associated Press, compiled by KPR staff.