kansas
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Kansas Rep. Sentenced to Probation After Pleading Guilty to Disorderly Conduct Charges Following Kicking and Kneeing Students
Republican Rep. Mark Samsel was placed on 12-month probation and banned from contacting the students outside of a court-ordered apology letter.
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Kansas Baseball Coach Suspended, Facing Termination Over Allegations That He Told a Black Student to Turn Off His 'N-Word Music'
Another day, another mediocre white man joins the “You Bout to Lose Your Job” chorus line because he couldn’t keep his racism to himself. A high school baseball coach in Kansas has been placed on administrative leave and is facing the possibility of losing his job after he was accused of telling the only Black…
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Black Man Sues Kansas Sheriff's Deputy for Allegedly Running Over Him With a Patrol Truck
It sounds like something from a nightmare, but it’s what 35-year-old Lionel Womack is alleging he experienced in real life—a cop in Kansas deliberately driving a patrol truck over his body while chasing him through an open field. Womack, who used to be a former police officer, was pulled over during a late-night traffic stop…
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As Coronavirus Cases Ramp Up Across the U.S., States Consider Closing School for the Rest of the Year
As more places across the country are coming to grips with the urgent and unprecedented nature of the coronavirus outbreak, school districts are mulling over whether to close for the rest of the 2019-2020 school year. Kansas took this step on Tuesday, with Governor Laura Kelly ordering all k-12 campuses to close and ending in-person…
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Where Is Kansas City? Bernie Sanders Is a Communist! All the Ways Trump Tried to Put Raisins Into the Super Bowl
Around 10:15 p.m. EST on Sunday, with Super Bowl LIV all but over, Nordic Bastardwitch, the 13-year-old Trump staffer who polices Trump’s tweets, was settling into his bed, having already agreed with the president—who was openly sobbing—that the last tweet was going to be sent to San Francisco 49er Nick Bosa and it was just…
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C’mon Kansas! Will the Sunflower State Be the Next to Ban Hair Discrimination? [Corrected]
Toto, I don’t think we’re going to have trouble wearing our naturally textured hair in Kansas anymore—at least, we hope not. OK, that’s optimistic (and to the best of our knowledge, there’s no easing on down the road involved), but what’s promising is a new bill (pdf) proposed by Wichita Democratic Senator Oletha Faust-Goudeau, which…
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Kansas Man Claims He Woke Up to a Cop Assaulting Him in His Own Bed—For No Reason at All
Joseph Harter says he was beaten so badly by a police officer last year that, for a moment, he was blinded by his own blood in his eyes. But as brutal as that detail is, it isn’t what makes Harter’s case unique. It’s that Harter was allegedly assaulted in the dead of night in his…