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Voting rights group: Kobach has purged 6,570 registrations By Roxana Hegeman Associated Press
Wichita — Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has discarded as of August the registrations of about 6,570 prospective voters under a rule that allows him to purge them after 90 days primarily for lack of proof of citizenship, the League of Women Voters said Tuesday. Those prospective voters whose names are missing likely registered at some place other than a motor vehicle office, so their right to vote is not protected by recent court orders compelling Kobach to keep them on the rolls. They would need to register again in order to vote in November.
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KELSEY STOLT, AN INTERRELATED RESOURCE ROOM TEACHER AT WEST MIDDLE SCHOOL, reacts Tuesday after being recognized with the school district’s secondary Lawrence Horizon Award.
Middle school teacher’s dedication honored with Horizon Award
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You have a natural ability with students, setting high expectations for them and the staff to work with them and create a classroom that’s positive, fun and focused on est Middle School teacher meeting students’ needs.”
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Kelsey Stolt arrived at work Tuesday morning fully expecting to attend an awards ceremony for another teacher. What she didn’t expect was a crowd of two-dozen colleagues and district staff, including superintendent Kyle Hayden, gathered in a West classroom to honor her with the district’s annual Horizon Award instead. “I thought this was for
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cial education facilitator Paige Buckingham Laura,” a teary-eyed Stolt said after receiving the surprise award, eliciting laughs from the packed classroom. LauraAnne Grammer, who teaches special education at West, was one of several colleagues to endorse Stolt, an interrelated resource room teacher, for the award, which is meant to recognize exem-
plary new educators in their second year of teaching. Grammer wrote of Stolt’s “innovative” teaching style and her use of technology in the classroom to “make learning fun and accessible for all kids,” Hayden said during the ceremony.
Pollster breaks down stats on female voters at KU leadership lecture
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One of the biggest obstacles Donald Trump faces in his bid to win the presidency is his unpopularity with single women, a Washington, D.C., pollster told listeners Tuesday at the University of Kansas. Speaking at an Emily Taylor and Marilyn Stokstad Women’s Leadership Lake Lecture on Tuesday at the Kansas Union, Democratic pollster Celinda Lake told about 70 listeners the Republican nominee was
Former officer sues city over his arrest Says relationship with another officer led to false accusations By Conrad Swanson cswanson@ljworld.com
A former Lawrence police officer is suing the city, claiming that rough but consensual sex with another officer led to his arrest, to accusations of kidnapping and eventually to his resignation. The lawsuit, which accuses Lawrence police officers of an
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illegal search Burke, the former police officer. and seizure, Burke was arrested in Februplus assault ary 2015 on suspicion of domesand defamatic battery, aggravated battery, tion, could cost aggravated assault, kidnapping the city more and criminal threat. He was than half a milreleased from jail the next day COURTS lion dollars. after the Douglas County disAlongside the trict attorney decided not to city, nine officers are listed as file criminal charges. defendants in the lawsuit, which > OFFICER, 2A was filed Sept. 16 by William
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polling terribly with single women. “Donald Trump is like the worst date they’ve ever been on,” she said. In a 45-minute presentation, Lake, president of Lake Research Partners, framed the 2016 presidential campaign and election cycle in general with the polling figures her firm and others have gathered. As a Democratic pollster and consultant, she mostly presented the figures from the point of view of that party.
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