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Pneumonia, bronchitis, strep throat — Joe Hafley says he’s had it all in the six years he’s worked security at Hollywood Casino at Kansas Speedway.

Blake Smith’s time at Newton High School is coming to an end after five years in administration.

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TOPEKA — Prosecutor Will Hurst said the scourge of domestic violence was so alarming — Johnson County alone has 1,100 pending cases — that Kansas lawmakers ought to allow admission of evidence at trial of a defendant’s propensity to commit domestic violence to better hold abusers accountable.The law in Kansas and most other states typically prohibited submitting evidence of a defendant’s prior bad acts because the information could bias a judge or jury against the accused.

A discussion that started in December will return to the Newton city commission on Feb.

How soon more passenger trains could be coming into Newton came into clearer focus Feb 7 as the proposed extension of the Heartland Flyer, a passenger train that serves Texas and Oklahoma, had an important day in Topeka.