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TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas Corporation Commission won't allow Westar Energy and Great Plains Energy extra time to renegotiate a new merger. After the commission in April rejected the proposed merger, the two companies filed a petition asking for extra time to revise the deal to meet commissioners' expectations. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports (http://bit.ly/2qLxlDs ) the commission rejected the request Tuesday. The commission's staff has recommended the companies start an entirely new case for the merger. Spokeswomen for both u...
WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Civil rights advocates want a federal court to allow them to make public two documents they say will prove Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach tried to change federal voting law, saying he misrepresented them in a lawsuit challenging the state's voting law. The American Civil Liberties Union filed a motion late Monday asking the U.S. District Court of Kansas to force Kobach to more fully reveal a document he was photographed taking into a November meeting with then-President-elect Donald Trump, as well as an internal d...
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — The Latest on a white Tulsa police officer who was acquitted of manslaughter in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man (all times local): 4:30 p.m. A white Oklahoma police officer acquitted of manslaughter after fatally shooting an unarmed black man will receive back pay after being on leave since September. Tulsa spokeswoman Michelle Brooks said Tuesday that officer Betty Jo Shelby will be getting more than $35,000, minus taxes and other deductions. Shelby's attorney says the payment is being processed. Shelby had b...
TULSA, Okla. (AP) — An Oklahoma judge has delayed the trial for one of two brothers charged in the 2015 stabbing deaths of five family members so both sides can gather more evidence about his mental health. District Judge Sharon Holmes rescheduled the trial for 18-year-old Michael Bever on Monday after discussing Bever's intent to pursue a not guilty plea by reason of insanity, the Tulsa Word (http://bit.ly/2qg0p2l ) reported. The trial was scheduled to begin June 5, but the judge rescheduled it for Aug. 28. A discovery hearing is expected t...
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Oklahoma Congressman Steve Russell says he wants to chair the U.S. House committee that has been poised to investigate President Donald Trump's firing of FBI director James Comey. Russell said in a news release Tuesday that he wants to lead the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee when current committee chairman and fellow Republican Jason Chaffetz of Utah steps down. Chaffetz announced last week that he will resign from Congress in June. Russell said in the news release that his focus has been government r...
Investigators found white supremacist propaganda, bomb-making materials and a framed photograph of Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh at a Florida apartment where a teenager killed two roommates who had once shared his neo-Nazi beliefs before he converted to Islam, police and the FBI said. Devon Arthurs, 18, led police to the two bodies inside his Tampa apartment last Friday, saying he killed them after they showed disrespect for his new faith, according to police and FBI reports released Monday. A fourth roommate, a member of the Florida...
