WICHITA -- The legal fray in Kansas over a state law aimed at stripping a Planned Parenthood chapter of federal family planning money is now being played out before the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, stalling the ultimate resolution of the lawsuit while the parties rehash whether a federal judge should have temporarily mandated the state to resume funding three clinics until the case goes to trial. On Friday, the state filed its second appeal to the 10th Circuit over the ruling earlier in the week by U.S. District Judge J. Thomas Marten ordering the state to resume federal Title X funding to the unaffiliated Dodge City Family Planning Clinic. The state's appeal of a similar order regarding Planned Parenthood's clinics in Wichita and Hays is already pending.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A former Michigan congressman and U.S. delegate to the United Nations has been sentenced to a year and one day in prison for lobbying for a Columbia Islamic charity that had been identified as a global terrorist organization. Mark Deli Siljander, 60, a Republican who served in Congress from 1981-1987, pleaded guilty in July 2010 to obstructing justice and acting as an unregistered foreign agent in connection with his work for the Islamic American Relief Agency, based in Columbia.
It was a day in court that has been anticipated for more than five years. About 200 school districts sued the state in 2004 over education funding, lost at trial and Monday brought their case for more money before the Supreme Court.
Staff writer Kanawha Chief Circuit Judge Paul Zakaib Jr. refused Wednesday to reconsider his July ruling in favor of the Kanawha County school board, which no longer wants to help fund the Kanawha County Public Library.
Editor's note: This is the first of a two-part series on the Long Beach Police Department's Cold Case Unit. Coming next Sunday: A look at some of the unit's most baffling cases. LONG BEACH - Row upon row of hundreds of brown accordion files sit in a windowless office on the fifth floor of the Long Beach Police Department headquarters.
While politicians and school officials alternately celebrate and decry a judge's ruling that Missouri's school funding system is constitutionally sound, a less visible element in the case quietly could be setting a national precedent for education litigation. About half of Missouri's school districts joined in suing the state over its method of paying for public schools. The attorney general's office was charged, as usual, with defending the state, but a Cole County circuit judge also allowed three individuals to intervene as taxpayer defendants in the case, years after it was initially filed.
University of Pittsburgh officials and supporters warned a Senate panel in Oakland on Monday that continued reductions in state subsidies could affect everything from student tuition to economic development. Pitt Chancellor Mark Nordenberg, still dealing with the impact of an overall 22 percent state budget reduction after a decade of flat- line funding, brought a group of supporters to make his case to a Senate Appropriations Committee panel. Supporters included representatives of the student body, faculty, trustees, the Allegheny Conference on Community Development -- and even a rival university president.
A government watchdog group alleges that two of the Supreme Court's most conservative members had a conflict of interest when they considered a controversial case last year that permitted corporate funds to be used directly in political campaigns. Justices Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas are the subject of an unusual letter delivered Wednesday by Common Cause asking the U.S. Justice Department to look into whether the jurists should have disqualified themselves from hearing the campaign finance case if they had attended a private meeting sponsored by Charles and David Koch, billionaire philanthropists who fund conservative causes.
Patrick Hlavaty, a 25-year member and current president of the El Campo, Texas, Volunteer Fire Department, helped encourage El Campo town officials to fund the operations of a new fire training facility. To strengthen his case, Hlavaty downloaded the free Cost Savings Calculator from the NVFC Web site and filled out the information that would show how much funding the El Campo VFD saves the city because of its volunteer firefighters and EMS providers.
For the first year, the Oklahoma Department of Mental Health and Substance Abuse Services is asking the Legislature for the full amount to pay for the Smart on Crime initiative - $95.6 million. Smart on Crime is a diversionary plan to provide mental health and substance abuse treatment to people who commit nonviolent offenses instead of the more expensive option - incarcerating them. Stakeholders statewide have been forming the plan to get people the help they need while saving taxpayer money.
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