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State Sen. Mike Thompson, R-Shawnee, speaks to fellow GOP senators during a caucus meeting Thursday, April 6, 2023, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan.
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Kansas Passes Anti-ESG Bill
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Lawmakers Fear Spill on Keystone System in Kansas
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A former executive with the Kansas water park where a 10-year-old boy died on the giant waterslide has been charged with involuntary manslaughter. Tyler Austin Miles, an operations director for Schlitterbahn, was booked into the Wyandotte County jail Friday, March 23, 2018 and is being held on $50,000 bond. Caleb Schwab died in August 2016 on the 17-story Verruckt water slide at the park in western Kansas City, Kansas.
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State to Audit Water Park
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In this July 9, 2014, file photo, ride designer Jeffery Henry looks over his creation, the world's tallest waterslide called 'Verruckt' at Schlitterbahn Waterpark in Kansas City, Kan. The Kansas City Star reports that Schlitterbahn Waterparks and Resorts co-owner Henry was arrested Monday, March 26, 2018, in Cameron County, Texas.
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Waterslide Death Charges
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Kansas Bill Tries to Lure Chicken Plant
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Kansas state Rep. Tom Phillips, right, R-Manhattan, asks a question during a House Taxation Committee hearing on a bill to repeal an income tax break for more than 330,000 farmers and business owners, Thursday, Jan. 19, 2017, at the Statehouse in Topeka, Kan. To his left is the committee's chairman, Rep. Steven Johnson, R-Assaria, who supports repealing the tax break, as Phillips does.
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Kansas Business Tax Cut is in Jeopardy
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Kansas governor, Sam Brownback.
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KS Senate 'Weary' of Governor's Tax Cuts
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