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AG Schmidt: Shoe buyers may get refunds
Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt today announced his office has filed a settlement with Skechers USA Inc. to resolve allegations that Skechers made unsupported health claims in advertising its Shape-Ups, Tone-Ups and Resistance Runner athletic shoes. The multi-state settlement requires Skechers to allocate up to $40 million for consumer refunds nationwide. Schmidt joined attorneys general or consumer protection agencies of
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Arson blamed for fire
The Topeka Fire Department says a fire was intentionally set in the basement of a house at 623 SW MacVicar. Fire crews arrived on the scene shortly after 6am to find fire and heavy smoke coming from a basement window. Crews made entry into the home and put out the fire. Damage has been placed at $15,000. Anyone with information
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Missouri House moves to stop Jayhawks license plate
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - Missouri license plates won't be sporting Kansas Jayhawks logos anytime soon if the Missouri House has its way. The House approved an amendment to a higher education bill Tuesday allowing only Missouri schools to be featured on license plates. An effort to create a University of Kansas specialty plate in Missouri began a year ago,
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Budget negotiations settle on arts funding
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Kansas legislators negotiating the final version of a proposed state budget have decided to include $700,000 for a new Creative Arts Industry Commission. The commission will be formed in July by the merger of the state's Arts and Film Services commissions under legislation signed last week by Gov. Sam Brownback. The commission will part of the
National
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FBI confirms leak probe on al-Qaida plot
WASHINGTON (AP) — FBI Director Robert Mueller says the bureau has launched an investigation into who leaked information about an al-Qaida plot to place an explosive device aboard a U.S.-bound airline flight. Mueller says such leaks during ongoing law enforcement operations damage U.S. relationships with allies. The Associated Press and other news organizations revealed details of the plot this month.
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Romney inches closer to clinching GOP nomination
WASHINGTON (AP) — Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has won most of the delegates in the Oregon primary, leaving him 155 delegates shy of the number of delegates needed to win the Republican nomination for president. He should get there by the end of the month. Romney won at least 16 of the 25 delegates at stake in Oregon, with
International
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NKorea nuclear reactor construction progressing
WASHINGTON (AP) — A U.S.-based institute says new satellite imagery shows that North Korea has resumed building work on a reactor after months of inactivity. That indicates the North is pressing on with efforts to expand its nuclear program, the institute says, despite international criticism. North Korea says the reactor is intended to generate electricity but its active pursuit of
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Slain journalist remembered in London
LONDON (AP) — Leading politicians and journalists have gathered in London to pay tribute to slain war correspondent Marie Colvin. Colvin, 56, was killed on Feb. 22 when army shelling struck the building that served as a makeshift media center in the Syrian city of Homs. She worked for the Sunday Times of London. Her editor John Witherow described the
Business
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Shareholders sue JPMorgan over $2B trading loss
NEW YORK (AP) — Shareholders of JPMorgan Chase & Co. have filed two lawsuits against the nation's biggest bank, accusing it and its leaders of taking excessive risk and causing a monumental $2 billion trading loss. The company disclosed the loss last week, saying it resulted from a failed hedging strategy. The lawsuits filed on Wednesday in New York claim
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US housing starts rose in April
WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. builders began work on more homes last month, evidence that the battered housing market is slowly healing. The Commerce Department says builders broke ground at a seasonally adjusted annual pace of 717,000 homes in April from March. That's 2.6 percent more than March's total, which was revised higher. Construction rose for both single-family homes and apartments.
