TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s successful election campaign in Republican-leaning Kansas wooed centrist voters with ads showing her standing in the middle of a rural road. She is starting her second term facing a skeptical, GOP-led Legislature and a new, hard-right state attorney general.

Kelly and other statewide elected officials are scheduled to take their oaths of office in a ceremony at noon Monday that includes her inaugural address. She’s often used her major public speeches to promote bipartisanship.

The ceremony will also stamp a big political comeback for Kris Kobach, the new attorney general. Over two

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The question in 20 Rewe Street, LTD v State of New York is whether a landowner was adequately compensated by the State for the partial taking of their Brooklyn property. The property, located in a manufacturing/industrial zone and totaling 39,900 square feet, was primarily unimproved; it consists only of a concrete wall and chain-link fence, and was used for storage and parking. In January of 2012, the New York State Department of Transportation seized 27,041 square feet from the northern side of the property, leaving

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The Chandlers and Barnes had sought an injunction to prevent the Town Council of Perdido Beach from constructing a public boat launch and pier at the end of State Street on the western shore of Soldier’s Creek. – adjacent to their properties. In this case, the property appealed from a judgment entered by the Baldwin Circuit Court after a bench trial in favor of the Town Council.

Upon review of the record, the court noted that the proposed boat launch would be placed where State Street ends at the edge of Soldier’s

Attorneys for the family of Tyre Nichols, the 29-year-old Black man fatally beaten by the Memphis police following a traffic stop, expressed disappointment and frustration with the Memphis Police Department over the news that a sixth officer involved in the stop has been relieved of his duty, but has not been fired or charged.

Officer Preston Hemphill – who is white – was relieved of his duties “when the other officers were relieved”, a Memphis police spokesperson told Memphis . That was over a week ago.

In that time, the other five officers, who are all Black, have been fired

• A Manhattan judge Friday denied Trump’s latest attempt to dodge NY’s fraud accusations.

• The judge criticized Trump’s “frivolous” arguments and dinged Ivanka Trump for claiming ignorance in a deposition.

• Letitia James’ $250 million fraud lawsuit against Trump and his business remains on track for an Oct. 2, 2023 trials.

A Manhattan judge on Friday delivered his latest blow to Donald Trump, rejecting what he called the former president’s “borderline frivolous” request to dismiss New York’s $250 million fraud lawsuit, which seeks to run his business empire out of the

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In this case, plaintiff George Sheetz challenged the $23,420 traffic impact mitigation fee (“TIM fee”) imposed by the defendant El Dorado County as a condition of issuing him a building permit for the construction of a single-family residence on his property in Placerville. Sheetz appealed from the judgment entered after the trial court sustained the County’s demurrer without leave to amend and denied his verified petition for writ of mandate. On appeal, Sheetz contended for reversal was required because the TIM fee was invalid under both the Mitigation Fee Act and the