Kansas Drops Literacy Program Provider over Use of TANF Funds for Excessive Salaries, Expenses

-----Original Message-----
From: The Topeka Capital-Journal <mypapertoday@email.mypapertoday.com>
To: add1dda <add1dda@aol.com>
Sent: Fri, Aug 16, 2019 4:31 pm
Subject: Kansas drops literacy program provider over use of TANF funds for excessive salaries, expenses

AFTERNOON UPDATE 16 Aug, 2019 SUBSCRIBE FOR ALL ACCESS Kansas drops literacy program provider over use of TANF funds for excessive salaries, expenses The Kansas Department for Children and Families announced Friday it was severing ties with a company that administers early literacy programs for public schools, citing financial problems uncovered but not disclosed under the administration of former Gov. Latest News Woman jailed after she throws iced coffee on Topeka police officer A woman found herself behind bars Friday morning after she threw a cup of iced coffee on a Topeka police officer who was responding to a complaint call Friday morning in the city's downtown district, authorities said. Judge closes grammar loophole in prison abuse case, orders trial for Tomas Co Shawnee County District Judge Cheryl Rios on Friday rejected the "absurd" attempt to dismiss charges against a man accused of molesting inmates at the women's prison in Topeka because they didn't consent to the abuse. Shawnee County Jail inmate dies Thursday night as he was about to be released A 42-year-old inmate at the Shawnee County Jail died Thursday night, just before he was to be released, officials announced Friday morning. 40,000 additional pounds of chicken being recalled due to 'foreign matter' Tyson, a company that has been hit by a number of recalls in recent months, has issued yet another one. Truck driver killed Thursday in Lincoln County rollover crash The driver of a semi-trailer died from injuries he suffered in a single-vehicle, rollover crash Thursday afternoon in Lincoln County in north-central Kansas, authorities said. Woman taken to Topeka hospital after suffering serious injuries Thursday in turnpike crash An Oklahoma woman was taken to a Topeka hospital after she was injured in a two-vehicle crash Thursday afternoon on the Kansas Turnpike in Douglas County, authorities said. NYPD: Objects found at subway station aren't explosives NEW YORK (AP) " Two abandoned objects that looked like pressure cookers prompted an evacuation of a major lower Manhattan subway station during the morning commute Friday before police determined they were not explosives. And finally... Putin gives pilot who landed in cornfield Russia's top medal MOSCOW (AP) " Russian President Vladimir Putin on Friday awarded the nation's highest medal, the Hero of Russia, to the pilot who managed to smoothly land his disabled passenger plane in a cornfield after a flock of birds hit both engines and knocked them out.