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©2012 The Wichita Eagle andBeacon Publishing Co., 825 E.Douglas, Wichita, KS 67202.
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TOPEKA — The centerpiecebusiness tax cut in Gov. SamBrownback’s plan to reform in-come taxes would enrich dozensof other states at Kansas’ ex-pense, The Eagle has learned.
For out-of-state taxpayers whoearn certain types of businessincome in Kansas, the state tax
cut would shift revenue thatKansas now receives to the gov-
ernment coffers of the taxpayers’home states.
The out-of-state taxpayerswouldn’t pay less, but the taxrevenue would go to fundschools, roads and social servicesin their home states instead of inKansas.
The reason the money wouldgo to other state governmentsand not back to the out-of-statetaxpayers is that income is taxedfirst in the state where it is gen-
erated. To avoid double taxation, al-
most all states that levy an in-come tax give their taxpayers acredit for income taxes paid inanother state.
If the taxpayer doesn’t have topay anything in the state wherethe income is made, there is nocredit to claim and all the moneygoes to the taxpayer’s home
BUSINESS TAX CUTS WOULD SHIFT REVENUE TO OTHER STATES
Less for Kansas, more for othersBY DION LEFLER AND BRENT D. WISTROMEagle Topeka bureau
INSIDE■ Where bills on taxes, abortion,
immigration, school funding, Kelloggticketing and the arts stand at thebreak, 10A
■ Another showdown possibleover arts funding, 8B
■ Immigration continues to dividestate GOP, 3B
Please see TAX CUTS, Page 9A
NEW ORLEANS — Get ready for Blue Monday.Kansas is back in the NCAA championship
game. So is Kentucky. They meet on Monday inthe Superdome and may the Biggest Blue win.
On Saturday night, Kansas survived a halftimedeficit to beat Ohio State 64-62 and advance tothe title game for the ninth time and the secondin New Orleans.
The winner will add to a college basketball
KU 64, OHIO STATE 62
Kansas City StarJayhawks forward Thomas Robinson and guardTravis Releford block a shot attempt by OhioState forward Jared Sullinger during Saturday'sNCAA semifinal game in New Orleans. KU willtake on Kentucky in the championship gameMonday night.
KU to faceKentucky inNCAA finalBY PAUL SUELLENTROPThe Wichita Eagle
Please see KANSAS, Page 3A
Last year at this time, 22-year-old Annie Stuhlsatzand the older siblings in her family were planning todye Easter eggs and hide them in baskets of grassand green wheat gathered from the fields aroundtheir small farm in the shadowof St. Mary Aleppo Church.
On Easter morning, theyounger of the 10 Stuhlsatzchildren would scatter, look-ing for the colorful eggs be-fore the tight-
Jaime Green/The Wichita EagleSister Mary Lucia plays ping-pong with twoother novices during recreation time at theImmaculate Heart of Mary convent.
God’s whispera call to serveBY ANNIE CALOVICHThe Wichita Eagle
Please see SISTER, Page 5A
Check out a photogallery at Kansas.com
It’s been more than 20 yearssince a massive tornadodecimated about one-thirdof Andover, killing 13 peo-
ple in the Golden Spur mobilehome park.
But folks in the Butler Coun-ty town haven’t forgottenabout the tornado – or thefact that another one couldstrike.
If that happens, Andover willbe better prepared, thanks to
an increasing number of resi-dential basements and twonew public storm shelters.
“Just about every home
that’s been built in Andoversince the tornado event hasbeen constructed with a base-ment,” Deputy Fire Chief Mike
Roosevelt said, referring to the1991 tornado that struck Hays-ville, south Wichita andMcConnell Air Force Basebefore hammering Andover.“Even some of the duplex andtriplex homes have been con-structed with basement ele-ments in them.”
For those caught away fromhome during a storm, Ando-ver’s recently completed li-brary and city hall were builtwith “safe rooms” to serve aspublic storm shelters.
Federal Emergency Manage-ment Agency officials adviseTornado Alley communities toconsider building the saferooms, and are willing to pro-vide funding.
“If they have no communitysafe room at all, that might be
FEMA HELPS PAY FOR PUBLIC STORM SHELTERS
Jaime Green/File photo
Shawna Neal looks through the rubble that used to be her home in Joplin, Mo., after a tornado struck the city in May 2011.FEMA money for storm shelters becomes available after a disaster has been declared.
Mike Hutmacher/The Wichita EagleClearwater has a stand-alone public storm shelter next to itsfire station.
A place to take shelter
Residential andpublic ‘safe rooms’are more commonBY STAN FINGERThe Wichita Eagle
Please see SHELTERS, Page 7A
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After winning the Republican pri-mary for Sedgwick County districtattorney Tuesday night, Marc Bennettsaid he understands that the office isdue for change after 24 years of NolaFoulston.
“But it’s change while still keepingprofessional consistency in the office,too,” he said at his watch party at theRiver City Brewery in Old Town. “It’snot throwing everything out andstarting over.”
Bennett, a deputy DA, won with 54percent of the vote to former deputyDA Kevin O’Connor’s 45 percent in acampaign that grew contentious attimes.
Voters picked a new district at-torney for the first time since Foul-ston won the first of her of six termsin 1988. Bennett’s victory makes himthe next DA because a Democratdidn’t run for the office.
Bennett’s supporters filled the bre-wery’s second-floor room with cheersas TV screens reflected numbers inhis favor.
Although he maintained a double-digit lead for much of the night, Ben-nett declined to declare victory untilO’Connor called him shortly before11:30 p.m. and conceded.
“It’s gratifying and humbling,”Bennett said. “I congratulate Kevin onrunning a good campaign. He’s agood prosecutor. He’s an old friend.”
After calling Bennett, O’Connorsaid he was proud of his campaignand supporters.
“We gave the community a racewith two quality candidates, O’Con-nor said. “We fought a good fight.”
Bennett and O’Connor workedtogether under Foulston for a number
Travis Heying/The Wichita EagleMarc Bennett is hugged by hisdaughter Tess at Loft 150 as he andhis supporters await electionresults. Bennett ran for districtattorney against Kevin O’Connor.
Bennettpromiseschange asnext DA BY RICK PLUMLEEThe Wichita Eagle
Please see BENNETT , Page 5A
TOPEKA — Backed by a waterfallof dollars from political action com-mittees and other outside groups,conservative Republican senatecandidates won all but a few keyraces over Republicans who werelabeled more moderate duringbruising campaigns.
The victories will likely pave theway for Gov. Sam Brownback’sagenda for at least the next twoyears, although general electionchallenges by Democrats couldchange that.
“If this was a referendum on SamBrownback, Brownback won,” saidKansas State University politicalscientist Joe Aistrup. “Right now,the Republican Party in the state ofKansas is willing to be a little red-der and a little more conservative.”
Watching results come in fromacross the state, Sen. CarolynMcGinn of Sedgwick wondered ifshe might be the only survivingmoderate in the Senate:
“Wow,” she said. “What kind of
life is that going to be?"In the Wichita area, Wichita City
Council member Michael O’Don-nell, who is known for his stanceagainst subsidies in City Hall, de-
feated third-term Republican Sen.Jean Schodorf, who holds a keyplace as chairwoman of the Senate
Conservativesgain in Senate
Fernando Salazar/The Wichita EagleState Senate candidate Michael O’Donnell gets congratulations after he starts to pull ahead in the pollsduring his campaign party.
BY BRENT D. WISTROM Eagle Topeka bureau
Jaime Green/The Wichita EagleKansas Sen. Carolyn McGinn, right, gets a hug from her mother,Charlotte Peters.
Please see SENATE , Page 6A
ELECTIONRESULTS(i) incumbentExcept where noted, resultsreflect 100 percent of thevoteResults are unofficial
SEDGWICKCOUNTY
District attorney
RepublicansMarc Bennett 54%Kevin O’Connor 45%
Sheriff
RepublicansJeff Easter 73%Robert Hinshaw (i) 26%
Commission, District 3RepublicansJeff Longwell 43%Karl Peterjohn (i) 56%
STATE SENATE
District 25RepublicansMichael O’Donnell 59%Jean Schodorf (i) 41%DemocratsPerry Schuckman 47%Timothy Snow 52%
District 26
RepublicansDick Kelsey (i) 43%Dan Kerschen 58%
District 29
DemocratsOletha Faust-Goudeau (i)
78%K.C. Ohaebosim 22%
District 31
RepublicansGary Mason 45%Carolyn McGinn (i) 55%
STATE HOUSE
District 86DemocratsJudith Loganbill (i) 44%Jim Ward (i) 56%
U.S. CONGRESS
DemocratsEsau Freeman 29%Robert Tillman 71%
STATE BOARD OFEDUCATION
RepublicansKathy Busch 61%Walt Chappell (i) 39%
cer, in the November general elec-tion.
Shortly before 11 p.m., before thefinal tally was available, Hinshawsaid he was not ready to concedethe race.
Hinshaw said his political ad-visers had told him that they ex-pected a close race, with one tofour percentage points separatingthe two candidates.
“Based right now, we still don’tknow what the actual counts are,”Hinshaw said. “I would tend toagree that Jeff Easter has a com-manding lead. ... Right now itdoesn’t seem we will know for
After a campaign that becameheated over controversies at theSedgwick County Jail, Jeff Easterdefeated incumbent Bob Hinshawby a 3-to-1 ratio in the Republicanprimary for Sedgwick County sher-iff.
“It appears I’m going to be sher-iff,” Easter said Tuesday night toapplause from about 100 support-ers at the Wichita Executive Centrein downtown Wichita.
The winner of the GOP primarywill face Democrat Jefrey Wein-man, a former Wichita police offi-
Easter defeats incumbent Hinshaw in sheriff’s race
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Wichita Eagle
Jeff Eastergets a hugfrom his wife,Kimberlee,after seeingthe firstresults fromhis race forSheriff onTuesday atthe ExecutiveCenter indowntown.
BY TIM POTTERThe Wichita Eagle
Please see SHERIFF, Page 3A
MORE INSIDEStatewide Senate results 6A
Butler County sheriff 9A
State House 7A
Congress 8A
What voters say 8A
Election party tweets 8A
ELECTIONRESULTS SLOWErrors and inexperienced
staff members led to slowreporting of election results inSedgwick County. 8A
WARD BEATSLOGANBILL
Judith Loganbill, a Democraticrepresentative who found herselfin a redrawn House district, losther primary to another incumbent,Jim Ward. 7A
PETERJOHNWINS
Karl Peterjohn wonre-election to the SedgwickCounty Commission,defeating City Councilmember Jeff Longwell. 9A
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Someday in the future scientistsmight save millions of lives bysolving the riddle of metastasis.
It is the mysterious processwhere cancer cells begin migratingfrom the tumor of origin andspread the disease.
If that riddle is solved it won’t be
because of one scientist. All scien-tists, as Moriah Beck says, build onthe knowledge of those who pre-cede them.
But any scientist who solves itwill likely remember what Beckdid, in the years leading up to2012, while working in a laborato-ry at Wichita State University.
Cancer kills more than half amillion people in the U.S. annually,
according to estimates by theAmerican Cancer Society; roughly1,500 a day, about 5,400 Kansansper year.
Solving metastasis would earnthe gratitude of millions of survi-vors and their loved ones.
Beck, a protein biochemist fromWichita State University, has not
Mike Hutmacher/TheWichita Eagle
WSU’s MoriahBeckdemonstratesresearch beingdone to isolatesome of theproteins andtheir actions thathelp causecancermetastasis. Theresearch couldlead eventuallyto drugs to slowor stop cancers.
WSU’S MORIAH BECK EXPLORES LINK BETWEEN CANCER, PROTEIN
Scientist tackles riddle of metastasisBY ROY WENZLThe Wichita Eagle
Please see CANCER, Page 3A
Newtown, Conn. — The gunman in theConnecticut shooting blasted his wayinto the elementary school and thensprayed the children with bullets, firstfrom a distance and then at close range,
officials said Saturday as they provided grimnew details of the massacre.
The state’s chief medical examiner, H. WayneCarver II, said all of the 20 children and sixadults killed at the Sandy Hook ElementarySchool in Newtown, Conn., had been struckmore than once in thefusillade, some as ma-ny as 11 times.
“This is a very devas-tating set of injuries,”he said at a mediabriefing.
“I’ve been at this for athird of a century andmy sensibilities maynot be the averageman’s, but this is prob-ably the worst I haveseen or the worst that Iknow of any of mycolleagues havingseen.”
The disclosures came as the police releasedthe victims’ names. They ranged in age from 6to 56.
The children — 12 girls and eight boys — wereall first-graders, 6 or 7 years old. One little girlhad just turned 7 on Tuesday. All of the adultswere women.
The White House announced that President
Mary Altaffer/Associated PressKathy Murdy, left, and her husband Rich Murdy look at thelist of victims of the Sandy Hook shootings.
David Goldman/Associated PressBalloons decorate the sign for the Sandy Hook ElementarySchool as a Connecticut state trooper stands guard.
President Obama to visit Newtown on Sunday
Gunman shot his way into the school
Children all killed with assault rifle
ACTS OF BRAVERY AT SCHOOL
Olivier Douliery/McClatchy-TribuneResidents mourn at a small memorial set up near Sandy Hook Elementary Schoolon Saturday in Newtown, Conn., a day after 20 children and six adults died in ashooting rampage.
Principal, psychologistwere shot trying totackle the gunman
NEWTOWN, Conn. — Inside the four-bedroom colonial set on a small rise, NancyLanza was already dead. But it was earlyyet, and it would be hours before her bodywas found – time enough for her son tounleash a slaughter.
For now, though, all seemed idyllic in this300-year-old town under crystalline skies.
Adam Lanza, 20, fascinated by computersand recalled by former classmates as pain-fully awkward, left the house in his moth-er’s car and drove past fine old churchesand towering trees. It was the holiday sea-son, and lawns were decorated with lightsand electric reindeer. It was just five milesfrom home to Sandy Hook Elementary,where hallways and classrooms rang withtalk of Hanukkah and Christmas.
Inside the music room, a group of fourth-graders were watching the movie “TheNutcracker.”
Theodore Varga and some other teacherswere meeting. Their students, the oldestkids in the school, were in specialty classeslike gym and music. The glow remainedfrom the previous night’s fourth-grade con-cert.
“It was a lovely day,” Varga said. “Every-body was joyful and cheerful. We wereending the week on a high note.”
The school appeared secure, its entrancemonitored by closed-circuit camera and
A routinemorning, thenshots and terrorEagle news services
BY JOHN CHRISTOFFERSEN AND JOCELYN NOVECKAssociated Press
YOUR THOUGHTSThis tragedy has
renewed the debateover why mass shoot-ings happen and what,if anything, can be doneto protect our communi-ties. Please share yourthoughts and questionswith us at www.kan-sas.com/publicinsight.Click on the “Is there away to make our com-munities safer?” box.
Please see NEWTOWN, Page 10A
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Please see TERROR, Page 12A