The Legislature backed Gov. Sam Brownback's strategy to narrow the state budget deficit by sweeping $185 million in transportation funds and delaying projects to fix treacherous highways and intersections that continue to exact a human toll.
A major piece of construction put off at least one year to free up cash would overhaul US-69 in southeast Kansas, where the car driven by Derek Curtis Brumbaugh, 17, of Pittsburg, crossed the center line near Arcadia and struck the vehicle operated by David Glen Kessler, 56, of Kearney, Mo. The violent collision in ...