Regional briefs: Miscarriage suit settled
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Published: October 19, 2008
KANSAS CITY
Miscarriage suit settled
A woman who miscarried after two
Kansas City officers failed to get medical treatment for her has reached a $750,000 settlement with police.
Sofia Salva’s attorney,
Andrew Protzman, and police confirmed the settlement Thursday.
The federal lawsuit alleged wrongful death and personal injury. Salva says the officers caused the death of her child when they denied her medical care during a traffic stop in 2006.
The settlement gives Salva $700,000 in personal injury damages and another $50,000 for the wrongful death of her child.
The two officers in the Salva case,
Melody Spencer and
Kevin Schnell, were fired in May. The officers have a combined 10 years with the department.
Spencer and Schnell stopped Salva in February 2006 for having a fake temporary car tag. During the stop, Salva repeatedly told the officers she was pregnant, bleeding and needed to go to the hospital. But the officers refused to take her. They arrested her on outstanding warrants, mostly for traffic offenses.
Salva, who was almost four months pregnant, miscarried the next morning after a night in jail.
Salva has four other children whom she lost in a child services battle in 2002.
Survivor gives hospital $20M
The widow of an
H&R Block founder donated $20 million Tuesday to the
University of Kansas Hospital’s cancer program, where she was successfully treated for breast cancer this year.
"I feel so lucky and so blessed that I can do this,”
Annette Bloch told hospital employees as she announced the gift. "I know that if my husband were alive, he would be just thrilled that I am.”
Bloch said she was trying to pay a debt she and her husband owed to those who helped them overcome cancer. The new donation is believed to be the largest individual gift to a hospital in Kansas or the Kansas City area.
Annette Bloch said she hoped the donation would help get the
Kansas Cancer Center designated as a
National Cancer Institute.
The cancer center, which is blended with the hospital’s cancer program, would then be able to attract more grants, clinical trials and research programs.
The Associated Press
Topeka
Kansas students do better on math, reading tests
Kansas students’ scores on standardized reading and math tests continue to improve. The state
Department of Education report card on tests given last spring shows 84.1 percent of students who took the reading test scored in the top three achievement categories, compared with 59.2 percent in 2000. In the math category, it was 81 percent last spring, compared with 50.3 percent in 2000. The math and reading tests are important because the federal No Child Left Behind Act mandates all students by 2014 must be at a level of "proficient” or above in math and reading skills. Kansas schools have been given comparable tests since 2000. Math and reading tests are given to students in grades three through eight each year and once in high school before the senior year. There were about 253,000 reading tests and 254,000 math tests given to Kansas students.
The improvement is because of more teachers who teach English as a foreign language and students staying in one place longer,
Deputy Education Commissioner Diane DeBacker said.
The Associated Press
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