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Coronavirus surge in Kansas touches inmates, taxes, pastures

by Associated Press
| March 26, 2020 1:30 PM

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas officials are looking for extra hospital beds, releasing jail inmates and bracing for a slump in state tax collections as they add farmers' and ranchers' springtime practice of burning pastures to the list of things to avoid during the coronavirus pandemic.

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