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Seg. 1: Criminal Registries in Kansas. Seg. 2: 'Adrift' Details True Tale Of Lone Shipwreck Survivor

A Kansas News Service report finds that Kansas' criminal registry is more expansive than other states' systems.
Crysta Henthorne
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KCUR 89.3
A Kansas News Service report finds that Kansas' criminal registry is more expansive than other states' systems.

Segment 1: Is a demanding, wide-ranging criminal registry system making the state of Kansas any safer?

A Kansas News Service investigation has found that no other state has a public offender registry as expansive as the one in Kansas. Today, we talked with the Kansas News Service journalist and a law professor about the report's findings and its legal implications. 


Segment 2, beginning at 22:26: The tragic story of the 1856 shipwreck that left behind just one 22-year-old survivor. 

When a ship traveling from Liverpool-to-New York collided with an iceberg, surviving passengers boarded five life boats and were set adrift into the cold waters of the North Atlantic. Four boats were lost at sea and the fifth boat, originally carrying 13 people, would, after nine days, have just one alive passenger. Today, we talked with the author of a new book that weaves together the stories, and timeline, of the tragedy. 

  • Brian Murphy, reporter at The Washington Post and author of "Adrift: A True Story of Tragedy on the Icy Atlantic and the One Who Lived to Tell about It."

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Kathleen Pointer, the new intern for Up to Date with Steve Kraske, is a 2011 graduate of the University of Missouri-Columbia. There, she studied journalism and women's and gender studies.
Steve Kraske is an associate teaching professor of journalism at UMKC, a political columnist for The Kansas City Star and has hosted "Up to Date" since 2002. He worked as the full-time political correspondent for The Star from 1994-2013 covering national, state and local campaigns. He also has covered the statehouses in Topeka and Jefferson City.