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Kansas City, Kan., police reports

March 25
Burglary, criminal damage, 3100 block of North 51st Terrace, pistol, video game system, video game, window, $1,210 value.
Burglary, 3900 block of Adams, keys, bag, $50 value.
Unlawful possession of controlled substance, College Parkway and I-70, hydrocodone.

March 24
Burglary to auto, 700 block of Hollywood Casino Boulevard, laptop, phone charger, headphones, $530 value.
Burglary, 1100 block of South 75th, propane tank hose, $100 value.
Burglary, criminal damage, 4500 block of Georgia, television, window, back door frame, $650 value.

March 22
Burglary, criminal damage, 3300 block of North 63rd, television, door frame, $400 value.

March 21
Criminal damage, 4800 block of State, gas tank, $1,500 value.

March 18
Theft, 3100 block of South 47th, $90,000 value.

Feb. 23
Aggravated burglary, 2900 block of South 51st, card, driver’s license, wallet, currency, $142 value.

Feb. 17
Burglary, 1400 block of Fairfax Trafficway, printer, three car chargers, four extension cords,  $1,020 value.

Kansas receives tobacco settlement payment

Kansas has received $62.2 million in its annual tobacco settlement payment.

According to Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt, the payment resulted from a legal settlement that Kansas entered into in 2012 with several tobacco companies to resolve a long-running dispute. The settlement term sheet was approved by an arbitration panel of retired federal judges in 2013.

Without the settlement, the dispute had threatened to cause a catastrophic reduction in future years’ payments to Kansas, according to Schmidt.

“As we said last year, the settlement in principle is having the effect of stabilizing Kansas’ annual payments,” Schmidt said. “We are managing the settlement proceeds in a way calculated to minimize the spikes or drops in receipts from year to year so that legislators and other Kansans can plan reliably.”

As it does each year, the annual payment will reimburse the state for funds previously appropriated by the Legislature to pay the current fiscal year’s cost of programs financed from tobacco settlement proceeds. Because of the timing of the annual tobacco payment in comparison with the state budget cycle, the Legislature each year appropriates the funds that will not be received until the following April and then reimburses that amount when the annual payment is received.

Each April, Kansas receives a payment pursuant to the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement. The amount of the payment fluctuates based on several variables, including annual sales of certain tobacco products.