Ex-Senate candidate: Board has ended probe of Facebook posts

1A Kansas radiologist who lost a hard-fought primary battle to Republican Sen. Pat Roberts says the state's medical board has dropped an investigation into whether he violated patient privacy by posting X-ray images of severe medical injuries.
2Milton Wolf says the medical board has determined he committed no wrongdoing by posting the images on Facebook.
3Wolf, one of his attorneys and a former campaign staffer issued email statements Monday saying that the Board of Healing Arts had closed an investigation started last year.
4The board's executive director said in a statement that its investigations are confidential.
5Wolf is a Leawood radiologist who had tea party backing in challenging Roberts in last year's Republican primary.
6Roberts won the four-candidate race with 48 percent of the vote.
7Wolf received nearly 41 percent.