Kansas woman awarded $1 million from radio station

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) - A federal jury has awarded $1 million to a suburban Kansas City woman falsely described by a radio station as a porn star.

The Kansas City Star reports (http://bit.ly/1sz5Aud) Ashley Patton of Olathe, Kansas, sued the owner of 96.5 The Buzz after a DJ identified her on an April 2012 show as a porn star.

A weeklong federal trial ended Friday with jurors awarding Patton $250,000 in actual damages and $750,000 in punitive damages. The station issued a statement saying it was "very disappointed" in the outcome but will abide by the verdict.

Patton had been added to a list of names the station posted on its website, which also had a link to the podcast of the show. Both sides agreed she was never involved in the pornography industry.