State Rep. Mike Amyx, of Lawrence, has filed for reelection. Amyx, a Democrat, is a three-term incumbent House member in Kansas' 45th District. “It has been my honor and pleasure to serve the 45th District in Topeka,” Amyx said in his announcement. “But there is still much to ...
In a speech at KU on Friday commemorating the 70th anniversary of the landmark school desegregation case Brown v. Board of Education, one of the nation’s top civil rights attorneys quoted both the law and philosophy. But Sherrilyn Ifill, the former director and counsel of the NAACP Legal ...
Charges have been dismissed for one of the four teen girls who were charged with obstruction after the shooting death of a 14-year-old boy. The girl, whose age was not provided but who was born in 2008, was charged with one felony count of obstruction of apprehension and one felony count of ...
Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly says she has no plans to try to recruit the Kansas City Chiefs to Kansas after voters across state lines rebuffed an effort to upgrade Arrowhead Stadium with tax dollars. “Probably over half the people in the stands any given Sunday are Kansans,” she said. “We ...
The Lawrence school board on Monday will consider a recommendation to authorize an application for funds to support students' mental health in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. The school district's administration is recommending that the district develop and submit an application to the ...
An Oskaloosa man had turned himself in earlier this month and posted bond, but when he was set to appear in court on an obstruction charge on Wednesday connected to the shooting death of a Lawrence teen, he failed to appear, again. The man, Camdon Joe Collins, 21, is charged in Douglas County ...
