Two former employees of the Wyandotte County District Court have received prison sentences for using their positions in the accounting office to steal approximately $980,000 in taxpayer funds, according to a news release Tuesday from the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of ...
Leaders of a rural fire district are proposing a 2027 budget that would maintain service levels, however, they want Douglas County commissioners to consider up to $1.29 million in additional funding — and a property tax increase — to hire additional staff to meet service demands. The ...
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld state laws barring transgender girls and women from playing on school athletic teams, in another setback for transgender people. The court’s six-justice conservative majority, which has repeatedly ruled against transgender Americans in the ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — A divided Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld a broad conception of birthright citizenship, rejecting President Donald Trump’s executive order declaring that children born to people who are in the United States illegally or temporarily are not American citizens. The justices ...
Updated at 11:30 a.m. Tuesday, June 30, 2026 A repeat felon who was granted probation just last month after his attorney assured a judge that he was a "new man" was arrested Monday afternoon on suspicion of arson and two other felonies. The May sentence of probation was extraordinary in that ...
TOPEKA — The Kansas Supreme Court upheld the death sentences of the brothers who went on a crime spree in 2000 in Wichita, putting an end to two decades of attempts to alter the brothers’ fates. Reginald and Jonathan Carr were initially convicted of more than 90 counts, including capital ...
