TOPEKA — The Kansas Department of Corrections signed a two-year contract with a private healthcare company based in Topeka to provide medical services for 10,000 inmates at the state’s eight adult prisons and the Kansas Juvenile Correctional Complex. The deal with VitalCore Health ...
Updated at 12:09 p.m. Saturday, May 16 A Douglas County judge on Friday issued a temporary order blocking the State of Kansas from enforcing parts of a law that would prevent minors from receiving gender-affirming care, saying that the plaintiffs had shown a reasonable probability that they ...
First responders in Kansas will be allowed to use a drug that can be used to rapidly reverse opioid overdoses past its printed expiration date thanks to recently passed legislation. That's no small change given that one organization alone distributed more than $1 million worth of the drug to ...
A Lawrence woman is making national headlines for being detained 30 hours by U.S. custom officers after admitting that she had voted in a Lawrence City Commission and school board election, despite not being a U.S. citizen. An investigation by the nonprofit news site Propublica highlighted ...
COLDWATER, Kansas — The former mayor of Coldwater has been ordered to report to federal immigration detention after pleading guilty to voting illegally as a noncitizen. Former Mayor Joe Ceballos has been ordered to report to the Immigration Customs Enforcement Detention Office in Wichita ...
TOPEKA — The state of Kansas’ credit rating upgrade from stable to positive by a leading financial research firm set off a scramble among politicians claiming responsibility for the improved outlook. Gov. Laura Kelly, a Democrat, said the adjustment by Moody’s Investors Service was ...