TOPEKA — The Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation’s chairman compared immigrant detention to Indian reservations in an online video address Friday, and declared the tribe’s intention to jettison a recently secured contract to design detention centers. “We know our Indian reservations were ...
An administrator at Northwest Missouri State University has been chosen to become the next president of Emporia State University. The Kansas Board of Regents on Thursday named Matthew Baker as the next president of Emporia State during a brief meeting at the Emporia campus. Baker currently ...
A University of Kansas professor has become just the eighth in the university’s history to be named a fellow in the National Academy of Inventors. Steven Soper, who is a distinguished professor in both the departments of chemistry and mechanical engineering, was named as a fellow this week ...
As Emporia State’s president gets ready to retire from his position later this month, he’s giving the university a gift — the last four years of his salary, more or less. The university announced Wednesday that outgoing President Ken Hush has made a pledge to the university that is ...
The Prairie Band Potawatomi Nation has fired senior leaders of its tribally owned business for accepting a nearly $30 million deal to assist U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Prairie Band LLC, the tribe’s company, had landed a contract to assist in the design of detention centers for ...
TOPEKA — A Kansas accountant stole $400,000 from his family, transferred it to a fake ranch, then used the funds to pay for construction of his new home. Quintin Flanagin was a certified public accountant in northwestern Kansas, and his family members were clients at his firm. In January ...