TOPEKA — When Kansas water rescue teams deployed in July to Texas’ Hill Country, helping respond to flash floods, each of the boat motors was “shelled out” by the time they left. Kansas Fire Marshal Mark Engholm said the motors were destroyed because of all the debris hidden in the ...
TOPEKA — Jordan Chessher senses an urgency surrounding an effort to increase the criminal penalties in Kansas for child endangerment. Fatal and near-fatal cases involving children across Kansas have stuck with him “because warning signs were missed, oversight failed or the law lacked the ...
LAWRENCE — A pair of Democrats from Lawrence with personal grievances about the Trump administration are challenging incumbent Republican U.S. Rep. Tracey Mann for his 1st District seat. Lauren Reinhold, a longtime federal employee at the Social Security Administration, was swept up in Elon ...
Douglas County will soon be seeking applications for an advisory board to help give recommendations on how to preserve the Black Jack Battlefield and Nature Park. On Wednesday, county commissioners approved a charter for a seven-member Black Jack Battlefield advisory board. As the ...
Five Lawrence-based organizations that assist crime victims were awarded with a total of just over $336,000 in federal funding grants by Gov. Laura Kelly. Gov. Kelly announced in a press release Wednesday the awarding of a total of around $10.4 million in federal Victims of Crime Act grant ...
LOS ANGELES — The high-profile private attorney for Nick Reiner was granted a request to be removed from his case Wednesday, but later told reporters that according to California law his client is not guilty of murder in the killing of his parents, Rob Reiner and Michele Singer ...
