After the longest government shutdown in U.S. history ended on Friday, U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kansas, said Monday that Congress needed to work toward a compromise to avoid another shutdown in just a few weeks.
“It seems to me this should be a normal congressional negotiation, which is a give-and-take and we get an outcome where people can claim victory and no one is terribly upset,” Moran said. ...
Story updated at 6:02 p.m. Thursday
The interim dean of the University of Kansas' largest school has declined an unusual offer to be directly appointed to the permanent position, the university announced Thursday.
Clarence Lang, who is serving as interim dean for the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, withdrew his name after considering the offer, KU Interim Provost Carl Lejuez said Thursday morning in an ...
What was it like to live through the turmoil of the Bleeding Kansas era and the Civil War? Author Lana Wirt Myers knows better than most, having recently finished editing and compiling the diaries of a 19th-century Kansas settler who saw the events unfold.
This weekend, you can learn more about those accounts — which Myers has published as “The Diaries of Reuben Smith, Kansas Settler and Civil War ...
Story updated at 5:43 p.m. Wednesday, Jan. 23, 2019:
TOPEKA — State Sen. Tom Holland, D-Baldwin City, introduced a bill Wednesday to require that church clergy and employees be mandatory reporters of sexual assault.
“Clergy leadership are adults that children must be able to trust to keep them safe,” Holland said during an afternoon news conference at the Capitol in Topeka. “(The bill) mandates that ...
What was originally written for a class assignment has turned out to be a winning fiction submission in Lawrence.
Molly Weisgrau, a senior studying English at the University of Kansas, told the Journal-World via email Monday that she was excited to see that a short story she wrote for a class at KU was selected as the winning fiction entry for the 2019 Langston Hughes Writing Awards.
“It’s really cool to ...
Through a misty rain, members of a historic black fraternity and a second-line band led a large group of students and faculty in a march across the University of Kansas campus Tuesday in honor of the civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
Prior to the march — which started in Strong Hall in the center of Jayhawk Boulevard and traveled east to the university’s student union — Clarence Lang, interim ...
