TOPEKA - Republican Secretary of State Kris Kobach kicked off his general election campaign for governor on Wednesday in a race that some political experts are now describing as a toss-up. "The general election begins today. The race is on," Kobach said during a news conference outside the Kansas Statehouse. It was Kobach's first public appearance since incumbent Gov. Jeff Colyer conceded the primary race ...
Updated story - Colyer concedes GOP primary, congratulates Kobach TOPEKA – With the state’s two largest counties reporting their provisional ballot counts on Tuesday, the hotly-contested Republican primary for governor tilted a little more in favor of Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who now leads incumbent Gov. Jeff Colyer by 345 votes, out of more than 315,000 ballots counted so far, a margin of ...
TOPEKA - Lawrence developer Thomas Fritzel and a number of his business associates entered not guilty pleas Tuesday in federal court on charges of tax fraud and violations of U.S. environmental laws. The tax fraud charges stem from the development of the Oread Hotel, 1200 Oread Ave., in Lawrence. Prosecutors allege Fritzel, 52, and his employee, Keela Lam, 46, who worked as a bookkeeper for Fritzel, defrauded ...
Story updated at 8:49 p.m. Tuesday, Aug. 14, 2018: TOPEKA – Kansas Gov. Jeff Colyer on Tuesday conceded the hotly contested Republican gubernatorial primary and congratulated Secretary of State Kris Kobach on his win. Colyer made the announcement at a Statehouse news conference around 7:30 p.m., surrounded by his family and Lt. Gov. Tracey Mann. Although some counties are still canvassing their ballots, and ...
TOPEKA - Conservative Republicans gained back some of the territory they lost in the Kansas House in 2016, but how much additional strength they will have next year still depends on the outcome of the Nov. 6 general elections. Conservatives had dominated the House GOP caucus - and, therefore, the House as a whole - for at least 10 years until the 2016 elections. That year, in a backlash against then-Gov. Sam ...
Story updated at 5 p.m. Monday, Aug. 13, 2018: County boards of canvassers began meeting Monday to sift through thousands of provisional ballots that were cast in the Aug. 7 primary — ballots that will likely determine who will be declared the winner in the tight GOP primary race for governor between incumbent Gov. Jeff Colyer and Secretary of State Kris Kobach. Among those counting provisional ballots ...