Jury selection will continue for a second day Tuesday in the trial of a man charged in a June 2017 shooting death outside D-Dubs Bar and Grill in Eudora. Danny W. Queen, 37, is charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of 32-year-old Bo Hopson. Queen also faces two counts of attempted first-degree murder for allegedly aiming his gun at two other individuals and pulling the trigger, although the gun ...
TOPEKA — There are contested races this year in all four of the state’s congressional districts. But in just a few years, those districts will look very different from how they look today. In 2022, the next governor and Legislature will have to redraw those district lines to balance out their populations based on the 2020 census. And since the last federal census in 2010, the population of Kansas has ...
TOPEKA — After several years of lagging behind the national average, job growth in Kansas outpaced the nation in June, posting a 1.8 percent increase in jobs compared with a year ago, the Kansas Department of Labor reported Friday. Overall, the Kansas economy added 24,800 jobs over the year, including 1,900 jobs just since May, the agency reported. “Current trends in the Kansas labor market are strong,” ...
TOPEKA - When voters in Kansas go to the polls, state law requires them to show a government-issued photo ID to prove they are who they say they are. But when they file to run for an office, they're given a little more latitude about how their names appear on the ballot. That became evident recently during a candidate forum in Lawrence featuring candidates in contested primaries for local seats in the Kansas ...
TOPEKA - The state of Kansas is about to launch a new marketing campaign aimed at rebranding the state as not just one that people pass by on their way to somewhere else, but one that can attract high-tech manufacturing, aviation and agribusiness companies. Gov. Jeff Colyer and other state officials unveiled the new "Land in Kansas" campaign during a Statehouse news conference Thursday, saying the campaign will ...