TOPEKA — Attorney General Kris Kobach sent a cease-and-desist letter Friday to the League of Women Voters to stop violations of state and federal law by offering financial incentives to high school students who registered to vote. The issue surfaced after state Rep. Pat Proctor, a ...
Plans for a new Kansas Bureau of Investigation headquarters in downtown Topeka are moving forward, but a new question is emerging over who should help pay for the project. That has left at least one lawmaker suggesting they should consider other communities if the state’s capital city ...
Lawrence school district officials told the school board Monday that the district has identified $73.9 million in deferred maintenance and facilities needs but lacks enough current funding to address them all. “The issue is really the longer you delay repairing, the more costly it will be ...
The state says the defendant was masturbating at a pool in front of a minor, but his attorneys claim he was innocently "adjusting himself." If a Douglas County jury believes prosecutor Adam Carey and the four witnesses he put on the stand Monday, defendant Jay Janicke will be convicted of a ...
Supporters of Hilltop Child Development Center at the University of Kansas — which is facing an imminent closure — are not going away without a fight. On Monday, KU faculty, staff and graduate students, as well as elected officials across Douglas County, sent two letters of support to KU ...
A New York prosecutor has reopened an investigation into gang rape allegations at a Cornell University fraternity in response to a lawsuit filed by a woman who says she was sexually assaulted in 2024 by seven students after being plied with alcohol and drugs. Tompkins County District Attorney ...
