TOPEKA — Kansas’ elections director says the state will go along with a request for a hand recount of votes from every county after last week’s decisive statewide vote affirming abortion rights — if the woman seeking the recount can cover the cost. Melissa Leavitt, of Colby in far ...
A Lawrence man was ordered to stand trial Friday in Douglas County District Court after a preliminary hearing at which a woman testified that the man had sexually assaulted her as a child. The man, Dustyn Dwayne Polk, 47, acting as his own attorney, questioned the woman who has accused him of ...
WICHITA — The Derby school board has rejected a proposed strategic plan for the district because it calls for diversity and a focus on students’ mental health. Dozens of parents, students, employees and community members developed the plan over the past several months before the board ...
When the Douglas County Commission finalized its allocations of American Rescue Plan Act funding last month, only one of 14 external agencies on the list — Central Grazing Company — was a private business. The company proposed to construct a meat-processing facility in the county, Kaw ...
Story updated at 6:30 p.m. Friday: A Douglas County jury on Friday convicted a Lawrence man of raping a teen who said another man in the room refused to help as she was being attacked. Ray Charles Atkins Jr., 22, was convicted of one felony count of rape related to an incident on July 19, ...
NEW ORLEANS — The federal government has been asked to consider at least two videos made in recent years as evidence that ivory-billed woodpeckers may still exist. The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said in 2021 that it planned to declare 23 species extinct, including North America's largest ...
