One of the organizations named in a lawsuit over alleged hazing and “torture techniques” at a University of Kansas fraternity house has filed its response to the allegations, denying that it had any control over what went on at the chapter. The lawsuit was filed in July in Douglas County ...
TOPEKA — Twelve years ago, 90 third-grade students walked into District Judge Robert Wonnell’s courtroom on Constitution Day to watch a hearing about whether Goldilocks was guilty of trespassing. Wonnell put the last-minute mock trial together to teach Olathe’s Forest View Elementary ...
Kansas employers are overall supportive of the idea of graduates who obtained a bachelor’s degree with as few as 90 credit hours — instead of the standard 120 hours — despite prior fears that such initiative may draw pushback and turn companies off, according to new survey results which ...
Douglas County commissioners supported staff's plan to begin making smaller amendment proposals to the county’s zoning code on Wednesday while planning for an overhaul of its land-use rules. The county is planning to take a “phased approach” to updating its zoning and subdivision ...
WASHINGTON (AP) — Fencing went up Wednesday around the main Kennedy Center building, a day after the Trump-aligned board voted to close most of the performing arts center for repairs. A Democratic congresswoman who is a trustee quickly sought an emergency court hearing to prevent what she ...
TOPEKA — A Kansas Republican Party officer called the Secretary of State’s Office in July to ask why a new state law that regulates gender markers wasn’t being applied to the voter registration of a transgender Democrat running for a Kansas House seat. Senior election officials disagreed ...
