JACKSON, Miss. (AP) — Democratic nominee Scott Colom defeated Republican Sen. Cindy Hyde-Smith on Wednesday in Mississippi's closely contested U.S. Senate race after a prolonged ballot counting process, giving the state its first Black U.S. senator since post-Civil War ...
NEW YORK (AP) — Firefighters dug through the rubble of a three-story building in Brooklyn on Wednesday after it collapsed at the edge of a construction site, killing at least one person and trapping others beneath the wreckage. Firefighters were called to the scene in the borough's Flatbush ...
A 43-year-old man is being held on a $1 million bond after being charged with sexually abusing two young girls in Douglas County, and his partner has signed a diversion agreement admitting that she knew about the abuse but told the girls to not tell anyone. According to allegations in a ...
To Bobbie Flory, the leader of the Lawrence Home Builders Association, the city’s plan to create a library of ready-to use housing designs with a fast-tracked approval process makes good sense. But there’s a caveat: It won’t help the city add new housing unless the designs are things ...
A massage therapist accused of multiple sex crimes against nearly a dozen women doesn't want jurors to hear potentially incriminating statements he made to police, but jurors likely will hear those statements after a Douglas County judge on Tuesday declined to suppress them. Attorneys for ...
John Worden will become the new chief executive officer of the University of Kansas Health System’s St. Francis Campus in Topeka beginning next year. Worden — the current CEO of KU’s Great Bend Campus — will succeed Scott Campbell, who announced he would be retiring at the end of this ...
