TOPEKA — The Kansas State Board of Education and Attorney General Kris Kobach have been fighting about whether Kansas should drop a ban on discrimination against persons based on sexual orientation or gender identity from public school district contracts tied to federally funded nutrition ...
Updated at 4:24 p.m. Thursday, July 10, 2025 A 37-year-old defendant sobbed as three successive “not guilty” verdicts were read Thursday in Douglas County District Court, acquitting him in a Lawrence teenager's 2021 fentanyl overdose death. Benjamin Mims wiped away tears and hugged his ...
UPDATE 2:55 P.M. JULY 10 Summer is rerun season, at least for those of us old enough to remember when “streaming” had nothing to do with T.V. but rather involved — best case scenario — a garden hose. I fit into that category, so I’m going to offer a couple of reruns about projects we ...
Douglas County commissioners on Wednesday approved a site plan for improvements to a golf complex, which will include a new and bigger clubhouse with indoor tee boxes and a restaurant. The site plan is for Twin Oaks Golf Complex, 1326 East 1900 Road, and the plans involve building a nearly ...
Over years of reporting on LGBTQ+ issues, Nico Lang has noticed something missing in discussions about transgender kids in state legislatures and in the media — namely, just how ordinary these kids are. Lang, whose work has been featured in publications like Rolling Stone, the New York ...
The Higher Learning Commission has changed Haskell Indian Nations University's accreditation status from “accredited” to “accredited on notice," and it says the school is “at risk of being out of compliance” with its standards, according to a notice posted on the HLC's website ...
