DODGE CITY — Southwest Kansas communities reeling from President Donald Trump’s immigration crackdown — which included random stops to check status — are looking for ways to recover as fear continues to grip the area’s large Hispanic population. Restaurants closed, motel managers ...
A lobbyist who works at the Statehouse in Topeka testified Friday about two bathroom experiences in the span of five years that made her "uncomfortable," and she expressed gratitude for a new state law that she says will "set a standard in stone" and help shield her from such discomfort going ...
A Kansas father on Thursday testified that he now sends his daughter to a private school after the girl told him that she saw a transgender female entering a restroom at her middle school in Andover. The daughter was not in the restroom herself but just observed the trans student, whom the dad ...
Sex crimes in public bathrooms are not a thing, and neither is a man donning female clothing in order to assault a woman in a public bathroom. That was the upshot of a forensic psychologist's testimony Wednesday in Douglas County District Court. Dr. Cynthia Calkins, a professor at John Jay ...
Four transgender men and one intersex woman on Tuesday told a Douglas County judge how Kansas’ anti-trans law known as SB 244 has negatively impacted their lives - forcing them to surrender their driver’s licenses, to problematically use certain bathrooms, to live in fear of being outed and ...
TOPEKA — Lawyers for a Kansas Republican U.S. senator running for reelection sent his opponent a cease-and-desist letter demanding the Democrat stop airing an ad featuring one of the senator’s former patients. The lawyers for U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kansas, said in a Monday letter that ...