Miller Mart owner Sang Lee knows his regulars by name. He grabs what they want, like a specific brand of cigarettes, without them needing to ask for it. “I’m at the point where I can count individual transactions on the computer and know which customer it was that made this one transaction ...

Have you heard about the federal government’s plan to begin denying large batches of background checks for firearms purchases if any one such background check came back inaccurate? The system would work this way: People who purchase a gun from a federally-licensed dealer already are required ...

It seems imprudent for Lawrence to impose a two-year moratorium on data center development. It seems prudent that every city in America impose a two- year moratorium on data center development. I’m beginning to think my intelligence is artificial because I’m tending to believe both ...

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 ...

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 ...

HUTCHINSON — Candidates for governor engaged in a veritable bare-knuckle brawl when they took the stage Saturday at the Kansas State Fair for a debate punctuated by the chants and jeers of an enthusiastic crowd of dueling supporters. Kansas Senate President Ty Masterson, the Republican ...