COLDWATER, Kansas — Former mayor of the town of Coldwater Joe Ceballos pleaded guilty Monday to three misdemeanor charges for voting without being a U.S. citizen. The twice-elected mayor of the small southern Kansas town made his way to national headlines after being charged with voter ...
Three people from Lawrence, including two Douglas County District Court judges, have submitted applications to become the next justice on the Kansas Supreme Court. Judge Amy Hanley, Judge Carl Folsom III and attorney Meryl Carver-Allmond, all of Lawrence, are among seven people who have ...
With every seat in the Kansas House up for election this year, nearly all of the the representatives serving Lawrence and Douglas County already have filed for re-election ahead of the June 1 deadline. Rep. Mike Amyx became the latest to announce that he will seek re-election in the Kansas ...
TOPEKA — Members of the Kansas House and Senate engaged in fierce debate Friday about wisdom of legislators’ 4.4% pay raise before voting to override Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of the legislative branch’s budget in a bid to force reconsideration of a 1% salary increase for thousands of ...
Gov. Laura Kelly celebrated the signing of Senate Bill 271 last week, which was a bipartisan measure that revised outdated income eligibility requirements for Kansas’ Children’s Health Insurance Program, or CHIP. The goal was to make health care for children more affordable by adjusting the ...
TOPEKA — Kansas public school students raising their voices in protest during school hours will need parental permission to leave school grounds to attend a rally or protest event after legislative action Friday. The House and Senate overrode Gov. Laura Kelly’s line-item veto in the ...