Today, it is legal to buy tobacco and vaping products if you are 18 years old and inside the city limits of Lawrence. But take one step outside the city limits, and you have to be 21 years old to buy the same products. The discrepancy is the result of a disagreement between city and county ...
A committee will soon interview six nominees to fill a district judge position in Douglas County District Court upon Chief Judge Peggy Carr Kittel’s retirement at the end of the year. The 7th Judicial District Nominating Commission will narrow the field to three to five names to submit to ...
Topeka — A top Republican legislator’s complaint has launched an investigation into whether the commission that screens Kansas Supreme Court applicants violated the state’s open meetings law in picking three finalists for Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly to consider in filling a vacancy. The ...
TOPEKA — The acting secretary of the Kansas Department of Corrections said a mass commutation of offenders was worth considering during his confirmation hearing. The Wichita Eagle reports that Jeff Zmuda was asked to comment Tuesday on what happened one day earlier, when more than 450 ...
TOPEKA — Congressional Republicans from Kansas have rejected a request from the delegation's lone Democrat that they join her in opposing a federal policy that allows faith-based adoption agencies to get taxpayer funding even if they turn away same-sex couples. Rep. Sharice Davids sent a ...
Twelve organizations in Douglas County failed state health code inspections in October. Each month, I take a look at inspection results and list every place either listed out of compliance or with 10 or more code violations. Full reports are available online at agriculture.ks.gov. There, you ...
TOPEKA — A Kansas legislative special committee on Wednesday approved two early, tentative steps toward considering a medical marijuana bill in a state where earlier attempts to consider the issue went nowhere in the face of strong opposition. The Special Committee on Federal and State ...
Gov. Laura Kelly’s Council on Tax Reform will take public comments at its Nov. 14 meeting in Topeka. Anyone interested in addressing the council must be added to the meeting agenda, according to a news release from the governor's office. To be added to the agenda, email Cory Sheedy at ...
Story updated at 3:15 p.m. Monday TOPEKA — Former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach acknowledged that he failed to properly supervise his staff while representing himself in that role during federal court proceedings in a voter registration lawsuit, according to a diversion agreement ...
Story updated at 4:44 p.m. Friday TOPEKA — Kansas legislators went too far by criminalizing violent language not backed up by an intent to act, the state's highest court ruled Friday in striking down part of a law that it says violates free speech rights. The Kansas Supreme Court kept in ...
Secretary of Commerce David Toland, speaking at the University of Kansas, following a lecture some called “a funeral of rural Kansas," touted Lawrence as a model community for the state. Kansas State University professor Matthew Sanderson began Thursday’s Kansas Economic Policy Conference ...
WASHINGTON — Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's schedule usually reads like a list of foreign capitals. But America's top diplomat has been finding ways to swing through his home state of Kansas this year, feeding speculation about a potential Senate run and offering something of a refuge from ...
Story updated at 1:36 p.m. Thursday TOPEKA — A Republican-dominated Senate committee has endorsed a plan for expanding government-funded health care for poor and working-class Kansans, despite concerns that it raises tobacco taxes and doesn't have a work requirement for participants. The ...
Douglas County District Court Judge Kay Huff will sit with the Kansas Supreme Court for four cases next week, the state announced Wednesday. Huff, who oversees criminal and civil cases in Douglas County, will join the court Tuesday, Oct. 29, to hear oral arguments, deliberate and help draft ...
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — A Republican leader spearheading an effort to pass a GOP plan for expanding Medicaid in Kansas has drafted a proposal that is likely to upset conservatives because it would increase tobacco taxes and does not include a work requirement for program participants. The ...
TOPEKA — Republican Kris Kobach's campaign for the Senate in Kansas says it has fired an aide after learning he regularly posted hateful comments about Jews and racial minorities on a white nationalist website. The latest campaign finance report filed by Kobach's campaign shows it paid Joe ...
TOPEKA — Kansas law enforcement agencies have nearly eliminated a backlog of 2,200 sexual assault kits that had gone untested, including some that dated back decades, authorities announced Thursday. Agencies have had 2,000 of the kits tested by forensic labs and the remaining 200 should be ...
Story updated at 2:27 p.m. Thursday TOPEKA — A former federal prosecutor from Kansas abandoned his Senate run on Thursday and endorsed a fellow Democrat who just entered the race. Barry Grissom urged Democrats to unite behind state Sen. Barbara Bollier, a retired Kansas City-area ...
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court is trying to sort out whether states can prosecute immigrants who use fake Social Security numbers to get a job. The justices heard arguments Wednesday in Kansas' appeal of a state court ruling that threw out three convictions after concluding the state was ...
story updated at 1:18 p.m. Wednesday TOPEKA — One of four Kansas legislators who made headlines last year by defecting from the Republican Party is running for the U.S. Senate as a "pragmatic" Democrat, entering a race in which some GOP leaders are worried about immigration hardliner Kris ...