TOPEKA ? Kansas collected $72 million more in taxes than anticipated in June, ending its budget year with a dose of good news just ahead of an income tax increase meant to keep the state operating in the black.The Department of Revenue reported that the state took in $609 million in taxes last ...
Wichita ? A federal appeals court has spurned a lawsuit challenging a Kansas regulation on pesticide treatment.The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals panel on Monday sided with a lower court in upholding its decision to throw out a lawsuit filed by filed by pest control applicator Ralph ...
TOPEKA ? A federal appeals court is refusing to revive a former Kansas attorney general's lawsuit against the state Supreme Court over its indefinite suspension of his state law license.A three-judge panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Denver ruled Monday against ex-Attorney ...
Concealed carry on the KU campus is here, as of Saturday. But first, a primer on the do's and don'ts of responsible gun-toting — and some relevant information on the subject for everyone else, too.For more need-to-know facts, check out our earlier story on concealed carry and what to expect ...
Topeka ? Kansans will see the bite from an income tax increase with their first paychecks this month, and the state is advising business owners who legally can avoid the bill until next year to start paying up this fall.Legislators enacted an income tax increase over Republican Gov. Sam ...
Topeka (ap) — Topeka police say a 77-year-old man who was hit by a vehicle while crossing a street has died.Sgt. Jason Junghans says the man was hit Friday evening in southwest Topeka. The man was taken to a hospital, where he was pronounced dead.The Topeka Capital-Journal reports the driver ...
Once every other year — that’s the rate at which University of Kansas police currently encounter crimes involving guns on campus.KU police deal with more weapons of other types, but not many more.With Kansas law and, consequently, KU’s weapons policy soon undergoing a major change, the ...
Topeka ? Attorneys for the four school districts that are suing the state over school funding formally asked the Kansas Supreme Court on Friday to reject the new finance system lawmakers enacted this year, saying the roughly $293 million in new money it would phase in over two years is neither ...
Topeka ? Gov. Sam Brownback and legislative leaders agreed Friday to pay out just over $200,000 to settle two lawsuits against the state that have been pending in federal court.The settlements — which were brought to the State Finance Council for approval — included $133,000 to settle a ...
Topeka ? Top Republicans in the Kansas Legislature pushed back hard Friday against Gov. Sam Brownback and his administration's vocal criticism in recent days of the budget and tax plan they passed, over his objection.The exchange took place during a meeting of the State Finance Council, a group ...
Wichita ? Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach said Friday his office will not be giving a federal commission that he leads the partial Social Security numbers that he has asked other states to provide from their voter rolls.Kobach, who is also vice chairman of Presidential Advisory Commission ...
Topeka ? Kansas legislative leaders said Friday that they want Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach to back up his claim that there is a "culture of corruption" at the Statehouse in Topeka.Kobach has made that assertion as part of his campaign for governor, arguing that there should be term ...
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has apologized for what he calls a "misunderstanding" that led to a $1,000 fine against him for misleading the court.Kobach asked U.S. Magistrate Judge James O'Hara on Thursday to reconsider the fine and order requiring him to submit to a deposition by the ...
Topeka ? The 2017 legislative session in Kansas was marked by high-profile debates over school finance, Obamacare and reversing course on Gov. Sam Brownback's income tax policies. But roiling beneath those issues were intense debates over a number of other issues.Among those were debates over ...
Wichita ? This year’s winter wheat harvest has been a mixed bag for Kansas, as farmers race to bring in the crop amid damaging spring storms that have pounded some fields with hail.Fields around Norton and Goodland in northwest Kansas were hit by hail this week, while a “big hail event” ...
Topeka (ap) — A Topeka man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for killing a passenger in another vehicle during a February 2016 police chase.KSNT-TV reports that 21-year-old Marcos Cruz Jr. was sentenced Thursday for five felonies, including second-degree murder.A witness at a ...
Sacramento, Calif. ? President Donald Trump's commission investigating alleged voter fraud in the 2016 elections has asked states for a list of the names, party affiliations, addresses and voting histories of all voters, if state law allows it to be public.A Wednesday letter from the ...
Topeka ? An unspecified number of inmates refused to return to their cells for at least several hours Thursday at Kansas' second-largest prison, and legislators said they're concerned that short staffing and an increasing prisoner population led to the problem.The state Department of ...
DES MOINES, Iowa — A man who helped write the computer code behind several U.S. lotteries, including some of its biggest, pleaded guilty Thursday to masterminding a scheme through which he rigged the winning numbers for jackpots in several states and collected millions of dollars.Eddie ...
Lawrence voters can meet candidates in the running for open City Commission and school board seats on today. The Voter Education Coalition is hosting a meet-and-greet with candidates from both races. The terms of commissioners Lisa Larsen, Mike Amyx and Matthew Herbert are expiring this year. ...