LAWRENCE — In any given community in Kansas, a homeless person sitting or sleeping in public could be accused of violating city ordinances on loitering or trespassing. Police officers in some communities struggling with homelessness are not likely to dole out tickets or arrests for the ...
After Tuesday’s election results, all eyes are on President-elect Donald Trump, but Kansas’ senior Republican senator urged those who are nervous about the next four years to place some faith in Congress. “What I hope to see is a Congress that does its job,” U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, ...
In the center of Lawrence, Democrats maintained their dominance in races for the Kansas Legislature. But on the edge of the city and in the rural areas around it, Republicans landed several legislative victories on Tuesday. Incumbent Marci Francisco easily kept her Lawrence seat in the Kansas ...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republicans expected a former Kansas attorney general's political comeback in Tuesday's election to keep an open U.S. House seat in GOP hands while the party faced a tougher challenge in trying to oust the only Democrat in the state's congressional delegation. Republican ...
The latest campaign finance reports are out, and they show one incumbent county commissioner trailing in the fundraising race, while the gulf between the two candidates for Douglas County District Attorney is more than $50,000. Douglas County Commissioner Shannon Reid trails in campaign ...
TOPEKA — An adviser for Republican congressional candidate Derek Schmidt says the “fake newspaper” Democratic rival Nancy Boyda mailed to 160,000 households is “illegal” and “dishonest.” Schmidt, a three-term Kansas attorney general and former state Senate majority leader, is ...