Story updated at 4:06 p.m. Thursday, May 11: The University of Kansas Law School has landed a top-50 ranking from U.S. News & World Report for the first time in the school’s history. The KU school was ranked No. 40 among all law schools and was ranked No. 18 among law schools at public ...
MISSION — Kansas has lost a legal fight over one of the voting laws that its Republican-led Legislature passed in the wake of the 2020 election. U.S. District Judge Kathryn Vratil ruled Thursday that it was unconstitutional to make it a crime for groups to include voters' names, addresses ...
WICHITA — Ophelia Quayle grew up in Wichita, but when it was time to pick a college, she decided to go out of state. Now that Kansas is enacting some of the country’s most burdensome restrictions on transgender rights, Quayle — a transgender woman — says she’s not coming ...
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — State Sen. Shevrin Jones can often be seen at the Florida Capitol greeting staff and colleagues with a smile or laugh, but when he's alone it's a different story. "The outward expression is to show God's love. That's what I was taught," said Jones, a Democrat. But, he ...
TOPEKA — No big tax cuts are coming for Kansas residents even though the state treasury is bulging with surplus cash and the Democratic governor and top Republican lawmakers both said over and over that families need relief from inflation. Republican leaders went into the final days of the ...
Kansas lawmakers sent the governor a contentious school spending bill on Friday that lets more families use state tax dollars to pay for private schools. The bill spends more than $6.3 billion on K-12 public schools. It includes $7.5 million in additional funding for special education — ...