State and Region

Dollar General is sued by FTC and 20 states for ‘deceptive pricing’

NEW YORK (AP) — The Federal Trade Commission has sued the bargain chain Dollar General for what it characterized as "long-running deceptive pricing practices" by charging customers more once they reach the register than the prices that are displayed on shelves and in advertisements. Twenty ...

JD Vance is coming to Kansas to support Roger Marshall for the second time in 2 months

Vice President JD Vance will be in Kansas again Monday, this time in Topeka, to rally for Republican U.S. Senator Roger Marshall, just a week after a visit from President Donald Trump. Vance visited the Sunflower State already last month, coming to Johnson County to support Marshall and other ...

GOP’s highest profile figures are on rescue mission in once-reliable Kansas

TOPEKA — At 94 years, the Kansas GOP’s streak of one-party dominance in Senate races is the nation’s longest because even in the toughest years, disaffected Republican-leaning voters have reliably drifted back to the party’s fold before Election Day. But Republicans fear this year ...

Former Kansas House member dies at 81

Former Kansas Rep. Larry Hibbard, a Greenwood County farmer and rancher who served in the House from 2013 to 2019, died Sunday. He was 81. A moderate Republican from Toronto, he helped overturn Republican Gov. Sam Brownback’s state income tax experiment and backed Democratic Gov. Laura ...

Police urge patience, address false claims in deadly Wichita soccer field crash

Wichita Police on Tuesday urged the public to be patient as investigators continue to unravel a deadly incident at an east Wichita soccer complex that killed two people and injured 10 others. Six-year-old Cole Adrian and 35-year-old Nicholas Schafer, both of McPherson, were killed Saturday ...