State and Region

Kansas GOP members of Congress applaud Trump order to bomb Iranian nuclear facilities

TOPEKA — Members of the Kansas congressional delegation praised U.S. military forces following the bombing of Iran’s nuclear facilities, but disagreed as to whether President Donald Trump threatened to draw the United States in a lengthy conflict or exercised “peace through ...

ICE is using no-bid contracts, boosting big firms, to get more detention beds

LEAVENWORTH, Kan. — Leavenworth, Kansas, occupies a mythic space in American crime, its name alone evoking a short hand for serving hard time. The federal penitentiary housed gangsters Al Capone and Machine Gun Kelly — in a building so storied that it inspired the term "the big ...

Kansas recovers $11 million in pandemic-era fraudulent unemployment claims

TOPEKA — A small percentage of funds stolen from Kansas’ unemployment system during the pandemic have been recovered, the state labor secretary says, but time is running out to find the rest. The Kansas Department of Labor processed hundreds of millions of dollars in fraudulent ...