Updated at 6:43 p.m. Monday TOPEKA — Kansas on Monday reported record highs for its seven-day rolling averages of new COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations, and a spokesperson for Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly said she was considering calling the Republican-controlled Legislature into a special ...
MISSION, Kan. (AP) — A man accused of abducting his two daughters from a Kansas home where their two brothers were killed has been going through a divorce with the children’s mother, authorities said Monday. Maj. James Sherley, of the Leavenworth County Sheriff’s Department, said ...
TOPEKA (AP) — Democrat Barbara Bollier has raised $4.3 million this month for her campaign for Kansas' open U.S. Senate seat, extending her fundraising advantage over Republican Roger Marshall and boosting her state record for fundraising to nearly $25 million. Bollier, a Kansas City-area ...
A task force charged with evaluating the University of Kansas' public safety office will be recommending more training and oversight for police officers, as well as some changes to the office's duties, according to a draft of the task force's recommendations. The 25-member group's draft ...
Kansas counties that have mandated the use of face masks in public have seen much lower spread of COVID-19 than the statewide average, new research from the University of Kansas shows. The analysis by KU's Institute for Policy and Social Research found that counties with mask mandates had ...
TOPEKA (AP) — Democrat Barbara Bollier said Thursday that she wouldn't support adding additional justices to the U.S. Supreme Court or vote for Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden's plan to raise taxes on high-income earners if she's elected to Kansas' open U.S. Senate seat. Bollier ...
EL DORADO — The culture war issues that are polarizing national politics are also front and center in Kansas’ U.S. Senate contest: race, guns, abortion, climate change. Supporters of Republican candidate Roger Marshall fear a wave of Democratic victories will trigger radical changes in the ...
Student leaders at the University of Kansas are seeking a reprieve from classes on Nov. 3, the date of the 2020 election, so that the KU community has every available opportunity to cast their ballot. The thinking, according to KU student body vice president Grant Daily, is that although ...
Story updated at 4:06 p.m. Thursday MISSION (AP) — Kansas’ coronavirus case count continued to climb, even as one GOP lawmaker pushed back against Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s call for a statewide mask mandate. “I’ve stated all along, and still believe, a one-size-fits-all COVID ...
Updated at 5:03 p.m. Wednesday Gov. Laura Kelly said Wednesday that she will soon open discussions with state legislative leaders to ways in which a bipartisan consensus could be reached on instituting a mask mandate for the entire state of Kansas. Kelly's initial statewide mask mandate, ...
Story updated at 1:29 p.m. Wednesday TOPEKA (AP) — Health care workers and long-term care residents will be among those who will get the coronavirus vaccine first in Kansas, a draft plan shows. Kansas’ 45-page plan was filed in the past week with the Centers for Disease Control and ...
Four researchers at the University of Kansas found recently that Asian Americans have been hit harder by unemployment related to the COVID-19 pandemic than any other minority group in the United States, but the reason why isn't exactly clear. Since the pandemic took hold in March, Asian ...
Story updated at 5:06 p.m. Tuesday, Oct. 20: TOPEKA (AP) — A Kansas man who prosecutors say threatened to kidnap and kill Wichita’s mayor because he was upset with the city’s mask ordinance was charged Tuesday with three counts of criminal threat. Meredith Dowty, 59, of Wichita, is ...
TOPEKA — A coronavirus outbreak has killed 10 residents in a nursing home in a northwestern Kansas county that proportionally already had the nation’s largest increase in cases over two weeks. The health department in Norton County reported Monday night that all 62 residents and an ...
A northeast Kansas school district was named after a leader of the Topeka Ku Klux Klan, student journalists at Seaman High School revealed on Friday. Fred Seaman tried and failed to become head of the state’s public schools in the mid-1920s, when the terror group made a concerted effort ...
The University of Kansas in June entered into a nine-month contract with a Maryland-based higher education consulting firm tasked with examining virtually every aspect of KU’s operations, from academics to administrative offices. The bill — footed by KU Endowment, the university’s ...
BELLE PLAINE, Kan. (AP) — Kansas counties are making their own rules about whether to require poll workers to wear masks as the public votes, even though the state spent $1.28 million to buy personal protective equipment for every polling location. Kansas Secretary of State Scott Schwab has ...
WICHITA (AP) — Amazon is planning to build two fulfillment centers in Kansas and says the centers will create a combined 1,000 jobs — 500 in each location. The online retailer announced the expansion Friday, with new 1-million-square-foot centers in Kansas City, Kansas, and in Park City, ...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Democratic Kansas Senate candidate Barbara Bollier's campaign raised nearly five times the money that Republican rival Roger Marshall did for an unexpectedly tough race in the conservative state, campaign finance reports filed Thursday show. Marshall raised close to $2.7 ...
TOPEKA (AP) — Officials plan to wash away the words “Black Lives Matter” from a Topeka parking lot because the yellow block letters were painted without permission in a decision that has angered activists. The phrase, a rallying cry for demonstrators protesting police brutality, appeared ...