TOPEKA — Establishment Republicans sought Tuesday to thwart polarizing conservative Kris Kobach's bid for Kansas' open Senate seat, a task complicated by President Donald Trump's refusal to endorse their favored candidate in the primary. Republicans haven't lost a Senate contest in Kansas ...
TOPEKA — Kansas has seen its rate of positive coronavirus tests inch up and reported cases double in nearly half of the state's counties over the past month so that the state is approaching 29,000 reported cases for the pandemic. The state Department of Health and Environment reported Monday ...
WICHITA — More than 26,000 people in Kansas have contracted COVID-19. Roughly 350 of them have died. While that’s a low death rate, survivors talk of the brutality of the disease, and how full recovery can prove elusive even months after getting infected. It tortures them with extreme ...
Just three weeks before fall semester classes are set to begin, the University of Kansas on Monday released a revamped course schedule that includes in-person, hybrid, and entirely online courses as the university continues to adjust to the COVID-19 pandemic. An email from the KU ...
The Kansas secretary of state’s office on Monday warned Kansans that they could expect some delays in the reporting of results from Tuesday’s primary election because of significant increases in requests for mail-in ballots brought on by the COVID-19 pandemic. In the primaries for the ...
Updated at 3:50 p.m. Monday WICHITA — A Kansas Board of Education primary election has drawn more attention than usual after the panel voted against the governor's plan to delay the start of the school year due to the coronavirus pandemic. One member who had been running unopposed, Deena ...
Updated at 12:40 p.m. Monday TOPEKA — The newest member of the Kansas Supreme Court has been sworn in. Keynen "K.J." Wall Jr., of Lawrence, took the oath at the Kansas Judicial Center Monday. Chief Justice Marla Luckert presided at the ceremony. The ceremony was smaller than usual because ...
WICHITA — Some aviation workers who were laid off in Wichita are taking advantage of a federal program that helps people looking for new opportunities or a chance to gain more education and skills. Tracy Taylor, 32, lost her job on the 737 program at Spirit AeroSystems in January. She has ...
When the coronavirus hit Kansas, there’s no question the state — like the rest of the country — was unprepared. That showed in the mad scramble to buy more surgical and N95 masks, gowns and nasal swabs. Public officials say Kansas has made progress on those and other fronts. Yet gaps in ...
Garden City — A Kansas community college has reached a settlement with the New Jersey family of a football player who died of heatstroke after team conditioning drills in 2018. Details of the settlement reached between Garden City Community College and the family of Braeden Bradforth, of ...
Holton — Two employees at a rural county clerk’s office in northeast Kansas have contracted COVID-19, forcing its other two employees to quarantine just days before the state’s primary election. Jackson County Clerk Kathy Mick has COVID-19 and members of the Jackson County Elections ...
Holton — Establishment GOP leaders are scrambling to pull out a win in a tense battle for the nomination in Kansas’ U.S. Senate race, and they won’t be able to count on last-minute help from President Donald Trump. Trump has signaled to allies that he won’t endorse in the primary ...
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson is asking lawmakers to approve legislation that would allow judges to decide whether a child between the ages of 12 and 18 should be tried as an adult in court for unlawful use of weapons and armed criminal action. This comes two years after ...
SCOTT CITY — A western Kansas mayor who had rejected wearing masks during the coronavirus pandemic says he has tested positive for COVID-19. Scott City Mayor Everett Green said in a Facebook post it was possible he contracted the virus at a reelection campaign event for state Sen. Mary Jo ...
After President Donald Trump's suggestion Thursday morning that the Nov. 3 general election should be delayed, only two members of Kansas' congressional delegation specifically said they opposed the idea when asked for comment by the Journal-World. Rep. Sharice Davids, the state's lone ...
Kansas Secretary of State Scott Schwab said Thursday his office opposes President Donald Trump’s suggestion to postpone the November election and urged the Kansas delegation to Congress to do the same. More than 300,000 Kansans received advance by mail ballots for this year’s primary ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A super PAC supporting conservative Kris Kobach's campaign for an open U.S. Senate seat from Kansas has sent out a mailer accusing his chief rival in the Republican primary of performing abortions. The claim against Rep. Roger Marshall, an OB-GYN endorsed by major ...
LIBERTY, Mo. — A detective who investigated Rep. Steve Watkins wrote in an affidavit that the Kansas congressman told her he didn't vote in a 2019 Topeka City Council election, despite evidence showing he had cast a ballot in the race after listing a UPS store as his home address. The ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A fired Kansas City Public Schools secretary who was among several employees accused of falsifying attendance data in a bid to help the district regain accreditation is suing. The Kansas City Star reports that LaQuyn Collier says in a lawsuit filed recently in Jackson ...
Kansas' top health official on Wednesday took a bit of a detour from his normal weekly media briefings to talk about how the COVID-19 pandemic is affecting Kansans' mental health. Dr. Lee Norman, secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, was joined by Dr. Susan Voorhees, a ...