OLATHE — A former suburban Kansas City day care worker who was caught on surveillance video kicking, hitting and shaking children was sentenced Friday to 10 years in prison. Rachel Beth Schrader was arrested in 2021 after coworkers noticed that an infant was injured and contacted police. In ...
TOPEKA — The operator of the Keystone pipeline system has finished cleaning up a massive December 2022 oil spill, and the creek affected by it is flowing naturally again, the company and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency say. Pipeline operator TC Energy promised to continue monitoring ...
A new poll again shows Kansans broadly support legalizing marijuana for medicinal or recreational use, but it seems as unlikely as ever that lawmakers will launch a new cannabis industry. Advocates and lawmakers who back medical marijuana point their fingers at the Republican leadership in the ...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas judge on Monday put a new state law on medication abortions on hold and blocked older restrictions that for years have spelled out what providers must tell patients and forced patients to wait 24 hours to end their pregnancies. The ruling was another big victory ...
A Johnson County health department official confirmed Tuesday that four more people tested positive for tuberculosis at Olathe Northwest High School after a student tested positive earlier this month. The spokesperson for the Johnson County Department of Health and Environment would not say ...
Story updated at 4:36 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 25: The number of reported rapes on the University of Kansas’ Lawrence campus last year more than doubled from a year earlier. The number of “dating violence” crimes also soared, increasing more than tenfold, according to recently released ...