Updated at 4:15 p.m. Sunday TOPEKA — Bob Dole, who overcame disabling war wounds to become a sharp-tongued Senate leader from Kansas, a Republican presidential candidate and then a symbol and celebrant of his dwindling generation of World War II veterans, has died. He was 98. His wife, ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — President Joe Biden will visit Kansas City on Wednesday to promote his new infrastructure bill, the White House announced Saturday. The White House did not specify the location of the president's visit. It is Biden's first visit to the Kansas City area as president. ...
TOPEKA — The Kansas congressional delegation diverged slightly from party-line politics when voting on the latest stopgap bill, which provides funding to federal agencies through mid-February and buys time for negotiations on a spending measure to cover the rest of the fiscal ...
The leader of the agricultural and life sciences programs at North Carolina State University will become the next president of Kansas State University. The Kansas Board of Regents announced Thursday that it has selected Richard H. Linton to lead Kansas State, following the retirement later ...
TOPEKA — Dana Aguilar is preparing to see her son in person for what could be the last time for months. Her son is an inmate at the Lansing Correctional Facility, where an ongoing staff shortage has triggered an indefinite halt to in-person visits starting Dec. 6. “I’ve been in ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A northeast Kansas man pleaded guilty Wednesday to a misdemeanor charge for his participation in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. Mark Roger Rebegila, 32, of St. Marys, pleaded guilty to parading, demonstrating or picketing in the Capitol building. In exchange for his ...