TOPEKA — The only Asian American lawmaker serving in the Kansas Legislature says he was physically threatened in a western Kansas bar by an out-of-state patron, who he said questioned if he had been carrying COVID-19. In social media comments posted Friday, state Rep. Rui Xu, a Westwood ...
Wichita — A man shot by police multiple times in the parking lot of a Wichita fast-food restaurant was on parole and holding a BB gun when officers confronted him, authorities say. The Wichita Eagle reports that 34-year-old George Phillips was seriously injured but is expected to ...
TOPEKA — About 40% of Kansas prison staff and about 30% of inmates have declined to be vaccinated for COVID-19 despite massive outbreaks at lockups that have infected thousands. The Kansas Department of Corrections is in its sixth week of offering vaccinations to inmates and staff, the ...
Overland Park — Nearly 70 years ago in a newly formed suburb of Kansas City, Kansas City Power & Light Co. built what it thought was a vision of the future — an all-electric home full of the latest technology. “It was advertised as the lazy man’s paradise,” said Johnson County ...
With nearly two-thirds of the United States abnormally dry or worse, the government's spring forecast offers little hope for relief, especially in the West where a devastating megadrought has taken root and worsened. Weather service and agriculture officials warned of possible water use ...
MISSION — A Kansas man arrested in the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol told the FBI that an officer shrugged his shoulders when he asked whether he could join the throngs streaming into the building and that he then filmed himself walking around inside, according to court records. Mark ...
Overland Park — Severe thunderstorms rolled through the Kansas City area on Monday, spawning at least one brief tornado touchdown that damaged homes and downed fences and tree limbs. The National Weather Service said on Twitter that law enforcement reported a tornado had touched down in ...
Updated at 5:58 p.m. Monday TOPEKA — Kansas will give COVID-19 vaccinations faster than planned so that all adults with medical conditions can seek shots next week and the state will aim for President Joe Biden's goal of having inoculations available for all adults May 1, Gov. Laura Kelly ...
WICHITA — A cluster of earthquakes with epicenters in east Wichita has rattled south-central Kansas, the strongest one about a magnitude 4. The U.S. Geological Survey recorded the strongest earthquake as magnitude 3.9, and the Kansas Geological Survey pegged that same one, which occurred ...
TOPEKA — Leaders of a Kansas school district that is named for an early 20th century Ku Klux Klan leader are meeting Monday to discuss whether to ditch the name. The discussions come after student journalists at Seaman High School found information confirming that the district's namesake, ...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services plans to restore 500 jobs that were cut last year in the Kansas City region. The agency, which processes immigration-related paperwork, including international adoptions, laid off 800 workers last year because of a sharp drop in ...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The family of a man who was shot to death by Topeka police are asking a federal judge to reinstate two officers to a lawsuit filed after his death. Attorneys for Kelly White and Theresa Wynne, the parents of Dominique White, filed a motion last week to amend the lawsuit ...
WELLINGTON — The carcass of an American alligator was recently found in a south-central Kansas river, and wildlife officials speculate the animal was likely being kept as a pet before being released into the wild when it got too big to keep. A Kansas Department of Transportation worker ...
CEDAR POINT — A fire fueled by dry grasses and strong winds burned some 7,000 acres of grassland and two homes in east-central Kansas on Wednesday. Several fire departments were called to the area in Marion and Chase counties for what was dubbed the Clover Fire. Two homes were destroyed by ...
Belle Plaine — More than a year after two U.S. Department of Agriculture research agencies were moved from the nation’s capital to Kansas City, Mo., forcing a mass exodus of employees who couldn’t or didn’t want to move halfway across the country, they remain critically understaffed and ...
MINNEOLA — A person has died after being shot by police in the southwestern town of Minneola, state police said. The shooting happened just before 10 p.m. Tuesday, television station KWCH reported. The Kansas Bureau of Investigations confirmed it was called to investigate the shooting. ...
Story updated at 5:14 p.m. Tuesday: MISSION — Kansas could finish immunizing seniors, meatpacking employees and other essential workers and move on to the next phase of coronavirus vaccinations by next month, top officials say. Dr. Lee Norman, the head of the state health department, said ...
Wichita — A 26-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of drunken driving after a rollover crash that killed her 5-year-old daughter. The crash happened around 3:15 a.m. Sunday in a rural area southeast of Wichita near 47th Street South and 127th Street East, Sedgwick County ...
Garden City — Police are investigating the shooting death of a Garden City man. Officers were called to an apartment Sunday night on a report of a man being shot. They found Victor Cabrera, 32, suffering from a gunshot wound to the head. He died later at a Wichita hospital, the Hays Post ...
Wichita — Police arrested a suspect Monday after a 4-year-old child was killed in a hit-and-run in downtown Wichita. The child was struck by a pickup truck while crossing the street with his mother, Capt. Wendell Nicholson said. They were in a crosswalk at the time. The truck did not stop ...