Currently, the Panasonic plant on Kansas Highway 10 in De Soto has less than half of its previously promised target of 4,000 employees, but company officials will be holding a hiring fair this week and hope to hire “several hundred” more skilled machine technicians over the next three ...
The students had just watched a video of a man getting beaten over the head with a baton, tased five times, and paramedics ultimately retrieving his unconscious body from a pool of his own blood. Police officers had delivered the beating, and the classroom was full of young adults hoping to ...
The shooting of Alex Pretti moved quickly. It started with a law enforcement officer shoving a seemingly unarmed female protestor to the ground. About 30 seconds later, it ended with — video evidence shows — two law enforcement officers firing multiple rounds into Pretti, who already had ...
The leader who oversees the University of Kansas chancellor and the presidents of the other state universities is retiring later this year. Blake Flanders, president and CEO of the Kansas Board of Regents, announced Thursday afternoon that he will retire from the position on June 30. ...
TOPEKA — The anti-transgender “bathroom bill” made a comeback in Kansas politics Monday after a GOP-led legislative committee pushed out legislation to force anyone using a bathroom in government buildings to use the facility matching their biological sex at birth. In an often ...
TOPEKA — U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran, U.S. Rep. Sharice Davids and U.S. Rep. Derek Schmidt of Kansas expressed various shades of alarm about fatal shootings of U.S. citizens by federal agents taking part in an aggressive immigration crackdown in Minneapolis. The death Saturday of Alex Pretti, who ...