TOPEKA — A former candidate for the Topeka City Council who can be seen in a video that shows the fatal shooting inside the U.S. Capitol says he has notified the FBI of his involvement in the breach. Will Pope also says he didn’t damage any property and that he entered the building with ...
TOPEKA (AP) — Kansas legislators prepared Monday to open their annual session with new leaders in the Senate and new lawmakers in a quarter of the seats. The afternoon House and Senate sessions were for swearing in members and ratifying Republican lawmakers' selection of the House speaker ...
TOPEKA — The Republican-controlled Kansas Legislature is set to convene its annual session Monday with GOP leaders seeking to wrest control of policy from Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly amid their ongoing disputes over how to handle the COVID-19 pandemic. The session’s 90 days will come amid ...
TOPEKA — Glen Burdue says the “prayer warriors” who joined him in this week’s rally in Washington, D.C., bonded in a spiritual war to wrest control from corrupt politicians, lying journalists, antifa, Black Lives Matter, and Chinese influence. He and his like-minded "patriots" ...
MISSION, Kan. — Kansas prisons ravaged by COVID-19 are set to be prioritized for vaccinations next — frustrating news for some lawmakers but welcome by inmates' families and activists. The state prison system — housing about 8,600 inmates — has reported 5,320 cases among offenders and ...
After objecting to the certification of election results, U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall, R-Kan., made a statement acknowledging that Joe Biden is the president-elect. Marshall, who voted not to certify the electors from Arizona and Pennsylvania earlier this week, said in a statement posted to his ...
BELLE PLAINE (AP) — The Kansas Supreme Court on Friday upheld a state law which governs how much money workers who are injured on the job can collect. The court ruled that an amendment to the Kansas Workers Compensation Act was constitutional because it did not alter the requirement that a ...
WICHITA (AP) — A Kansas law designed to allow voters to cast their ballots at any polling place in their county, instead of just their assigned voting precinct, may not be implemented until 2023 because of bureaucratic delays. Passed in 2019, the law directed Kansas Secretary of State Scott ...
After making extraordinary votes against certifying parts of the presidential election, two members of Lawrence’s congressional delegation were not answering questions Thursday to account for their actions. Republicans Sen. Roger Marshall and U.S. Rep. Jake LaTurner both voted in effect to ...
Story updated at 7:23 p.m. Thursday TOPEKA (AP) — Kansas expects to finish giving COVID-19 vaccines to long-term care residents and health care workers by the end of this month and has moved people aged 65 and older into the next group to receive the shots. Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly on ...
TOPEKA (AP) — The lone Democrat in the Kansas congressional delegation is calling for President Donald Trump's removal from office after a pro-Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol and interrupted the certification of Trump's election loss. Rep. Sharice Davids called late Wednesday on Vice ...
TOPEKA (AP) — Kansas Rep. Jake LaTurner tested positive for COVID-19 while participating in a joint session of Congress that certified President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the Electoral College. LaTurner's office tweeted early Thursday that the freshman Republican “is not experiencing ...
Story updated at 6:56 p.m. Thursday TOPEKA (AP) — An incoming Kansas lawmaker who has faced a possible attempt to oust him once he took office has reached a legal agreement with a woman who accused him of harassment to end an anti-stalking court order against him, an attorney says. The ...
TOPEKA (AP) — Members of the Kansas congressional delegation condemned Wednesday's storming of the U.S. Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump, including Republicans who objected to the certification of Trump's election loss. Republican Sen. Roger Marshall tweeted a statement ...
Story updated at 3:36 p.m. Wednesday TOPEKA (AP) — About 200 supporters of President Donald Trump rallied Wednesday at the Kansas Statehouse to show their support for overturning President-elect Joe Biden's victory. Trump's supporters listened to speeches promoting Trump's baseless claims ...
Story updated at 5:10 p.m. Wednesday MISSION (AP) — Kansas State University has warned that the spring semester could begin online because the coronavirus continues to rage in the surrounding community and statewide. President Richard Myers said in a written statement that the COVID-19 ...
The League of Women Voters of Kansas has drafted a rewrite of its nearly 50-year-old position statement on criminal justice to emphasize alternatives to incarceration, offender wellness and the elimination of systemic bias. Marlene Merrill, co-chair of the league’s Position Update Committee, ...
For starters, the COVID-19 vaccine doses intended for Ness County in west-central Kansas landed somewhere else. “That was my first clue we had a problem,” said Carolyn Gabel, the county’s public health administrator. Then someone from Dodge City called. Those vials bound for Ness City? ...
TOPEKA (AP) — Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran said Tuesday that he will vote to certify President-elect Joe Biden's victory in the Electoral College, breaking with President Donald Trump and others in the GOP trying to overturn the result. Moran's stance ahead of a joint session of Congress on ...
TOPEKA (AP) — Republican legislators and Kansas' GOP attorney general said Tuesday that privacy is key, as lawmakers prepared to decide whether to rewrite a law that allows people exposed to COVID-19 to refuse to disclose their close contacts to health officials. Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly ...