As demonstrations against police brutality and racism have rocked the world, some Kansans have protested in hopes of pushing reforms at home. Since Memorial Day, thousands of people have attended rallies and marches across the state, from Garden City to Kansas City, protesting the deaths of ...
TOPEKA — Thirteen counties in Kansas, including Douglas County, are experiencing an uptick in confirmed cases of COVID-19 over the past 14 days, demonstrating that the state is not yet in the clear of the pandemic, Gov. Laura Kelly said Monday. Kelly specifically singled out Sedgwick County ...
Story updated at 1:50 p.m. Monday Joining other universities around the country hoping to prevent another wave of COVID-19 from taking hold in the fall, the University of Kansas announced Monday that it will shorten the time students are on campus for the fall semester. The current plan is ...
WICHITA — U.S. Senate candidate and former Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach reported that he had four guns stolen from his pickup truck that was parked at a Wichita hotel. Officers responded to a call from Kobach around 11:30 a.m. Saturday at a hotel parking garage, Wichita police ...
A full two-thirds of Kansans say they don’t personally know someone who’s been infected with the coronavirus. Yet an overwhelming number of respondents to a survey say the pandemic remade their lives, mostly for the worse. They talk of worry, boredom. It has cost most of them money. In a ...
WICHITA — Wichita police plan to ban officers from kneeling on the necks of people in handcuffs. The Wichita Eagle reports that several other proposed policy changes that protesters have called for are included in a document that police provided Thursday to the Citizen's Review Board. Other ...
WICHITA — Carl Brewer, Wichita's first elected African American mayor and a former Democratic gubernatorial candidate, died Friday after a long illness. He was 63. Brewer's family confirmed his death in a statement in which they requested privacy. Memorial service details were ...
Story updated at 3:20 p.m. Friday The Kansas Supreme Court on Friday upheld two state identity theft convictions following a decision by the nation's highest court that made it easier for states to prosecute immigrants who use fake Social Security numbers to secure employment. The U.S. ...
TOPEKA — County health departments in Kansas lacked the resources and manpower to swiftly ramp up “boots-on-the-ground” work when the coronavirus pandemic hit, new research suggests. The work by researchers at the University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita sheds light on the ...
TOPEKA — Three months into the COVID-19 pandemic, the state of Kansas has finally secured the necessary infrastructure and testing supplies to launch a statewide strategy to test at least 60,000 Kansans — or 2% of the state population — for the respiratory virus per month over the next ...
KANSAS CITY, KAN. — Calling it a potentially racially motivated crime, federal authorities offered a $100,000 reward Thursday in a 16-year-old cold case involving a black man whose body was found in a creek in Kansas. The FBI reopened the investigation a more than a year ago into the death ...
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A Kansas City, Kan., police officer was charged Wednesday with two counts of felony aggravated indecent liberties with a child, Wyandotte County Attorney Mark Dupree said. The charges against Nicholas Schafer, 36, involve lewd fondling or touching of a child under the age ...
KANSAS CITY, MO. — Kansas City should rename an iconic fountain and street that bears the name of an important city developer who barred minorities from living in affluent neighborhoods that he designed in the early 1900s, a member of the city's parks board said. Chris Goode wrote last week ...
Kansas on Wednesday confirmed four more deaths as a result of COVID-19 and 162 new cases statewide since Monday, when the state Department of Health and Environment last released data on the spread of the respiratory virus. The new cases bring Kansas' cumulative case total to 10,812 since the ...
Story updated at 8:45 p.m. Wednesday TOPEKA — Donors are pushing Kansas' higher education board to fire Wichita State University's president after he canceled a virtual speech by Ivanka Trump for its technical school's graduation. The Kansas Board of Regents had a special Zoom meeting ...
LEAVENWORTH — A former Leavenworth police officer who fatally shot a man in a vehicle in 2017 cannot claim legal immunity, a ruling that leaves it to a jury to decide whether his actions were justified as self defense. Leavenworth County Judge Michael Gibbens found that the force used by ...
TOPEKA — Kansas' top election official argued Tuesday that going in person to the polls is “a community event” for many voters and that moving solely to mail ballots because of the coronavirus pandemic would create confusion. Republican Secretary of State Scott Schwab is well along in ...
Speaking nearly three months to the day since Kansas confirmed its first case of COVID-19 in Johnson County, Gov. Laura Kelly on Monday praised Kansans for how they've responded to an unprecedented global pandemic. Kansans' response, combined with a continued adherence to social distancing ...
TOPEKA — The Lansing Correctional Facility is the largest single source of Kansas' 10,393 coronavirus cases, followed by a Tyson Foods meatpacking plant near Garden City, according to a report by state health officials. The Kansas City Star obtained the Kansas public health report on the ...
A Lawrence bioscience company has received hundreds of thousands of dollars in government funding for research into a COVID-19 vaccine — and could get millions more — and a local farm also has a federal contract for virus relief efforts. Separate from economic relief legislation, the ...