Story updated at 7:44 p.m. Friday, May 10, 2019: TOPEKA — A Kansas Supreme Court decision will force the state Senate into voting to reject a judicial nominee over political tweets that lawmakers found offensive. The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly did not ...
TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly says she hopes that extra state funding for the Kansas higher education system will lead to lower tuition for students and their families. Kelly on Friday touted the additional $33 million included for higher education in a proposed $18.4 billion state budget for ...
TOPEKA — A ruling from Kansas’ highest court could force the state Senate to vote on a nominee for a lower-court judgeship whose nomination was withdrawn because of his political tweets. The state Supreme Court waded Thursday into an unprecedented legal dispute between Democratic Gov. ...
MANHATTAN — Kansas State University officials say a dispute between individuals that led to shots being fired on its parking lot appears to be unrelated to the Manhattan campus. No injuries have been reported after shots were fired around 11 a.m. Thursday. Authorities say there is "no ...
Story updated at 1:02 p.m. Thursday TOPEKA — A Kansas Supreme Court that has repeatedly forced state legislators to increase spending on public schools directed tough questions Thursday to an attorney attacking a new funding law as inadequate, with one justice wondering when the protracted ...
TOPEKA — Lawmakers dropped a plan to increase oversight of Kansas' troubled child welfare system in the final hours of their annual session, angering advocates. The provision that was eliminated would have created a committee that could have summoned officials to explain problems, drafted ...
TOPEKA — A plan for fixing problems in the troubled Kansas prison system that could have created bipartisan harmony has instead inspired finger pointing and prompted complaints that the Republican-controlled Legislature botched pieces of the next state budget. Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly and ...
A whistleblower in a case involving missing documents and accounting irregularities at Clinton State Park has been fired by the state, the Journal-World has learned. At least three other park employees also have had their jobs impacted, although it is unclear whether they also were fired or ...
MANHATTAN — A Massachusetts couple is donating $20 million to Kansas State University's College of Business Administration. The college said in a news release that the gift from Paul and Sandra Edgerley of Brookline, Massachusetts, will fund a new Digital Learning Repository and a new Center ...
KANSAS CITY, MO. — A Kansas water park where a 10-year-old boy was decapitated isn't hiring lifeguards, advertising or selling tickets with less than a month left before its typical Memorial Day weekend opening date, underlining speculation that it could be put up for sale. Schlitterbahn ...
State universities will expect to receive more funding from the state next year after the Kansas Legislature approved a statewide budget on Saturday. Sen. Tom Hawk, D-Manhattan, who serves on the Senate’s higher education funding subcommittee, told the Journal-World Monday that the approved ...
Story updated at 3:37 p.m. Monday TOPEKA — U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran is putting pressure on Amtrak to commit to the continued operation of the Southwest Chief passenger rail service that connects Chicago to Los Angeles with stops in Kansas. Moran recently delayed confirming three nominees to ...
TOPEKA — The process of obtaining a new Real ID is creating headaches for some Kansas residents. Vietnam War veteran Armando Fleming is among several Kansas residents who have left driver's license offices empty-handed after learning that the documents they brought to verify their identity ...
Topeka (ap) — Suzanne Hayden’s children were young when she went to prison, and they will be adults before she leaves. A visit from Hayden’s youngest daughter had a lasting impact on the inmate at the state-run Topeka Correctional Facility. “Daddy said you were a bad person and that ...
TOPEKA — Republican legislators have pushed a tax relief proposal through the Kansas Legislature, ignoring predictions from Gov. Laura Kelly's fellow Democrats that she will veto it, just as she did with a larger plan. The House voted 83-41 late Saturday night to approve a bill designed to ...
Story updated at 12:17 a.m. Sunday TOPEKA — Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly's effort to expand Medicaid in Kansas this year died Saturday when enough moderate Republicans bowed to the wishes of the GOP-controlled Legislature's conservative leaders and ended an impasse that had tied up the state ...
Sterling — A central Kansas undersheriff is out of the hospital after being shot Monday by a man who also shot a sheriff and then killed his father before killing himself. Rice County Sheriff Bryant Evans said Undersheriff Chad Murphy was released Friday from a Wichita hospital. He returned ...
Garden City — A Kansas community college released a summary of its internal review of the heatstroke death last year of a football player who collapsed after the first day of practice, saying the coach reported that players were provided with water. But some Garden City Community College ...
Story updated at 11:02 p.m. Friday Topeka — Kansas lawmakers who support expanding Medicaid blocked passage of the next state budget twice on Friday in a high-stakes standoff designed to force the Legislature’s conservative Republican leaders to allow an expansion plan backed by Democratic ...
WICHITA — A health department in southwest Kansas says a prankster spoofed its number to falsely notify people that they may have contracted a sexually transmitted disease. The Finney County Health Department said in a Facebook post that the calls are "NOT FROM US!" The post says the ...