TOPEKA — Jury selection began Tuesday in a federal criminal trial for a man prosecutors say became fixated on a Kansas congressman and threatened to kill him, a case that comes amid what authorities say is a sharp rise in treats to the nation's lawmakers and their families. Prosecutors say ...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly and the Republican-controlled Kansas Legislature are headed toward big fights over spending on special education programs, pay raises for government workers and how much the cash-flush state should sock away for worse economic times. Kelly ...
Janet Patterson remembers attending a Catholic Mass at her parish near Wichita and hearing the congregation’s newly assigned priest lecture the parishioners. “I remember him saying, ‘You must never criticize the priest,’” she said. “I was sitting there in the church with my son, ...
TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly’s new budget presented to legislators Thursday would end the state sales tax on groceries in April, provide a 5% raise to qualified state workers and expand eligibility for Medicaid while adding $500 million to the state’s rainy-day fund. Adam Proffitt, the ...
A University of Kansas graduate has been chosen to become the next president of Washburn University in Topeka. JuliAnn Mazachek, who received her doctorate of accounting from KU, most recently had served as the president of Midwestern State University in Wichita Falls, Texas. Prior to her ...
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas' anti-abortion Republican attorney general is asking the state's highest court to reconsider a landmark decision protecting access to abortion months after a decisive statewide vote affirming abortion rights. Attorney General Kris Kobach said Wednesday that one ...