State and Region

Girls flag football now an official high school sport

There are a lot of ways flag football differs from tackle football, including field size, first downs and even the number of players in a game. But in Kansas, there’s now one more similarity between the two sports. The Kansas State High School Activities Association voted on Thursday to ...

Supreme Court rejects self-defense claims in slaying of U.S. Army soldier in Manhattan

TOPEKA — The Kansas Supreme Court unanimously affirmed first-degree murder and attempted murder convictions Friday of a former U.S. Army soldier who admitted shooting a fellow soldier to death outside a Manhattan bar but argued the jury should have been allowed to consider his claim of ...