TOPEKA — Soldiers, legislators and military families gathered Friday at the Kansas Capitol for the unveiling of a memorial honoring families of soldiers who died while serving in the armed forces. Gov. Laura Kelly and former U.S. Sen. Pat Roberts spoke at the unveiling ceremony about losses ...
TOPEKA — Three Topeka police officers who shot and killed a man this summer were justified because the man charged at them with a knife, Shawnee County District Attorney Mike Kagay said. The officers shot Christopher Kelley, a 38-year-old Black man, on June 24 after responding to a report ...
The University of Kansas has received a $10 million federal grant to create a new national education center that focuses on improving conditions for students with disabilities. KU will use the five-year grant from the U.S. Department of Education to create the National Center on Inclusion ...
The University of Kansas Medical Center on Wednesday announced that it received a five-year, nearly $27 million grant from the National Institutes of Health that will fund the Frontiers Clinical and Translational Science Institute at KU. While this grant is awarded to KU and administered ...
TOPEKA — A new poll of likely Kansas voters released Wednesday indicated that Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly held a narrow lead over Republican nominee Derek Schmidt in a heated contest to be decided in less than two months. Kelly, who is seeking a second term as governor, was favored by 44.6% ...
Juan Manuel Santos, the former president of Colombia, knows conflict. Thus, the KU alumnus and 2016 recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize had little difficulty in answering a question at a Lawrence event Tuesday evening about the morality of negotiating with a political enemy. It was a question ...