Three Missouri men have been charged with federal counts related to the illegal purchase of high-powered rifles and guns with extended magazines after last month's shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade and rally left one person dead, injured roughly two dozen others and sent ...
TOPEKA — Kansas will pay $1 million to settle a lawsuit over a 7-year-old boy's murder in 2015 alleging that the state's child welfare agency should have removed him from an abusive home before he was starved and tortured and his body was fed to pigs. Gov. Laura Kelly and top leaders of the ...
The University of Kansas is again one of the few schools in the country that will have three teams competing for a championship in next month’s National Debate Tournament. KU earlier this season had qualified two teams for the national championship, but a third team was recently chosen as ...
Even a casual college basketball fan can list famous University of Kansas Jayhawks. Players Wilt Chamberlain and Danny Manning, coaches Phog Allen and Bill Self — and, of course, James Naismith, inventor of the game and, turns out, the only losing coach in KU men’s basketball history. But ...
A Topeka program that offers cash to people who move to Shawnee County is shifting its efforts to attract Latino immigrants. The Choose Topeka program that launched in 2019 offers up to $15,000 to each applicant who finds a job and moves to the Topeka area. It's an economic development effort ...
TOPEKA — Kansas Republicans have condemned a fundraiser Friday night where attendees paid to kick and beat an effigy of President Joe Biden, distancing themselves from extremists who have seized control of the party. The Biden-bashing antics were part of a Kansas GOP event in Johnson County, ...