Court: Out-of-state license plates don't justify search by Kansas law...
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View ArticleTexas, Kansas other GOP states file another lawsuit over Obama transgender...
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas and four other Republican-led states filed another lawsuit Tuesday seeking to roll back the Obama administration's efforts to strengthen transgender rights, saying new federal...
View ArticleSedgwick County law enforcement consider easing fitness requirement updates
WICHITA — Sedgwick County law enforcement agencies are considering easing fitness requirements for applicants in hopes of attracting more potential recruits.Wichita police chief Gordon Ramsay has said...
View ArticleJudge sanctions advocacy group in Missouri clergy abuse suit
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A federal judge has admonished an advocacy group for clergy abuse victims for defying her orders to release personal information about people who accused a priest of sexual...
View ArticleTopekan faces sentencing for role in foiled bomb plot at Fort Riley
WICHITA — Alexander Blair has admitted his role in a foiled terrorist attack: aiding a wannabe Islamic State jihadist’s plan to detonate a bomb at the Fort Riley military post to kill or maim as many...
View ArticleWoman killed while crossing turnpike in Wichita
A 23-year-old Wichita woman was killed early Monday as she was attempting to cross Interstate 35 on the Kansas Turnpike in Wichita, authorities said.The fatality victim was identified as Priscilla Dawn...
View ArticleIn some U.S. schools, resistance to ending corporal punishment; Kansas, 18...
Two licks with a wooden paddle in the principal’s office was the price 11-year-old Kaley Zacher, of Dexter, Georgia, paid for ignoring warnings about falling behind in her school work.Rules are rules,...
View Article2 dozen students escape series injury in KC head-on bus crash
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Police in Kansas City, Mo., are investigating a head-on school bus accident in which the district says the roughly two dozen students on the bus escaped serious injuries.Authorities...
View ArticleEmporia High School student, 14, taken into custody in connection with bomb...
A 14-year-old student at Emporia High School was taken into custody Wednesday morning in connection with a bomb threat at the school, which was under heightened security while the case was...
View ArticleCancer surpasses heart disease to become the leading cause of death in 22...
Cancer has surpassed heart disease as the leading cause of death in California and 21 other states, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.That total is in stark...
View ArticleAnnual Kansas Statewide Transgender Education Project conference offers...
A group that promotes education related to transgender issues is inviting Kansans to pick from more than two dozens workshops related to the topic at its annual conference this week.This year’s Kansas...
View ArticlePew report: Kansas not alone in struggling pension investment performance
WASHINGTON — Kansas’ expected low return on pension investments over the past year reflects a downward trend in performance nationally, according to new data released Wednesday.Public pension systems...
View ArticlePrehistoric tusk found during southern Kansas construction project in Cunningham
CUNNINGHAM — A southern Kansas construction project has uncovered a tusk believed to have belonged to a mammoth.The Hutchinson News (http://bit.ly/2bC4xYJ ) reports that the discovery was made last...
View ArticleFormer Kansas state geologist M. Lee Allison, 68, dies after fall
TUCSON, Ariz. — The Arizona Geological Survey will now be joining the University of Arizona without the leadership of its director.The Arizona Daily Star reports (http://bit.ly/2bFzEQo ) that director...
View Article1 dead, 1 wounded in Kansas City shooting
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Authorities are investigating after one man was killed and another wounded in a possible exchange of gunfire.Police say the shooting happened Wednesday morning in the central part of...
View ArticleFederal prosecutors say they didn't view video of attorney-client meetings at...
The U.S. Attorney’s office says none of its workers or any law enforcement officers viewed tapes of attorney-client meetings at Leavenworth Detention Center, a disclosure that comes after a federal...
View ArticleCouple sought in California killing of mother, kidnapping her 3 kids
LOS ANGELES — Three children kidnapped after their mother was killed in a remote area outside Los Angeles were found safe Wednesday as authorities continued to search for the couple wanted in...
View ArticleState: No single cause for high lead levels in Saline County
SALINA — State health officials are notifying families in and around Saline County that investigators have found no single cause for elevated lead levels in their children’s blood.The Kansas Department...
View ArticleKansas forms task force to study how agencies can use drones
Kansas has formed a task force to study how state agencies can use drones in their operations.The Kansas Department of Transportation said in a news release Wednesday that the Unmanned Aerial Systems...
View ArticleLottery scandal prosecutor seeks to subpoena Texas attorneys; case involves...
DES MOINES, Iowa — An Iowa prosecutor wants a judge to issue subpoenas for telephone and bank records of two Texas attorneys who he believes are connected to a former lottery computer security...
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