Kansas House advances bill with new penalties for juveniles 'sexting'
The Kansas House advanced legislation Tuesday amending state law to create a nuanced approach to prosecution of 12- to 18-year-old juveniles accused of transmitting images of a nude child.Rep. Blaine...
View ArticleKyle Flack capital murder case: Jury selection about half done in Franklin...
Jury selection in the capital murder trial of defendant Kyle Trevor Flack, who is charged with killing four people, was halfway complete Tuesday.Beginning Feb. 1, six prospective jurors filed into...
View ArticleNoranda Aluminum, one of North America's biggest aluminum foil makers, files...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — One of North America’s biggest makers of aluminum foil is seeking bankruptcy protection to restructure, citing falling aluminum prices and other market challenges that also will...
View ArticleMurder charge filed in 60-year-old jogger's shooting death in Kansas City
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Kansas City man has been charged with second-degree murder in the death of a 60-year-old man who was fatally shot in 2012 while out for a morning jog.Jackson County Prosecutor Jean...
View Article10th Circuit Court of Appeals upholds tax evasion convictions of Atkins diet...
WICHITA — A federal appeals court has upheld the convictions of a Kansas obesity specialist who co-authored the “Atkins Diabetes Revolution.”The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals on Tuesday affirmed all...
View ArticleSam Brownback appeals Kansas court order to release candidate materials
WICHITA — Kansas is appealing a judge’s ruling that the state must release candidates’ applications for two county commission openings filled by Gov. Sam Brownback.The state has filed a notice of...
View ArticleKansas House committee discusses student restraint and seclusion
School employees would receive more training on how to help disruptive students and avoid physically restraining them under a House bill being considered this week.The measure discussed Tuesday in the...
View ArticleCancer survivors want to ban teenagers from Kansas tanning booths
Marcie Kelly and Amy Holdman built upon a personal body of evidence Tuesday to argue for passage of a bill prohibiting any person under the age of 18 from accessing services of a tanning salon.Both...
View ArticleWichita police: Man fatally run over by car that hit building
WICHITA — Police say a 35-year-old man has died after being run over by a vehicle that crashed into a building in downtown Wichita.Wichita police Lt. Jason Stephens said Monday that officers were...
View ArticleKC's William Jewell College names Nebraska educator as new president
LIBERTY, Mo. — William Jewell College in suburban Kansas City has picked a Nebraska educator as its newest president.The Kansas City Star (http://bit.ly/1TakNOw ) reports that the 1,060-student liberal...
View ArticleKansas bill raising speed limit to 80 mph runs into political roadblock
A House Republican offered support Tuesday for boosting the speed limit on some Kansas highways to 80 mph amid opposition from the Kansas Highway Patrol and the Kansas Department of Transportation to...
View ArticleWoman says of son's killer: 'I don't hate him'
The mother of a 20-year-old man fatally shot in an East Topeka park in 2014 told her son’s killer on Tuesday she had forgiven him.In an extraordinary moment during the sentencing of Jourdan Mickel...
View ArticleTwo-year college teachers urge lawmakers not to eliminate tenure
Teachers at two-year colleges could be next to lose the tenure rights granted in a four-decade old state law, after lawmakers removed similar provisions applying to K-12 teachers in 2014.read more
View ArticleSchool data shows drop in child homelessness
Child homelessness — as documented in public schools — fell in Kansas last school year after several years of increases, but education officials and advocates for the homeless are cautioning against...
View ArticleEnglish town regains Pancake Day Race title from Kansas town
LIBERAL — Residents of Olney, England, have reclaimed the title in the long-running International Pancake Day Race against competitors from Liberal, Kansas, which involves donning aprons and scarves,...
View ArticleCompany to pay $110,00 in no-call fine
A California company has agreed to pay $110,000 in penalties and fees for violating the No-Call Act and Kansas Consumer Protection Act.Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt says Judson Enterprises...
View ArticleKansas bill removing gifted youths from special education abandoned
WICHITA — A bill that would have made changes to gifted education has been abandoned after an outcry.In dropping the effort Tuesday to remove references of gifted children from the category of special...
View ArticleMan, woman found dead in Kansas City, Kansas, home
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A man and woman have been found dead inside a Kansas City, Kansas, home.Police said in a news release that the discovery was made Tuesday night when officers responded to the home....
View ArticlePro racecar driver Scott Tucker arrested in Kansas City, charged in payday...
NEW YORK — Professional racecar driver Scott Tucker was arrested Wednesday on criminal charges accusing him of living the high life on the backs of millions of desperate people who used his payday...
View ArticleHouse pushes ahead with new $16 billion state budget bill
The Kansas House shuffled through parliamentary procedure and election-year politics Wednesday before endorsing budget legislation to eliminate a projected deficit of more than $175 million in the next...
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