Former Baxter Springs, Kansas coach who impregnated teen sentenced to 8 years...
COLUMBUS — A former southeast Kansas high school coach has been sentenced to more than eight years in prison for having sex with a 15-year-old girl and getting her pregnant.Forty-seven-year-old Larry...
View ArticleTopeka Symphony goes to the movies with music from Hollywood
And the award for best use of movie music goes to ... the Topeka Symphony Orchestra which on Saturday night will play some of the great scores of both classic and modern films.As the fifth concert of...
View ArticleRare decision by full Kansas Court of Appeals in abortion case fueled...
When 14 judges of the Kansas Court of Appeals announced Jan. 22 they had split 7-7 on whether the Kansas Constitution guarantees the right to an abortion, it was the first even split in the court’s...
View ArticleDispute between Lawrence, The Oread escalates
LAWRENCE — A dispute between Lawrence and developers of an upscale hotel located near the University of Kansas campus has escalated.The Lawrence Journal-World (http://bit.ly/1PriPWf ) reports that city...
View ArticleFeds look to seize home of accused scammer, racecar driver who was arrested...
ASPEN, Colo. — Federal authorities are looking to seize the Aspen home of professional racecar driver Scott Tucker, who is accused of running a payday lending operation offering quick cash over the...
View ArticleTopeka man pleads guilty in two criminal cases, including one of punching his...
A Topeka man who pleaded guilty on Friday to punching his defense lawyer in court and an armed robbery in a second case will face a sentence of 20-plus years based on the plea agreement he...
View ArticleMan robs Wichita convenience store, then turns himself in
WICHITA — A 28-year-old man is behind bars after having second thoughts about an early morning convenience store robbery and turning himself in.The Wichita Eagle (bit.ly/1o7euOB) reports a man walked...
View ArticleJudge: Kansas City convention hotel shouldn't go to voters
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A judge has denied a public vote on a proposed convention hotel in downtown Kansas City.The Kansas City Star (http://bit.ly/1TgjkGw ) reports that Jackson County Circuit Judge...
View ArticleKansas City man sentenced to 30 years for drugs, weapons
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Kansas City man convicted of federal drug and weapons charges faces considerable prison time after authorities linked him with several other crimes, including the 2013 deaths of a...
View ArticleSenate passes bill blocking study of clean-power rules
The Kansas Senate has passed a bill that would block a state regulatory commission from spending money to study how to comply with new federal clean-power rules until a legal challenge is resolved.The...
View ArticleElectric utility factions tangle on House transmission-line bill
A standing-room-only crowd attended the heavyweight political fight Friday between electric industry coalitions energized by a House bill reasserting the right of Kansas’ transmission owners to have...
View ArticleKansas seeking solution to water needs of farmers, refuge
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Federal, state and local officials have been trying to hammer out a deal aimed at addressing competing water needs of south-central Kansas irrigators and a national wildlife refuge...
View ArticleVoting rights groups sue federal elections official over case involving Kansas
WICHITA — A coalition of voting rights groups on Friday sued a federal elections official who decided that residents of Alabama, Kansas and Georgia can no longer register to vote using a national form...
View ArticleTopeka flier: Iwo Jima 'haven' for American bombing crews in World War II
Iwo Jima — the Pacific island transformed into an iconic World War II symbol with the famous photograph of five Marines and a U.S. Navy corpsman hoisting a flag aloft on Mount Suribachi — was wrestled...
View ArticleMan accused of trying to kill Kansas deputy sentenced
KANSAS CITY — A 19-year-old Kansas City man accused of trying to kill a Wyandotte County deputy has been sentenced on an unrelated robbery charge.Charles Bowser is one of three men charged with...
View ArticleLanguage no barrier to foreign silent movies
In a genre in which body language was more important that good diction, foreign language movies may have been more universal before the development of talkies, as the 20th annual Kansas Silent Film...
View ArticleJustice Antonin Scalia remembered as 'unfailing' defender of the Constitution...
Kansas Republicans fondly remembered U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who died Saturday at the age of 79, as a stalwart defender of the Constitution and giant of American jurisprudence.Derek...
View Article2 killed in northeast Kansas accident
BONNER SPRINGS — Two Oklahoma men have died in a single-vehicle crash in northeast Kansas.Police said the accident occurred late Thursday in Bonner Springs when the pickup they were in veered off a...
View ArticleState and teachers union to face off at Supreme Court over tenure
The state and a teachers union are gearing up for a Kansas Supreme Court showdown over a controversial 2014 law that ended teacher job protections.Meanwhile, the union has filed two district court...
View ArticleTopeka lawmaker seeks post-election donation ban on second-term governors
Democratic Rep. John Alcala introduced a House bill written to relieve second-term Kansas governors and lieutenant governors of the burden of seeking political contributions from supporters after...
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