During opening statements in Joseph Hughes trial, jurors see photo of shoe...
During opening statements Tuesday in the trial of Joseph Taylor Hughes, jurors viewed an image showing a shoeprint on the bruised face of Hughes’ longtime girlfriend, who was severely beaten in January...
View ArticleTopeka man, 22, pleads guilty on Tuesday to two murder counts in December...
A 22-year-old Topeka man pleaded guilty Tuesday to two counts of reckless second-degree murder in the December shooting deaths of a man and woman inside an East Topeka apartment.Nicholas Storm Phillips...
View ArticleNew Kansas school finance plan promises to hold districts harmless on equity aid
A new school finance plan that would ensure districts don’t lose state aid seized the attention of lawmakers Tuesday as they race toward a weeks-long break.The plan — with identical bills introduced in...
View ArticleManhattan man sentenced to 1 year for death of unborn baby
MANHATTAN — A Manhattan man has been sentenced to a year in jail for a 2014 crash that killed a woman’s unborn child.The Manhattan Mercury (http://bit.ly/1Sf5ZeI ) reports that Ryan Routson was...
View Article26-year-old man charged with murder in fatal Kansas City shooting
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A Kansas City man has been charged in the fatal shooting of a man whose body was found in a parked car.The Jackson County prosecutor’s office says 26-year-old Lakeith R. Courtney is...
View ArticleMan falls through ceiling as police search for burglar in Salina
SALINA — A Salina man has been arrested after falling through a restaurant ceiling as police responded to a burglary.The Salina Journal (http://bit.ly/1UiebyA ) reports that the arrest happened early...
View ArticleUniversity of Kansas wants newspaper funding suit dismissed
LAWRENCE — The University of Kansas is seeking the dismissal of a federal lawsuit that alleges administrators allowed the Student Senate to illegally cut the student newspaper’s funding in half based...
View ArticleJudge rules Missouri must name source of execution drug
ST. LOUIS — A Missouri judge has ruled that the state must reveal the source of the drug it uses to execute prisoners, finding that the state’s Department of Corrections “knowingly violated” Missouri’s...
View ArticleNew Fort Riley hospital could open in July after long delays
FORT RILEY — Officials say Fort Riley’s long-delayed new hospital is one step closer to opening and could do so by the end of July.U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials told U.S. Rep. Tim Huelskamp’s...
View ArticleHouse advances bill shifting investigation of juvenile abuse claims
The House offered preliminary consent Tuesday for a Senate-passed bill shifting primary responsibility for investigating complaints about children in state custody away from the attorney general to a...
View ArticleSenate GOP in 1997: 'Playing politics with judges is unfair'
WASHINGTON — Exasperated by a long-running fight over judicial nominees, a Republican senator pleaded with his colleagues to confirm Merrick Garland to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of...
View ArticleManhattan group starts fundraiser for plan to give new life to Peace Memorial...
A community-driven effort to renovate Manhattan’s Peace Memorial Auditorium on the heels of a nearly three-year battle to save it from becoming office space now faces a new challenge.read more
View ArticleBrownback signs public college, university religious freedom bill
Gov. Sam Brownback capped two years of legislative debate by signing a bill Tuesday forbidding public colleges and universities in Kansas from compelling student religious organizations to accept...
View ArticleHouse votes to reject bill repealing Common Core education standards
The House struggled through exhausting debate Tuesday before rejecting a bill repealing academic standards implemented by the Kansas State Board of Education in 2010 designed to better prepare students...
View ArticleWitness scheduling problem delays testimony Wednesday in Joseph Hughes jury...
Wednesday’s court session ended early in the jury trial of Joseph Taylor Hughes, who is charged with severely beating and raping his longtime girlfriend in early 2015.Shawnee County District Judge...
View ArticleKansans with disabilities and advocates rally at Statehouse
Kansans with disabilities, family and advocates rallied Wednesday outside the Statehouse to urge lawmakers to protect Medicaid, early childhood programs and other priorities.More than 200 people...
View ArticleBlizzard shuts down Denver airport, closes I-70 to Kansas border
DENVER — A powerful spring blizzard stranded travelers at Denver’s airport and shut down hundreds of miles of highway in Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska as it spread into the Midwest on Wednesday.Snow...
View ArticleWildfire burns across thousands of acres in Kansas, Oklahoma
KIOWA — Fire crews were working to contain a wildfire burning across at least 75 square miles in rural Oklahoma and Kansas on Wednesday, while strong wind and dry conditions also increased fire threats...
View ArticlePolice: Man air-lifted after Lawrence shooting Wednesday morning; arrest made
Lawrence police said a man was arrested Wednesday after another man was flown to a Kansas City-area hospital after sustaining a gunshot wound to his leg inside an East Lawrence residence.Sgt. Trent...
View ArticleSam Brownback signs bill allowing memorial highway signs for DUI victims
Gov. Sam Brownback hugged a heavy-hearted Wichita mother after signing a bill Wednesday allowing signs listing the name and age of people killed by drunken drivers to be placed along Kansas highways to...
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