Topeka touts legislation to aid in taking control of abandoned property
The City of Topeka took a backhoe to a house in the Hi-Crest neighborhood Tuesday, reducing it to splintered rubble — one action among several that cities may be able to take more quickly under...
View ArticleKansas City shooting leaves 1 dead, 1 wounded
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Authorities say a shooting has killed one person and wounded another in Kansas City.Police said in a news release that the shooting happened Monday night. Both victims were rushed to...
View ArticleKansas City, St. Louis voters revisit decades-old earnings tax
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Voters in Missouri’s two biggest cities are headed to the polls to decide whether to renew the decades-old earnings tax.The tax requires those who work in Kansas City or St. Louis to...
View ArticleEllis County man dies when tree falls on him
HAYS — Authorities say a western Kansas man has been killed while cutting down a tree.The Salina Journal (http://bit.ly/1S84UCH ) reports that 39-year-old Jarrod Depenbush, of rural Ellis County, died...
View Article$4.2 million primary care clinic planned in Pittsburg
PITTSBURG — Construction is expected to begin next month on a new $4.2 million primary care facility in Pittsburg.Officials from Via Christi Hospital and Joplin’s Mercy Medical Center announced plans...
View ArticleTransCanada says spill forces shut down of Keystone pipeline
FREEMAN, S.D. — The Keystone pipeline will likely remain shut down for the rest of the week while officials investigate an apparent oil spill in southeastern South Dakota.Oil covered a 300-square-foot...
View ArticleRaymond Schwab, former hunger striker, continues criticism of DCF
A former Topeka veteran’s public battle with the Department for Children and Families continued Tuesday with an advocate for Raymond Schwab leveling sharp criticisms toward the state agency.read more
View ArticleRep. Mike Pompeo declines to rule out U.S. Senate run against Sen. Jerry Moran
In a teleconference with supporters Tuesday night, U.S. Rep. Mike Pompeo declined to rule out a challenge to incumbent U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran this year.“I can’t say much about whether or not I’m going...
View ArticleCrews fight wildfires in Oklahoma, Kansas
OKLAHOMA CITY — Authorities are responding to wildfires in Oklahoma and Kansas that have led to evacuations, scorched mostly rural land and destroyed an unknown number of structures.In Oklahoma, the...
View ArticleStates see battle over gay marriage
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Republican lawmakers upset about the Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage have advanced measures in about a dozen states this year that could strengthen protections for...
View ArticleKansas City postal worker charged with with plotting to distribute PCP...
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Federal prosecutors are accusing a Kansas City, Mo., postal carrier and a California man of plotting to distribute gallons of PCP through the mail.Authorities say 64-year-old postal...
View ArticleKansas City police say remains found at dump site
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas City police are investigating remains found at a dump site.Police said Wednesday in a release that the remains appear to be those of a human, but that further tests will be...
View ArticleJudge: Abortion provider George Tiller's killer could argue he acted in...
WICHITA — The man convicted of killing abortion provider George Tiller in 2009 may have more leeway at his yet-to-be-set resentencing to argue before a new jury that he was acting in defense of others,...
View ArticlePublic support sought for volunteer Cheney firefighter who was hospitalized...
CHENEY — A volunteer Kansas firefighter has been hospitalized after he collapsed while working to extinguish a weekend grass fire.The Cheney Volunteer Fire Department says the 48-year-old firefighter...
View ArticleEvaluation begins for Kansas woman charged with murder in child's death
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — A Kansas woman charged in the death of her 7-year-old stepson is being transferred to a state mental hospital for an evaluation.Heather Jones and her husband, Michael Jones, are...
View ArticleKathleen Sebelius, former Kansas governor, calls for Medicaid expansion,...
Former Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius made a pitch Wednesday for expansion of Medicaid in Kansas, urged women to assume a more active role in politics and denounced escalation of a sales tax on food by...
View ArticleKansas, Gov. Sam Brownback administration could block transgender people from...
WICHITA — Gov. Sam Brownback’s administration is moving forward with a policy change that would make it harder for transgender people to change their gender on their birth certificates.The Wichita...
View ArticlePolice: Octopus found in Wichita boy's throat; man arrested
WICHITA — A 36-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of child abuse after Wichita police say doctors found a small octopus stuck in the throat of his girlfriend’s 2-year-old son.Wichita police...
View ArticleMan's death in Kansas City, Kansas, under investigation
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — Authorities are investigating a suspicious death in Kansas City, Kan.Police said in a news release that the victim was suffering from blunt trauma to his legs and head when he was...
View ArticleSpike Lee premieres University of Missouri film near campus
COLUMBIA, Mo. — A Spike Lee documentary about protests at the University of Missouri this fall, which were spurred by what activists said was administrators’ indifference to racial issues on campus,...
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