University of Kansas' Salina med school program to move
SALINA — Plans are in the works to move a fledgling Salina medical school program from a hospital building to a much larger downtown building.The Salina Regional Health Foundation has entered into a...
View ArticlePlanned Parenthood sues Kansas for ending Medicaid funds
Two Planned Parenthood affiliates filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday over a decision by Kansas to cut off Medicaid reimbursements to the abortion provider that was largely based on allegations lodged...
View ArticleKris Kobach: Man admits voting in Kansas, Colorado in same election, agrees...
WICHITA — Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach says a Wichita man who voted in Kansas and Colorado during the same election has agreed to pay $5,500 in fines.The guilty pleas from Ron R. Weems mark...
View ArticlePetition urges investigation into U.S. election agency; issue relates to 4...
WICHITA — More than 116,000 people have signed an online petition urging the inspector general to investigate what it calls voter suppression at a federal government agency entrusted with making...
View ArticleKansas City auction of seized vehicles raises more than $1.4M
OVERLAND PARK — A fleet of expensive cars and motorcycles seized from a Kansas City-area accountant has sold for more than $1.4 million.The U.S. Marshals Service announced the results of last week’s...
View ArticleBird flu forces slaughter of 39,000 turkeys at Missouri farm
KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A southwestern Missouri turkey farm where bird flu was found remains quarantined after 39,000 of its birds were destroyed last week as a precaution, agricultural officials said...
View ArticleGM to resume production at 4 plants idled by Japan earthquakes, including one...
NASHVILLE, Tenn. — General Motors is on track to resume full operations at four North American plants where vehicle assembly has been halted because of supply chain interruptions caused by earthquakes...
View ArticleTop Kansas Republicans say they'll back Trump; some won't
Top Republicans in Kansas reiterated their promises Wednesday to support Donald Trump as the party’s presidential candidate, and the state GOP’s chairman predicted that opponents of the brash...
View ArticleKHP Investigator: Truck's brake not set before damaging track that likely...
WICHITA — A Kansas Highway Patrol investigator says a truck driver failed to set the emergency brakes on a truck and likely caused an Amtrak train derailment west of Dodge City.The Wichita Eagle...
View ArticleKansas Speedway's Chase for the Sprint Cup race will be elminiation race in 2017
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — NASCAR has decided that unpredictable Talladega Superspeedway won’t be an elimination race in next year’s championship Chase, instead taking the pivotal stop to Kansas Speedway.The...
View ArticleFederal attorney's office charges Topeka man with lying in Country Club Motel...
A Topeka man was charged Wednesday with lying to a federal marshal who was trying to locate fugitive Orlando J. Collins before Collins shot three law enforcement officers in April during a gunfight at...
View ArticleU.S. Attorney's Office announces charges for several individuals related to...
Multiple people with connections to Topeka or Shawnee County have been charged with federal crimes, acting U.S. Attorney in Kansas Tom Beall said Thursday.■ James Baray, 30, who is in federal custody;...
View ArticleKansas child welfare officials take custody of Sharp kids who went to Oregon...
Seven children who were taken to perform for occupiers during the armed takeover of an Oregon wildlife refuge earlier this year have been placed in the temporary custody of Kansas child welfare...
View ArticleKansas chancellor vetoes fees for multicultural student body
LAWRENCE — The future of a proposed multicultural student government at the University of Kansas is in doubt after Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little vetoed a proposed student fee meant for it.In a...
View ArticlePolice: Man fatally shot outside Wichita apartment complex
WICHITA — Police say a man is dead after a shooting outside a Wichita apartment complex.KSNW-TV (http://bit.ly/1rtvoJ2 ) reports that police identified the victim Thursday as 55-year-old Gifford...
View ArticleKansas trial nears end in anti-abortion activist's threat
WICHITA — Testimony has concluded in the trial of a Kansas anti-abortion activist accused of sending a letter suggesting someone might place an explosive under the car of a doctor training to perform...
View ArticleIllinois man named president of Land Institute in Salina
SALINA — A Western Illinois University official will be the new president of The Land Institute in Salina.The institute announced Thursday that the new president will be Fred Iutzi, the manager of...
View ArticleDefense attorney: Second defendant in Fort Riley terrorist plot to make plea
A 29-year-old man who told an FBI agent he loaned $100 to aid John T. Booker Jr., who planned to detonate an explosive device at Fort Riley to kill soldiers, will make a plea in U.S. District...
View ArticleKansas trial nears end in anti-abortion activist's threat
WICHITA — Jurors have gone home without reaching a verdict in the trial of a Kansas anti-abortion activist accused of sending a letter suggesting someone might place an explosive under the car of a...
View ArticleRepublican Alan LaPolice will run as an independent in congressional race
Congressional candidate Alan LaPolice said Thursday he will run as an independent, not a Republican, narrowing the Republican field in the state’s most closely watched primary.LaPolice ran as a...
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