The Kansas Senate has given first-round approval to Gov. Sam Brownback's plan to modify technical education programs.
Kansas has received bids from five companies for three contracts for managing the state's $2.9 billion Medicaid program.
Prosecutors in Sedgwick County have dropped drug charges against former heavyweight boxing champion Tommy Morrison, less than a year after unrelated drug charges were dismissed in Emporia.
The Kansas House has approved a bill setting standards for when public schools may physically restrain students who are disruptive. Advocates for the disabled support the bill. They say the current voluntary state guidelines...
By The Associated Press The number of methamphetamine labs busted by law enforcement officers in Kansas rose last year.
Former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld will be in northeastern Kansas this week to address military officers and sign books for the public.
The Kansas House has given first-round approval to a bill amending state law on mandatory reporting of alleged child abuse.
The former residents of a Sedgwick County property where a human skull was found say the skull was left on their parents' doorstep six decades ago on Halloween.
Garden City commissioners approved resolutions offering symbolic and financial support to an Amtrak route through southwest Kansas.
Revenue estimates for the House Republican income tax plan show that the lowest income earners would be the only bracket that would see their tax rates go up.
Revenue estimates for the House Republican income tax plan show that the lowest income earners would be the only bracket that would see their tax rates go up.
Garden City commissioners approved resolutions offering symbolic and financial support to an Amtrak route through southwest Kansas.
Douglas County prosecutors are investigating pending or past cases involving two suspended Lawrence police officers suspected of dismissing speeding tickets in exchange for Kansas basketball tickets.
Wildlife officials say a snowy owl found shot to death last week at the Cheyenne Bottoms Wildlife Area near Great Bend probably was shot by a poacher.
A Manhattan man has pleaded not guilty in the death of a man whose body was found along a dirt road last December.
A Topeka man was sentenced to more than 55 years in prison for killing another man during a crime spree in June 2010.
Art created by Kansas students will be among those wrapped around a 365-foot replica of the Saturn V rocket at the U.S. Space and Rocket Center in Huntsville, Ala.
The owner of a Kansas City business admitted that he embezzled more than $750,000 from dozens of homeowners associations.
Kansas House members don't think much of giving a state official the power to double the fee for registering a boat to use at state parks.
The Kansas House is preparing to debate Secretary of State Kris Kobach's (KOH'-bahks) bill to require some potential voters to prove they're U.S. citizens before this year's presidential election.
Kansas House members are preparing to take up a bill designed to inform high school dropouts about other means of continuing their education once they leave school.
A bill setting standards for when public schools may physically restrain disruptive students or place them in isolation faces a final vote in the Kansas House.
The Republican-controlled Kansas House has rejected a Democratic proposal for keeping local property taxes in check.
Rodney McGruder scored 24 points last night as Kansas State upset No. 3 Missouri 78-68. Thomas Gipson added 13 points for the Wildcats, who topped the Tigers for the second time this season. Michael Dixon had 21 points and...
Former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush has told Kansas business leaders that the nation needs a change of direction and called for a "patriot" energy policy, better education and an overhaul of the federal tax code.
A 37-year-old man faces two misdemeanor charges of telephone harassment over an allegedly threatening call he made to the Kansas governor's office.
Police in Wichita say a 52-year-old woman was injured when she tried to stop a man from stealing a car out of her driveway.
An administrative judge has issued an order revoking a Kansas doctor's license over her referrals of young patients for late-term abortions.
A convenience store on the Prairie Band Potawatomi reservation in northeastern Kansas has been shut down for what the state says is failure to pay more than $1.7 million in sales tax.
Crews are working to restore power after an outage darkened more than 10 buildings on the east side of the University of Kansas campus in Lawrence.
A Kansas Senate committee is extending its discussion of Gov. Sam Brownback's proposal to rewrite the formula for distributing state aid to school districts.
Wichita investigators are trying to figure out who took a half-dozen historic headstones from a cemetery and threw them into a roadside ditch.
A bill permitting Kansas to join an interstate compact to end federal rules for health care programs has received first-round approval in the state House.
An English runner has won the annual Shrove Tuesday trans-Atlantic pancake race, beating the winner of the southwest Kansas leg of the race by 10 seconds.
Three Emporia State University students are launching a national campaign to honor teachers and help the university's National Teachers Hall of Fame.
The Kansas Bioscience Authority's investment committee approved just under $2 million in new investments.
Cessna Aircraft has moved work on its 162 Skycatcher from Wichita to its plant in Independence.
The Kansas Star Casino in Mulvane brought in $21.6 million in gambling revenue through January.
The Topeka Zoo's oldest female orangutan has died at the age of 45.
Kansas lawmakers are considering legislation to complete the transfer of a closed National Guard armory to the city of Horton.
A Kansas House committee has approved a bill allowing all military veterans to pay the lower tuition rates at state universities normally reserved for Kansas residents.
A sheriff in northeastern Kansas is warning of a new telephone scam from someone claiming to be with the U.S. Drug Enforcement Agency.
A line of powerful storms stretching from the Oklahoma border to near the Nebraska state line has left scattered damage to trees and buildings as it raced eastward across Kansas.
A Kansas House committee has endorsed legislation that backers say would protect religious freedom but opponents believe would allow discrimination based on sexual orientation.
Police in Topeka believe they've solved a rash of storage unit burglaries in which more than $250,000 worth of property was stolen.
Officials in Emporia are looking forward to the benefits of the designation of the city's downtown as a historic district.
A Kansas House committee is discussing a plan for cutting individual income taxes drafted by the chamber's Republican leaders.
About 250 miles of highways in eastern and northeastern Colorado have reopened after a winter storm and high winds prompted authorities to halt traffic.
A southwest Kansas zoo has a new baby monkey.
U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack will travel to Kansas in April to speak at Kansas State University.
The Hall Family Foundation has given $10.5 million to support the University of Kansas Cancer Center's efforts to be designated a National Cancer Institute.
Legislators continue to move forward on changes to Kansas water policy aimed at improving conservation efforts and prolonging the life of water supplies.
While train-related fatalities dropped dramatically across the country in the last 20 years, the numbers in Kansas have remained steady.
The University of Kansas Cancer Center will get one last chance this week to promote its application to become a National Cancer Institute.
A McLouth woman is suing a Lawrence residential home for the disabled over her son's death in a fall.
Soldiers from the Kansas National Guard are coming home from a yearlong deployment to the Horn of Africa.
A legislative proposal designed to prevent Kansas from subsidizing abortions even indirectly through tax credits or deductions is expected to clear a committee in the state House.
U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran plans to tour a wind turbine equipment factory in Hutchinson amid his efforts to extend the wind energy production tax credit.
A Wichita State University researcher says people fib more while texting.
A Kansas House committee is preparing to draft a new proposal for overhauling the pension system for teachers and government workers.
A report from the Kansas Board of Regents shows that Fort Hays State University is the fastest growing university in the state system.
About 800 people are expected to be summoned as possible jurors to hear the trial of a 51-year-old Oklahoma woman charged with killing her former husband and his fiancée.
Thieves have been breaking into law enforcement vehicles in the Wichita area and making off with weapons and other equipment.
A coalition of Kansas groups is considering a legal challenge to the state's new voter photo identification law.
The owners of a 12-year-old yellow Labrador with crippling arthritis are hoping stem cells will relieve the dog's pain.
Kansas leaders are regrouping and searching for alternatives for funding construction of a new federal biosecurity lab near Kansas State University.
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul says the U.S. is "slipping into a fascist system" dominated by big government and big businesses.
A free dental clinic in Kansas City, Kan., has attracted hundreds of people for the two-day event.
Gophers have been causing problems for Salina, where the furry rodents are digging burrows in the city's flood-control levee.
The Rev. Richard Taylor, a minister who spent years lobbying against liquor and gambling in Kansas, has died. He was 87.
A Fort Riley soldier who was wounded in Afghanistan is back home in Topeka after more than 100 surgeries at hospitals in Washington and Baltimore.
Kansas House Speaker Mike O'Neal is floating a new congressional redistricting plan that would split the Kansas City area between two districts and put part of it in a district with rural western Kansas communities 400...
The National Agricultural Statistics Service says the number of farms in the U.S. dropped slightly last year and the amount of land used for farming continued to decline.
Ford Motor Co. CEO Alan Mulally will deliver this year's commencement address at the University of Kansas, where he'll also pick up an honorary degree.
Republican presidential candidate Ron Paul is planning a stop in Kansas City.
Members of the Kansas House Taxation Committee will begin working next week on rival plans for reducing the state's income tax rates.
A northeast Kansas prosecutor says he won't file criminal charges over the state's destruction of abortion records, an issue that had overshadowed a criminal case against a Planned Parenthood clinic.
A prosecutor is meeting with law enforcement officers about an investigation into a pickup containing homemade bombs that was parked near the Kansas Capitol.
Charles Koch says he and his brother and their employees are getting death threats and hate messages because of their political beliefs.
A courtroom inside the federal courthouse in Topeka this week became part of a pilot project to determine the impact of cameras on court proceedings.
A 15-year-old from Manhattan will be tried as an adult for first-degree murder in the shooting death of a fellow Manhattan High School student.
Police are asking for the public's help in finding a man accused of killing two brothers in Leavenworth.
Shawnee fire officials say two people died in a fire at an apartment complex in a Kansas City suburb.
Investigators are trying to determine what caused an explosion and fire inside of a downtown Wichita business.
Investigators are trying to determine the identity of a skull found near Cheney in Sedgwick County.
A lawsuit challenging a Kansas law restricting insurance coverage of abortion has been reassigned to still another federal judge.
An eastern Kansas sheriff says a would-be armed robber left a rural home empty-handed after he confronted the occupant and had the door slammed in his face.
Eight Kansas locations have been added to National Register of Historic Places, including a former railroad office building dating to 1910.
Eight Kansas legislators have endorsed former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich in the race for the Republican presidential nomination.
Two Lawrence police officers have been suspended after an FBI investigation into traffic tickets being fixed in exchange for University of Kansas basketball tickets.
Organizers of a weekend protest in Wichita targeting billionaire brothers Charles and David Koch (kohk) say about 500 activists have confirmed their plans to attend.
A former bookkeeper for a northwest Kansas car dealership has been given a year's probation after pleading guilty to theft.
The union representing engineers and technical workers at Spirit AeroSystems has filed a grievance with the National Labor Relations Board over changes to the company's employee evaluation process.
New condominiums on the former Marymount College campus in Salina will go underground for heating and cooling.
A law enforcement spokeswoman says a man detained after homemade bombs were found inside a pickup near the Kansas Statehouse will not face federal charges.
A company that bought out the owners of 37 Hutchinson houses that were near sinkholes has donated five of the houses to a housing organization.
The action-sports company Zumiez (ZOO'-mees) plans to open an order-filling center and bring 100 jobs to Edwardsville.
Trucking company YRC Worldwide says it will move 120 jobs to its headquarters in Overland Park.
Candidates for state and federal office in Kansas would have to prove their citizenship under a bill approved by a Kansas House committee.
Missouri students attending the University of Kansas campus in Overland Park will get a tuition break, starting next fall.
The Kansas Department of Social and Rehabilitation Services has created a new task force on problem gambling in the northeastern part of the state.
Kansas Congressman Mike Pompeo is planning to hold one-on-one meetings with constituents next week in Wichita.
Gov. Sam Brownback is likely to face questions about plans by Kansas to pursue funding for a new federal biosecurity lab.
The Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office says a van carrying county inmates has been involved in an accident in southeastern Kansas.
Sprouts from the sandwich chain Jimmy John's have been linked to an outbreak of foodborne illness - again.
Police say they've arrested the owner of a suspicious vehicle that was found parked in a judicial center parking lot near the Kansas Statehouse with several homemade explosives and an empty gun holder inside.
Gov. Sam Brownback and several wind energy officials are touting efforts in Kansas to develop the power source and asking that a federal tax credit for the industry not be allowed to expire.
The Kansas Board of Education has approved the state's request for a waiver from some provisions of the federal No Child Left Behind law.
Police have arrested a Columbia, Mo., man suspected of phoning in a threat to the Kansas governor's office from a motel in Topeka.
A 23-year-old Manhattan man has admitted robbing two banks in the northeast Kansas community last fall.
Voters in a southwestern Kansas community with no liquor store have approved Sunday sales of alcohol.
New Yorkers are cheering and Kansans are jeering a decision this week from the Obama administration on an animal disease research lab.
Kansas legislators are tangled in a local property tax case that could have big implications statewide.
A pilot program is getting under way to help returning veterans go into farming while also revitalizing rural communities.
Police say a man is being questioned in Topeka after allegedly phoning in a threat against the Kansas governor's office.
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano says a national biological and agricultural defense laboratory in the U.S. remains necessary despite the Obama administration's decision not to include construction funding in...
Protestors are hoping to draw people from across the nation to Wichita over the President's Day weekend for an "Occupy Koch Town" event.
Kansas Corporation Commission members say they will scrutinize Westar Energy's contention that its shareholders need to make a 10 percent return on their investment in the utility.
A state agency has been asked to study ways to save money at the Kansas Neurological Institute in Topeka.
The Salina Human Relations Commission has voted to delay a decision on a proposal to change the city's equality ordinance.
A Missouri man was sentenced to five years in prison for his role in a robbery on the University of Kansas campus.
The Kansas Democratic Party has a new communications director.
A coalition of Kansas organizations is heading to the Statehouse to rally against various Republican legislative proposals and some of Secretary of State Kris Kobach's (KOH'-bahks) initiatives.
A series of meetings is under way in Missouri and Kansas on how to make Kansas City the nation's most entrepreneurial city.
A Wichita man is in trouble after police say his two young children were found wandering along a busy street while he played video games at their home.
Students at a Joplin elementary school are the happy owners of new bicycles, courtesy of hundreds of employees of Payless ShoeSource.
A food scientist and professor from Pennsylvania State University has been named dean of Kansas State University's College of Agriculture and director of K-State Research and Extension.
Football players and coaches from Pittsburg State University head to Topeka on Wednesday to be honored for their NCAA Division II national championship.
Kansas officials are regrouping after President Barack Obama submitted a budget that eliminates funding for the proposed National Bio- and Agro-Defense Facility near Manhattan.
A Wichita woman scheduled to go on trial this week has pleaded guilty to killing her boyfriend, who was shot and pushed out of a car at a hospital.
A plan for redrawing Kansas Senate districts is drawing strong protests because of how it was drafted by the Reapportionment Committee chairman.
Wichita might have struck oil when it acquired land for a new library.
A plan from Kansas House Republicans would divert $320 million from highway projects to replace revenue lost by a cut in state income taxes.
A group of Kansas lawmakers have proposed a bill that would require a third of Kansas welfare recipients to pay to be tested for drugs.
Salina will name the basketball court at its Bicentennial Center after Kurt Budke, a native of the city who died in a plane crash while coaching Oklahoma State's women's basketball team.
A Hutchinson man died when he was run over by a trash truck while riding his bicycle.
A southeastern Kansas man has admitted pulling down a power pole in an attempt to steal copper wire, an act that knocked a radio station off the air for several hours.
A farm equipment trade group says January sales of combines in the United States were down 50 percent from the same month a year ago.
The Kansas Board of Education is receiving one more update about the state's proposal for seeking a waiver from some provisions of the federal No Child Left Behind education law.
A gay rights group is mobilizing against a bill before a Kansas House committee that supporters say is an attempt to preserve religious freedom.
Kansas retailers say they'll have plenty of helium on hand to blow up those heart-shaped Valentine's Day balloons despite tight supplies across the country.
Voters in a southwestern Kansas town with roughly 800 residents but no liquor store will decide whether to allow sales of alcohol on Sunday afternoons.
Kansas abortion providers who won a federal injunction to keep temporary clinic regulations from taking effect are asking a judge to award them attorneys' fees and costs.
A Kansas House committee has opened a week of hearings on immigration issues and will study competing proposals that represent opposing philosophies.
The Kansas Highway Patrol says two drivers have been killed in a head-on collision in the central part of the state.
A central Kansas woman has been sentenced to four years and three months in federal prison for the 2009 holdup of a Wichita credit union.
President Barack Obama, in his federal spending plan unveiled Monday, recommended that no additional funding be allocated for construction of a new biosecurity lab in Kansas and said the Department of Homeland Security will...
A storm dropped between 1 and 3 inches of snow across central and eastern Kansas, causing cars to slide off the roads in the season's first measurable snowfall for many areas.
The Kansas Legislature is spending more time than usual on alcohol-related bills during the current session.
A Kansas 6th grader is honoring the memory of his dog by asking the Kansas Legislature to regulate antifreeze.
A 12-year-old Wichita girl has died after she was hit by a police car.
Barton County Judge Hannelore Kitts is expected to rule Monday on whether to move the trial of a Kansas man accused with killing a 14-year-old Great Bend girl.
Legislative committees have scheduled additional hearings this week to consider several plans to cut the Kansas tax rates
Wild horse protection advocates are accusing the federal Bureau of Land Management of stacking a public advisory board with friends of cattle ranchers at the expense mustangs. And they say they are worried the panel is...
The federal trial is scheduled to begin this week in Wichita in the case of a jail inmate whose family is suing two Sedgwick County jail deputies.
Authorities say a Topeka man has been charged with poaching a 14-point whitetail buck that could have broken a state record that has stood for more than 35 years.
A former chief of staff to two past Democratic governors says he can't remember them inviting legislators to the governor's official residence by committee.
Kansas farmers and producers can now apply for federal funding for conserving water.
A judge has ruled that Shawnee County jurors can hear prosecution evidence that cellphone calls from Dana Chandler to her ex-husband and his fiancee went flat when they were killed.
A Kansas Court of Appeals panel has ruled that a former Lawrence man convicted of killing his wife should get a new trial because of an error in jury instructions at his 2005 trial.
About 400 mourners gathered to honor U.S. District Judge Wesley Brown, whose stamina and devotion to justice kept him on the federal bench right up until his death at 104.
Shawnee County District Attorney Chad Taylor has withdrawn a request that some legislators preserve records related to a series of dinners at the governor's mansion last month.
Kansas legislators are modifying a proposal from Gov. Sam Brownback's administration to establish a fund to cover the state's share of federally declared disasters.
The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have told a Missouri River committee that they agree with a report that is critical of the so-called "spring pulse."
The Salina business community has received some advice from the man who was the inspiration for the film "Catch Me If You Can."
House Republican leaders are proposing a plan to cut Kansas income taxes, removing one key objection to an earlier proposal from Gov. Sam Brownback.
A former vice president of Heritage Bank in Topeka has been charged with bank fraud for allegedly falsifying loan applications from otherwise unqualified buyers who were purchasing real estate from her as the seller.
Virginia Rep. Frank Wolf is asking a federal panel to reject architect Frank Gehry's design for a memorial honoring President Dwight D. Eisenhower in Washington.
A leading anti-abortion legislator is blocking a push to enact a constitutional amendment that would ban on abortion in Kansas.
The state's highest court has upheld the convictions of a man who kidnapped and killed a 14-year-old Wichita girl in 2006.
About 220 troubled young Kansans who have been diverted from psychiatric residential treatment facilities were the subject of a joint hearing before two House committees.
A Lawrence Municipal Court judge says part of a city ordinance that makes it illegal to obstruct traffic on sidewalks is unconstitutional.
Marshall County authorities are asking to public for help finding a Frankfort man who has been missing for a week.
Shawnee County has agreed to pay $75,000 to settle a lawsuit over a jail policy that bans inmates from receiving books and publications in the mail.
A federal judge has found a Kansas man competent to stand trial on charges of threatening the president of the United States.
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