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Nomin Ujiyediin
Posted on
01/17/20
TOPEKA, Kansas — The same kids who end up in trouble with the law often come from families in disarray. Those families, in turn, regularly turn to the...
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Stephen Koranda
Posted on
01/16/20
TOPEKA, Kansas — Kansas Governor Laura Kelly’s budget wish list is long: boosting spending on higher education, public safety and human services. She'd...
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Brian Grimmett
Posted on
01/10/20
An independent review of Kansas’ rising electricity prices shows the current system for setting rates could use some improvements. In a lengthy report...
Spirit AeroSystems announced Friday that it will lay off 2,800 employees at its plant in Wichita as the shutdown of the Boeing 737 Max program drags on....
Author
Jim McLean
Posted on
01/09/20
TOPEKA, Kansas — Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly and a key Republican lawmaker said Thursday they’ve crafted a deal to make roughly 130,000 more Kansans...
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Sherman Smith of The Topeka Capital-Journal
Posted on
01/09/20
TOPEKA, Kansas — Natalie Zarate entered state custody when she was 11 years old, removed from a physically abusive mother and placed in a group home for...
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Laura Ziegler
Posted on
01/08/20
The Wyandotte County District Attorney’s Office amended charges Wednesday against the two men suspected in October's fatal shootings at a bar in Kansas...
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Corinne Boyer
Posted on
01/08/20
GARDEN CITY, Kansas — Rural Kansas communities hope to see roads, internet and taxes addressed in the upcoming 2020 legislative session. But some voters...
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The Topeka Capital-Journal
Posted on
01/08/20
Gov. Laura Kelly announced Wednesday a plan to form a singular agency — the Kansas Department of Human Services — that would absorb social welfare...
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Dan Margolies
Posted on
01/07/20
The Shawnee Mission School District and four district officials have agreed to pay $165,000 to resolve a lawsuit alleging school officials failed to...
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Celia Llopis-Jepsen
Posted on
01/07/20
KANSAS CITY, Missouri — Chris Costantini lay in a cold sweat, his shoulder dislocated after slipping on a porch in Kansas City, Kansas. He’d been out...
Republican members of the Kansas Congressional delegation issued statements Friday supporting President Donald Trump’s decision to authorize a drone...
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Dan Margolies
Posted on
01/03/20
Cancer survivors and their loved ones who attend meetings of the Prostate Network in Kansas City have talked for years about a radiation treatment...
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Stephan Bisaha
Posted on
01/02/20
Kansas educators want lawmakers to act on health care, bullying and college credits when the Legislature convenes later this month. For over a decade,...
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Brian Grimmett
Posted on
12/30/19
WICHITA, Kansas — As global carbon dioxide emissions break records , Kansas is headed in the opposite direction — reducing emissions for 10 straight...
Author
Nomin Ujiyediin
Posted on
12/30/19
TOPEKA, Kansas — This state capital made national headlines in December when it announced it would pay anyone up to $15,000 to move here and work for...
Author
Corinne Boyer
Posted on
12/30/19
GARDEN CITY, Kansas — Federal rules signed into law in November promised strict bans on animal cruelty. They made it illegal to burn, crush, impale,...
Author
Nomin Ujiyediin
Posted on
12/27/19
TOPEKA, Kansas — It typically took Walt Hill more than a year to recruit a psychiatrist to northwest Kansas. Now he doesn’t even bother. Instead, the...
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Kaiser Health News
Posted on
12/27/19
FORT SCOTT, Kan. — A slight drizzle had begun in the gray December sky outside Community Christian Church as Reta Baker, president of the local hospital...
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Stephen Koranda
Posted on
12/23/19
TOPEKA, Kansas — Kansas and federal election officials say they know the 2020 election could come under attack from foreign governments or rogue hackers...
Author
Stephen Koranda
Posted on
12/23/19
TOPEKA, Kansas — Personal income growth in Kansas is below the national average, due in large part to troubles in the agriculture industry, which makes...
Spirit AeroSystems said Friday it will suspend production of the 737 Max beginning Jan. 1. The company says Boeing ordered Spirit to halt all 737...
