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Last August, a mother put her youngest son on a plane in New Jersey bound for Garden City Community College to play football in southwestern Kansas.
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Chris Haxel
Posted on
02/18/19
Topeka-based Payless ShoeSource is closing all 2,300 of its domestic retail stores, a company spokesperson confirmed to KCUR on Monday. About 1,200...
Kansas City Anesthesia Group Says Medical Information For 3,472 Patients Might Have Been Compromised
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Dan Margolies
Posted on
02/18/19
A medical group that provides anesthesia services to Kansas City metro hospitals has notified 3,472 patients that some of their personal information may...
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Stephan Bisaha
Posted on
02/18/19
Former Federal Reserve chairman Ben Bernanke compared the national economy to a Looney Tunes character : magically floating in the air for a moment...
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Jim McLean
Posted on
02/16/19
The Kansas House has rejected Gov. Laura Kelly's plan to refinance pension debt. But the new governor says that won't tank the state budget or doom her...
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Corinne Boyer
Posted on
02/15/19
A few days before the November midterm election, Alejandro Rangel-Lopez turned 18. But before he cast that first ballot, local election officials moved...
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Jim McLean
Posted on
02/15/19
Kansas U.S. Sen. Jerry Moran is one of several Republicans who expressed concern about President Donald Trump’s declaration Friday of a national...
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Dan Margolies
Posted on
02/15/19
This story was updated to include Sen. Jim Denning's comments. The Kansas City Star came out swinging Friday in response to a defamation lawsuit filed...
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Jim McLean
Posted on
02/15/19
Republicans in the Kansas Legislature handed Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly her first defeat this week. On Valentine’s Day, no less. They soundly rejected...
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Dan Margolies
Posted on
02/14/19
This story was updated to add the comments of Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly. Oswego Community Hospital, a 12-bed critical access hospital in southeast Kansas,...
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Stephen Koranda
Posted on
02/14/19
Gov. Laura Kelly has said she has an easy solution for funding schools: Just renew the finance plan the Kansas Legislature agreed to last year and fold...
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Jim McLean
Posted on
02/14/19
Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly and Kansas Department of Transportation officials outlined plans Wednesday for putting a state highway program abandoned by...
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Stephan Bisaha
Posted on
02/13/19
Simplistic crisis plans and missing mandatory training by some Kansas schools led the Kansas Board of Education on Tuesday to reinforce its suicide...
Author
Nomin Ujiyediin
Posted on
02/13/19
After recruiting only three teachers in Kansas last year, nonprofit Teach For America is asking lawmakers for a quarter of a million dollars to continue...
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Stephen Koranda
Posted on
02/12/19
The Kansas secretary of corrections calls staffing shortages at a state prison an emergency. Worker shortages are a persistent problem the state prison...
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Nomin Ujiyediin
Posted on
02/11/19
Hunter Defenbaugh loves working in prison. Five nights a week, the 19-year-old corrections officer works overnight shifts in the infirmary at El Dorado...
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Stephen Koranda
Posted on
02/11/19
Republican leaders in the Kansas Senate are forging ahead with plans to plow millions into tax relief that would largely benefit big business. Some...
Author
Jim McLean
Posted on
02/09/19
With Republican Senate President Susan Wagle leading the charge, the Kansas Senate sent a massive tax relief measure on to the House. Wagle says Kansas...
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Celia Llopis-Jepsen
Posted on
02/08/19
Thousands of Kansas children and teens go without vaccines that could save their lives. A series of policy changes, though, could protect more Kansans...
Author
Jim McLean
Posted on
02/08/19
Ty Masterson finally said it this week. He gave voice to what many Republicans had been thinking since November. Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s election...
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Jim McLean
Posted on
02/08/19
Kansas Democratic Governor Laura Kelly named former Republican Rep. Melissa Rooker on Thursday to help lead one of her signature initiatives. Kelly...
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Dan Margolies
Posted on
02/07/19
Another hospital led by EmpowerHMS, the North Kansas City company that has defaulted on its bills and missed payroll at its hospitals over the last...
