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KANSAS CITY, Mo. —The Kansas City lawyer for the family of baby reported missing more than three weeks ago announced Friday she has stopped representing the family, leaving them with one New York-based attorney.
TOPEKA — New Kansas Arts Commission members plan to revive a project to raise private dollars for its programs only months after the agency dropped it amid a budget dispute with Gov. Sam Brownback that made Kansas the only state in the nation to eliminate its arts funding.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. —Although it may not always be visible, Johnson County has a homeless population. And it's growing.
U.S. Rep. Tim Huelskamp told a Wichita Republican group Friday that the federal government will be digging into everyone's private medical records to implement the Affordable Care Act.
GREENSBURG — The opening of the Kiowa County Historical Museum next week will be another milestone for Greensburg as it continues to rebuild from a May 2007 tornado that virtually destroyed the town
TOPEKA — Kansas has been told again by the National Endowment for the Arts that it won't receive federal funds, prompting the state Arts Commission's chairwoman to declare that the group will move forward with a "truly Kansas" plan for supporting arts programs with private money.
HUTCHINSON — When the cast of Hutchinson High School's first musical production of the school year comes together, the conversation isn't about typical teenage topics.
TOPEKA — A commission agreed Wednesday to consider proposing that Kansas start a 401(k)-style pension plan for new teachers and government workers, but members also expect to mull an alternative that creates such a plan only for higher-wage employees.
TOPEKA — The Governmental Ethics Commission fined Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach's campaign $5,000 on Wednesday for mistakes in filing expense and contribution reports for the 2010 election.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. —The reported sightings have come from as far as California, people just certain they've spotted the blond-haired Kansas City baby whose cherubic face has been printed on fliers and circulated on national television programs since her disappearance three weeks ago.
TOPEKA — Kansas' top transportation official is leaving her post in December to take a position with a national transportation planning and policy group, Gov. Sam Brownback's office announced Tuesday.
LAWRENCE— The toxic blue-green algae that infested many Kansas waterways this summer are dying off as the temperatures drop, but state officials say they're working on a plan to combat the blooms when they return.
OLATHE — A Kansas trial court judge postponed a criminal case against a Planned Parenthood clinic Monday, only days after the disclosure that the state health department's routine document shredding had destroyed copies of abortion reports later needed as evidence.
A federal agency began a special inspection of Wolf Creek's nuclear power plant Monday as the result of recent problems with an emergency diesel generator.
After nearly three weeks of searching for 11-month Lisa Irwin, Kansas City, Mo., police continue to track down leads in a frustrating case that seems to have few.
COUNCIL GROVE — Kenneth McClintock, a former municipal judge who now researches this town's complicated past, cringed when he heard someone doused a man with rubbing alcohol and set him on fire a couple weeks ago.
Kansas Democrats, whose party took a beating in the 2010 election, gathered for the annual DemoFest in Wichita on Saturday, where the focus was reorganizing, re-energizing and preparing for 2012.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. —The country's first criminal prosecution of Planned Parenthood was left teetering Friday when it was revealed the state of Kansas destroyed abortion records that prosecutors planned to use as evidence.
Kansas finds itself in a familiar position when it comes to energy efficiency — trailing the nation and falling farther behind.
TOPEKA — Prolonged drought conditions are taking a toll on Kansas reservoirs, where declining levels are raising concerns about sustained water supply and the possibility of algae blooms, a water office official said Tuesday.
