Five-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos returned home to Minnesota on Sunday, Feb. 1, with his father, ending a detention that carried the Columbia Heights preschooler hundreds of miles from his school and family and turned him…

TOPEKA — A coalition of Kansas House Democrats sought passage of a bill Thursday requiring U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents operating in Kansas to forego warrantless raids, undergo the equivalent of a 14-week law…

U.S. Rep. Derek Schmidt spent almost all of Thursday in Iola, visiting with people at their places of work. On the list were Allen County Regional Hospital, the Allen County Sheriff’s Office, Iola Rotary Club,…

CHANUTE — Here’s proof that planning pays.   For the last several years, the Neosho County Healthcare Coalition’s No. 1 goal has been to provide more childcare opportunities.  “We made it a priority because Neosho…

YATES CENTER — Discussions on the fate of the Yates Center Police Department will continue when Yates Center City Council members gather for their regular meeting Monday. The 7 p.m. meeting will be held at…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Senate leaders were scrambling on Friday to save a bipartisan spending deal and prevent a partial government shutdown this weekend as some Republicans pushed back on a rare deal between President Donald…

LOS ANGELES (AP) — Catherine O’Hara, a gifted Canadian comic actor and “SCTV” alum who starred as Macaulay Culkin’s harried mother in two “Home Alone” movies and created the dramatically ditzy character of Moira Rose in…

TOPEKA — In Vicki Schumacher’s nutrition services office at Wichita Public Schools, staff spend roughly two hours verifying one free lunch application from start to finish. Under proposed legislation, the office could see its work…

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — NASA has delayed astronauts’ upcoming trip to the moon because of near-freezing temperatures expected at the launch site. The first Artemis moonshot with a crew is now targeted for no earlier than Feb.…

TOPEKA — The House agriculture committee endorsed a bill on pesticide warning labels that was alternatively described as commonsense regulatory relief for farmers and a measure shielding chemical manufacturers from liability in lawsuits. Before advancing…