Former Kansas Supreme Court Justice Evelyn Wilson, age 66, died Saturday following a battle with ALS, or Lou Gehrig’s disease. Wilson served on the highest court from 2020 to July 2025, when she resigned after…

TOPEKA — Kansas Supreme Court Justice Marla Luckert will retire later this month, an announcement from the court said. Luckert suffered a stroke in October that led to a car accident. She relinquished public-facing duties…

TOPEKA — Kansas Supreme Court justices heard from judges around the state who were having difficulty appointing attorneys to criminal cases, where representation is a constitutional guarantee. So former Chief Justice Marla Luckert created in…

Casey McDonald Dye was sentenced to 206 months, or just over 17 years, in prison for the 2022 murder of Ryan Holcomb Tuesday in Allen County District Court. Chief District Judge Daniel Creitz was the…

Thursday’s charges against James Comey follow a tumultuous week that echoed Richard Nixon’s Saturday Night Massacre, amid the heart of Watergate in 1973. This time, the federal attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia Erik…

TOPEKA — The Kansas Supreme Court swore in a new justice Wednesday, marking Gov. Laura Kelly’s fourth appointee to the bench. After an informal ceremony Wednesday morning at the Kansas Judicial Center in Topeka, Larkin…

TOPEKA — Kansas Supreme Court Justice Evelyn Wilson will retire, effective July 4, following a recent amyotrophic lateral sclerosis diagnosis, also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease. Wilson’s letter of resignation submitted to Kansas…

LAWRENCE — A child sex abuse survivor and advocate thinks it’s “more than a coincidence” that three men accused of child sex crimes died by suicide in December. Survivors of the three men are now…

TOPEKA — Kansas Supreme Court Justice Marla Luckert told lawmakers Wednesday she was happy she wouldn’t be talking about how a disaster had upended court operations like she has in past years with the COVID-19…

TOPEKA — Chief Justice Marla Luckert retained a lonely position as the only member of the Kansas Supreme Court convinced appeals of criminal convictions shouldn’t be allowed to proceed through the judicial system after the…