Tag: Kansas

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly proposed Monday that Kansas give itself more breathing room in its budget by slashing annual payments to its pension system for teachers and government workers, offering a…

Kansas educators want lawmakers to act on health care, bullying and college credits when the Legislature convenes later this month. For over a decade, the school funding battle has dominated any conversation about education in…

Karen Pollitz, the study?s co-author. That complicates research. And patients wonder whether they?ll make it out the hospital door without bumping into an out-of-network assistant surgeon or radiologist. ?It just feels like a minefield, you…

SAND SPRINGS, Okla. (AP) — A man stole a pickup truck with a sleeping passenger and a goat inside it and drove it all the way from Missouri to Oklahoma before releasing the terrified victim…

Former Fredonia official guilty on child porn charge FREDONIA — A former Fredonia city administrator pleaded guilty to child pornography charges, according to The Wilson County Citizen. Michael Ohrt, 40, entered a plea in November…

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A convicted Kansas killer has been charged with another homicide just months after he was released on parole. Thirty-nine-year-old Ahmad Khaasanouva Bey was charged Tuesday in Sedgwick County District Court with…

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A new monthly survey of business supply managers suggests the economy is growing slowly in nine Midwest and Plains states as the U.S. trade war with China continues, according to a…

TOPEKA, Kansas — Kansas and federal election officials say they know the 2020 election could come under attack from foreign governments or rogue hackers. They also insist they’re braced to guard against efforts to tamper…

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) — An actress who had a small role in the movie “Captain America: The First Avenger” is accused of fatally stabbing her mother inside a suburban Kansas City home. Mollie Fitzgerald, 38,…

Thanks to the stellar reporting by Sarah Jane Tribble of Kaiser Health News, the closing of Fort Scott’s Mercy Hospital and its effect on the town has been uniquely chronicled over the past year on…