Tag: Kansas

The Iola Public Library starts off the new year with a handful of programs for adults. Those who play bridge usually consider it the greatest card game of all. This winter, anyone interested has the…

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Authorities have arrested a suspect in the deaths of a mother and two children whose bodies were found after a house fire in Kansas City, Kansas. Police said late Monday…

The Garden City Telegram recently reported that Empirical, a South Dakota-based beef production company, plans to build a new facility in Garden City. That facility will bring 300 jobs to the area. This is great…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — One of the Kansas Legislature’s most conservative members and strongest abortion opponents is retiring next month. Republican state Sen. Mary Pilcher-Cook of Shawnee announced Friday that she will step down Jan.…

HIAWATHA, Kan. (AP) — The family of a 9-year-old Kansas girl say she has died after being diagnosed with influenza in neighboring Nebraska. The family of Leighya Marie DeLong, of Hiawatha, confirmed to Topeka television…

Enrollment at Kansas’s six universities is down by almost 1%. Of the six — Pittsburg State, Emporia, Kansas State, University of Kansas, Fort Hays and Wichita State — K-State has been hit hardest, suffering a…

TOPEKA, Kansas — It typically took Walt Hill more than a year to recruit a psychiatrist to northwest Kansas. Now he doesn’t even bother. Instead, the executive director of the High Plains Mental Health Center…

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Sen. Jerry Moran says President Donald Trump has given him assurances that Trump will try to soften the economic blow for Kansas from the suspension of production of the troubled…

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas prosecutor who helped free a man who spent 23 years in prison for a double homicide he always said he didn’t commit is calling for justice as the…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas has been putting fewer juvenile offenders in its detention center and lessening their time on probation in the three years since it overhauled its juvenile justice system to handle offenders…