A rural Kansas prosecutor pressured about 50 women to send him nude photos, shared secret police information about potential targets of drug busts and advised a client to break into a house, according to local law enforcement and court records.
The U.S. District Court of Appeals reversed Friday the false-statement conviction of a former KU tenured professor and brought to an end deconstruction of the federal government’s prosecution of the chemical engineering researcher based on a secret relationship with Fuzhou University in China.
The Kansas State Board of Education plans to finalize in August parameters of a 30-member task force that would be formed to develop policy recommendations on non-academic use of cellular telephones by prekindergarten through 12th-grade students while at school.
Republican Sen. Michael Fagg made a compelling case for scheduling joint House and Senate hearings on options for developing medical marijuana legislation in advance of convening the 2025 Kansas Legislature.
Gov. Laura Kelly and top legislative leaders voted Tuesday to allocate $35.7 million to public higher education after the Board of Regents certified that administrators complied with a state law forbidding employment and admissions decisions to be based on diversity, equity and inclusion policies.
A national coalition’s report says one-fourth of Kansas’ 300 nursing homes were categorized as problem facilities due to substandard care and persistent compliance issues.
Scientists want to know how well bees are coping with habitat loss. But first, they need to be able to tell nearly identical species apart.
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The Kansas Supreme Court on Friday struck down two laws restricting abortion, affirming its prior interpretation that ending a pregnancy remains a constitutionally protected right in Kansas.
A Kansas judge allowed a group of abortion providers to expand an existing lawsuit and challenge a new law requiring them to collect information about their patients’ reasons for ending their pregnancies.
A bill in the Kansas Legislature would have provided millions of dollars to build homeless shelters across the state. But lawmakers let the bill stall in committee and left Topeka for the year without taking any meaningful action to address the growing problem.
