Kansas has become the first state in the nation to enact an abortion law that bans a common second-trimester procedure that abortion opponents call “dismemberment abortion.”
A new law that will allow Kansas residents age 21 and over to carry concealed firearms without first getting a permit was signed into law Thursday by the state governor.
In a first for the U.S. Army, the commandant of the Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, military prison where Chelsea Manning is being held has approved female hormone treatment.
In addition to being convicted of capital murder in the 2009 shooting massacre of 13 people at Fort Hood, a U.S. Army psychiatrist has lost the beard he fought…
After Lance Franklin decked his defense lawyer on Thursday, right in front of the jury during a Topeka, Kansas, rape trial, Judge Marc Braun held him in contempt and sentenced…
In 2012, a Kansas judge ruled that records kept by a man who investigated the murder of four family members portrayed in a famous Truman Capote book could not be…
Originally charged with first-degree murder in the death of a 10-month-old foster child who was forgotten in his car for more than two hours on a hot day, Seth Michael…
A hospital chain headquartered in Colorado has announced a plan to test job applicants for tobacco. Those who test positive for “tobacco use” won’t be hired, but can re-apply after…
A lawyer who told jurors his capital murder client was a “professional drug dealer” and a “shooter of people” has been disbarred for “inexplicable incompetence.”
U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor has temporarily blocked same-sex marriages in Kansas in response to a stay application that cites a newly developed circuit split.
Corrected: A Prairie Village councilman who was removed from office because he allowed a homeless friend to stay overnight at city hall during 2012 must be reinstated, a Kansas appeals…
A daughter of a notorious serial killer has for the first time publicly spoken about her father, in response to news that a short story by Stephen King, “A…
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