Kansas

Tornadoes cause damage in Kansas and Iowa as severe storms hit Midwest

Strong storms caused damage in parts of the central U.S. Tuesday and spawned tornadoes in Kansas and...

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Kansas tornado leaves 1 dead, destroys nearly two dozen homes, officials say

One person died Tuesday and nearly two dozen homes were destroyed when a tornado ripped through the ...

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Tornadoes spotted in Oklahoma as dangerous storms move across Great Plains

Tornadoes touched down Monday evening in rural Oklahoma and large hail pelted parts of Kansas as an ...

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70 years on, Topeka's first Black female superintendent seeks to further the legacy of Brown v. Board of Education

Topeka, Kansas — Home-delivered birthday gifts and cake aren't generally part of a school curriculum...

us | 4 months ago

Missing womens' bodies found buried on farm property linked to grandma accused in complex murder plan, documents show

The bodies of two murdered women who earlier this year disappeared in rural Oklahoma were eventually...

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Carl Maughan, Kansas lawmaker arrested in March, has law license suspended over conflicts of interest in murder case

A Republican Kansas lawmaker who already dropped his re-election campaign last month after he was ar...

us | 3 months ago

1 dead, 3 injured after severe thunderstorm tears through state park in Kansas

One man died and three people were injured after a severe thunderstorm pummeled Russell County in Ka...

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How a unique Topeka program is welcoming immigrants and helping them thrive

Topeka, Kansas — When Angelica Chernytska and her mother Larysa left war-torn Ukraine earlier this y...

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Kansas' top court rejects 2 anti-abortion laws, bolstering state right to abortion access

Kansas' highest court on Friday struck down state laws regulating abortion providers more strictly t...

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Ex-police chief who led raid on Kansas newspaper charged with obstruction of justice

The former Kansas police chief who last year led a raid on a local newspaper has been charged with f...

us | 2 months ago

Kansas school employee locked teen with Down syndrome in closet, storage cage, lawsuit says

A paraeducator of a rural Kansas school district repeatedly shoved a teenager with Down syndrome int...

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John Manard, inmate whose escape from Kansas prison in a dog crate inspired a movie, dies at age 45

An inmate whose escape from a Kansas prison hidden in a dog crate became the subject of a book and T...

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After deaths of as many as 70 horses, owner of Oklahoma rodeo company suspects feed was tainted

Rhett Beutler, the co-owner of a nearly century-old Oklahoma company that supplies stock for rodeos,...

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