Kansas

News from the state of Kansas

Kansas agency’s lost $72K: 4 years of probing, few answers

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TOPEKA, Kan. — Sometime after a January 2017 drug bust near Interstate 70's main exit for President Dwight Eisenhower's boyhood Kansas home, $72,000 in...

Black neighborhoods in Kansas hard hit by property tax sales

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Rozetta Dotson worked two jobs to scrape together the money to pay down a delinquent tax debt on the Kansas City, Kansas, home she...

Drop in vaccine demand has some places turning down doses

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JACKSON, Miss. — Louisiana has stopped asking the federal government for its full allotment of COVID-19 vaccine. About three-quarters of Kansas counties have turned...

Mormon sex therapist ousted from faith for critiques

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SALT LAKE CITY — A sex therapist in Utah who has publicly challenged her faith's policies on sexuality has been kicked out of The...

Supreme Court cuts back FTC power to seek ill-gotten gains

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WASHINGTON — A unanimous Supreme Court on Thursday cut back the Federal Trade Commission's authority to recover ill-gotten gains, overturning a nearly $1.3 billion...

Kansas governor vetoes ban for transgender school athletes

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TOPEKA, Kan. — Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly on Thursday vetoed a Republican measure that would have made Kansas the latest state with a GOP-controlled...

A jab on the job: Companies, unions offer COVID-19 vaccines

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Marie Watson wanted to be among the first in line when she and other essential workers became eligible for the coronavirus vaccine — and...

LSU reeling amid protracted reviews of sexual assault cases

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When LSU's football team emerges from the north end zone tunnel in 102,000-seat Tiger Stadium for its traditional spring scrimmage on Saturday, players will...

State Dept. watchdog says Pompeo, wife violated ethics rules

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WASHINGTON — The State Department’s internal watchdog has concluded that former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and his wife violated federal ethics rules by...

Passage of Kansas bill on trans athletes won’t be veto-proof

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TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas conservatives appeared likely Friday to push a proposed ban on transgender athletes in girl's and women's school sports through the...