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Kansas Supreme Court reverses felony and misdemeanor convictions for man claiming he was unable to pay $20 fee when filling out offender registry form.
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TOPEKA — A U.S. Supreme Court ruling on campaign finance in late June was “the perfect moment” for major donors to pour money into races ahead of the midterm elections, said Tiffany Muller, president of End Citizens United, a group advocating for campaign finance guardrails. As candidates exit primary season, the most competitive races begin […]
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Widespread denial accompanied the public exposure of Jeffrey Epstein’s decades-long sexual abuse and trafficking of girls and women. After the U.S. Justice Department released millions of case documents on Epstein in January 2026, billionaires, politicians, heads of state and academics proclaimed their ignorance of Epstein’s global network of sexual exploitation. Why would so many intelligent and powerful people repeatedly trumpet their lack of awareness, […]
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TOPEKA — A Kansas firefighters union and county government are “at loggerheads with each other,” a federal judge said Wednesday, complaining they threw the case at him to solve after months of conflict. The Kansas City, Kansas Professional Firefighters Association’s lawsuit against the Unified Government of Wyandotte County was filed against the backdrop of a […]
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Three-judge panel of Kansas Court of Appeals backs lower court's dismissal of lawsuit challenging state's ban on cross-party nomination of candidates.
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ERIE — A jury Wednesday convicted former Neosho County Attorney Linus Thuston of lying under oath two years ago when he offered an excuse for why he was meeting a woman alone at night in a discreet location after they had exchanged explicit photos. Thuston could face prison time for the low-level perjury conviction. He […]
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TOPEKA — Phyllis Zorn, the reporter whose acts of journalism served as an excuse for the August 2023 police raid of the Marion County Record, will get $850,000 from the city of Marion to settle her federal lawsuit over the raid. Attorneys for Zorn and the city filed a motion Tuesday, exactly three years after […]
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Midwest Innocence Project attorneys argue a Kansas City, Kansas, man was unjustly convicted of murder and attempted murder in a 2009 barbershop shooting.
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Kansas professor falsely accused of espionage wants university to pay for firing, harm to reputation
TOPEKA — An anonymous tip accusing a Chinese-American chemist and researcher of espionage spurred the University of Kansas into action, notifying the U.S. Department of Justice and building a case against its own employee, Feng “Franklin” Tao said in a lawsuit. Tao was a tenured chemical engineering professor at KU in 2019 when he became […]
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Four years ago, Kansans said “hell no” to a constitutional amendment clearing the way for extremists to ban abortion. On Tuesday, Kansans said “hell no” again, this time to a constitutional amendment clearing the way for a conservative revamp of the state Supreme Court — banning abortion and gutting public education. Somehow, that message hasn’t […]
