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3 Girls Injured In Fall From Ferris Wheel At Tennessee Fair

6:06pm August 09, 2016

by Brakkton Booker

The girls fell "between 35 and 45 feet," according to officials. One girl sustained a traumatic brain injury. The incident comes a day after a boy died while riding a waterslide in Kansas.

Establishment Topples Tea Party With Ouster Of Kansas Republican

10:24am August 03, 2016

by Jessica Taylor

Buoyed by agriculture interest groups, obstetrician Roger Marshall easily ousted Kansas Rep. Tim Huelskamp, a conservative member of the rabble-rousing Freedom Caucus.

Kansas Votes More Money For Public Schools To Avert Shutdown

10:25pm June 24, 2016

by Barbara Campbell

Legislators, pressured by the state Supreme Court, passed a $38 million package for the state's underfunded schools. Justices had threatened to close all public schools in Kansas after this month.

Kansas Supreme Court Rejects Lawmakers' Bid To Fix Education Funding

7:48pm May 27, 2016

by Dana Farrington

The Legislature has until June 30 to resolve an "inequitable and unconstitutional" funding structure, the court says, or else schools will have to close.

Two women cast their ballots for Republican candidates during the state's Republican caucuses on March 5 in Wichita, Kan.

Judge Blocks Kansas' Proof-Of-Citizenship Voting Registration Requirement

11:51am May 18, 2016

by Laura Wagner

The ruling is the latest development in a back-and-forth over the registration requirement, which supporters claim prevents voter fraud and opponents say is an effort to suppress voting rights.

A photo of the truck that hit and shifted the train tracks, causing an Amtrak derailment in Kansas.

National

Truck Hit And Shifted Train Tracks, Causing Kansas Derailment, Authorities Say

8:44pm March 15, 2016

by Laura Wagner

The National Transportation Safety Board says an agricultural feed truck hit the track, causing it to shift and an Amtrak train to derail late Monday night. More than 30 people were injured.

Rabbi Daniel Rockoff of Orthodox Congregation Beth Israel Abraham Voliner estimates there about 250 Sabbath-observant families in Johnson County, Kan.

Politics & Government

When A Saturday Caucus Means No Voting For Orthodox Jews

3:17pm March 04, 2016

by Elle Moxley

A community of observant Jews in Kansas got Republicans to change their Saturday caucus rules, but Democrats haven't changed theirs yet.

Voters cast ballots in November 2014 at Lake Shawnee park in Topeka, Kan.

Change At Federal Election Agency Muddles Kansas Voter Registration Laws

9:57pm February 02, 2016

by Pam Fessler

The state requires its residents to prove their citizenship when registering to vote, but a federal agency fought the law in court. It now appears to have changed positions.

Evenly Divided Kansas Appeals Court Blocks 2015 Abortion Law

3:58pm January 22, 2016

by Bill Chappell

In a widely watched case, judges ruled 7-7 against a first-of-its-kind Kansas law that bans a common method of performing second-trimester abortions.

National

Wichita Man Sentenced To 20 Years In Airport Bomb Plot

6:58pm August 31, 2015

by Bill Chappell

Terry Loewen, who pleaded guilty to attempting to drive an explosives-laden vehicle and detonate it at an airport in Wichita, Kan., has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison.