Overland Park headlines and updates

1+ day, 16+ hour ago   (707+ words) A U.S. District Court judge has issued an order forbidding enforcement of a bipartisan Kansas law adopted in 2004 that allowed certain immigrant students at public colleges and universities to pay in-state tuition rates rather than higher out-of-state rates. Beneficiaries of the…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (589+ words) TOPEKA — Attorney General Kris Kobach asserted a stabbing death in southwest Kansas could have been averted through compliance with a federal court order for deportation of the man later charged in the slaying. Lagos-Gonzales was charged Sept. 3 and has been…...

3+ day, 4+ hour ago   (610+ words) TOPEKA — Attorney General Kris Kobach asserted a stabbing death in southwest Kansas could have been averted through compliance with a federal court order for deportation of the man later charged in the slaying. Honduran national charged with fatal stabbing of…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (559+ words) TOPEKA — President Donald Trump’s U.S. Department of Justice sued the state of Kansas on Wednesday, asking a federal judge to tear down the law that allows college students without lawful immigration status to receive in-state tuition. The DOJ argued…...

2+ mon, 2+ week ago   (59+ words) Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach won't defend a state law on in-state tuition benefits for immigrants from a federal lawsuit by Donald Trump's DOJ. Kris Kobach won't defend Kansas tuition law in Trump DOJ lawsuit The U.S. Department of Justice and…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1749+ words) This article was originally published in Beacon: Kansas. For 22 years, Kansas leaders protected a law allowing some undocumented students to pay in-state tuition to attend the state’s public colleges, universities and technical schools. Those days are over. During the recently…...