15+ hour, 58+ min ago   (1099+ words) In his closing statement at the Kansas State Fair debate on Saturday, U.S. Sen. Roger Marshall received a tepid response to an applause line about Kansas State’s football team defeating Washington State. Earlier in the forum, Marshall got cut off mid-answer…...

13+ hour, 43+ min ago   (870+ words) HUTCHINSON — Candidates for governor engaged in a veritable bare-knuckle brawl when they took the stage Saturday at the Kansas State Fair for a debate punctuated by the chants and jeers of an enthusiastic crowd of dueling supporters. Kansas Senate President…...

18+ hour, 56+ min ago   (951+ words) Kansas voters’ two choices for governor spent Saturday morning clashing over the issues and trading vitriolic personal attacks during a debate at the state fairgrounds in Hutchinson. Kansas’ Republican Senate President Ty Masterson and Democratic state Sen. Cindy Holscher — longtime…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago   (638+ words) TOPEKA — The first political debates of the election season come to the Kansas State Fair on Saturday, putting candidates vying for governor and the U.S. Senate on stage along with the normal fair gigs of wood carvers, pig races and…...

4+ day, 18+ min 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, 5+ 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…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (501+ words) The lawsuit comes more than a year after the Education Department first said it was investigating four districts in Kansas following a complaint from the Defense of Freedom Institute. The conservative group's complaint alleged the schools had policies preventing disclosure…...

3+ week, 4+ hour ago   (909+ words) Nancy Kassebaum Baker, a Kansas governor’s daughter who became the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate without following a spouse into office, has died. She was 94. Kassebaum Baker died Friday of natural causes, according to her son, Bill Kassebaum....

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (860+ words) For the first time in 32 years, Kansas voters will only have two choices for governor — Republican Ty Masterson or Democrat Cindy Holscher. Kansas’ last seven gubernatorial cycles have featured at least one independent or third-party candidate on the November ballot....