Kansas News

U.S. Rep. Dennis Moore will not seek re-election next year. Moore, a Democrat who represented Johnson, Wyandotte and a portion of Douglas counties for six terms, is expected to finish out his term, which ends in January 2011.

Kansas Democrats' presumed nominee for governor will show how serious he is about his campaign with the amount of his own money he is willing to put into it.

The Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks confirms the tiny, invasive mollusks were discovered this week in Milford Lake, near Junction City.

The Kansas Supreme Court on Friday upheld Benjamin Applebys murder conviction and Hard 50 prison sentence for killing Leawood teen Ali Kemp in 2002.But the court reversed a second conviction and a 19-year sentence for attempted rape, saying it would be unconstitutional to convict Appleby twice for the same offense.Appleby was found guilty in 2006 ...

Author Truman Capote stands in the living room of the Clutter ranch house where four members of the Kansas family were murdered in 1959.

The Jerry Moran campaign is seeing red over an e-mail from Senate rival Todd Tiahrt's campaign that implies Moran is a fellow traveler of the Communist Party.

A biophysicist has confirmed that a black rock that fell into a backyard in Liberal during the weekend was a meteorite.

More than 1,000 Farm Bureau members representing each of the state's 105 counties will have the opportunity to learn more about how they can strengthen their farm, their farm organization and their way of life, as they attend the KFB annual meeting, Nov.

They are convinced it's a meteorite. Ten-year-old Chandler Harp was playing in the backyard of his Liberal home when he heard what sounded like an explosion about 15 feet from where he was standing.

A former pharmaceutical company executive who returned to Kansas this year announced Tuesday that he's running for governor, giving Democrats a declared candidate.

Kansans may be smoking and binge drinking less, but our waistlines continue to expand.

The only grocery store in the northwest Kansas town of Victoria could be closing next month unless someone steps in to take it over.

A former pharmaceutical company executive is running for Kansas governor as a Democrat.

Kansas' governor said Tuesday that the threat of a lawsuit over education funding won't influence the spending cuts he'll make to keep the current state budget in balance.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 A Pratt man has been sentenced to 22 years in prison for his part in the murder of a partially disabled woman last year.

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People stand in line earlier this month at a flu vaccine clinic at the Kansas Expocentre.

"Going green" is hardly a new concept for members of the Kansas Association of Conservation Districts.

Three Kansas towns and two counties will share $1.5 million in state grants for fire stations and other items.

The new leader of Ontario's Green Party still hasn't forgotten the lessons he learned growing up on a Kansas farm four decades ago.