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A former state employee claims in a federal lawsuit that she was fired from her job at the Kansas secretary of state's office after she declined to attend prayer services in the office. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that Courtney Canfield says in her lawsuit filed in federal court in Topeka that before Assistant Secretary of State ...

9 years ago
Topeka officials have banned electronic cigarettes in enclosed public places. WIBW-TV reports that council members voted 7-2 on Tuesday night to extend the city's ban on indoor smoking to include vaping. The e-cigarettes, which allow nicotine users to inhale vapor, have become increasingly popular substitutes for tobacco cigarettes. But Topeka City Councilwoman Elaine Schwartz says questions remain ...

9 years ago
Authorities say a stun gun was used on a man after he threw bricks at a south-central Kansas law enforcement building and expressed outrage about police shootings. Surveillance cameras at the Law Enforcement Center in Newton captured police officers deploying a Taser on the man Tuesday afternoon. The Newton Police Department said in a Facebook post Tuesday ...

9 years ago
Top Republican legislators are asking Kansas school districts seeking extra state aid to provide information about how they've become more efficient in recent years. Four GOP legislative leaders sent a letter Wednesday to the superintendents of 38 school districts that have applied for extra aid under the state's new education funding law. The districts are seeking ...

9 years ago
A state faculty organization says a University of Kansas business teacher does not warrant academic protection to keep his emails private. Kansas Conference of the American Association of University Professors says in a brief in the case of Art Hall v. the University of Kansas that Hall isn't a faculty member entitled to academic protection. Hall is ...

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University of Kansas faculty and staff are embarking next week on a five-city tour of the state to recruit students, and the first community will be Kansas State University's hometown. The university announced Tuesday that it will meet with high school counselors and students throughout the day and hold receptions in the evenings. Students from 157 ...

9 years ago
Convicted national security leaker Chelsea Manning has been found guilty of violating prison rules and will receive three weeks of recreational restrictions at the Kansas military prison where she's serving a 35-year sentence. Manning was accused of having a copy of Vanity Fair with Caitlyn Jenner on the cover and an expired tube of toothpaste, among ...

9 years ago
Salina Media Group radio station News Radio 1150 KSAL will be honored as the Kansas Association of Broadcasters Medium Market Radio Station of the Year. The association announced its 2015 KAB Awards of Excellence on Tuesday. KSAL staff members earned 11 awards. According to the KAB, 719 entries were submitted by broadcasters from across the state. The ...

9 years ago
Police say a Wichita man had no anti-abortion motives when he brought a small homemade explosive device into a women's health clinic while applying for a job. Wichita police spokesman James Espinosa said Tuesday the 19-year-old was homeless and carrying everything he owned in his backpack when he went to the South Wind Women's Center on ...

9 years ago
Sunflowers are blooming in Kansas. So too are the fields of soybeans that have also begun setting pods. Most of the sorghum crop is now headed, and some of it is beginning to turn color. So says the latest snapshot of crop conditions in Kansas in mid-August. The National Agricultural Statistics Service also reported Monday that 58 ...

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A Kansas judge who's already been disciplined over allegations that include sexual harassment is facing a second complaint that accuses him of not testifying truthfully in a past hearing over his conduct. A panel of the state Commission on Judicial Qualifications finished a two-day hearing Tuesday for Sedgwick County District Judge Timothy Henderson. Henderson was suspended without ...