Kansas News

The playfully alliterative headline for this post is spurred by this lengthy and effective local piece headlined "The Kansas death penalty has cobwebs." Here are excerpts: It may be weeks before Kansans know if prosecutors will seek the death penalty for Kyle Flack, accused of killing four people in Franklin County this spring.

Severe thunderstorms and tornadoes developed in west central Kansas Saturday evening, with a tornado that touched down north of Ransom in Ness County.

A Vintage and Experimental Aircraft Fly-In will be Saturday, May 25, at the Amelia Earhart Airport, 16459 286th Road in Atchison.

John Force ended a 19-race No. 1 qualifying slump with a track-record Funny Car run Saturday in the NHRA Kansas Nationals.

Courtney Force and Robert Hight qualified No. 2 and No. 3 on the Funny Car ladder, respectively.

The Kansas City museum's Constellation, or "Connie," is one of only a handful of the 856 that were built and is still airworthy - with a little work.

With session-ending budget and tax negotiations stalled Friday, the Senate found time to pass a bill barring state dollars from going toward advocating gun control.

Vitale expects to top the $10 million mark with his eighth annual celebrity gala in Sarasota, Fla., on Friday night.

New gun and abortion laws that sailed through Republican-controlled state legislatures this year are about to face scrutiny in a less hospitable arena: the courtroom.

Kansas Deputy Attorney General Vic Braden is taking the lead on the prosecution of Kyle T. Flack, the man charged in a quadruple homicide in Franklin County, Franklin County Attorney Stephen Hunting confirmed Friday.

Wolf Creek Generating Station is nuclear power plant near Burlington in east-central Kansas.

An outbreak of severe weather and tornadoes is possible this weekend across portions of the central USA, primarily over the Plains.

Now that the House and Senate Agriculture Committees have passed their versions of the farm bill, it's time to cherry pick all the things people hate about the legislation.

The Great Bend Kansas National Guard armory should escape unscathed the round of federally mandated National Guard furloughs announced Tuesday by U.S. Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel, said Sharon Watson with the KNG Public Affairs Office.

Republican budget negotiators said they'll consider a move to block any money that would be spent to implement Common Core standards for reading and math or Next Generation Science Standards in Kansas' public schools.

An Army sergeant has been sentenced to life in prison without parole for the 2009 killings of 5 fellow service members at a combat stress clinic in Iraq.

Senate Agriculture Committee member Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kansas, voices his concerns as lawmakers begin mark up on the Farm Bill, officially known as the Agriculture Reform, Food, and Jobs Act of 2013, Tuesday, May 14, 2013, on Capitol Hill in Washington.

This weekend, when Wes Jackson, founder of the Salina-based Land Institute, addresses graduates at the University of Kansas' 141 Recently, the Land Institute and the Environmental Studies Program at KU founded a partnership intended to encourage research in the development of "perennial polycultures." Participating faculty members in the initiative ... (more)

Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel said this week the government plans to proceed with federal furloughs as a result of budget shortfalls.

Kansas Medical Center in Andover is planning a roughly 8,000-square-foot expansion, in part to add an MRI facility.