The nation’s farmers are struggling to pay back loans after years of low crop prices and export markets hit by President Donald Trump’s tariffs, with a key government program showing the highest default rate in at least nine years. Many ...
Read More »Attorney general handling appeal in Kansas voting case
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach will not represent himself during the appeal of a voting rights case in which he was ordered to undergo more legal education and was twice found in contempt of court. Instead, the attorney general’s ...
Read More »Woman who shot Kansas abortion doctor moved to halfway house
An anti-abortion activist who shot and wounded a Kansas abortion doctor and firebombed clinics in Oregon and other states in the 1990s was released Tuesday from federal prison to a halfway house to finish her sentence, sparking fears for the ...
Read More »Kansas prosecutor wants help investigating former detective
A Kansas prosecutor has asked for help in investigating a retired white police detective accused of preying on black women for sex over decades and pursuing the wrongful murder conviction of the son of one of the women. Wyandotte County ...
Read More »Judge reiterates Kansas SOS Kobach unable to encumber voting
A judge is standing by his earlier ruling that Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has no legal right to bar people from casting ballots in local and state elections because they registered to vote using a federal form that ...
Read More »High court to hear Kansas plea to reinstate death sentences
The nation's highest court agreed Monday to hear Kansas' appeal seeking to reinstate death sentences for two brothers convicted of robbing and forcing four people engage in sex acts before being shot to death naked in a Wichita soccer field in 2000.
Read More »Feds: Hotel owners replaced legal workers with immigrants
Hotel owner Munir Ahmad Chaudary was sentenced Monday to 27 months in prison in a federal case that highlights the U.S. Justice Department’s prosecutorial shift away from workplace immigration raids to targeting employers who knowingly hire people who are not in the U.S. legally to gain an unfair competitive advantage.
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