TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas’ new Democratic governor promised not to raise taxes to meet her goals of boosting spending on public schools and social services. Republicans who control the Legislature argue that a tax…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump is weighing at least four people to serve as his next chief of staff, after plans for an orderly succession for departing John Kelly fell through. The high-profile hiring…

MILDRED — Loren and Regena Lance are big on tradition. That’s why it was an easy call for them to continue a local holiday institution when they took over the old Charlie Brown general store.…

KATOWICE, Poland (AP) — Indigenous and youth groups disrupted a U.S. government event at the U.N. climate talks today, criticizing the Trump administration’s policy of backing the extraction of fossil fuels, the burning of which…

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (AP) — A lingering storm kept dumping immobilizing snow, sleet or freezing rain across five southern states, leaving dangerously icy roads and hundreds of thousands of people without electricity. Authorities urged people to…

President Donald Trump isn’t a fan of repentance. First, it requires an admission of guilt. And second, for those with the fortitude, a measure of atonement. To Mr. Trump, such acts of contrition come not…

60 Years Ago December 1958 Jack Mitchell, KU football coach, a handy man with a pigskin, a coaching job or a good yarn, entertained the Iola Kiwanis Club at its annual football banquet in the…

“Take me back, take me way, way, way back… Van Morrison, “On Hyndford Street”   January 1949.  Republican Frank Carlson is sworn in as Governor for a second, two-year term, a seemingly ordinary event, given…

WASHINGTON — “When you strike at a king you must kill him,” Ralph Waldo Emerson once said. Well, this year China tried to strike at President Trump for daring to launch a trade war with…

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court is avoiding a high-profile case by rejecting appeals from Kansas and Louisiana in their effort to strip Medicaid money from Planned Parenthood over the dissenting votes of three justices.…