Tag: adoption
TOPEKA — As Kansas officials, foster care service providers and advocates work to improve a system with a checkered past, new initiatives bring optimism for kids who have historically been left behind. The fewest number…
EMPORIA — Around 40 people turned out for a kitten party at the Emporia Recreation Center Saturday, as a fundraiser for the Street Cats Club. SCC founder Victoria Partridge told the Emporia Gazette the turnout…
TOPEKA — The number of Kansas children completing adoption averaged 1,000 during the past four years, an increase from about 730 in the prior eight years. The administration of Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly, who is…
Gary, Tyler and Cosmo spent more than a year at the Allen County Animal Rescue Facility (ACARF) before they were adopted. They’re all good dogs, shelter director Brittni Dilley said. They’re also big dogs, which…
Nikki Westpfahl and Kaitlyn Bartholomew, of the Allen County Animal Rescue Facility (ACARF), have fun with a canine companion on Friday at an adoption event outside the Iola Public Library.
A new bill in the Kansas Legislature would require every public classroom, library and municipal building in the state to display the national motto, “In God We Trust.” The proposed measure is overbearing, unnecessary and…
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — A grouchy feline dubbed the “world’s worst cat” is quickly becoming the world’s most popular, as people vie to adopt her and media outlets from around the world compete for interviews. Stories…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Congressional Republicans from Kansas have rejected a request from the delegations lone Democrat that they join her in opposing a federal policy that allows faith-based adoption agencies to get taxpayer funding…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) Kansas new Democratic governor-elect said Thursday that she will look to block enforcement of a new adoption law that she and LGBT-rights activists consider discriminatory, a sharp break with the states…
A disturbing Associated Press report shines a light on what happens to immigrant children separated from their parents and forced into foster-care settings mandated by the U.S. government. In a small number of cases, foster-care…
