Politics Feb 28 States offer services for disabled kids, then make their families wait 10 years for them The parents of hundreds of thousands of U.S. children with physical or intellectual disabilities are waiting for state-covered services designed to foster independence and job skills for adulthood.
Nation Feb 27 Some states seek to deny transgender and nonbinary people’s rights by legally defining sex At least 13 states have proposed bills this year that seek to narrowly define sex or gender as binary.
Politics Feb 09 Kansas’ attorney general is telling schools they must out trans kids to parents, even with no specific law Kansas' attorney general is telling public schools they're required to tell parents their children are transgender or nonbinary even if they're not out at home, though Kansas is not among the states with a law that explicitly says to do…
Nation Jan 23 Kansas lawmakers want a report on last year’s police raid of a weekly newspaper Thirty-five Democrats and 10 Republicans in the Kansas House have introduced a resolution condemning the Aug. 11 raid of the Marion County Record's offices and the home of its publisher in central Kansas.
Nation Oct 02 Kansas police chief who led raid on small weekly newspaper has resigned, official says The police chief who led an August raid on a small weekly newspaper in central Kansas has resigned, days after he was suspended from his post.
Politics Sep 15 Kansas to no longer change transgender people’s birth certificates to reflect gender identities The state health department's announcement Friday cited a new law that prevents the state from legally recognizing those identities.
Politics Aug 31 Kansas officials are no longer required to change transgender people’s birth certificates, judge says A U.S. district judge on Thursday approved a request from Republican state Attorney General Kris Kobach to block birth certificate changes because of a new state law defining male and female as the sex assigned at birth.
Nation Aug 22 Video of police raid on home of Kansas newspaper publisher shows 98-year-old mother upset Joan Meyer died a day later. Her son said he believes that the stress contributed to her death.
Nation Aug 21 The online search spurring a raid on a local Kansas paper was legal, a state agency says Spokesperson Zack Denney said Monday that it's legal to access the agency's driver’s license database using information obtained independently.
Politics Aug 16 Kansas prosecutor says material seized in police raid of Marion County newspaper should be returned Even without computers, cellphones and other equipment taken in the raid, the new edition of the Marion County Record made it to newsstands Wednesday after a frenzied scramble.