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WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A 35-year-old Wichita man who repeatedly attacked a woman in his home has been sentenced to 19 years and four months in prison. Sedgwick County District Attorney Marc Bennett said Will Johnson was sentenced Tuesday after he pleaded guilty in February to 22 charges involving the same woman. Wichita police began

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Shawnee County District judge has dismissed a legal challenge to two parts of a Kansas election law passed last year. Voting rights groups had argued that parts of the law would make it more difficult for some groups, including the disabled, minorities and senior citizens, to vote. Shawnee County District

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly has vetoed a bill that would prevent cities and counties from banning, limiting or even taxing plastic bags, straws and food containers. Kelly rejected the measure Monday after previously telling reports that she was a “major local-control advocate.” The Senate approved the measure first in February, but

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly has signed a bill pushed by state Republicans that would ban local municipalities from enacting policies that could help immigrants stay in the state illegally. In announcing Monday that she signed the bill, Kelly said immigration is a federal responsibility and Congress should provide a national solution

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The only big mistake that Cleveland rookie Steven Kwan has made during his first four big league games came in left field, where he was trying to rush a catch-and-throw to the plate and had a flyball bounce off the heel of his glove.

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Attorneys representing voters argued Monday that a newly redrawn congressional map is partisan gerrymandering designed to cost the state’s only Democrat in Congress some of her territory and drown out the voices of minority voters. The state, however, defended the law in closing arguments, arguing

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — State and federal agriculture officials say they have identified the first case of bird flu in a commercial flock in Kansas. The state agriculture department announced Monday that avian influenza, commonly called bird flu, was identified in a commercial flock in McPherson County. Previously, bird flu was found in four backyard

ABILENE, Kan. (AP) — A 27-year-old Topeka woman died after she was shot while driving on Interstate 70. The Dickinson County Sheriff’s office said in a Facebook post that Samantha Baum was shot Sunday night near Solomon. She made it to a Dollar Store in Solomon and was taken to a Salina hospital, where she

MISSION, Kan. (AP) — Police say a shooting in Mission, Kansas, has left one teen dead and another injured. The Kansas City Star reports the shooting happened just before 9 p.m. Sunday in the Silverwood Apartments parking lot. Officers called to the scene found the wounded teens in the parking lot. A teenage boy died

By HILLEL ITALIE AP National Writer NEW YORK (AP) — Former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has a book coming this fall that covers his years in the Trump administration and, according to his publisher, offers “unvarnished appraisals of the deals made and characters encountered along the way.” Broadside Books, a conservative imprint at HarperCollins

By CODY FRIESEN Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Cleveland Guardians won for the first time with their new name as hot-starting rookie Steven Kwan went 5 for 5 in a 17-3 romp over the Kansas City Royals. Oscar Mercado hit a grand slam during a five-RBI performance and Owen Miller drove in

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A community task force reviewing the death of a Black teenager who was restrained for more than 30 minutes at a Kansas juvenile detention center learned that a police officer changed his answers on a form that otherwise would have led police to take the teen to a hospital instead of

By HOLLY RAMER Associated Press CONCORD, N.H. (AP) — A decade after New Hampshire stopped a traveling medical technician who had been stealing drugs and infecting patients with hepatitis C, the Legislature might eliminate a registration system aimed at preventing similar misconduct. New Hampshire created the Board of Registration for Medical Technicians in response to

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas board that licenses health care providers raised concerns Friday about a letter that a physician-legislator sent to doctors suggesting that they prescribe ivermectin and other medications that aren’t approved to treat the virus. The Kansas Board of Healing Arts said that the “unprecedented” letter from Kansas Sen. Mark

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — Police in suburban Kansas City, Kansas, have identified three people killed in a suspected murder-suicide. Overland Park police said in a news release that officers went to the home Thursday morning after a woman was unable to contact her family inside the home. Upon entering the home, officers found the

EDISON, Neb. (AP) — A wildfire in southern Nebraska fueled by dry conditions and strong winds forced the evacuation of the small village of Edison, destroyed several homes and led to the death of a rural fire chief who was killed in a crash while he was responding to the blaze. The Nebraska State Patrol

By WILSON RING Associated Press A Colorado man has been charged with kidnapping a Vermont man whose body was found in a snowbank by the side of a road in the town of Barnet. Federal court documents say Jerry Banks, of Fort Garland, Colorado, was arrested Wednesday in Yellowstone, Wyoming. FBI investigators used cell phone

EDISON, Neb. (AP) — A wildfire in southern Nebraska fueled by dry conditions and strong winds forced the evacuation of the small village of Edison and saw a rural fire chief was killed in a crash while he was responding to the blaze. The Nebraska State Patrol called for a mandatory evacuation Thursday night of