AP Kansas

By ANDY TSUBASA FIELD and JOHN HANNA Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Republican legislators who argue that Kansas parents need more education choices are pushing to allow them to move their children from the public schools they’d normally attend to others outside their local school district’s boundaries. The GOP-controlled state Senate gave first-round approval

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs agreed with defensive tackle Derrick Nnadi on a contract for next season, adding to the continuity on the defensive line that came with restructuring the contract of pass rusher Frank Clark. The contract with the 25-year-old Nnadi was announced Monday by his representatives at SportsTrust Advisors.

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A 32-year-old Wichita woman will be sentenced May 9 after she pleaded guilty to running over a bicyclist with her car and shooting him. The Sedgwick County district attorney’s office said Charity Blackmon pleaded guilty Friday to second-degree murder and criminal possession of a weapon by a convicted felon. Blackmon was

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Basketball Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas State hired Jerome Tang to be its next basketball coach Monday, entrusting a program that’s had plenty of recent success but fallen on hard times to one of the architects of Baylor’s rise to national prominence. The Wildcats hired Tang to replace Bruce

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Basketball Writer LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — Remy Martin has been the catalyst for Kansas through the opening two rounds of the NCAA Tournament. The Jayhawks are in the Sweet 16 and will play No. 4 seed Providence on Friday night. Martin scored 15 points in a blowout of Texas Southern, then

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Basketball Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas State has settled on Baylor assistant Jerome Tang to be its next head coach, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press on Monday, and a deal is expected to be finished soon to replace the departed Bruce Weber. The person

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — Police in Overland Park are investigating the shooting death of a woman over the weekend. Police say the shooting was reported around 6 a.m. Sunday at a house in the Kansas City suburb. Police say that officers arrived at the home to find that the woman had been taken by

By JANIE McCAULEY AP Sports Writer STANFORD, Calif. (AP) — Lexie Hull scored a career-high 36 points with six 3-pointers and made six steals, leading No. 1 seed Stanford past eighth-seeded Kansas 91-65 in the second round of the NCAA Tournament on Sunday night. With the win, the defending national champions extended their winning streak

By ERIC OLSON AP Sports Writer Top seeds Gonzaga, Arizona and Kansas are in the NCAA Sweet 16. So is giant killer Saint Peter’s, which became only the third No. 15 seed to make it this far. And Coach K’s farewell tour continues as he and his Duke Blue Devils made it to the Sweet

By MITCHELL NORTHAM Associated Press RALEIGH, N.C. (AP) — All-Americans Elissa Cunane of top-seeded North Carolina State and Ayoka Lee of ninth-seeded Kansas State are set for a rematch on Monday in the second round of the NCAA women’s basketball tournament. The teams met in November at Reynolds Coliseum in Raleigh, North Carolina, also the

STILLWATER, Okla. (AP) — Oklahoma State has hired Kansas City’s Jacie Hoyt as its women’s basketball coach. Hoyt went 81-65 during her five-year stint as Kansas City’s coach. The Roos won the Western Athletic Conference regular-season championship in 2020. This season, Kansas City finished third in the Summit League and lost to Northern Iowa in

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Sedgwick County officials say a person has died in a fire. County sheriff’s Sgt. Eric Slay says the person died Sunday after a car started on fire in a field. Slay says the driver apparently was “doing doughnuts” in the field when the car became stuck and started on fire. The

LAKE FOREST, Ill. (AP) — The Chicago Bears have signed Indianapolis Colts defensive end Al-Quadin Muhammad to a two-year contract and Kansas City Chiefs receiver and kick returner Byron Pringle to a one-year deal. They also re-signed safety DeAndre Houston-Carson to a one-year contract. Muhammad spent the past four seasons in Indianapolis and is reuniting

STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) — Mississippi State has named Chris Jans its men’s basketball coach a day after he led New Mexico State in the NCAA Tournament’s second round. Mississippi State announced the hire on its athletic department’s website but did not provide details. Jans went 122-32 the past five seasons in Las Cruces. He guided

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — Two Wichita men have been convicted of participating in a drug ring run by two inmates at the Oklahoma State Penitentiary. Federal prosecutors say 58-year-old Kevin Lewis, and 45-year-old Travis Vontress were the last of 23 defendants convicted for their roles in the drug operation. The U.S. Attorney’s Office said Friday

By DOUG FEINBERG AP Basketball Writer March Madness is finally part of the women’s NCAA Tournament vernacular and the first round has so far aptly fit that phrase. Six double-digit seeds have already advanced to the round of 32. That’s just short of the record seven set in 1998. And that doesn’t include two near

CHICAGO (AP) — Kacper Przybylko scored two goals and the Chicago Fire beat Sporting Kansas City 3-1. The Fire are now 2-0-2 after the win and Sporting KC fell to 1-3-0.

By SCHUYLER DIXON AP Sports Writer FORT WORTH, Texas (AP) — Remy Martin scored 20 points, Ochai Agbaji put Kansas ahead for good with his first basket early in the second half, and the Jayhawks held off Creighton 79-72 to advance to the Sweet 16. Martin hadn’t led top-seeded Kansas in scoring all season as