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A ceremony to grant US citizenship celebrated immigration even as the debate around it swirls

Thirty immigrants from 18 countries are now U.S. citizens following a ceremony at the Kansas Statehouse in Topeka

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A man has pleaded guilty to the death of a 5-year-old girl living in their Kansas homeless camp

A man who lived in a makeshift camp with a homeless 5-year-old Kansas girl and her father has pleaded guilty to rape and first-degree murder in connection with the child’s death

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US midwest braces for hottest days this summer, with 55m under heat alerts

Chicago, Des Moines, Topeka and other cities experiencing extreme heat ‘with little to no overnight relief’

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Is Your City Getting Too Expensive? These 5 US Cities Will Offer Cash And Other Perks For You To Move

These US cities are paying workers to relocate to the area to boost their economy. And, due to rising inflation and unchanging mortgage rates, it's working.

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Topeka was at the center of Brown v. Board. Decades later, segregation of another sort lingers

The school system in Topeka, Kansas, was at the center of the landmark Brown v

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Ostrich at Kansas zoo dies after swallowing employee’s keys

Staff at Topeka zoo are ‘devastated’ by death of Karen, who was known as the ‘dancing queen’

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Child rights advocates ask why state left slain 5-year-old Kansas girl in a clearly unstable home

Zoey Felix was raped and killed earlier this month in Topeka, Kansas

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A homeless man is charged with capital murder and rape in the death of a 5-year-old Kansas girl

A homeless man has been charged with murder and rape in the killing of a 5-year-old girl in Topeka, Kansas

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Kansas to rename its golf facilities after Jayhawk alum Gary Woodland

Woodland, who grew up in Topeka and has a home in Lawrence, graducated from KU in 2007.

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Kansas lacks licensed child care for 84,000 kids. The shortage may get even worse

Amber Herbers schedules her days around her 7-month-old daughter’s nap times.

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Kansas attorney general sues to block trans Kansans from changing gender on driver’s licenses

TOPEKA, Kan. -- Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach filed a lawsuit Friday to block Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s administration from allowing transgender Kansans to continue to change their gender marker on driver’s licenses after a new law took effect last week.

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As fear grows among trans Kansans, Gov. Kelly defies Attorney General Kobach on gender marker changes on state IDs

TOPEKA, Kan. — Lane Rozin wakes up every day in fear.

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Kansas man wearing beer costume arrested for alleged drunk driving

Driver, dressed as a Bud Light beer can, was pulled over for suspected drunk driving near Topeka, Kansas

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Violence against Kansas health care workers prompts fresh push for tougher penalties

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Chris Buesing was walking through the hallway of an orthopedic clinic at Stormont Vail Health in Topeka, Kansas, where he worked when a man came up and punched him in the face.

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Kansas lawmakers send bill restricting gender-affirming care for minors to governor

TOPEKA, Kan. — The Republican-controlled Kansas Legislature approved a third bill regulating the lives of transgender Kansans on Friday, this time banning hormone therapy and gender transition surgery for minors.

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Kansas lawmakers advance unproven abortion pill ‘reversal’ legislation to Kelly’s desk

TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas lawmakers approved a policy early Friday morning requiring abortion providers and pharmacists to inform patients of an unproven treatment to “reverse” mifepristone, the first drug used in a medication abortion.

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Kansas House overrides Kelly’s veto on bill banning trans athletes from women’s sports

TOPEKA, Kan. — Transgender Kansas students will likely no longer permitted to compete in girls and women’s sports after the state House voted Wednesday to override Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s third veto of the policy.

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Kansas passes bill banning trans women from female spaces in veto test for Gov. Kelly

TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas lawmakers voted Tuesday to send to Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s desk a bill that would ban transgender and nonbinary people from single-sex spaces inconsistent with their sex at birth.

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Kansas Legislature sends ‘born alive’ abortion bill to Kelly’s desk with veto-proof majority

TOPEKA, Kan. — For the first time since Kansas voters upheld the state right to an abortion, Kansas lawmakers sent a bill on the topic to Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s desk.

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Kansas passes bill to extend time frame for prosecution, civil suits in sex abuse cases

TOPEKA, Kan. — Speaking on the Kansas Senate floor last week, Sen. Cindy Holscher told a story she had never shared publicly in her life — one that she had not even told her own parents.

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Kansas Senate passes softened parental rights bill, but public education groups remain opposed

TOPEKA, Kan. — The Kansas Senate approved a bill Tuesday aimed at ensuring parents can remove their child from classroom activities to which they object.

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Kansas Supreme Court appears unlikely to budge on state-level abortion rights after 2022 vote

TOPEKA, Kan. — Kansas Supreme Court justices repeatedly pointed to last year’s overwhelming vote to uphold state-level abortion rights Monday, indicating they’re highly unlikely to back off their 2019 decision establishing the right to the procedure in the state.

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Kansas Capitol Police called to contentious anti-vaccine hearing at Republican’s request

TOPEKA, Kan. — Capitol Police were called into a Kansas Senate Committee Tuesday after a state senator said she felt threatened by a Kansan testifying on a bill.

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Judge in Kansas man’s Jan. 6 case wants more info on video given Tucker Carlson, others

A federal judge on Friday delayed ruling on a Topeka man’s request to release video in his Capitol riot case that he says shows undercover Metropolitan Police officers inciting protesters on Jan. 6.

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