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Once a Top 25 team on the rise, Kansas finds itself in desperation mode
LAWRENCE, Kan. (AP) — This was supposed to be the breakthrough year at Kansas, when a program Lance Leipold built from nationwide laughingstock to respectability took another step into the upper echelon of the Big 12 and, just maybe, the College Football Playoff. All of which could...
Takeaways from AP's report on a new abortion clinic in rural southeast Kansas
PITTSBURG, Kan. (AP) — A new abortion clinic has brought the debate over reproductive rights to a small college town in the southeast corner of Kansas. It’s one of the few states left in the region still allowing abortions. A religious, Republican-leaning semi-rural location...
How a small town in Kansas found itself at the center of abortion’s national moment
PITTSBURG, Kan. (AP) — The Rev. Anthony Navaratnam stood before his congregation and urged them to pray for the women from surrounding states who will flock to the new abortion clinic in town that opened in August. “God is giving us an opportunity to be missionaries in...
Kansas cold case ends 44 years later as man is sentenced for killing his former neighbor in 1980
GREAT BEND, Kan. (AP) — More than 44 years after a nursing student was slain in her trailer home in central Kansas, her former neighbor has been sentenced to 10 to 25 years in prison for killing her. The investigation into the Jan. 24, 1980, shooting death of Mary Robin Walter, 23,...
Kylin James' late touchdown run lifts UNLV over Kansas 23-20
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Kylin James scored on fourth-and-goal from the 1-yard line with 1:51 left to lift UNLV past Kansas 23-20 Friday night at Children's Mercy Park. The Jayhawks are playing all their games away from Lawrence, Kan., this season because of construction on their...
Nebraska will vote on pro-pot measures despite some invalid signatures
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — Nebraska certified two ballot measures Friday to legalize medical marijuana even though the state’s Republican attorney general said their supporters may have submitted at least several thousand invalid signatures, which could keep them from becoming law. ...
SelectQuote: Fiscal Q4 Earnings Snapshot
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) — SelectQuote, Inc. (SLQT) on Friday reported a loss of $31 million in its fiscal fourth quarter. On a per-share basis, the Overland Park, Kansas-based company said it had a loss of 18 cents. The company posted...
A judge strikes down North Dakota's abortion ban and rules that access is protected
BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — A state judge struck down North Dakota's abortion ban Thursday, declaring that broad guarantees of personal liberty in the constitution of his conservative, Republican-dominated state create a fundamental right to abortion before a fetus is viable. The...
UNLV visits Kansas in bowl game rematch won by Jayhawks last season
UNLV (2-0) at Kansas (1-1), Friday, 7 p.m. ET (ESPN) BetMGM College Football Odds: Kansas by 7. Series record: Kansas leads 2-1. WHAT’S AT STAKE? The Jayhawks were beaten by Illinois on the road, dropping them out of the rankings, and...
Election officials warn that widespread problems with the US mail system could disrupt voting
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — State and local election officials from across the country on Wednesday warned that problems with the nation's mail delivery system threaten to disenfranchise voters in the upcoming presidential election, telling the head of the U.S. Postal Service that it hasn't fixed...
