Sherman Smith

TOPEKA — Winfield resident Lisa Spoon emailed every member of the Kansas House to start a conversation about loopholes in state law that allow people convicted of violent crimes to own a gun. Instead, she received a reply from Rep...

ERIE — A jury Wednesday convicted former Neosho County Attorney Linus Thuston of lying under oath two years ago when he offered an excuse for why he was meeting a woman alone at night in a discreet location after they...

TOPEKA — Phyllis Zorn, the reporter whose acts of journalism served as an excuse for the August 2023 police raid of the Marion County Record, will get $850,000 from the city of Marion to settle her federal lawsuit over the...

Traducido por Claudia Amaro El martes, los votantes de Kansas rechazaron abrumadoramente una propuesta para modificar la constitución estatal y elegir a los magistrados de la Corte Suprema de Kansas, frustrando así un plan largamente anhelado por los republicanos, quienes...

TOPEKA — Kansas voters Tuesday overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to rewrite the state constitution and elect Kansas Supreme Court justices, spiking a plan long coveted by Republicans who want more conservative rulings on issues including abortion and school funding. About...

TOPEKA — The attorneys for former Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody have asked the court to withdraw from his criminal case because of a broken relationship between the attorneys and their client. Cody faces a low-level felony charge of interfering...

TOPEKA — The Kansas Democratic Party stoked confusion and frustration by issuing restrictive guidelines to county party leaders about ethics rules surrounding candidates for federal office, saying county parties couldn’t include the candidates in events or printed materials. The guidance...

EMPORIA — Kansas Reflector columnist Max McCoy won a first-place National Society of Newspaper Columnists award for the second year in a row, claiming the top prize for humor writing. The annual awards were announced Thursday evening, with winners in...

LEAWOOD — Former employees of megachurch pastor and U.S. Senate candidate Adam Hamilton say he was a caring but demanding boss, and some scrutinize his response to the first report of child sex abuse at a church camp 21 years...

SALINA — A day before he retired in March 2025, deputy prosecutor Rick James emailed three Salina police officers about “Bunce the Clown.” Micah Bunce was a former city cop now working for the public defender’s office. A few months...

TOPEKA — Cindy Holscher and Ethan Corson on Tuesday both called for the legalization of recreational marijuana in Kansas, separating themselves from other gubernatorial candidates who only support using the drug for medicinal use or oppose legalizing it altogether. The...

TOPEKA — Overland Park Mayor Curt Skoog’s vision for leading the state is to bring people together from local communities to determine priorities for lawmakers. Currently, the agenda is being set by Republican extremists in charge of the Legislature, he...