Author: John Hanna
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Texas stunner: Democrat Taylor Rehmet flips Republican state Senate district Trump won by 17 points
Democrat Taylor Rehmet flipped a reliably Republican state Senate district in Texas in Saturday’s special election, continuing a string of surprise victories for Democrats across the U.S. in the year since President Donald Trump returned to the White House. Republican Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick called it “a wake-up call for Republicans across Texas,” where the…
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Kansas City Chiefs announce they will leave Arrowhead and relocate across the Kansas-Missouri border
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The Kansas City Chiefs announced Monday they will leave their longtime home at Arrowhead Stadium for a new, domed stadium that will be built across the Kansas-Missouri state line and be ready for the start of the 2031 season. The announcement came shortly after a council of Kansas lawmakers voted…
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Kansas could soon make doctors ask patients why they want abortions and report the answers
Kansas would require abortion providers to ask patients why they’re terminating their pregnancies and report the answers to the state under a measure moving through the Republican-controlled Legislature
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In the chaos of the Kansas City parade shooting, he’s hit and doesn’t know where his kids are
Jacob Gooch was hanging out with his wife and children and friends in the happy crowd of fellow Kansas City Chiefs fans at the parade celebrating their Super Bowl victory
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Kansas City mom and prominent Hispanic DJ dies in a mass shooting after Chiefs’ victory parade
A woman who died in the mass shooting after a parade for the Kansas City Chiefs and their Super Bowl victory DJed around the area and was a music lover who hosted an hourlong Tejano music radio show
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At least 6 US states are considering tougher penalties for killing police dogs
Lawmakers in at least six states are considering longer prison sentences or bigger fines for harming or killing police dogs despite questions about how the animals are used and a fraught history
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Kansas legislators impose sweeping anti-trans bathroom law
TOPEKA, Kan. • Republican legislators in Kansas have enacted what might be the most sweeping transgender bathroom law in the U.S. on Thursday, overriding the Democratic governor’s veto of the measure without having a clear idea of how their new law will be enforced. The vote in the House was 84-40, giving supporters exactly the…
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Amid U.S. TikTok bans, a few balk at writing its name in law
TOPEKA, Kan. • Banning TikTok from government devices enjoys bipartsan support across the U.S., but a few Democratic legislators in Kansas object to expanding one imposed by their party’s governor because they don’t want a state law to target a company by name. The Republican-controlled Kansas House voted 109-12 on Thursday to pass a bill…
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White Kansas lawmaker says blacks ‘responded worst’ to drugs
TOPEKA, Kan. — A white Kansas state lawmaker arguing against the legalization of marijuana suggested that it and other drugs were originally outlawed in part because blacks were predisposed to abusing drugs because of their “character makeup — their genetics and that.” State Rep. Steve Alford, a 75-year-old Republican from Ulysses in the state’s southwestern…
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Female congressional candidate leaves Kansas race after sexual harassment allegations resurface
TOPEKA, Kan. — A female congressional candidate dropped out of the Kansas race Friday over a 12-year-old lawsuit accusing her of sexually harassing a male subordinate, an unusual case of a woman facing the sort of misconduct allegations that have forced numerous men out of their jobs in recent weeks. Andrea Ramsey announced in a Facebook…