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'I'm here to tell you about what happens after the police are done with a case and hand it off to my office,” Assistant County Attorney J. Scott James told this weeks class Tuesday night.

An SUV veered across a highway median in the Oklahoma Panhandle early Wednesday and slammed head-on into an oncoming van full of men headed to work at a Texas meatpacking plant, killing both drivers …

The Kansas Supreme Court will hold a special session at Johnson County Community College in Overland Park next week to hear arguments in four cases.

Kansas Congresswoman Lynn Jenkins and her Democratic challenger are sparring over donations to the Republican incumbent's re-election campaign from financial interests.

Sedgwick County commissioners have approved a $10,000 grant for this weekend's "Wings Over McConnell" air show but won't be using a special hospitality tent that was to come with the donation.

University of Kansas will use a $24.5 million grant to establish a national center aimed at improving how children with disabilities are taught.

The Kansas Children's Cabinet and Trust Fund, which promotes early-childhood programs in the state, has been warned that it could lose up to 75 percent of its budget next year because of a drop in mo…

Happening today: “The Casual Vacancy,” JK Rowling’s first adult book, hits shelves (and e-readers) today. Rowling is author of the wildly popular “Harry Potter” series. Here’s a description of “The C…

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News to know JK Rowling, whose first adult book (“The Casual Vacancy”) will hit shelves tomorrow, said in an interview with BBC that she has considered rewriting two of the “Harry Potter” novels. Row…