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A former Kansas lawmaker who was convicted of 12 felonies for lying on applications for federal COVID-19 relief is trying to avoid spending any time in prison.

The former lawmaker is arguing that he should not have to go to prison, in part because it would increase his risk of contracting COVID-19, filings show.

Two Choctaw citizens sued Oklahoma’s three tax commissioners in February 2022 after their requests for income tax waivers were denied.

It wasnt clear Wednesday if Michelle Lamb had received gender-affirming surgery.

U.S. prosecutors seized $700,000 from bank accounts of an IT executive who allegedly defrauded a Kansas foster care provider of more than $10 million.

Federal court documents assert former IT employee submitted bogus expense claims.

A Lawrence man was indicted Thursday by a federal grand jury in Kansas City, Kan., on four counts related to the distribution of crack cocaine last month in

Listen • 4:44 Trump supporters storm the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 in an attempt to stop Congress from certifying the results of the presidential election. GARDEN CITY, Kansas — Patrick Stein was bitter. Battles with drugs and the failure of his business in the 2008 recession had derailed his life. He fumed at the federal government for not doing more to help people like him while immigrants flooded in around him in Garden City. He went to Washington, D.C., seeking ...

A Kansas federal judge on Wednesday gave preliminary certification to a collective action accusing Bombardier Inc. of pushing out older aerospace engineers, rejecting the plane-maker's argument that the ex-workers were challenging unrelated employment decisions rather than an overarching policy.

Is 28-plus years in prison enough for convicted child molester Eric Sims? Gov. Laura Kelly will decide. Tim Hrenchir, Topeka Capital-Journal © 1992 file photo/The Capital-Journal Eric Sims, then 24, was escorted in 1992 to a hearing in Shawnee County District Court. Convicted child molester Eric D. Sims was abused as a child, emotionally and sexually, his mother said at his 1992 sentencing hearing in Shawnee County District Court. Sims was sexually molested by his grandf...