Kansas

Renee Erickson, a Republican state senator from Wichita, Kansas, vowed to continue efforts to ban transgender athletes from participating in girls' and women's school sports.

Desert sarcodes tortoise Madmartigan has been on the loose since Monday when she squeezed her way through a hole in the family's garden gate.

The fake call prompted an emergency response to an empty house in Wichita, Kansas, police told reporters.

He founded a Ku Klux Klan chapter in the Carolinas and also told jurors that he would kill more Jewish people if he got the chance.

Opponents of the bill worry that it will create gender-based bullying from students and faculty who will try to decide who is feminine or masculine enough to participate.

Kansas GOP Senate Majority Leader Gene Suellentrop was briefly jailed on Tuesday facing charges for fleeing arrest, speeding, and DUI.

Vaccinations are currently offered at select Hy-Vee locations in Iowa, Illinois, Kansas, Minnesota, Nebraska and South Dakota.

The Kansas City Star's editorial board wrote that Hawley and other Republicans who voted to acquit Trump are "making future sedition more likely."

Also, seven national brands are not in either top 25 after Kansas fell from the rankings for the first time in 12 years.

Up to two million new infections are likely to be reported in the week ending February 13, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

"It's a new technology, we've never seen it before, it was only studied in 45 people before it was approved," said Coffey County Health Department Administrator Lindsay Payer.

The newspaper said: "America will be better when he leaves office. Kansas will be much better if he decides to stay away from his adopted home state forever."

A handful of states in the Midwest, Northeast and the southwest reported the highest number of coronavirus deaths per 100,000 people.

Arizona, which had the country's highest number of average daily cases per 100,000 people in the past week, is among the states that has administered the least number of vaccinations.

Lionel Womack, a former police detective from Kansas City, suffered serious injuries to his back, pelvis, thigh, knee, ankle and foot in the August 15 incident.

The country's total death count is projected to surpass 500,000 by the end of January, according to the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation.

Cody Donner allegedly yelled racial slurs at a Black teen walking through Paola, a small town about 44 miles south of Kansas City, Kansas. Donner allegedly brandished his knife towards the teen, informing him that Paola is a "white town."

Six Native Americans won their congressional races on Tuesday, including two candidates in New Mexico.

The Topeka Capital-Journal began to criticize President Trump as he ramped up attacks on the press in 2018.

"There's not a single pro-life person that's not happy" that abortion doctor George Tiller was murdered in 2009, a Kansas GOP official was allegedly recorded saying while justifying fake sexual harassment allegations against Democratic Wichita Mayor Brandon Whipple shortly before he was elected.

The last time Kansas had a Democratic senator was in 1939.

Average daily new cases were on a downward trend in several eastern states, includng Connecticut, Maine and Rhode Island, in recent weeks.

First-time unemployment claims increased the most last week in the states of Indiana, Kansas, Illinois and Michigan, with some economists saying the U.S. economy is "running on empty."

The post, which was later deleted, led to widespread condemnation, including from Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas who said the remarks contained "gross distortions" and were "racist" and "reckless."

Average daily new cases have been on an upward trend in several states in the Midwest, including Iowa, Missouri, Kansas and Nebraska.

The investment by the mysterious Sunflower State PAC—a suspected Democrat funding arm—into the Republican race didn't pay off.

The election surveys from the state tend to favor Republican nominee Roger Marshall, but the contest could still be close.

Representative Roger Marshall was described as a "Washington politician stuck in special interest muck" in an advertisement sponsored by a Democratic PAC.

"The amount of money being poured into the race really indicates just how important it is, not just for Kansans but for the national parties as well," one expert told Newsweek.

There is a lot at stake in Kansas' GOP Senate primary.