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October 9, 2021 at 5:56 am

GOP doc dispenses sketchy medical advice on virus immunity

Roger Marshall won't let people forget he’s a doctor

FILE – In this Nov. 3, 2012, file photo, Republican U.S Senate candidate Todd Akin addresses supporters during a campaign event in Kansas City, Mo. Akin, whose comment that women’s bodies have a way of avoiding pregnancies in cases of “legitimate rape” sunk his bid for the U.S. Senate and became a cautionary tale for other GOP candidates, has died. He was 74. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File) CER503 CER503

October 4, 2021 at 12:25 am

Ex-US Rep. Todd Akin, sunk by ‘legitimate rape’ remark, dies VIEW

Todd Akin's 2012 Senate campaign was doomed when the Missouri Republican, asked whether abortion should be available to women who have been raped, said, “If...

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Protesters march around the campus on Wednesday, Aug. 25, 2021, in Lincoln, Neb., in response to the alleged sexual assault at the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity house. Students have protested since Aug. 24 after a student reported being sexually assaulted at the Phi Gamma Delta fraternity house. University of Nebraska-Lincoln Chancellor Ronnie Green temporarily suspended the Fiji house on Aug. 25. (Francis Gardler/Lincoln Journal Star via AP) NELIN400 NELIN400

September 24, 2021 at 2:15 pm

Sexual assault cases spur protests on campuses across US VIEW

Reports of sexual assaults have fueled protests on at least eight U.S. college campuses just weeks into the new school year. Protesters have accused their...

In this Friday, Sept. 17, 2021 courtesy of Cuyler Dunn shows a sign on a closed restroom at Lawrence High School in Lawernce, Kan. Students across the country are videoing themselves stealing soap dispensers, microscopes and even turf off stadium football fields and posting their heists on TikTok in a phenomenon dubbed “devious licks” that is bedeviling administrators and forcing them to shut down bathrooms. (Cuyler Dunn via AP) CER207 CER207

September 17, 2021 at 2:56 pm

In latest TikTok craze, students are vandalizing school bathrooms and swiping supplies

Kids across the U.S. are posting TikTok videos of themselves smashing bathroom mirrors or stealing soap dispensers and even turf off football fields

September 13, 2021 at 10:38 am

Lawmaker accused of kicking boy pleads guilty to 3 charges

A Kansas legislator accused of kicking a high school student in the testicles has pleaded guilty to three lesser misdemeanor charges of disorderly conduct

September 10, 2021 at 9:54 am

GOP group held ‘war games’ for state AGs before Trump loss

An offshoot of the Republican Attorneys General Association held a special meeting weeks before the election to discuss its strategies if then-President Donald Trump lost

August 6, 2021 at 1:05 pm

Kansas Rep. Davids contracts COVID-19 despite vaccination

Kansas Rep. Sharice Davids has tested positive for COVID-19 despite being vaccinated against it and is in isolation

August 4, 2021 at 11:07 am

State lawmaker accused of kicking boy: Stress caused ‘mania’

A Kansas legislator accused of kicking a high school student in the testicles has surrendered his state substitute teacher’s license

FILE – In this July 23, 2018 file photo, a duck boat that sank in Table Rock Lake in Branson, Mo., is raised after it went down the evening of July 19 after a thunderstorm generated near-hurricane strength winds, killing 17 people. A county prosecutor and Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt filed state charges, Friday, July 16, 2021, against three employees of the duck boat tourist attraction in connection with the boat sinking. (Nathan Papes/The Springfield News-Leader via AP) MOSPL201 MOSPL201

July 16, 2021 at 8:05 am

3 charged in Missouri duck boat accident that killed 17

A captain and two employees were charged Friday over 17 deaths in July 2018 when a tourist boat sank on a Missouri lake during a...

May 25, 2021 at 9:31 am

Deputy: Student says Kansas lawmaker kicked him in testicles

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A high school student reported that a Kansas House member working as a substitute teacher manhandled him and kicked him in...