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Leavenworth prison to reopen for migrant detentions amid opposition

By AP News|2025-06-16T10:19:13-05:00June 16th, 2025|Categories: Local News|Tags: CoreCivic Kansas contract, ICE CoreCivic Leavenworth deal, Kansas detention center news, Leavenworth immigration center, Leavenworth prison ICE, migrant deportation Kansas, migrant detention facilities, no-bid ICE contracts, private prison expansion, State News, Trump immigration policy|Comments Off

Kansas group fights campaign donor law it sees as a response to its success defending abortion

By AP News|2025-05-20T09:28:42-05:00May 20th, 2025|Categories: Local News|Tags: State News|Comments Off

FBI arrests Manhattan man in nationwide child exploitation operation

By KMAN Staff|2025-05-12T10:16:51-05:00May 12th, 2025|Categories: Local News|Tags: child pornography arrests kansas, christopher davis wellington ks, christopher slattery manhattan ks, fbi child exploitation crackdown, fbi operation restore justice, kansas child exploitation cases, nationwide child abuse sting, State News|Comments Off

Carlin explains decision to flip vote on budget bill

By Brandon Peoples|2025-04-14T14:23:37-05:00April 14th, 2025|Categories: Local News|Tags: Gov. Laura Kelly veto, K-State 105 funding, K-State diagnostic lab, K-State Veterinary lab funding, Kansas budget veto overrides, Kansas House budget news, Kansas legislature April 2025, Kansas legislature news, Kansas State University funding, Manhattan KS politics, Rep. Carlin K-State support, SB125 Kansas, State News, Sydney Carlin vote|Comments Off

Federal police detain residents in southwest Kansas amid Trump’s illegal immigration crackdown

By KMAN Staff|2025-04-10T13:48:44-05:00April 10th, 2025|Categories: Local News|Tags: Dodge City immigration news, ERO arrests Liberal Kansas, federal immigration arrests Kansas, Garden City ICE, ICE raids Kansas, immigration enforcement Kansas, Jose Lara Liberal mayor, Kansas immigrant community, southwest Kansas immigration, State News, Trump immigration crackdown|Comments Off

Moran endorses federal legislation restoring congressional authority over trade tariffs

By KMAN Staff|2025-04-08T10:08:13-05:00April 8th, 2025|Categories: Local News|Tags: agriculture tariffs, bipartisan trade bill, Congress trade authority, foreign commerce legislation, Jerry Moran, Kansas farming exports, Kansas Senator, Senate trade bill, State News, tariff legislation 2025, Trade Review Act 2025, Trump tariffs, Trump trade policy, US tariffs, US trade policy debate|Comments Off

Property taxes are squeezing Kansans. Lawmakers can’t agree how to help

By KMAN Staff|2025-04-07T12:58:15-05:00April 7th, 2025|Categories: Local News|Tags: Caryn Tyson tax proposal, Ethan Corson property tax, Kansas House and Senate tax plans, Kansas legislature tax debate, Kansas property taxes, Kansas tax legislation 2025, Kansas tax reform news, property tax relief Kansas, property tax valuation cap, Rui Xu Kansas politics, State News|Comments Off

A man has shot and killed a Catholic priest at his parish rectory in northeast Kansas

By AP News|2025-04-04T09:38:20-05:00April 4th, 2025|Categories: Local News|Tags: Archbishop Joseph Naumann, Catholic priest murdered Kansas, Fr. Arul Carasala death, Fr. Carasala obituary, Kansas church shooting, Kansas clergy violence, Nemaha County shooting, priest killed in Seneca, Saints Peter and Paul Catholic Church, Seneca Kansas priest shooting, State News|Comments Off

Statewide sale of fireworks bill passed

By KMAN Staff|2025-03-27T13:53:02-05:00March 27th, 2025|Categories: Local News|Tags: burn bans and fireworks, fireworks sale regulation Kansas, Kansas fireworks law 2024, Kansas pyrotechnics law, Riley County fireworks rules, SB 199 fireworks update, Senate Bill 199 Kansas, State News, temporary fireworks vendors Kansas, year-round fireworks sales Kansas|Comments Off

House Republicans support change to Supreme Court process

By KMAN Staff|2025-03-20T07:24:46-05:00March 20th, 2025|Categories: Local News|Tags: State News|Comments Off