TOPEKA, Kansas — Kansas lawmakers return to the Statehouse today with more than $2 billion in loose change to fight over. How the Legislature’s Republican leaders and Democratic Gov.
2 cups dried pinto beans (or 2 pounds cooked) 3 /4 cup coconut oil 1 /4 cup butter, browned 1 /2 cup peanut butter (unsweetened) 1 /2 cup maple syrup or agave 3 /4 cup cocoa powder 2 teaspoons vanilla 1 teaspoon stevia powder 1 teaspoon salt 1. Soak beans overnight.
Two years have passed since the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. To mark the occasion, President Biden plans to award the Presidential Citizens Medal to 12 people, including law enforcement officers who were injured defending the Capitol and election workers who resisted efforts to overturn the 2020 election.
El Dorado – Kaleb Hogan, a correctional officer for the Department of Corrections at El Dorado at the time of his arrest, was found guilty by a jury Jan. 6 – convicted of one count of child abuse and one count of first-degree murder.
The results of a city government survey performed by FlashVote for the city of Newton are in - and those who responded to the survey favor a change to the form of government used by the city of Newton.
A Kansas Bureau of Investigation report released late Friday documents a chronic pattern of sexual abuse by Catholic priests in the state, and the church’s history of protecting its clergy. The report released by the state attorney general’s office said dioceses across the state frequently failed to follow church policies regarding allegations of sexual abuse by Catholic clergy.
Free throw contest returns The Knights of Columbus will once again host the organization’s annual free throw contest at 1 p.m. Jan.
In a survey conducted in late 2022 by the North American Vexillological Association (NAVA), Newton’s flag received an A grade and ranked in the top 25 city flags adopted in the past eight years. (Vexillology is the study of flags.)
George “Chip” Westfall announced in April of 2022 he would not seek reelection to the Harvey County Commission for another term - a term that will come to a close Jan. 10.
No one wants called to the principal’s office first thing in the morning. But for Carla McConnell, a third-grade teacher at Santa Fe, that call to explain a program she had finished up turned out to be a good thing.