A federal appeals court has reversed the conviction of a researcher who was accused of hiding work he did in China while ...

A federal appeals court has reversed the conviction of a researcher who was accused of hiding work he did in China while ...

A convicted rapist was sentenced to at least 10 years behind bars Thursday for the 1980 murder of his neighbor — closing the book on Kansas’ oldest cold case. Steven L. Hanks, 70, was brought ...

The Kansas Supreme Court ... Doelz filed a wrongful conviction compensation case in Shawnee County District Court. After a 2022 trial, Judge Teresa Watson rejected the claim, finding that Doelz's ...

Banning the box doesn't stop an employer from inquiring into a job applicant’s criminal history. It prevents pre-emptively ruling out applicants.

A former Kansas high school teacher has pleaded no contest after being accused of having sexual relations with a 14-year-old ...

A U.S. appeals court on Thursday tossed the conviction of a former University of Kansas professor for making a false statement related to work he was doing in China, marking a new setback for the ...

A former Kansas sheriff’s deputy was stripped of his law enforcement license after he was convicted of beating and intimidating his girlfriend in a hotel room. Eric Fisher, 43, of Bucklin ...

The Kansas Supreme Court ruled Friday that the state's law providing compensation to incarcerated people who were wrongfully convicted doesn't apply if the defendant was only "legally" innocent ...

A former Kansas high school teacher has pleaded no contest after being accused of having sexual relations with a 14-year-old girl in his classroom. Jose Espinoza, 48, was charged in April with one ...