TOPEKA — Kansas Supreme Court Justice Evelyn Wilson will retire, effective July 4, following a recent amyotrophic lateral sclerosis diagnosis, also known as ALS or Lou Gehrig’s disease. Wilson’s letter of resignation submitted to Kansas…

LAWRENCE — A child sex abuse survivor and advocate thinks it’s “more than a coincidence” that three men accused of child sex crimes died by suicide in December. Survivors of the three men are now…

TOPEKA — Kansas Supreme Court Justice Marla Luckert told lawmakers Wednesday she was happy she wouldn’t be talking about how a disaster had upended court operations like she has in past years with the COVID-19…

TOPEKA — Chief Justice Marla Luckert retained a lonely position as the only member of the Kansas Supreme Court convinced appeals of criminal convictions shouldn’t be allowed to proceed through the judicial system after the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden on Friday nominated federal appeals court Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson to the Supreme Court, making her the first Black woman selected to serve on a court that once declared…

TOPEKA — Gov. Laura Kelly is appointing Melissa Taylor Standridge to fill a Kansas Supreme Court justice vacancy. Standridge, who has served as a judge in the Kansas Court of Appeals since 2008, will replace…

Browsing through a trendy boutique in Culver City recently, I came across a framed sign that said “Equality.” It was pink and perched above a shelf with neatly folded jeans on sale for $450 a…

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas prosecutor who helped free a man who spent 23 years in prison for a double homicide he always said he didn’t commit is calling for justice as the…

WASHINGTON (AP) — John Paul Stevens moved left as the Supreme Court shifted to the right during his nearly 35 years as a justice. That’s how the bow-tie wearing Republican from the Midwest emerged as…

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas Supreme Court justice whose votes for abortion rights and against the death penalty made him a political target plans to retire in three months, allowing Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly…