Kelly Manning has been hooked on the restaurant business since he bussed tables at Coyote Grill in Mission while in high school. He worked at Houston’s restaurants here and in Atlanta while in college and later for the locally owned PB&J Restaurants Inc.

The Kansas House has given approval to a bill requiring voters to show photo identification when they vote.

The urban barn door is sliding into the home front. Demand for these movable monoliths has grown in recent years as homeowners, including condo dwellers and suburbanites, are looking for solutions with character.

Most black churches, like most white churches, are overwhelmingly one race. Their own race. Studies don’t even have to confirm this. Just go to church and look around. So how do African-American pastors feel about this lack of spiritual integration?

Union members shouted "vote no" and "freedom of speech" as the House approved the bill Thursday on a 75-46 vote.

Here is the 96-25 vote Thursday by which the Kansas House approved a bill to require doctors to obtain parents' consent before performing abortions on minors and to make other changes in state abortion laws.

Here is the 91-30 vote Thursday by which the Kansas House approved a bill to enact a Nebraska-style fetal pain law to block late-term abortions.

The Associated Press The Associated Press TOPEKA, Kan. Here is the 96-25 vote Thursday by which the Kansas House approved a bill to require doctors to obtain parents' consent before performing abortions on minors and to make other changes in state abortion laws. Of the 92 Republicans, 84 voted "yes," five voted "no" and three did not vote. Of the 33 Democrats, 12 voted "yes," 20 voted "no" and ...

The Kansas House of Representatives passed a bill today regulating the political activities of labor unions in a 75-46 vote.

JOHN HANNA AP Political Writer TOPEKA, Kan. Kansas legislators are considering a new proposal to satisfy the federal government's demands that the state boost spending on special education programs in public schools without undercutting Gov. Sam Brownback's effort to trim the current state budget. House and Senate budget negotiators planned to consider the proposal Wednesday, a day after ...