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Unofficial results show four seats on the Kansas State Board of Education were won by conservative candidates who want to restrict how race and social-emotional learning are taught in schools.

Prosecutors had urged the judge to keep Golubski, who was indicted last week on charges of violating two women's civil rights when he allegedly assaulted them more than two decades ago, in detention until trial.

The investigation comes after The Kansas City Star reported earlier this year on allegations of racism and harassment of Black officers in the department.

Golubski worked for the Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department for 35 years, retiring as a captain in 2010. For years, he has been the subject of allegations that he terrorized Black residents of the city, sexually assaulted women and exchanged drugs for information in order to clear cases.

Attorneys for Pamela Ricard say the teacher's First Amendment rights were violated when she was disciplined for refusing to use a student's preferred name and pronouns.

The University of Kansas Cancer Center has been deemed a comprehensive place for research by the National Cancer Institute.

Lamonte McIntyre, of Kansas City, Kansas, was wrongfully imprisoned for more 24 years for a double homicide he didn’t commit.

A map drawn by legislative Republicans was thrown out by a lower court on grounds that it discriminated against people of color and Democrats.

Two federal efforts — one in Congress and one at the U.S. Interior Department — could affect the search for marked and unmarked graves at the Shawnee Indian Mission in Fairway and Haskell Indian Nations University in Lawrence.

The ACLU complained in a letter of reports of stabbings, under-staffing and poor security at the private prison in Leavenworth. As CoreCivic's contract expires this month, questions about its future remain.