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Despite a growing state budget deficit, the Kansas judiciary plans to ask state lawmakers for more funding, in order to help boost the salaries of court employees across the state.

Political action committees spent more than $77,000 on candidates with moderate, progressive and conservative points of views.

An analysis by KCUR after the Kansas primary found ten competitive state senate races and 20 competitive house races.

The survey by the nonpartisan Docking Institute of Public Affairs at Fort Hays State University showed nearly two-thirds of Kansans want to eliminate the tax loophole to address the state’s budget shortfalls.

A Kansas congressional race so close that now the president has weighed in, endorsing the Democratic challenger? Who saw that coming? Hear about the unexpected battle for the third congressional district in Kansas: Democratic challenger Jay Sidie versus incumbent Republican Congressman Kevin Yoder.

A Lawrence company that hired people down on their luck seemed to be doing well by doing good. And then it got sued for trademark infringement. Sun Cedar was a small non-profit that tried to give its employees a leg up. But then, the company's legs were cut off.

Johnson County election officials have already been under fire week for not providing the easiest method for registering to vote. The federal voter registration form, which does not require documentary proof of U.S. citizenship, was not made available to the public until the day before the voter registration deadline. Now, new complaints have surfaced from would-be voters in Johnson County.

A judge has appointed an attorney from Cleveland to help examine the recordings of attorney-client meetings at a private prison in Leavenworth.

The controversial issue of the death penalty may determine whether voters retain four Kansas Supreme Court justices in the November election.

The president of the Kansas Senate says there's too much work to be done in only three months.