TOPEKA — A Kansas committee tasked with providing mental health policy recommendations will reconsider telehealth treatment and payment options in its 2021 report. During the legislative session earlier this year, lawmakers considered several recommendations from the 2020 Special Committee on Mental Health Modernization and Reform’s 152-page report.

On September 28 at approximately 7:42 p.m, Caney Police Department officers were dispatched to the 200 block of South Wood Street in Caney in reference to a domestic disturbance. Upon arrival, Officers learned that a possible suspect in the case had fled on foot.

Set aside the specter of overflowing intensive care units in Idaho -- or that the state's emergency rooms are now choosing which COVID-19 patients to save and which ones to give up on. The situation is so bad that desperate patients are crossing the border into Washington state to find hospital beds, putting Spokane hospitals under siege. Idaho's coroners and funeral homes are

The City of Independence is opening two bids for Kiddy Land improvements at Riverside Park and Ralph Mitchell Zoo. Kiddy Land Infrastructure Improvements: Sealed bids for construction of Kiddy Land Infrastructure Improvements for the City of Independence will be received by the City of Independence until 2:00 p.m on October 14 and will then be publicly opened and read aloud at the Temporary City Hall at 811 West Laurel Street in Independence.

This week, President Joe Biden made the incredible statement -- sycophantically repeated by the press -- that his $3.5 trillion budget bill, which includes major spending initiatives on everything from climate change to Medicare, would be "free." Biden tweeted, "My Build Back Better Agenda costs zero dollars. Instead of wasting money on tax breaks, loopholes, and tax evasion for big corporations and the wealthy, we can make a once-in-a-generation investment in working America."

Folks dropping letters in the mail starting Friday may want to add a few extra days for transit if their missives are going cross-country. Likewise, anyone sending packages and cards around the holiday season will want to have a smidge of extra cash on hand to pay the postage piper.

WASHINGTON — The nation’s top general testified Tuesday that the American war in Afghanistan ended in “strategic failure,” a grim conclusion that acknowledged a long series of mistakes and miscalculations by the Pentagon’s leaders.

SEDGWICK COUNTY — The Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) is investigating the death of a 17-year-old who died after being in law enforcement custody. By statute, the KBI investigates all in-custody deaths which occur in Kansas jails and prisons, unless the inmate who dies is being regularly attended by a physician, or the death is ruled natural by autopsy.

Dear Annie: My 20-year-old daughter, "Jessica," was adopted when she was 2 by her mom and her first husband, and I adopted her when she was 15. She decided to reach out to her birth mother in a very small town with very limited opportunities last February, and then she moved across the country to be with her in April. This broke my wife's heart, as they

CROP PROGRESS AND CONDITION MANHATTAN, Kan. September 27, 2021 - For the week ending September 26, 2021, there were 6.8 days suitable for fieldwork, according to the USDA's National Agricultural Statistics Service.