Wichita Sen. Oletha Faust-Goudeau ran for public office in response to a death-bed plea from her mother, who marched for equality and justice with the Rev. Martin Luther King.

The monkey on the back of the Kansas Legislature will look much the same Wednesday as it did when state lawmakers rolled into Topeka in January.

ELLIS - Sen. Rick Billinger told a crowd at a legislative coffee here Friday he expects a bill authorizing payment to the state's retirement system will become law despite the governor's opposition.

Robust individual income tax receipts during February countered weaker-than-expected corporate income and retail sales tax collections to deliver a $32 million surge in revenue during the month to the state of Kansas, officials said Monday.

Topeka obstetrician Thomas Wiley has spent his career helping and advising women as they have babies. But nothing brought home the deep importance of his work more than when his own child died of SIDS, or Sudden Infant Death Syndrome.