TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -- Kansas would delay $20 million in aid payments to its public schools for four months under a proposal approved by a state House committee Thursday, presented as an alternative to a more aggressive version in Republican Gov. Sam Brownback's plan for balancing the current budget....

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) -- Tests show that an elephant at the Sedgwick County Zoo died of age-related heart disease....

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- The U.S. Senate rejected an amendment sponsored by Sen. Jerry Moran of Kansas that would have removed the lesser prairie chicken from the federal government's threatened species list....

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -- Gov. Sam Brownback is preparing to announce his nominee for an open seat on the Kansas Court of Appeals....

LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) -- A former fire chief of a township near Leavenworth has been sentenced to a year of probation for felony theft....