In Kansas, top Republican and Democratic lawmakers found a rare issue both sides could endorse: banning cell phones in schools. But as Zane Irwin of the Kansas News Service reports, a bill to lock personal devices away from classrooms is facing major obstacles to becoming law.
Plus more on these stories:
- Democratic Kansas Governor Laura Kelly says a racist social media post by President Trump should not have happened.
- A nationwide outage that affected the processing of Wichita water bills has been resolved.
- A western Kansas county wants to be able to prosecute people for trespassing on public rivers.
- The number of Kansans enrolled in the Affordable Care Act marketplace this year decreased, but not as much as experts thought it would following the expiration of tax credits.
- A local roofing company has been ordered to pay more than $510 thousand dollars after allegedly violating state regulations.
- In men’s college basketball, the ninth-ranked Kansas Jayhawks handed top-ranked Arizona its first loss of the season, 82-78, Monday night in Allen Fieldhouse.
- The City of Newton and Harvey County are asking residents to share traffic experiences and help shape long-term road safety priorities.
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