Kansas

Kansas and neighboring Colorado were on the western edge of a storm system that ripped through the central U.S. starting late May 16, destroying thousands of homes and buildings and killing nearly 30 people.

Lawmakers in the Kansas Legislature voted April 26 to override Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of a “born-alive infants protection act.”

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