Osawatomie

En la primera historia de nuestra serie “The Injured”, una familia de Kansas recuerda el Día de San Valentín como el comienzo de ataques de pánico, traumas que cambian la vida y pesadillas con disparos. Lanzados al centro de atención por los tiroteos, se preguntan cómo se recuperarán.

A Kansas family remembers Valentine’s Day as the beginning of panic attacks, life-altering trauma and waking to nightmares of gunfire. Thrown into the spotlight by the mass shooting, they wonder how they will recover. Plus: Four Kansas pharmacy owners are taking on the prescription drug industry.

In the first of our series “The Injured,” a Kansas family remembers Valentine’s Day as the beginning of panic attacks, life-altering trauma, and waking to nightmares of gunfire. Thrown into the spotlight by the shootings, they wonder how they will recover.

In Randy Michael Signor’s new novel “Osawatomie,” homesteaders settle near the titular Kansas town just before the Civil War. This turns out to be…

A key Kansas lawmaker says the state doesn’t have the money to fix problems in its mental health system, which a new report says are getting steadily…

Kansas’ two state-run psychiatric hospitals would lose nearly $20 million under the budget proposed by Gov. Sam Brownback.In the current fiscal year,…

Editor’s note: Every day, hundreds of Kansans with serious mental illnesses receive treatment in communities, state psychiatric hospitals or nursing…

This story was updated at 6:04 p.m. Kansas is seeking a private partner to operate Osawatomie State Hospital under a proposal that would allow the…

The leader of a mental health crisis center in Kansas City told legislators Tuesday that the amount of money his facility is saving Kansas hospitals,…

Roy Alcorn shot pool with friends last week as sunlight streamed through the open door of a small building at Equi-Venture Farms.A month earlier, Alcorn…

As communities across Kansas struggle to accommodate an influx of people with mental illness in their criminal justice systems, religious leaders are…

At first, the man appears drunk.He’s walking along an on-ramp from Lackman Road onto I-435 in Lenexa, Kansas. At 1 p.m., traffic is heavy.The man doesn’t…