Osawatomie

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…

When Missouri’s second mental hospital opened in the late 19th century, State Lunatic Asylum No. 2 in St. Joseph was designed to provide lots of natural…

Nine months after Osawatomie State Hospital lost its federal payments, all rooms are back online after renovations and the state is looking at…

The director of one of the state’s largest community mental health centers says the head of the agency that oversees the behavioral health system appears…