Jennifer Stultz

Jennifer Stultz

Kansas unemployment rate climbs to 3.1%

TOPEKA — The 0.5 percentage point climb in the Kansas unemployment rate during the past year fell in the middle range of increases reported across the board in a five-state region that included Missouri, Nebraska, Oklahoma and Colorado, state labor agencies said.During the past 12 months, Oklahoma experienced the smallest expansion of joblessness and Colorado the largest growth in unemployment among the five states.

9 Jayhawks begin Olympic journey in Paris

PARIS - Nine athletes with University of Kansas ties are competing in the Paris 2024 Olympics, which got underway last Friday.The Jayhawks are represented across multiple sports with Michael Joseph, Yoveinny Mota, Sharon Lokedi, Bryce Hoppel, Hussain Al Hizam and Alexandra Emilianov.

Another View: The Book of Mormon and Devotion to God

It was about 64 B.C., and among the Nephites(1) was found a group of formerly murderous Lamanites(1) who had chosen to follow the Lord, and had taken an oath “that they never would shed blood more”(2), and had buried their weapons deep in the earth as a sign of their promise to God.