Posted: Mar 24, 2021 / 07:15 PM CDTUpdated: Mar 24, 2021 / 07:15 PM CDTTOPEKA, Kan. (KSNT) – Stopping social media companies from silencing conservative voices is at the core of a new bill Kansas lawmakers are debating.Many conservatives believe their first amendment rights are being restricted by companies like Facebook and Twitter. A state senator has introduced a plan to give people their voice back.Federal law lets websites remove obscene, lewd, and violent material. It also says harassing and objectionable content can be restricted. That’s the part that concerns some people.After the...…Posted: Mar 24, 2021 / 07:15 PM CDTUpdated: Mar 24, 2021 / 07:15 PM CDTTOPEKA, Kan. (KSNT) – Stopping social media companies from silencing conservative voices is at the core of a new bill Kansas lawmakers are debating.Many conservatives believe their first amendment rights are being restricted by companies like Facebook and Twitter. A state senator has introduced a plan to give people their voice back.Federal law lets websites remove obscene, lewd, and violent material. It also says harassing and objectionable content can be restricted. That’s the part that concerns some people.After the...WW…

Posted: Mar 10, 2021 / 06:52 PM CSTUpdated: Mar 10, 2021 / 06:52 PM CSTTOPEKA, Kan. (KSNT) – Some states are starting to relax coronavirus restrictions, including getting rid of mask mandates. Kansas Governor Laura Kelly doesn’t want that to happen here yet.Sixteen states don’t have mask mandates and if the state of emergency in Kansas ends at the end of the month like it’s scheduled to do, Kansas could also be one of them.Ultimately it’s up to counties to opt-out of the governor’s mask mandate. Letting the disaster declaration expire at the end of March would get rid of the governor’s...…Posted: Mar 10, 2021 / 06:52 PM CSTUpdated: Mar 10, 2021 / 06:52 PM CSTTOPEKA, Kan. (KSNT) – Some states are starting to relax coronavirus restrictions, including getting rid of mask mandates. Kansas Governor Laura Kelly doesn’t want that to happen here yet.Sixteen states don’t have mask mandates and if the state of emergency in Kansas ends at the end of the month like it’s scheduled to do, Kansas could also be one of them.Ultimately it’s up to counties to opt-out of the governor’s mask mandate. Letting the disaster declaration expire at the end of March would get rid of the governor’s...WW…

Posted: Mar 12, 2021 / 06:05 PM CSTUpdated: Mar 12, 2021 / 08:49 PM CSTTOPEKA, Kan. (KSNT) – Kansas lawmakers are moving quickly to try and get a new gun safety bill passed. The new proposal aims to teach students about gun safety.It would require the Kansas State Board of Education to create curriculum guidelines for a gun safety education program. Local school boards would have the option to teach it in their district.It could start as early as kindergarten. It would be based on the National Rifle Association’s Eddie Eagle GunSafe program.Older students could be offered the training, or...…Posted: Mar 12, 2021 / 06:05 PM CSTUpdated: Mar 12, 2021 / 08:49 PM CSTTOPEKA, Kan. (KSNT) – Kansas lawmakers are moving quickly to try and get a new gun safety bill passed. The new proposal aims to teach students about gun safety.It would require the Kansas State Board of Education to create curriculum guidelines for a gun safety education program. Local school boards would have the option to teach it in their district.It could start as early as kindergarten. It would be based on the National Rifle Association’s Eddie Eagle GunSafe program.Older students could be offered the training, or...WW…

Posted: Mar 3, 2021 / 07:55 PM CSTUpdated: Mar 4, 2021 / 02:00 PM CSTTOPEKA, Kan. (KSNT) – The Kansas House passed gun license reciprocity bill that will allow 18 to 20-year-olds to get a concealed carry license in Kansas by a margin of 85-38.The bill now heads to the Senate.The bill in the Kansas House moved forward allowing 18 to 20-year-olds the option to concealed carry has passed.The new bill would allow them to conceal carry but they would have to obtain a licenseRepresentatives voiced support for conceal carry in Kansas but would call for training.The proposal came in the form of an...…Posted: Mar 3, 2021 / 07:55 PM CSTUpdated: Mar 4, 2021 / 02:00 PM CSTTOPEKA, Kan. (KSNT) – The Kansas House passed gun license reciprocity bill that will allow 18 to 20-year-olds to get a concealed carry license in Kansas by a margin of 85-38.The bill now heads to the Senate.The bill in the Kansas House moved forward allowing 18 to 20-year-olds the option to concealed carry has passed.The new bill would allow them to conceal carry but they would have to obtain a licenseRepresentatives voiced support for conceal carry in Kansas but would call for training.The proposal came in the form of an...WW…

Posted: Feb 1, 2021 / 04:52 PM CSTUpdated: Feb 1, 2021 / 06:09 PM CSTTOPEKA, Kan. (KSNT) – The state’s top health official says he is not happy with the lack of coronavirus vaccine reporting.Kansas has received 413,000 vaccines, but state data shows only 55% of those have gone into people’s arms.The Department of Health and Environment secretary, Lee Norman says those numbers “are way low” and the data reporting problems “drives him crazy. ““There’s nothing more frustrating for me right now than the fact that we need to fix the data reporting, because I’m here to tell you that we are taking...…Posted: Feb 1, 2021 / 04:52 PM CSTUpdated: Feb 1, 2021 / 06:09 PM CSTTOPEKA, Kan. (KSNT) – The state’s top health official says he is not happy with the lack of coronavirus vaccine reporting.Kansas has received 413,000 vaccines, but state data shows only 55% of those have gone into people’s arms.The Department of Health and Environment secretary, Lee Norman says those numbers “are way low” and the data reporting problems “drives him crazy. ““There’s nothing more frustrating for me right now than the fact that we need to fix the data reporting, because I’m here to tell you that we are taking...WW…

Posted: Apr 7, 2020 / 06:49 PM CDTUpdated: Apr 7, 2020 / 06:49 PM CDTTOPEKA, Kan. (KSNT) – Multiple coronavirus outbreaks have been linked to church gatherings in Kansas. Now the governor is trying to make sure that doesn’t happen again.Governor Laura Kelly announced a new executive order Tuesday extending the 10 person limit on gatherings to churches and funerals.Kelly said there have been three church events that have caused coronavirus to spread throughout each community. That makes up 25 percent of the big clusters the state is currently seeing.“We hoped that there was not a need to do...…Posted: Apr 7, 2020 / 06:49 PM CDTUpdated: Apr 7, 2020 / 06:49 PM CDTTOPEKA, Kan. (KSNT) – Multiple coronavirus outbreaks have been linked to church gatherings in Kansas. Now the governor is trying to make sure that doesn’t happen again.Governor Laura Kelly announced a new executive order Tuesday extending the 10 person limit on gatherings to churches and funerals.Kelly said there have been three church events that have caused coronavirus to spread throughout each community. That makes up 25 percent of the big clusters the state is currently seeing.“We hoped that there was not a need to do...WW…