The Free Staters voted 1,287 to 453 to outlaw black people, slave or free, from Kansas. Their territory would be white. As the two factions struggled for control of the territory, tensions increased.

A proposed state constitutional amendment would require Kansas Supreme Court justices to be elected rather than appointed by ...

Rybak and Schmitz both thought they were lucky, that they nearly escaped death. Then the first vehicle hit them, then another ...