The White House Office of Intergovernmental Affairs met with city and county leaders from Oklahoma and Arkansas to brief them the effort to improve relationships between federal and local officials.
Clean-up continues across southeast Kansas after heavy rainfall led to deadly flooding. Some areas of Montgomery County got more than 10 inches of rain.
Heavy rains late Tuesday and early Wednesday north of the Oklahoma-Kansas state line have closed roads, stranded cars and led to evacuations.
School districts across the state are turning to voters to help get the money they desperately need to build storm shelters and keep children safe.
State prison officials confirm an inmate who was serving a 200-year sentence out of Rogers County died Wednesday.
