Scott Canon
Scott Canon is digital editor of the Kansas News Service, a collaboration of KCUR, Kansas Public Radio, KMUW and High Plains Public Radio covering health, education and politics. He started working for KCUR in January 2018.
Canon spent most of his career as a newspaper reporter, working in Illinois and California before landing in the newsroom of The Kansas City Star. At The Star, he covered mostly regional and national stories. As an editor at the newspaper, he oversaw political coverage. He also fielded a handful of overseas assignments to both very hot and very cold places.
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The shooting broke out during an attempt to arrest a man in a gas station who was suspected in a previous assault.
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A new poll shows Kansans feeling stressed by the coronavirus pandemic and its economic toll, but largely in favor of shutdown measures.
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Five Republicans running for the U.S. Senate debated farm issues in Manhattan on Saturday. They all described themselves as loyalists to President Donald Trump.
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(Updated at 4:45 p.m.) With trees shredded into tinder and homes ripped asunder, scores of families in and around Lawrence and Linwood, Kansas, surveyed...
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Kansas swore a new governor into office on Monday and saw the end of eight years of Republicans in the office. New Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly told...
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When a ban might not be a ban Legislators set out this year to make telemedicine more practical in Kansas. They drafted a law that would force insurance...
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Read her lips A month away from becoming the next governor of Kansas, Democrat Laura Kelly says she’s deep into budget preparation. Although she’s been...
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Kansas Gov.-elect Laura Kelly insists the state budget she’s preparing can fully fund the state’s schools, expand Medicaid coverage to another 150,000...
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Powers of McGruff If a police officer in Kansas thinks they smell weed — even an unlit bud in a plastic bag six paces away — the state’s high court says...
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Not gonna hear it The U.S. Supreme Court said Monday it would not consider a case involving Planned Parenthood and the state of Kansas. That means...