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Kaylee Obisesan

Kaylee Obisesan is a Heartlander News staff reporter based in Kansas City, Missouri. A Miami University graduate, she has also reported for news outlets in Indiana and Ohio.

Schools
It is  the parents’ business: Missouri AG announces lawsuit settlement in Wentzville school district’s secret transgender meeting

A lawsuit against a Missouri school district that disregarded parental rights in secretly discussing transgender bathroom policies reached a resolution Monday. Attorney General Catherine Hanaway announced a… Read More

April 7, 2026
Kansas City
New black-owned Kansas City bar cancelled after public outrage over supposed racist name

Crushing public uproar over an alleged racist name – for a black-owned business, oddly enough – cancelled a pending lounge in Kansas City just days after it was announced. Read More

April 7, 2026
Border, Crime
Kansas City criminal sentenced after delivering child pornography to U.S. from Mexico, stealing firearms

A Kansas City-area man was sentenced Thursday to over eight years in prison for stealing firearms and transporting child pornography to the U.S. from Mexico. Olathe resident Frank… Read More

April 6, 2026
Legislature
Kansas law would require civics exams in schools, lessons on dangers of communism

A proposed Kansas law requiring a civics test to graduate high school awaits a final verdict from the House later this week. Middle and high school students in… Read More

April 6, 2026
Kansas
Kansas governor sides with trans activist as he enters women’s bathroom: ‘I am very sorry that you and others are being put in this situation’

A transgender Colorado man has yet to face legal consequences after breaking Kansas law by entering a women’s restroom at the Statehouse on Tuesday. “Samantha” Boucher, a biological… Read More

April 2, 2026