Shirley Phelps-Roper defends her decision to protest at funerals. The Phelpses’ appearance on the supermodel’s syndicated talk show was surreal — not just because Phelps-Roper took the unusual step of ...

As host of a current events radio show, one of the things I like to do is take a hot topic in the news and turn it into a talk topic on my show. The crusade of Shirley Phelps-Roper is no exception. As ...

The consensus is in: I selected my Call of the Year a couple days too early. After my conversation Thursday with Shirley Phelps-Roper from Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka Kansas, scores of people ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A federal appeals court said Thursday that a Missouri state law limiting protests near funerals should have been put on hold while a judge determines whether it's ...

OMAHA (AP) - A Kansas woman whose church protests at military funerals across the nation was charged Thursday with four misdemeanors after her son stomped on a U.S. flag during a demonstration in ...

Two boys play “Halo” on Xbox 360 and build Lego spaceships in the den of a peach-colored house in a quiet neighborhood of Topeka. In the next room, dozens of signs reading, “Thank God for Dead ...

A lawsuit that challenges the constitutionality of a Nebraska law that created a 500-foot picket buffer zone around funerals appears headed for trial in March, following a judge's ruling Thursday.

PAPILLION, Neb. (AP) -- Nebraska's law to protect the American flag is unconstitutional, says a legal challenge filed for a Kansas woman. Shirley Phelps-Roper has been charged with letting her 10-year ...

BALTIMORE - A fundamentalist Kansas church that has protested in Rapid City on two separate occasions was hit with an $11 million verdict Wednesday for picketing at the funeral of a soldier who was ...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An attorney for Shirley Phelps-Roper is appealing a federal judge's dismissal of claims questioning the constitutionality of Nebraska's flag-mutilation law. A notice of appeal to ...

Westboro Baptist Church founder Fred Phelps died before midnight Wednesday at age 84, his children Tim Phelps and Shirley Phelps-Roper confirmed to Kansas news outlets. Phelps’s estranged son Nate had ...