All the headlines from our Kansas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jan 26 2021 // Gov. Laura Kelly has signed a bill that extends the state’s disaster emergency declaration, allowing Kansas to continue to tap into resources for its pandemic response efforts.The legislation, which extends the...
Jan 21 2021 // A former Kansas insurance agent from Johnson County has pleaded guilty to insurance fraud charges and agreed to repay nearly $86,000 in restitution, the state’s attorney general’s office reported.Kansas...
Jan 21 2021 // Overland Park, Kansas-based MutualAid eXchange (MAX) has named Dr. Lisa Bage, currently chief operating officer at MAX, as CEO and president effective Feb. 15, 2021.She will succeed current President and CEO David M. Wine,...
Jan 19 2021 // A federal judge has awarded more than $1 million in damages to another veteran who says he was sexually abused by a former physician assistant at a Veterans Administration hospital in Kansas.It’s the third time since...
Jan 11 2021 // The Kansas Supreme Court has upheld a state law that governs how much money workers who are injured on the job can collect.The court ruled that an amendment to the Kansas Workers’ Compensation Act was constitutional...
Dec 30 2020 // A Kansas regulatory agency has determined that the oil and gas industry wasn’t to blame for a recent spate of Wichita earthquakes.The Kansas Corporation Commission looked at wastewater injection wells located within...
Dec 22 2020 // Managing general agency and surplus lines insurance broker J.M. Wilson has promoted Tyler Goecker to branch manager in its Kansas City, Mo., office. He will plan the day to day operations of the Kansas City office,...
Dec 21 2020 // Multiple earthquakes rattled Wichita, Kan., on Dec. 19, with the largest measuring 3.7 on the Richter scale. That makes the trembler the largest on record in the city in the last five years, although it’s still is...
Dec 14 2020 // A Wichita fitness studio’s owner and his business are suing Kansas for compensation for being forced to shut down and reopen with restrictions this year because of the coronavirus pandemic, arguing that the state...
Dec 9 2020 // An earthquake rattled Wichita, Kan., on Dec. 8 — the fourth earthquake in the area in the last two weeks.The earthquake had an estimated magnitude of 3.0, the U.S. Geological Survey said. It struck in the morning in east...
Dec 9 2020 // Bar owners in Kansas’ largest city are challenging rules designed to slow the spread of COVID-19, hoping to use the courts to overturn a mask mandate, limits on public gatherings and an 11 p.m. closing time for bars...
Dec 1 2020 // Authorities say no one was hurt in an explosion and fire at a northeast Kansas distilling plant that was fined earlier this year over a noxious cloud of fumes that sent dozens to the hospital in 2016.Atchison Police Chief...
Dec 1 2020 // AM Best has revised the outlooks to positive from stable and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating of B++ (Good) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating (Long-Term ICR) of “bbb+” of Bremen Farmers Mutual...
Nov 25 2020 // Despite the warning signs and flashing lights, trucks just can’t seem to stop hitting a Kansas City, Missouri, overpass.The Kansas City Star reports that the bridge on Independence Avenue is struck so often that it...
Nov 19 2020 // The parents of a Kansas City, Mo., man who died in a 2016 shooting have been awarded $4 million in a wrongful death lawsuit against a man who trafficked in firearms, as well as a gun dealer and manufacturer.Court documents...
Nov 17 2020 // A small community college in northeast Kansas has settled a lawsuit accusing it of directing coaches to recruit more white athletes and subjecting Black students to excessive scrutiny such as background checks before...
Nov 16 2020 // “Kansas is having a relatively larger increase in crop risk as a response to a one-degree Celsius warming, compared to the other parts of the country.”— Jisang Yu, assistant professor of agriculture...
Nov 12 2020 // World Insurance Associates LLC (WIA) has acquired LIA Great Bend Inc. (d/b/a Alliance Insurance Group) (Alliance) of Salina, Kan.Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. Led by CEO Cody Smith, Alliance is a...
Nov 9 2020 // A Kansas man accused of performing illegal autopsies duped at least 82 consumers, Kansas Attorney General Derek Schmidt said.The state now has control of more than 1,600 biological samples collected by Shawn Parcells of...
Nov 4 2020 // AM Best has upgraded the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating (Long-Term ICR) to “bbb+” from “bbb” and affirmed the Financial Strength Rating (FSR) of B++ (Good) of Junction, Kansas-based Upland Mutual...