All the headlines from our Kansas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Mar 26 2020 // A 30-year-old Garden City man died at a Tyson Fresh Meats plant in western Kansas, authorities said.Kendrick Gregory was doing maintenance work on an assembly line early Monday at the plant in Garden City when he was...
Mar 25 2020 // A small community college in northeast Kansas directed its coaches to recruit more white athletes and targeted black prospective students with excessive scrutiny such background checks before offering scholarships,...
Mar 20 2020 // The Kansas Insurance Department reports that the agency has implemented alternative working arrangements for its staff, and that there will potentially be delays in processing license applications and company filing...
Mar 19 2020 // Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly has ordered financial institutions to temporarily suspend business and residential evictions to help those financially affected by the spread of the coronavirus.The executive order signed by Kelly...
Mar 17 2020 // Before June 2018, finding cattle that were potentially exposed to diseases was time-consuming and complicated, requiring a patchwork of information from auction houses, feedlots, producers and meatpacking...
Mar 16 2020 // The University of Kansas will pay $144,000 and furnish other relief to settle a federal retaliation lawsuit related to the firing of an employee for reporting age discrimination.The lawsuit filed by the U.S. Equal...
Feb 25 2020 // Many Kansas counties’ websites may be at risk as they lack basic protocols that make it easier for hackers to impersonate websites in order to install malware or trick individuals into giving out their personal...
Feb 12 2020 // A Kansas farmer has been sentenced to 2.5 years in prison for federal crop insurance fraud and bankruptcy fraud.Kevin Struss, 63, of Wakeeney, was also ordered to pay $604,303 in restitution. Struss pleaded guilty in...
Feb 7 2020 // A Smith Center, Kansas, insurance agent has been convicted of insurance fraud and related charges, and ordered to serve 36 months of probation, the Kansas Attorney General’s office reported.Trisha A. Wiehl, 40, was...
Feb 4 2020 // The Kansas Corporation Commission has approved opening general investigation dockets to allow the public access to information gathered during investigations into seismic activity in Reno and Rooks counties.The dockets...
Feb 3 2020 // A Kansas company pleaded guilty Friday to violating clean air rules and is expected to pay a $1 million fine for its role in a chemical gas cloud that formed over Atchison in 2016, causing more than 140 people to seek...
Feb 1 2020 // More than six out of 10 insurance professionals believe that the Kansas City Chiefs will beat the San Francisco 49ers in the 2020 Super Bowl LIV on Sunday.According to an Insurance Journal online poll, 62% of insurance...
Jan 24 2020 // An insurance company must reimburse a Kansas man for the personal care his wife provided after he was injured in an automobile accident, the state Supreme Court ruled in rejecting that spouses are required to provide such...
Jan 22 2020 // A magnitude 4.5 earthquake was reported in southern Kansas on Sunday. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake struck about 2 miles (3 kilometers) southwest of Hutchinson shortly after 1 p.m. The service had initially...
Dec 30 2019 // More than a dozen people were injured on Dec. 27 when a nitrogen line ruptured at the Beechcraft aircraft manufacturing facility in Wichita, Kansas, causing part of the building to collapse, authorities said.Daniel Wegner,...
Dec 27 2019 // Personal income growth in Kansas is below the national average largely because of troubles in agriculture.Kansas farmers face an expanding drought and low commodity prices, though a break in an ongoing tariff dispute may...
Dec 23 2019 // More than 100 pieces of art by the late Kansas City artist Thomas Hart Benton have been lost from an estate mismanaged by UMB Bank, according to a lawsuit filed in probate court by his family.The lawsuit claims UMB Bank...
Dec 17 2019 // At least five people have died in weather-related crashes in Missouri and Kansas amid a storm that dumped nearly a foot of snow in places, forced schools to close their doors and snarled traffic, authorities said.The...
Dec 13 2019 // AM Best has upgraded the Financial Strength Rating to A (Excellent) from A- (Excellent) and the Long-Term Issuer Credit Rating to “a” from “a-” of McPherson, Kansas-based Farmers Alliance Mutual...
Dec 4 2019 // The U.S. Geological Survey has reported a magnitude 3.8 earthquake in Oklahoma near Prague, where a magnitude 5.7 quake struck eight years ago.Prague City Manager Jim Greff says there are no reports of injury or damage...