All the headlines from our Kansas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 6 2019 // Prime Property & Casualty Insurance Inc. (PPCI) has entered the Kansas commercial auto insurance market as an admitted carrier specializing in distressed and substandard risks.With PPCI, producers now have an insurance...
May 20 2019 // The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has settled its lawsuit against a Kansas school district that paid a female principal less than it paid the man she had replaced and less than the man who succeeded her. A...
May 15 2019 // The Kansas Supreme Court has upheld a 34-year-old rule that prohibits victims injured by drunken drivers from suing the bars that served them.The high court’s ruling on May 10 came in the case of Jeff Kudlacik, who...
May 13 2019 // Spirit Aerosystems Inc. – based in Wichita, Kansas – has been cited for exposing employees to carcinogen hazards and faces penalties of $193,218 for two repeated and four serious violations, federal safety officials...
May 10 2019 // Several people were injured when a possible tornado tore the roof off an Arkansas apartment building, part of a powerful line of thunderstorms that was dumping more rain Thursday on already drenched areas throughout the...
May 9 2019 // State Farm Mutual Automobile Insurance Co. is lowering its rates in Kansas, for the second time in two years.As a result, its overall personal auto rate will drop by 2.3 percent. The total state-wide expected impact for...
May 9 2019 // A Kansas water park where a 10-year-old boy was decapitated isn’t hiring lifeguards, advertising or selling tickets with less than a month left before its typical Memorial Day weekend opening date, underlining...
Apr 30 2019 // The Missouri River used to be out of control. “It cuts corners, runs around at nights, fills itself with snags and traveling sandbars, lunches on levees, and swallows islands and small villages for dessert,” is...
Apr 30 2019 // Kansas lawmakers have tightened the financial requirements for a license to operate nursing homes after state regulators were forced to take over 22 struggling facilities last year.Officials with the Kansas Department for...
Apr 22 2019 // The families of victims of a mass shooting at a central Kansas business in 2016 have won a $2 million legal settlement from a pawn shop that sold the firearms to the shooter’s girlfriend.The settlement of three...
Apr 15 2019 // The government’s latest Census of Agriculture for Kansas shows the number of farms in the state has dropped 5% from the count taken five years earlier.The National Agricultural Statistics Service reported Thursday...
Apr 10 2019 // A $1 million gift has helped the University of Kansas School of Business to establish a new insurance and risk management certificate program, which will launch in the fall.The gift, from Cheryl Lockton Williams, of...
Apr 7 2019 // Republican lawmakers in Kansas pressed ahead with allowing the state Farm Bureau to offer health coverage to members that doesn’t satisfy the Affordable Care Act, a state-level effort to circumvent an Obama-era law...
Apr 7 2019 // With floodwaters again inundating parts of Missouri, the state Senate has backed legislation that could limit local tax breaks offered for new developments in flood plains.A bill given initial approval would prohibit new...
Apr 5 2019 // Three Midwestern Republican governors of states ravaged by recent flooding are demanding more authority over management of the Missouri River system.Following a meeting with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Iowa Gov. Kim...
Mar 22 2019 // Floodwaters that devastated swaths of Nebraska and Iowa rolled downstream on Thursday, swamping more Midwestern farmland as waterfront communities in Missouri and Kansas hurried to shore up strained levees.Flooding of the...
Mar 11 2019 // A statewide shortage of trained medical personnel has left many rural county ambulance services having to delay hospital transfers to ensure they have enough staff for emergencies.For example, in Norton County in northwest...
Mar 8 2019 // Two companies have been indicted on federal charges after a mistake at a northeast Kansas distilling plant in 2016 released a noxious cloud of fumes that prosecutors say caused more than 140 people to seek medical...
Feb 25 2019 // A judge on Feb. 22 dismissed criminal charges against a Kansas water park owner and the designer of a 17-story slide on which a 10-year-old boy was decapitated in 2016.Wyandotte County Judge Robert Burns cited improper...
Feb 24 2019 // Rural state lawmakers are pushing a plan to allow the Kansas Farm Bureau to offer health insurance coverage to members without having to comply with federal Affordable Care Act mandates in hopes that the influential...