All the headlines from our Kansas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jul 11 2016 // A tornado ripped through southeast Kansas late on July 7, causing widespread damage in a small town, though no injuries have been reported.The National Weather Service confirmed that at about 10 p.m. Thursday, the tornado...
Jul 11 2016 // Managing general agency and surplus lines broker J.M. Wilson has promoted Ashley Montgomery to transportation underwriter in Kansas City, Mo., office. Montgomery is responsible for quoting new and renewal transportation...
Jun 15 2016 // A federal appeals court sided with Boeing and one of its suppliers in the whistleblower lawsuit brought by three ex-workers at the aircraft manufacturer’s former plant in Wichita, Kan.. The 10th U.S. Circuit Court of...
Jun 2 2016 // The Kansas Insurance Department is reviewing requested rate filings for individual and small group health plans in Kansas for 2017.The range of requested average rate revisions by insurance companies is from 3.3 percent to...
May 31 2016 // Authorities in central Texas have found two more bodies along flooded streams, bringing the death toll from flooding in the state to six.It was unclear Sunday whether a body found in Travis County near Austin was one of...
May 26 2016 // Crews were evaluating the damage Wednesday after tornadoes destroyed several homes and left two people critically injured in western Kansas as a series of severe storms swept across the Plains.Meanwhile, one person drowned...
May 17 2016 // A new interactive online chat feature on the Kansas Insurance Department’s website gives consumers and insurance agents another way to gather insurance information easily, the department announced.“This new...
May 5 2016 // Saline County in Kansas and a former interim director of the Saline County Health Department have reached a $75,000 settlement over a sexual discrimination claim.The Salina Journal reported the county said that it denied...
Apr 27 2016 // The National Weather Service is surveying damage from a northern Kansas tornado that left two people with minor injuries, damaged about 10 homes and destroyed a trailer.National Weather Service meteorologist Brian...
Apr 27 2016 // A powerful spring storm brought strong winds and baseball-sized hail to several central states on April 26, with tornadoes spotted in Kansas and Oklahoma as the severe weather marched east, forecasters said.The storm...
Apr 19 2016 // The Kansas Forest Service has faced budget constraints as it works to deal with wildfires, including the largest in state history that scorched hundreds of square miles of land last month.Larry Biles, director of the...
Apr 18 2016 // Gary Petrosino joined Lockton as chief operating officer of the global insurance broker’s Pacific operations in the U.S.Petrosino will be responsible for leading a team of more than 500 associates in the California...
Apr 12 2016 // Amtrak has filed a federal lawsuit against a southwest Kansas feed yard, accusing it of gross negligence in relation to a train derailment that injured 32 passengers in March.In the suit filed by Amtrak and BNSF, the...
Apr 11 2016 // The derailment of an Amtrak passenger train in Kansas in March that injured more than two dozen people occurred at a site where there had been damage to the track that has been traced to a grain truck, federal authorities...
Apr 7 2016 // Authorities are responding to wildfires in Oklahoma and Kansas that have led to evacuations, scorched mostly rural land and destroyed an unknown number of structures.In Oklahoma, the largest fire was in the same area near...
Apr 6 2016 // The Missouri House has advanced legislation that would impose statewide regulations on app-based ride-hailing services, a move companies Uber and Lyft support.House members voted 113-38 to give initial approval to a bill...
Apr 5 2016 // Repairing a lighting-damaged sculpture that is a fixture of the downtown Kansas City skyline will cost more than $1 million, officials say.The city’s insurance is expected to cover the cost of fixing the futuristic...
Apr 3 2016 // Kansas came close last month to hitting its target for tax collections, and the shortfall of less than $2 million reported represented relatively good news after a winter of gloomy budget developments.Sales tax collections...
Mar 31 2016 // Officials say a wildfire that burned hundreds of square miles of rural land in Oklahoma and Kansas this week destroyed at least 41 structures in both states. Oklahoma Forestry Services spokeswoman Hannah Anderson says...
Mar 31 2016 // A former Topeka insurance company employee has been sentenced to a year and a day in federal prison for embezzlement. The U.S. attorney’s office says 47-year-old Erin Rebecca Thomas also was ordered to pay $215,000...