All the headlines from our Kansas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 26 2013 // Sandy Praeger was always the team player and never the black sheep.As mayor of Lawrence, state representative, state senator and now Kansas’ three-term insurance commissioner, Praeger was mainstream Republican all...
Jun 25 2013 // In a move to curb increased thefts of copper and other metals, Wichita city officials and local police are considering revising the city’s scrap metal ordinance.Expected to be brought to the city council by early...
Jun 25 2013 // Three Kansas community colleges have created an insurance consortium after their insurance provider raised rates and said it wouldn’t insure schools that allow concealed weapons on campus.The Independence Community...
Jun 20 2013 // The company that insures most of Kansas’ school districts says it won’t provide coverage for districts that allow armed employees on school premises.EMC Insurance Companies has told its agents not to offer or...
Jun 18 2013 // Northeast Kansas counties that were hit by a tornado and flooding in late May are waiting to hear if storms caused enough damage to make the region eligible for state or federal aid.An EF-2 tornado hit Marshall County on...
Jun 14 2013 // A certified public accountant from Leawood who’s also an insurance industry executive has launched a campaign for the Republican nomination for Kansas insurance commissioner.Ken Selzer announced that he’s...
Jun 6 2013 // A Kansas farmer has sued seed giant Monsanto over the recent discovery of genetically engineered experimental wheat in an 80-acre field in Oregon, claiming the company’s gross negligence hurt U.S. growers by driving...
May 29 2013 // At least four tornadoes hit different counties in northeast Kansas Monday night, causing the most damage in the town of Marysville but no fatalities or serious injuries, according to preliminary reports from emergency...
May 24 2013 // The National Weather Service says a tornado that traveled seven miles across rural western Kansas during the weekend was an EF4, with winds of 165 to 185 mph.The report from the agency’s Dodge City office follows a...
May 23 2013 // The U.S. Senate has approved a bill that includes funding aimed at improving Topeka’s levee system along the Kansas River.The bill approved in the Senate would provide about $15.7 million in federal matching funds...
May 20 2013 // The attorneys general of Illinois, Kansas and Ohio are targeting storm-chasing roofing companies in their states with legal actions.Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan filed a lawsuit against a Chicago-area home repair...
May 15 2013 // The attorneys general of Illinois, Kansas and Ohio are targeting storm-chasing roofing companies in their states with legal actions.Illinois Attorney General Lisa Madigan filed a lawsuit against a Chicago-area home repair...
Apr 23 2013 // Signature Select LLC, an IMA company, has added Greg Rasby as the Kansas City market leader. Rasby joins Signature Select from Gallagher, where he had several years of experience prospecting, marketing and servicing a...
Mar 11 2013 // Walnut Creek, Calif.-based CSE Insurance Group President and CEO Pierre Bize announced he will be transitioning out of his current role at the company at the end of 2013.The move comes after 19 years at the helm of CSE....
Mar 6 2013 // A cable company subcontractor suspected of rupturing a natural gas line before a deadly Kansas City restaurant explosion didn’t have an approved permit for the work, city officials said Monday.Pat Klein, assistant...
Mar 1 2013 // Light snow fell in much of the drought-stricken U.S. Plains and Midwest crop region early Friday with a bigger storm forecast for late next week, shrinking the area hit by the worst dry spell in 50 years.Agricultural...
Feb 27 2013 // The second major snowstorm in a week battered the nation’s midsection on Feb. 26, dropping a half-foot or more of snow across Missouri and Kansas and cutting power to thousands. Gusting winds blew drifts more than 2...
Feb 27 2013 // A blizzard this week in the drought-stricken U.S. Plains will moisten soil for major crops, but the snow storm made it difficult to feed cattle and reach some cow herds, an agricultural meteorologist said on Wednesday.Andy...
Feb 25 2013 // Insurance brokerage and risk management firm Integro announced that Thomas Zacharopoulos, managing principal and the firm’s market relations leader, will assume the role of Chicago operations leader.The move to...
Feb 25 2013 // Johnson McCann, C.O. Brown, Apollo Insurance AgencyThree Minnesota insurance agencies — Johnson McCann of St. Paul, C.O. Brown of Rochester and the Apollo Insurance Agency of St. Cloud — have joined forces to become...