All the headlines from our Kansas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Jun 3 2009 // The southwest Kansas town of Greensburg, destroyed two years ago by a massive tornado, will receive $4.4 million in federal grants to help repair streets and build a new business park. The U.S. Department of...
May 27 2009 // The former owner of a St. Joseph, Mo., tannery that is being sued over health concerns acknowledged that the plant used a cancer-causing chemical, but he said the tanning process posed no danger to the public.The former...
May 11 2009 // Residents of the Midwest began clearing away wreckage May 9 following a wave of powerful storms that splintered homes, knocked out power to thousands and killed six people.Hundreds of homes and businesses were damaged or...
May 1 2009 // Two people were found dead in a southeast Kansas creek this week, bringing to five the number of deaths blamed on violent storms since the weekend.The state Division of Emergency Management said Labette...
Apr 24 2009 // Farmers in four northwest Missouri counties may have unwittingly dumped millions of pounds of carcinogen-laced sludge on their fields, which may be linked to a rash of brain tumors in the area, environmental activist Erin...
Mar 30 2009 // Many young drivers in Kansas won’t be allowed to use their cell phones while behind the wheel starting next year.Gov. Kathleen Sebelius has signed legislation that restricts cell phone use for some teenage drivers...
Mar 23 2009 // Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius is President Barack Obama’s choice for secretary of health and human services.Sebelius, 60, is seen as a solid choice to head HHS because as a governor responsible for the Medicaid...
Mar 10 2009 // Austin, Texas-based Combined Agents of America LLC (CAA) announced it has expanded outside of Texas with two new members, Ed Berrong Insurance Agency, based in Oklahoma and Bridges Group Inc., based in Kansas.A...
Mar 9 2009 // Kansas lawmakers heard testimony on a bill recently that was inspired by the deaths of a mother and her 4-year-old daughter in an accident police believe involved a driver with multiple drunk driving convictions.Kansas...
Mar 2 2009 // Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius is President Barack Obama’s choice for secretary of health and human services, a White House source said Saturday.The source, who was not authorized to speak on the record, said Obama...
Feb 23 2009 // Kansas House Democrats killed a proposal Friday to strip the governor of the power to fill vacancies in four statewide offices.The proposed amendment to the Kansas Constitution would have let political parties fill...
Feb 18 2009 // Kansas lawmakers heard testimony on a bill this week that was inspired by the deaths of a woman and her 4-year-old daughter in an accident police believe involved a driver with multiple drunk driving convictions.Kansas...
Feb 10 2009 // A state board appointed to examine drunken driving laws in Kansas has concluded that the whole system needs a major overhaul.The Kansas Substance Abuse Policy Board says the state’s system for punishing drunken...
Feb 5 2009 // A top aide says Gov. Kathleen Sebelius remains focused on serving Kansas, amid new speculation about a federal Cabinet appointment.But spokeswoman Beth Martino also declined to say the governor wouldn’t be interested...
Jan 26 2009 // Kansas Insurance Commissioner Sandy Praeger’s office said it helped thousands of Kansas consumers settle disputes with their insurance companies in 2008, recovering more than $13.6 million in insurance claims for...
Jan 25 2009 // A new Missouri law was supposed to make it easy for residents powering their own homes to put in wind turbines or solar panels but the lack of specialized insurance is proving to be an obstacle.The idea was for the...
Jan 25 2009 // Every day thousands of Kansans, such as Delbert Young of Wichita, go to work and perform tasks that require physical labor.For Young, it was riding a bicycle from building to building at the vast Boeing Co. facility to...
Jan 25 2009 // Technically, Brooke Franchise owes me $7 million, but who knows if I will ever see it,” said Roger Cunningham, former Brooke franchisee and agent/ owner of RKC Financial in the Dallas/Ft. Worth Texas,...
Jan 20 2009 // Makers of handmade toys, secondhand stores and others who make or sell children’s products fear that new government regulations could soon put them out of business.At issue is the Consumer Product Safety Improvement...
Jan 12 2009 // Every day thousands of Kansans, such as Delbert Young of Wichita, go to work and perform tasks that require physical labor.For Young, it was riding a bicycle from building to building at the vast Boeing Co. facility to...