All the headlines from our Kansas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 1 2023 // One of the reporters who works at the small Kansas newspaper that was raided by authorities earlier this month filed a federal lawsuit against the police chief Wednesday.Deb Gruver believes Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody...
Aug 30 2023 // HIGHLAND, Kan. (AP) – A Kansas community college that was accused of trying to reduce the number of Black student-athletes has agreed to a settlement, the U.S. Justice Department announced Monday.The department said in a...
Aug 28 2023 // KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – The Kansas City, Missouri, Fire Department is under a U. S. Department of Justice investigation for alleged racial discrimination, a Kansas City spokesperson confirmed to The Kansas City Star...
Aug 28 2023 // The District Court of Shawnee County, Kansas has declared MutualAid eXchange (MAX) insolvent, and the company has been placed into liquidation pursuant to a petition filed by the Commissioner of Insurance.The court ruled...
Aug 25 2023 // Sagging ears just short of maturity, cobs half bare of kernels as if nibbled, earth so dry that deep cracks criss-cross the fields: The US corn harvest is in trouble.The signs were already there in South Dakota. Scouts...
Aug 21 2023 // TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – A judge has agreed to allow the American Civil Liberties Union of Kansas to intervene in an ongoing lawsuit that seeks to force the state to list the sex that people were assigned at birth on their...
Aug 9 2023 // Hundreds of cattle died in Iowa from extreme heat and humidity in late July, the state and livestock producers said, as the world recorded its hottest month ever.The deaths show the toll of severe weather on farm animals...
Aug 7 2023 // World Insurance Associates, Schlegel & Schlegel Insurance Brokers, Shield Insurance ServicesInsurance broker World Insurance Associates has acquired the business of Schlegel & Schlegel Insurance Brokers Inc. of...
Aug 1 2023 // LEAVENWORTH, Kan. (AP) – An inmate is suing one of the nation`s largest private prison operators over his 2021 stabbing inside a now-defunct maximum security federal facility in Kansas.Joshua Braddy, who is now...
Jul 19 2023 // ALKEME recently acquired a pair of Midwestern agencies.ALKEME announced the acquisition of Wiggins Farha Insurance Group,a full-service insurance agency operating out of Wichita, Kansas. Wiggans Farha Insurance Group is an...
Jul 11 2023 // Newton, Kansas-based Conrade Insurance Group (CIG) announces three business acquisitions that have taken place in the first half of 2023, moves the company said expand the firm’s capabilities and strengthen their...
Jul 11 2023 // In a trench 9 feet below the surface, a worker employed by Precision Plumbing LLC was connecting a plumbing line to the municipal sewer in Salina, Kansas in January when he was buried under dirt and rocks after a trench...
Jul 10 2023 // TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – The Republican attorney general of Kansas sued Friday to block transgender residents from changing their sex on their driver`s licenses and to rebuke the Democratic governor for defying his...
Jun 21 2023 // The Kansas Insurance Department distributed $16.8 million to firefighters across the state, funds generated by a two percent tax paid by insurance companies on fire and lightning insurance premiums written in Kansas. The...
Jun 19 2023 // A 29-year-old worker suffered the amputation of a fingertip while reassembling a pump at a Hostess Brands LLC facility in Chicago, an injury the employer could have prevented by ensuring to shut down and lockout the...
Jun 16 2023 // TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – Kansas Insurance Commissioner Vicki Schmidt has been diagnosed with breast cancer and plans to undergo treatment in the coming weeks.Schmidt disclosed the diagnosis in a statement Wednesday. She...
Jun 16 2023 // KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – The parents of a 6-year-old girl who drowned at a popular Kansas City water park last year allege in a lawsuit that the park repeatedly hires young, inexperienced lifeguards and does not...
Jun 2 2023 // Kansas Insurance Commissioner Vicki Schmidt announced there will not be a Workers Compensation Fund assessment this year. Carriers, pools, and self-insured businesses will not be required to pay into the assessment fund...
May 22 2023 // American Financial Group, Crop Risk ServicesAmerican Financial Group Inc. and American International Group entered into a definitive agreement whereby AFG will purchase Crop Risk Services (CRS) from AIG. Under the terms of...
May 15 2023 // America’s wheat fields have become so plagued by drought that farmers are now poised to abandon crops at the highest rate in more than a century.Producers are expected to harvest about 67% of their planted acres, the...