All the headlines from our Kansas Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 17 2022 // Five home renovation companies in Kansas and Missouri have agreed to pay nearly $132,000 collectively in penalties to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to resolve alleged violations of the federal Toxic...
Nov 9 2022 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a settlement under the Agency’s Coal Combustion Residuals (CCR) program with Evergy Kansas Central Inc. at the company’s retired Tecumseh Energy Center...
Nov 9 2022 // KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Kansas City will pay $5 million to settle a lawsuit filed by the family of an unarmed Black man who was fatally shot by a police officer in 2019.The Kansas City Board of Police Commissioners...
Nov 9 2022 // Republican Vicki Schmidt was reelected Kansas Insurance Commissioner Tuesday, defeating challenger Kiel Corkran, a Democrat, by a near 2-1 margin.Schmidt led with 63.4% of the votes and more than 95% of precincts...
Nov 1 2022 // KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) _ A Kansas City, Missouri, police officer who kneed a Black 15-year-old in the neck and pushed his face into the ground pleaded guilty Thursday to third-degree assault and lost his law enforcement...
Oct 27 2022 // An undersheriff in rural Kansas faces a manslaughter trial Monday for fatally shooting an unarmed man with a homemade beanbag round out of his personal shotgun, a case that comes amid a national reckoning on police...
Oct 13 2022 // The Asphalt Sales Company in Olathe, Kansas, will pay $82,798 in civil penalties and improve pollution controls to resolve alleged violations of the federal Clean Water Act.According to the U.S. Environmental Protection...
Sep 21 2022 // The U.S. Department of Justice has opened an investigation into allegations of discrimination against Black officers by the Kansas City Police Department that reportedly begins during hiring and extends to promotions and...
Sep 16 2022 // Kansas Insurance Commissioner Vicki Schmidt announced the Kansas Insurance Department recovered $4.12 million in insurance funds for Kansans in the first eight months of 2022.“When Kansans call the Insurance...
Sep 6 2022 // Commissioner Vicki Schmidt names new Director of Government and Public AffairsKansas Insurance Commissioner Vicki Schmidt has named Eric Turek as the new Director of Government and Public Affairs for the Kansas Insurance...
Aug 30 2022 // World Insurance Associates LLC announced that it acquired The Woody Insurance Group of Prairie Village, Kansas on August 1, 2022. Terms of the transaction were not disclosed. The Woody Insurance Group has been providing...
Aug 9 2022 // A new federal study said dozens of people got sick after visiting a splash park near Wichita, Kansas, last summer.The study by the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said that 21 people contracted Shigella...
Jul 19 2022 // Wood-Dulohery Insurance, Inc., with operating locations in Parsons and Pittsburg, Kansas has merged effective July 1, 2022, with Insurance Center Inc. (ICI), headquartered in El Dorado, Kansas. Making the announcement, Bob...
Jul 6 2022 // Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., a national arts-and-crafts retailer, violated federal law when it refused to reasonably accommodate a cashier at its Olathe, Kansas store by allowing her to use a service dog and then fired her...
Jun 24 2022 // A volunteer firefighter who was injured while fighting a blaze in Pleasanton, Kansas, earlier this week has died, officials said.Joshua Haynes, 35, was injured Monday during a fire at the Carpenter Chiropractor Clinic. He...
Jun 15 2022 // The death of a Black teenager at a Kansas juvenile detention center was foreshadowed five years earlier by a state inspection of the facility that noted systemic deficiencies in its handling of children with mental health...
Jun 14 2022 // Strong winds and storms forced crowds who gathered in a rural Kansas field for a symphony performance to evacuate and damaged a sorority house at Kansas State University.About half a dozen tornado warnings were issued...
Jun 7 2022 // The city of Wichita plans to settle a lawsuit filed over the death of a man who was shot by a police officer in 2012.The city’s law department has asked the City Council to approve on Tuesday a $175,000 settlement...
May 19 2022 // The National Weather Service has confirmed a series of weak tornadoes across rural parts of northwestern Kansas and a county in southwestern Nebraska along the Kansas line. The tornadoes hit Tuesday afternoon as a line of...
May 17 2022 // Federal law may prohibit states from regulating prices charged to insurers by air ambulance providers, but that doesn’t absolve the Workers’ Compensation Board of its responsibility to determine whether the...