The Kansas Corporation Commission has assessed $60,000 in fines to AT&T for failure to provide timely locate marks of its underground lines as required by the Kansas Underground Prevention Act. Kansas law requires excavators to provide at least two days' notice of their intent to dig, ...
TOPEKA — Former Kansas foster care leaders accused of defrauding their old employer of millions of dollars indicated in court that they plan to change their not guilty pleas, avoiding a trial. William Whymark, the former IT director for the regional foster care provider Saint Francis ...
Robert Gates — the former U.S. Secretary of Defense — was in Lawrence Wednesday to speak at a conference examining the prospect of war with China, which he says is very preventable, by the way. But to a capacity crowd at the Dole Institute of Politics, Gates caught the attention of the ...
Story updated at 6:50 p.m. Wednesday, April 30: The KU Endowment Association is restructuring potentially millions of dollars in scholarships to meet new Trump administration requirements related to diversity, equity and inclusion, the Journal-World has learned. The restructuring — which ...
WASHINGTON — The only Black, all-female unit to serve in Europe during World War II, known as the "Six Triple Eight," was honored Tuesday with the Congressional Gold Medal, following a long-running campaign to recognize their efforts. The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion was ...
A woman pleaded not guilty Monday to fatally stabbing a Kansas City, Missouri, paramedic as she was being taken to a hospital in an ambulance. Shanetta Bossell, 39, was arrested Sunday after trying to drive off in the ambulance as others were tending to paramedic Graham Hoffman's chest wound, ...