Kansas’ largest electric utility, Evergy, must pay $500,000 for allegedly violating consumer protection laws by sponsoring home electrical warranties that provided no benefit. Attorney General Derek Schmidt’s office announced the agreement between prosecutors and Evergy in a news release Wednesday.
After reopening a case about racist and violent text messages sent by Wichita Police officers, Interim Police Chief Lemuel Moore announced last Thursday that three officers have been suspended without pay in Wichita.
TOPEKA -- ( July 22, 2022) - Medical treatment for ectopic pregnancies or fetal demise is not ‘abortion’ under Kansas law and therefore would not be affected by passage of the proposed Value Them Both constitutional amendment, Attorney General Derek Schmidt said last Friday in a formal legal opinion.
Three months of extreme fire danger and threat in Kansas left their mark as hundreds of acres burned in separate fires in Reno and Harvey County this spring. Pratt and Kiowa County firefighters also had their share of grass and field fires to battle, while lighting strikes caused three massive grass fires in Stafford County last April.
Kids of all ages had an opportunity to climb aboard Brutus, a large hydraulic crane flying a large American flag at the 2022 Pratt County Fair. The sight extended more than 35-feet up into the sky above the fairgrounds throughout fair week, July 19-23.
Recently in Seattle, SBA Administrator Isabel Guzman noted, “President Biden’s successful leadership has guided our economy from high levels of pandemic job loss to the strongest job recovery in history, with all private sector jobs now fully recovered.”
The 34th annual Poetry Rendezvous will be Aug. 6 and 7 (Saturday and Sunday) at the Ida Long Goodman Memorial Library, 406 N. Monroe, St. John. This is an informal “come-and-go” event. Friends of poetry are welcome to come and read, or simply come and listen for as long or short as they like. Poets will have books available to sell and autograph. All events are free.
University of Kansas researchers and colleagues at two other universities reported every 5% increase in enrollment in the federal nutrition assistance program for low-income families could reduce the number of children a state placed in foster care or protective services from 7.6% to 14.3%.
The world belongs those who show up. That simple idea has become one of the cardinal rules in my life.
AAA reminds motorists of toll extreme heat can take on humans and their vehicles as auto club responds to nearly 1,000 calls for roadside service in Kansas in three days WICHITA, Kan. – With extremely high temperatures expected to continue across Kansas during the last week of July, the National Weather Service forecasts a dangerous heatwave will impact much of the United States.