The suit was filed in Wyandotte County District Court against Midnight Express, a company recently ordered by federal regulators to cease operation because of allegedly unsafe practices. The suit also names the company’s three operators and the driver of the bus. It was filed on behalf of the infant daughter of 26-year-old Jamie Frecks.
Everyone knows someone who is habitually late. It’s a maddening trait to the unafflicted who see the problem as remarkably easy to fix: Start earlier. That’s how the Royals’ two new hitting coaches, George Brett and Pedro Grifol, diagnosed Eric Hosmer’s swing.
This year the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival turns to As You Like It, one of the Bards pastoral comedies, which follows the circuitous path of true love as embodied in the character of the quick-witted Rosalind.
The satellite television company faced a deadline late Tuesday to make its “best and final offer” to buy Sprint. A statement from Dish blamed Sprint for making a new bid impossible by the deadline.
Kris Kobach is a menace to the passage of reasonable and necessary changes to immigration law. But Kobach is also a father and a husband. There is no condoning the actions of the nearly 300 people who stomped onto his private property Saturday for a protest.
The male polar bear at the Kansas City Zoo is off exhibit and is being treated with gastrointestinal medication, officials said Tuesday. Nikita is also being fed a diet of boiled beef in the holding area behind the exhibit.
KU athletics and IMG College, which holds multimedia rights for KU sports, announced Tuesday a long-term television partnership with Time Warner Cable Sports to distribute 300 hours of original KU sports programming annually, including live games, other coverage and replays. That means KU men’s basketball games carried by Jayhawk Television and aired on KSMO-TV Channel 62 in Kansas City last season will move to Metro Sports. Last season, Jayhawk Television aired six KU basketball games, including two exhibitions.
Street rods were on display during an open house Monday evening at Aeromotives Lenexa headquarters, where the Street Rodder Magazine Road Tour stopped on its way from Bowling Green, Ky., to St. Paul, Minn.
Its disturbing that Jackson Countys poor performance in fulfilling one of its major obligations to taxpayers has made such a review necessary. Widespread problems like these erode public trust in government.
Kansans will pay significantly less in taxes in 2013 than they did in 2012, and the savings will grow from there, even as the state spends billions annually on core responsibilities such as education, roads and Medicaid, writes Nick Jordan, secretary of the Kansas Department of Revenue.
A Kansas City business owner supported a “nascent” plot to bomb the New York Stock Exchange, an FBI official said Tuesday during a Washington hearing on intelligence gathering.
Sporting Kansas City presented the second annual Summer Beer Festival, a tribute to craft beers, Saturday in Westport. It is also a benefit for AIDS Walk Kansas City. More than 30 breweries from around the world were highlighted during the event.
A Jackson County jury found in favor of Jennifer Kerr in her lawsuit against Vatterott and found that the Missouri-based Vatterott Educational Centers Inc. had violated the Missouri Merchandising Practices Act.
Instead of 18,000 suspect assessments, Jackson County officials acknowledge problems could have affected three times as many properties that came up for review this year. County Executive Mike Sanders announced extended hours to file appeals of notices, which will begin appearing in mailboxes Thursday and online Wednesday.
Board of Public Utilities officials are investigating why a downed power line remained unattended for more than 11 hours before it killed a 27-year-old Shawnee man early Sunday. The utility has launched an internal investigation as to when it first was notified that a strong Saturday afternoon storm knocked down the power line at Rosedale Park in Kansas City, Kan.
Updated June 18: This woman is wanted for possession and distribution of dangerous drugs. If you have information about any of these fugitives, call the TIPS Hotline at 816-474-TIPS (816-474-8477), go to KCCrimeStoppers.com, or text TIP452 plus message and send to 274637. All calls are anonymous.