Kansas Court System Down in ‘Security Incident’ With Hallmarks of Ransomware October 30, 2023 By John Hanna and Heather Hollingsworth TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – Kansas officials are calling a massive computer outage that’s kept most of the state’s courts offline...
Mother Files Wrongful Death Suit Against Shuttered Missouri Boarding School Over Son’s Abuse and Suicide October 25, 2023 By Heather Hollingsworth MISSION, Kan. (AP) – A mother is suing a shuttered Christian boarding school in Missouri, blaming her son’s death on...
NTSB Looking at Risk Parked Semis Posed to Greyhound Bus in Fatal Illinois Accident July 24, 2023 By Jim Salter and Heather Hollingsworth ST. LOUIS (AP) – Big rig driver David Cherno was hauling Jimmy Dean sausages on Interstate 70 when he had...
Ransomware Criminals Are Dumping Kids’ Private Files Online After School Hacks July 7, 2023 By Frank Bajak, Heather Hollingsworth and Larry Fenn The confidential documents stolen from schools and dumped online by ransomware gangs are raw, intimate and graphic. They describe student...
Gun Dealer Sued by Kansas City Reaches $150K Settlement March 10, 2023 By Heather Hollingsworth KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Kansas City has reached a settlement with one of the gun dealers it accused in...
Faulty Weld Led to Kansas Oil Spill; Cleanup Costs at $480M February 13, 2023 By John Hanna and Heather Hollingsworth TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – A faulty weld at a bend in an oil pipeline contributed to a spill that dumped...
Company Starting to Recover Oil From Kansas Pipeline Spill December 15, 2022 By John Hanna and Heather Hollingsworth TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – The company operating a pipeline that spilled about 14,000 bathtubs’ worth of oil into a Kansas...
Kansas Oil Spill Biggest in Keystone History December 12, 2022 By John Hanna, Heather Hollingsworth and Ryan J. Foley TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) _ A ruptured pipe dumped enough oil this week into a northeastern Kansas creek to nearly fill...
Medical Boards Under Pressure to Discipline Doctors Pushing False Covid-19 Claims December 21, 2021 By Heather Hollingsworth They have decried COVID-19 as a hoax, promoted unproven treatments and pushed bogus claims about the vaccine, including that the...
Health Workers On Front Lines Once Saluted as Heroes Now Face Hostility October 7, 2021 By Grant Schulte and Heather Hollingsworth More than a year after U.S. health care workers on the front lines against COVID-19 were saluted as heroes with...