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...
Kansas Governor Wants Statewide Mask Mandate October 23, 2020 By Heather Hollingsworth Democratic Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly is again calling for a statewide mask mandate as the coronavirus case count continues to...
Kansas Sausage Making Plant with COVID-19 Cases Shuts Down May 15, 2020 By John Hanna and Heather Hollingsworth A Kansas plant that makes sausage shut down on May 13 after employees tested positive for the coronavirus, and an...
Owner of Missouri Duck Boat Settles Final Lawsuit Over Deadly Sinking January 21, 2020 By Heather Hollingsworth The owner of a tourist duck boat that sank in a Missouri lake, killing 17 people, has settled its final...
2 More Workers Indicted in Missouri Duck Boat Sinking That Killed 17 June 24, 2019 By Heather Hollingsworth and Jim Salter A federal grand jury has indicted two more employees of a company that owns a duck boat that sank on...
Schlitterbahn Water Park Where Kansas Boy Died Appears Unlikely to Open May 9, 2019 By Heather Hollingsworth A Kansas water park where a 10-year-old boy was decapitated isn’t hiring lifeguards, advertising or selling tickets with less than...
4 Die in Midwest Flooding; Roads Closed, Levees Strained May 6, 2019 By Jim Salter and Heather Hollingsworth The latest round of Midwestern flooding claimed at least four lives, closed hundreds of roads and forced residents of river...
Company in Fatal Missouri Sinking Stops 2019 Duck Boat Operations March 25, 2019 By Heather Hollingsworth The company that owns a duck boat that sank on a Missouri lake last summer, killing 17 people, announced that...
2 Kansas Firms Indicted Over Noxious Chemical Release at Distilling Plant March 8, 2019 By Heather Hollingsworth Two companies have been indicted on federal charges after a mistake at a northeast Kansas distilling plant in 2016 released...