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Nixon to continue seeking Medicaid expansion
The Democratic governor campaigned throughout this year's legislative session to increase Medicaid eligibility for lower-income adults as called for under the federal health care law. Nixon's proposal would have tapped more than $900 million in federal funds to cover about 260,000 adults. But the Republican-led Legislature repeatedly rejected the plan, citing concerns about the ...
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Man charged with assaulting confining girlfriend
According to court documents, on or between May 16 to May 19, Coleman assaulted his girlfriend by hitting her with a belt and tried to choke her with it. Investigators also alleged that Coleman used a methamphetamine pipe and burned his girlfriend. Authorities said the woman was restrained with handcuffs and at one point, had a .38-caliber revolver put in her ...
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Via Christis job reductions go against recent trends in local health care sector
Health care is the areas second-largest employer and has mostly been experiencing job growth, but Via Christi Health announced Tuesday that it will be eliminating 350 to 400 positions. Via Christi Health has been Wichitas second largest employer since 2010, and the health system has continued to strengthen its hold on that position by growing its work force. Stories the Wichita Business Journal ...
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Wichita City Council approves $200K forgivable loan for Starwood Hotels
Starwood's brands include ALoft, shown in this rendering. The Wichita City Council voted Tuesday to approve a $200,000 forgivable loan for Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc., which plans to create hundreds of jobs in Wichita with a new call center. Starwood (NYSE: HOT) announced last week that its 50,000-square-foot call center, planned in the former Office This space on Harry Street ...
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Wichita airports DoubleTree hotel No. 1 in the brand last year
Photo cutline: Michael Phipps, general manager of the DoubleTree by Hilton Wichita Airport, shows off the CARE Cup Awards the hotel won for 2012 (gold) and the fourth quarter (silver). The DoubleTree by Hilton Wichita Airport has only been a member of the DoubleTree family a little more than a year, but it clearly stands out in the DoubleTree brand. So much so that it recently earned the ...
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Wichita Thunder partnering with Salvation Army to aid Oklahoma tornado relief
The Wichita Thunder, Eddys Toyota and the Wichita Ice Center are joining forces to help the Salvation Army of Central Oklahoma aid disaster relief. Those organizations are collecting donations to help the victims of the tornado that on Monday tore through Moore, Okla. Donations will be collected at the Thunder offices, Eddys and the Wichita Ice Center the rest of the week and will be given to ...
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Via Christi to eliminate up to 400 positions reduce executive salaries 4 percent
Via Christi Health is eliminating about4 percent of its work force in Kansas. Via Christi Health is taking drastic measures to offset volume declines and continued declines in operating margins. Those measures, CEO Jeff Korsmo says, include the elimination of 350-400 positions, or about 4 percent of Via Christis work force in Kansas, and 4 percent reductions in the salaries of 35 senior ...
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Rescuers search board by board for survivors
Amid downed power lines, hissing gas pipes and immense devastation, rescuers searched "board by board" Tuesday for survivors and victims of a massive tornado that pulverized a vast swath of the Oklahoma City ...
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Kan. lawmakers budget tax negotiations to resume
Kansas legislators were preparing to resume their negotiations on budget and tax issues as freshman Republicans in both chambers gathered for a joint ...
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Kansas City Red Cross sends help to Oklahoma tornado victims
Wichita Business Journal employee Gary Nickel received this photo from his son, Justin Nickel, who was in the Moore, Okla., area Monday afternoon. The Greater Kansas City chapter of the American Red Cross is seeing an outpouring of generosity from metro-area residents. The receptionist at the Kansas City office, 211 W. Armour Blvd., is being flooded with calls from Kansas Citians, asking how ...
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Former IRS agent faces sentencing for theft
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) -- A former Internal Revenue Service agent faces sentencing after admitting she was paid for meetings with taxpayers that never ...
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Kansas Weather Anchor Evacuates As Tornadoes Hit Wichita
While the Moore, Oklahoma tornado is dominating the news cycle–rightfully so–it’s easy to forget about the weather damage that occurred on Sunday in Wichita, Kansas. While the devastation pales in comparison, the fact ...
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Augusta Walmart Supercenter opens June 12
The new Walmart Supercenter in Augusta will open June 12, its manager told me this morning. The new Walmart Supercenter in Augusta will open June 12, its manager told me this morning. The Supercenter on the west end of town at U.S. 54 (Seventh Street in Augusta) and Lulu Street will open at 7:30 a.m. that day, says Don Kendrick. The store will operate 24 hours daily. Walmarts existing Ohio ...
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Freddys Frozen Custard Steakburgers in Moore Okla. spared by EF-4 tornado
Scott Redler The Freddys Frozen Custard & Steakburgers in Moore, Okla. was largely spared by a devastating tornado that on Monday ripped through sections of the Oklahoma City suburb. Scott Redler, co-founder and chief operating officer for Wichita-based Freddys, tells me that damage to the Moore restaurant was minimal, and work Tuesday morning amounted to what he described as cleanup. The ...
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Growers making up for lost time in planting corn
FILE PHOTO: A tractor with cultivator sits idle after being delayed by wet weather earlier this month preventing central Illinois farmers from starting their spring planting of corn crops Monday, May 13, 2013 in Springfield, Ill. (AP Photo/Seth ...
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Contracted Simplot employee exposed to ammonia
POCATELLO, Idaho (AP) -- A man working at the Simplot fertilizer plant west of Pocatello was hospitalized in critical condition after apparently being exposed to ammonia over the weekend.The Power County Sheriff's Office says 23-year-old Derrick E. Martinez of Garden City, Kan., was found unconscious in a Blick's Phosphate Conversion mobile testing trailer on Simplot property Saturday ...
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Helzberg steps down as Kansas City Symphony chair after 18 years
Shirley Helzberg After 18 years with the Kansas City Symphony, Shirley Helzberg will step down as chairwoman of its board. She'll now be chairman emeritus. Former American Century Investments CEO Bill Lyons will succeed her. Lyons currently serves on the boards for the Kansas chapter of The Nature Conservancy, The Kansas City Art Institute and The Jacob and Ella Loose Foundation. Helzberg ...
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Chesapeake Energy to donate $1M to disaster-relief efforts in Moore OK
Chesapeake Energy Corp. says it will donate $1 million to the American Red Cross to aid rescue and recovery efforts in Moore, Okla. Chesapeake Energy Corp. says it will donate $1 million to the American Red Cross to aid rescue and recovery efforts in Moore, Okla. in the wake of an EF-4 tornado that hit the city and left many dead and more than 100 injured. Chesapeake is based in Oklahoma City, ...
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Okla. tornado death toll revised down to at least 24
A massive, howling tornado pulverized a vast swath of the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, chewing up homes and businesses, and severely damaging a hospital and two elementary ...
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Union Station evacuated because of suspicious package
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Judge Juror committed contempt at murder trial
Reeder was a juror in the summer of 2012 in the murder trial of Anceo Stovall. During the trial, he posted a comment on The Topeka Capital-Journal's website, which disobeyed orders from the ...
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Storm knocks out towns tornado siren
The state medical examiner's office has revised the death toll from Oklahoma's tornado to at least 24, down from at least 51, according to The Associated ...
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Sprint boosts buyout offer for Clearwire
OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - Sprint says it has raised its buyout offer for the stake in Clearwire it does not already own by 14 percent.Sprint Nextel Corp. said Tuesday that it is offering $3.40 per share for Clearwire Corp. Its previous offer, from December, was for $2.97 per share for the wireless data operator.Sprint says this is its best and final offer. A vote on the previous offer had been ...
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Update 24 people confirmed dead in Oklahoma tornado Video
May 21 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg's Tom Keene recaps the latest on the tornado that tore through Moore, Oklahoma on Monday afternoon as President Barack Obama has declared the location a disaster area. He speaks on Bloomberg Television's "Bloomberg Surveillance." Wichita Business Journal employee Gary Nickel received this photo from his son, Justin Nickel, who was in the Moore, ...
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Up to 91 feared dead in Moore Okla. tornado Video
May 21 (Bloomberg) -- Bloomberg's Tom Keene recaps the latest on the tornado that tore through Moore, Oklahoma on Monday afternoon as President Barack Obama has declared the location a disaster area. He speaks on Bloomberg Television's "Bloomberg Surveillance." Wichita Business Journal employee Gary Nickel received this photo from his son, Justin Nickel, who was in the Moore, ...
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Kansas State Fair in trouble
The Kansas State Fair is a seminal event in the states annual calendar. Since 1903 Hutchinson has hosted what the state legislature initially recognized as the Central Kansas Fair and it quickly grew to become a center for investment, advertising and community engagement. But, financial problems brought on by the recession and much-needed upgrades to State Fair infrastructure, are creating a disconnect between the state legislature and the fair association.
The State Fair typically runs for ten days from the first Friday after Labor Day, last year over 300,000 people attended the fair from all of the state’s 105 counties. There are four main aspects to the fair, areas of life to which it contributes: in terms of commerce, the fair is extremely important to the state, with a captive audience numbering hundreds of thousands, companies are able to take advantage of over 1000 commercial stands to exhibit and sell their product. Read more
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