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Wire reports $6 million awarded in asbestos lawsuit against Ford, others A St. Louis jury has ruled that Ford Motor Co.

A former Kansas undersheriff was acquitted Wednesday in the death of an unarmed man he shot with a defective beanbag round five years ago. Virgil Brewer was charged with involuntary manslaughter after he shot Steven Myers using his personal shotgun on the evening of Oct.

Conspiracy theories about mail ballots. Anonymous text messages warning voters to stay home.

Republicans have long enjoyed a voter registration advantage in Kansas; a Democratic presidential candidate hasn’t carried the state since Lyndon Johnson in 1964, and former President Donald Trump carried it by big margins in 2016 and 2020. Yet the electorate also can have a sizeable number of independent and moderate GOP voters, and voters in August decisively rejected a proposed amendment to the Kansas Constitution that would have allowed the GOPcontrolled Legislature to further restrict or ban abortion. That scrambled the national conversation on the issue.

Democrat Jeff Howards and Republican Danny Zeck, both of Leavenworth, are facing each other in the race for the 1st District of the Kansas State Board of Education. The 1st District has an open seat this year because of redistricting.

Nancy Baker is the recreation supervisor for special events, aquatics and special programs for the city of Leavenworth, Parks and Recreation Department. In this Q&A, she talks about several events that will be happening in Leavenworth over the holiday season. Talk about upcoming family events this holiday season that are sponsored by the Parks and Recreation Department.

Two of the largest U.S. pharmacy chains, CVS Health and Walgreen Co., announced agreements in principle Wednesday to pay about $5 billion each to settle lawsuits nationwide over the toll of opioids, and a lawyer said Walmart is in discussions for a deal.

The Federal Reserve pumped up its benchmark interest rate Wednesday by three-quarters of a point for a fourth straight time but hinted that it could soon reduce the size of its rate hikes. The Fed’s move raised its key shortterm rate to a range of 3.75% to 4%, its highest level in 15 years. It was the central bank’s sixth rate hike this year — a streak that has made mortgages and other consumer and business loans increasingly expensive and heightened the risk of a recession.