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Amid the push to get U.S. boardrooms to look more like companies’ customers and employees, advocates are finally seeing just how steep the task will be.

The Leavenworth Farmers Market is set to open for its 2022 season on Saturday morning. The Farmers Market is located at Haymarket Square, Seventh and Cherokee streets.

Kansas gamer pleads guilty for role in fatal ‘swatting’ case A Kansas man has pleaded guilty to his role in a hoax call that led to a fatal shooting of an innocent bystander by Wichita police in 2017. Shane Gaskell, 23, pleaded guilty in federal court to wire fraud in case that drew national attention to “swatting,” during which a caller falsely reports a crime that is dangerous enough to send a SWAT team to the location.

Heavy fighting raged Thursday at the shattered steel plant in Mariupol as Russian forces sought to finish off the city’s lastditch defenders and complete the capture of the strategically vital Ukrainian port.

More Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week but the total number of people collecting jobless aid is at its lowest level in more than 50 years. Jobless claims in the U.S.

Complaining that the West is “stuffing Ukraine with weapons,” Russia bombarded railroad stations and other supply-line points across the country, as the European Union moved to further punish Moscow for the war Wednesday by proposing a ban on oil imports, a crucial source of revenue.

The Federal Reserve intensified its fight against the worst inflation in 40 years by raising its benchmark interest rate by a half-percentage point Wednesday — its most aggressive move since 2000 — and signaling further large rate hikes to come.

Kenneth W. Bernard Community Park in Lansing will be closed to the public May 13 and 14 for the Bernard BBQ Battle.