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The endowment will support arts research integration at the University of Kansas. The interdisciplinary approach brings together artists, researchers, students and the public to tackle pressing issues.

UMB alleged that Benton’s heirs made false accusations to media outlets that the bank failed to keep proper records, sold Benton artworks below their market value, engaged in improper self-dealing and in general mismanaged the Benton estate.

Derges, an assistant physician, was elected in November 2020 to represent Christian County. Missouri law requires her to forfeit her office once she is sentenced.

A jury found Jorge Perez, who oversaw 18 rural hospitals in eight states through his management company EmpowerHMS, guilty of fraudulently billing insurance companies for services the hospitals did not perform. Perez had proclaimed it his life’s mission to protect rural health care.

The 2018 incident allegedly left Andrea Martinez with a fractured foot, concussion and other injuries. A portion of the incident was captured on camera by a Netflix crew for a documentary, “Living Undocumented,” that aired in October 2019.

Megan Murphy, who went by Megan Dillard on the air, was the only Asian American on-air employee at WDAF. She alleges the news director refused to consider her for a lead anchor position because she was not African American.

Feng "Franklin" Tao, a tenured chemistry professor at the University of Kansas, was the first defendant among about two dozen academics charged under the Justice Department's since-disbanded program.

The speed with which the United States filed its summary judgment motion suggests it believes Missouri's Second Amendment Preservation Act is a clear violation of the Constitution’s Supremacy Clause and is jeopardizing efforts to combat crime.

Tyree Bell was held in jail for three weeks without charge and released only after a detective watched patrol car videos from his arrest and concluded that his clothing and appearance did not match those of the suspect.

The GOP-dominated Kansas House last week voted mostly along party lines to override Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of the map, which draws districts for the state’s four seats in the U.S. House of Representatives.

The president of Highland Community College compared a Black football player to Hitler, whom she praised as “a great leader.”

The McCloskeys drew national headlines when they confronted a group of mostly Black protesters who had entered their gated community en route to demonstrate in front of the nearby home of a former St. Louis mayor in June 2020.