Tue Nov 3, 2009 8:25 AM EST
A federal animal disease lab headed to Kansas will likely bring along companies looking to profit from that research, Sen. Sam Brownback said Monday.
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Mon Nov 2, 2009 4:35 PM EST
The head of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. on Monday said Congress needs to provide regulators greater tools to control the risky financial behavior that helped trigger the recession and to unwind major firms on the verge of collapse.
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Tue Oct 27, 2009 8:09 PM EDT
A proposed ultra high-voltage power line in southern Kansas is back on the drawing board after a regional planning body decided Tuesday to keep it a priority.
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Mon Oct 26, 2009 6:57 PM EDT
Kansas regulators on Monday approved the consolidation of the rates paid by customers in Westar Energy Inc.'s northern and southern divisions.
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Tue Oct 6, 2009 5:36 PM EDT
The federal government is teaming up with a medical software maker to better track the spread of swine flu nationally.
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Thu Sep 17, 2009 11:33 AM EDT
Sprint Nextel Corp.'s chief executive said Thursday that consolidation in the wireless industry may be coming but it will be difficult.
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Mon Sep 14, 2009 1:13 PM EDT
Sprint Nextel Corp. affiliate iPCS Inc. is asking an Illinois court to block the wireless provider's planned acquisition of Virgin Mobile USA Inc.
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Fri Sep 4, 2009 11:54 AM EDT
H&R Block Inc. said Friday it lost $133.6 million in the first quarter, about the same as a year ago but slightly more than Wall Street expected, as acquisition expenses and other costs offset slightly higher revenues.
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Sat Aug 29, 2009 2:35 PM EDT
Ben Ahlvers is a full-time arts education coordinator, but his passion is with the fanciful creatures, human figures and oversized hammers he fashions from clay.
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Fri Aug 28, 2009 5:45 PM EDT
Kansas banks recorded much smaller profits in the second quarter of 2009 as bad loans continued to hurt lenders' bottom lines.
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Fri Aug 28, 2009 5:44 PM EDT
Missouri banks recorded a net loss in the second quarter of 2009 as bad loans continued to hurt lenders' bottom lines.
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Fri Aug 21, 2009 10:46 AM EDT
Filmgoers who have long turned to the local newspaper to find theaters and show times for movies may have to start looking elsewhere as theater chains rethink the value of paper and ink in a digital age.
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Wed Aug 5, 2009 1:16 PM EDT
Navigational device maker Garmin Ltd. on Wednesday reported sharply lower second-quarter earnings on Wednesday, but beat Wall Street estimates and said the worst of its sales decline may be over. Its shares surged almost 24 percent.
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Mon Jul 13, 2009 12:58 PM EDT
H&R Block Inc. CEO Russell Smyth received compensation valued at $5.3 million in fiscal 2009, the year he took over leadership of the nation's largest tax preparer.
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Fri Jun 26, 2009 5:36 PM EDT
Financial services company H&R Block Inc. is scheduled to report earnings for its fiscal fourth quarter Monday afternoon. The following is a summary of key developments related to the period.
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Thu Jun 25, 2009 6:29 PM EDT
Sprint Nextel Corp. said Thursday it will no longer use great apes in its advertisements after animal rights activists complained about an ad by the wireless provider that features a chimpanzee.
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Wed Jun 17, 2009 6:26 PM EDT
The heat is being turned up on big propane companies who last summer quietly reduced the amount of fuel in canisters that are attached to backyard grills without telling their customers, according to a pair of federal lawsuits.
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Wed May 6, 2009 12:45 PM EDT
Navigational device maker Garmin Ltd. on Wednesday said first-quarter profits fell 67 percent, missing Wall Street expectations as the company dealt with slower consumer spending.
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Thu Apr 30, 2009 12:46 PM EDT
Kansas City Southern on Thursday said it lost money in its fiscal first quarter as the struggling global economy reduced the size and number of railroad shipments.
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Thu Apr 23, 2009 3:28 PM EDT
Home sales in the Midwest declined again in March as lingering economic uncertainty kept early spring home shoppers from becoming buyers, but the region still fared better than the rest of the country, according to two reports released Thursday.
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Mon Mar 30, 2009 5:31 PM EDT
The chairman and chief executive of Kansas City Southern received compensation valued at $1.4 million in 2008, or 73 percent less than the year before, according to an Associated Press calculation of figures disclosed in a regulatory filing Monday.
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Mon Mar 30, 2009 1:13 PM EDT
Sprint Nextel Corp. Chief Executive Dan Hesse received compensation valued at $14.2 million in 2008 as the telecommunications company continued to lose ground in the wireless industry, according to an Associated Press analysis of a regulatory filing Monday.
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Mon Mar 23, 2009 4:42 PM EDT
Home sales in the Midwest fell again in February as doubts about the economy and tighter credit requirements stymied potential buyers, according to two reports released Monday.
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Mon Mar 23, 2009 11:09 AM EDT
With about a month to go before the April 15 tax filing deadline, H&R Block Inc. says tax preparation numbers are down from a year ago.
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Tue Mar 10, 2009 5:27 PM EDT
Shoe retailer Collective Brands Inc. said Tuesday its fourth-quarter loss more than tripled as sales fell and it wrote down the value of its 2007 acquisition of the Stride Rite chain.
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