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Posted June 24, 2024 Over 1,200 Kansas City metro area students received nearly $48 million in scholarships following a significant milestone for a local organization. On Saturday, 1,210 students gathered from 87 high schools in the Kansas City area at…
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Posted June 18, 2024 Kansas lawmakers have been discussing a bill to bring the Kansas City Royals or Chiefs across the state line, following a joint committee meeting Monday. The committee meeting came before the special legislative session called by…
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Posted June 10, 2024 Olathe-based Terracon has acquired Rhode Island-based SAGE Environmental and SAGE EnviroTech Drilling Services. Terracon announced the acquisition, the company’s second acquisition in 2024, in a Monday release. Terracon’s existing operations in Hartford, Connecticut, the Metro Boston…
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Posted June 6, 2024 Academy Bank announced it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Colorado-based Mountain View Bank of Commerce. Academy Bank and its parent company, Dickinson Financial Corporation, announced the transaction is expected to close in the…
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Posted June 5, 2024 Forvis announced it has entered into an international partnership with Paris-based Mazars, launching a new $5 billion global network called Forvis Mazars. The two accounting firms announced the new two-firm network last week. Forvis Mazars LLP…
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Posted June 5, 2024 HCA Midwest Health has named Dr. Eric Benink, a 25-year physician leader veteran, as chief medical officer. Benink began his new role effective June 1, according to a release Tuesday. He now oversees clinical quality and…
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Posted June 4, 2024 Updated at 11:57 a.m., June 5, 2024 Citing high regulation and financial pressure, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Kansas City announced it will exit the Medicare Advantage market at the end of 2024. The not-for-profit…
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Posted June 4, 2024 Overland Park-based Patheous Health Inc. has acquired DianosTEX, an onsite dysphagia imaging provider in the Dallas and Fort Worth, Texas market. Patheous Health, which offers mobile dysphagia imaging services, first announced the acquisition of DianosTEX, according…
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Posted June 4, 2024 Lee's Summit-based Sallee Development is closer to constructing a new residential build-for-rent community in Oak Grove, made up of 40 townhomes. Rustic Heights is a development comprised of 40 townhomes with 176 units, a pool and…
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Posted June 4, 2024 The Shawnee City Council has denied the rezoning request from the trucking company XPO, which planned to bring a 180,000-square-foot-plus trucking facility in northwest Shawnee. The rezoning request of 45 acres from agricultural to planned industrial…
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