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Continued uncertainty surrounding COVID-19 has caused ACT to cancel tests, some of them last-minute, causing frustration for parents and students who spent time and money preparing. Lora Leuzinger of Ohio spent five hours on the ACT site Monday to get her daughter…
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The Board of Directors of the Hall Family Foundation announce today the appointment of Mayra Aguirre as the Foundation’s new president, according to a Monday news release. Aguirre will assume the full-time duties on Sept. 22, at the conclusion of…
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A request made by the city back in May for federal funding recently came to fruition, Jackson County allotting $18.8 million to Kansas City for the use of COVID-19 relief. In May, Kansas City requested $54.5 million of the nearly…
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FORT RILEY, Kan. (AP) — The Army’s Fort Riley will get a new commander later this month. Major Gen. Douglas A. Sims will assume command of Fort Riley, Kansas, and its 1st Infantry Division, which is known as the “Big…
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GREENFIELD, Ind. (BUSINESS WIRE) - Elanco Animal Health Incorporated announced today it has closed the acquisition of Bayer Animal Health. The transaction, valued at $6.89 billion, expands Elanco’s scale and capabilities, positioning the company for the long term as a…
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LENEXA, Kan. /PRNewswire/ - Today, Clinical Reference Laboratory (CRL), one of the largest privately held clinical testing laboratories in the U.S., announced that it received FDA Emergency Use Authorization (EUA) and is scaling up capacity for CRL Rapid Response, a saliva-based…
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Missouri added around 1,500 cases over the weekend, according to reporting by KMBC 9 News. Over the weekend Missouri saw the addition of 1,517 cases after a week full of large case number gains, which officials attributed to a backlog…
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OMAHA, Neb. – The July Creighton University Mid-America Business Conditions Index, a leading economic indicator for the nine-state region stretching from Minnesota to Arkansas, advanced above growth neutral and to its best level since March 2019. Overall index: After…
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The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services reported 1,489 cases of COVID-19 on Friday reports KMBC 9 News, bringing the statewide total to 50,323 since the start of the outbreak. There have now been 1,243 deaths across Missouri from…
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AXIOS - The economic decline between April and June caused by the coronavirus pandemic brought the U.S. GDP back to levels last seen in 2015, according to data released Thursday. Why it matters: While we fell into the hole swiftly,…
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