KANSAS CITY, Missouri, April 26 -- The U.S. Justice Department Drug Enforcement Administration St. Louis Division issued the following news release on April 24, 2024: A Cincinnati, Ohio, man was sentenced in federal court today for carrying thousands of methamphetamine pills aboard a bus traveling through Kansas City, Mo. Antuan McClendon, 43, was sentenced by U.S. Chief District Judge Beth Phillips to 11 years and three months in federal prison without parole. On Dec. 21, 2023, McClendon ple  more

WASHINGTON, April 26 -- The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration issued the following news release on April 25, 2024: he Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has approved Kansas, Nevada and West Virginia's Initial Proposals for the Broadband Equity, Access, and Deployment (BEAD) program, a cornerstone of the Biden-Harris Administration's "Internet for All" initiative. Kansas, Nevada and We  more

WICHITA, Kansas, April 26 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the District of Kansas issued the following news release: A Kansas man made his initial appearance before a federal judge following an indictment for defrauding clients of his accounting firm. According to court documents, Quintin Flanagin, 43, of Colby is charged with seven counts of wire fraud, four counts of bank fraud, two counts of false statements, and six counts of money laundering. Flanagin, a certified public accounta  more

KANSAS CITY, Missouri, April 26 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri issued the following news release on April 25, 2024: An anesthesiologist at a Lee's Summit, Mo., hospital pleaded guilty in federal court today to illegally taking fentanyl from the hospital. Roman Peplinski, 37, of Kansas City, Mo., waived his right to a grand jury and pleaded guilty before U.S. District Judge Greg Kays to a federal information that charges him with one count of obtaining a  more