SACRAMENTO, California, Aug. 26 -- The Small Business Administration issued the following news release: Small nonfarm businesses in 17 Kansas counties and counties in Missouri and Nebraska are now eligible to apply for low interest federal disaster loans from the U.S. Small Business Administration, announced Director Jeffrey Lusk of SBA's Disaster Field Operations Center-West. These loans offset economic losses because of reduced revenues caused by drought in the following primary counties that  more

KANSAS CITY, Missouri, Aug. 26 -- The office of the U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Missouri issued the following news release on Aug. 25, 2023: A Grandview, Mo., man was sentenced in federal court today for his role in a $4.1 million drug-trafficking conspiracy, which is linked to two murders, and which distributed approximately 400 kilograms of methamphetamine in the Kansas City and St. Louis metropolitan areas. Gerald Lee Ginnings, 43, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Greg Kay  more