KANSAS CITY, Missouri, March 5 [Category: Sports] -- The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics posted the following news release: * * * 2024-25 NAIA Men's Golfer of the Week - No. 1 (March 5) KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Faulkner (Ala.) sophomore Rodolphe Cicala (Biarritz, France) is the NAIA Men's Golfer of the Week. The winner was selected based on performances from February 24-March 2 and was chosen out of a pool of conference/Continental Athletic Conference (Independents)/unaffiliated g  more

KANSAS CITY, Missouri, March 5 [Category: Sports] -- The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics posted the following news release: * * * 2025 NAIA Men's Swimming and Diving National Championship Recap - Day 1 Elkhart, Ind. - The 2025 NAIA Men's Swimming & Diving Championships got underway Wednesday night as three events were contested at the Elkhart Aquatic Center. * Keiser (Fla.) recorded 100 points and broke one meet record and earn a trio of national champion performances to   more

KANSAS CITY, Missouri, March 5 [Category: Sports] -- The National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics posted the following news release: * * * 2025 NAIA Men's Wrestling National Championship Official Brackets Finalized KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The official brackets ( PDF ) for the 2025 NAIA Men's Wrestling National Championships have been finalized ahead of event starting tomorrow morning. The Battle For The Red Banner is hosted by Visit Wichita at Park City Arena in Park City, Kansas and conc  more

IRVING, Texas, March 6 -- The Big 12 Conference, a college athletic conference, issued the following news: * * * Big 12 Conference Announces Entertainment and Fan Experience Enhancements for 2025 Phillips 66 Big 12 Men's and Women's Basketball Championships The Big 12 Conference announced its entertainment and fan experience enhancements for the 2025 Phillips 66 Big 12 Men's and Women's Basketball Championships, held at Kansas City's T-Mobile Center. The Conference unveiled its first enhance  more

WASHINGTON, March 5 [Category: Medical] -- The American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network posted the following news release: * * * Kansas Cancer Survivors, Health Care Advocates and Black Nurses Host Medicaid Film Screening at State Capitol TOPEKA, Kan. - At the state Capitol this afternoon, volunteers and members of the Alliance for a Healthy Kansas, the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network (ACS CAN) and the Wichita Black Nurses Association collaborated to screen " In Due Season,  more

WASHINGTON, March 5 [Category: Environment] -- The Sierra Club posted the following news release: * * * Kansas House Taxation Committee Hears Energy Inflation Act Tomorrow Topeka, Kan. - The Kansas legislature may pass a bill that could cause massive energy inflation for Evergy customers throughout Kansas, right as President Trump hurls the United States into a trade war that is estimated to cost the average family up to $2,000 in additional costs on everyday products. Senate Bill 51, the E  more

KANSAS CITY, Missouri, March 6 (TNSres) -- The National Association of Insurance Commissioners issued the following news release on March 3, 2025: * * * NAIC Releases 2024 Market Share Data Life/Fraternal and Property/Casualty Reports Now Available Today, the National Association of Insurance Commissioners (NAIC) released data on life/fraternal and property/casualty insurers. The reports provide market share information and identify leading insurance writers in several key lines of business.  more

LAWRENCE, Kansas, March 6 -- The University of Kansas issued the following news: * * * Embrace of authoritarianism in US fueled by culture wars more than economy, study finds A new book chapter examines Donald Trump's intention to be a dictator "on day one" of his second term in office, as he said in a 2023 interview. He scrutinizes Trump's assertion that many individuals "like" such talk of a dictatorship, and finds that this is fueled more by the culture wars than the economy. Image credit:  more

LAWRENCE, Kansas, March 6 -- The University of Kansas issued the following news: * * * Program will train high schoolers to write code and develop microelectronics for artificial intelligence LAWRENCE -- Public high school students in Kansas and two other states will receive training in the cutting-edge field of artificial intelligence, learning to create both code that underpins AI and the microelectronics to run it -- as part of the United States' push to keep the lead in microchip manufact  more