ST. LOUIS (KTVI) — Customers across the United States are looking to send a message Friday to companies that have rolled back their diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) initiatives in the form of a 24-hour consumer boycott, also known as the “Feb. 28 Economic Blackout.” Virally led in a post by a group called The…… MORE
TOPEKA (KSNT) – Chief Justice Marla Luckert is forming a committee that will study the use of artificial intelligence in the Kansas legal system. On Thursday, the Kansas Supreme Court issued a press release announcing the 21-member Ad Hoc Artificial Intelligence Committee. The committee was formed via an administrative order by Luckert. “Artificial intelligence holds…… MORE
KANSAS ITY, Mo. — The Lawrence Police Department have submitted a new charging affidavit to the Douglas County District Attorney’s Office requesting new charges be filed against a Lawrence teacher. Mark Gridley, 60, worked as a speech and language pathologist at Prairie Park Elementary School before his arrest. He’s worked in the Lawrence School District…… MORE
TECUMSEH (KSNT) – Music has long been a passion for Nicolas Carr. When he was a senior in high school at Washburn Rural, he got the opportunity to direct and make music with his friends. It was at the moment he knew he wanted to make this his career. “So I went to Washburn University…… MORE
TOPEKA (KSNT) – Democrat Representative Ford Carr from Wichita has filed a formal complaint against Republican Representative Nick Hoheisel for what he says was a threat made against him. According to Carr, Hoheisel approached him, shouted obscenities and threatened him on the House Floor earlier this month. Carr says he believes a Republican supermajority and…… MORE
TOPEKA (KTMJ) – Fox 43 AM Live’s Dane Kroll chatted with singer Thea Lissi ahead of her latest single releasing on Friday, ‘Bad Guy’.… MORE
TOPEKA (KTMJ) – Topeka High School Thespians Ti Thomas, Anna Goering and Aiden Ramirez joined the Fox 43 AM Live team to preview the upcoming production of Frozen Jr. The show runs from March 6th through March 9th. For more details, watch the interview above.… MORE
MANHATTAN (KSNT) – Kansas State University is rolling out a new AI-powered chatbot that will text students periodically throughout the year. According to a news release from the university, students got their first text from “Willie” in January. The AI chatbot being introduced in partnership with EdSights, an AI chatbot company, will text students about…… MORE
TOPEKA (KSNT) – A Blackstone advisor and her husband, a former Boeing engineer and senior manager, have invested in the Kansas State University Center for Principles Business in the College of Business Administration. K-State announced that Leanne and Steve Caret of Argyle, TX made an investment into the school that will help ensure the growth…… MORE
TOPEKA (KSNT) – Growing up on a military base, Military Policing stood out to Air Force Staff Sergeant Joe Perry from an early age. Over the course of his 12-year career in the service, he would showcase that sense of justice across the globe, including an overseas deployment during the Gulf War. “My father was…… MORE
