Kansas health officials have selected three health care insurance companies to manage the state’s privatized Medicaid system after conducting the selection process for the first time in six years. These managed care organizations will serve KanCare, the state’s system for the federal Medicaid program.

Two years ago, Alexandria Ware and other alumni of the Kansas foster care system met with state officials and contractors to present a novel plan for providing stability to foster kids as they age out of the system and enter adulthood.

- ACCIDENT May 15- IPD Officers were dispatched to the 2800 Block of North Pennsylvania Avenue a little before 12:30 a.m in regards to a single vehicle, non-injury accident. BATTERY May 15- At approximately 2:45 p.m, IPD Officers were dispatched to the 500 Block of South 16th Street for an active domestic battery incident.

(TNS) The owner of a south Wichita pawn shop has been ordered to pay more than $23,000 for being unlicensed and not returning jewelry to a woman who used it as collateral for a loan, according to court records.

REPUBLICAN WOMEN OF MONTGOMERY COUNTY The Republican Women of Montgomery County will have their May meeting Monday, May 20. The meeting will be held in the Eggbert’s meeting room, located at 1724 West Main Street, Independence.

BALTIMORE — It took just two days and two entries for the Preakness Stakes field to go from uh-oh to “pretty solid” in the estimation of trainer D. Wayne Lukas, who’s been in more of these classic races than anyone.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Somehow, the NFL couldn’t find a game for the Chiefs on a Tuesday.

The Kansas City Royals had a few chances to get something going against the Seattle Mariners on Wednesday afternoon. But their inability to deliver in clutch moments cost them dearly in a 4-2 loss at T-Mobile Park.