Kansas City lawyer Mike Blumenthal points to a 45% decline in age discrimination complaints in the past decade in explaining his bafflement at why Congress is advancing a bipartisan bill that would ban forced arbitration in those cases.

J. Rieger & Co. went back to its roots with the 2023 release for its high-end Monogram Whiskey series, tapping a process once common in the 1800s. It's the debut spirit of the distillery's Kansas City Whiskey-Solera Reserve label.

The Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists is setting up a Kansas City chapter in an effort to create better lines of communication between financial institutions and law enforcement.

Yellow contends that its existence hinges on the trucking company's "One Yellow" modernization plan, including addressing the looming maturation of $1.3 billion in debt next year. But a lawsuit filed Tuesday in federal court claims that the Teamsters union is breaching its contract by standing in the way of the effort, costing the company $137 million in forgone savings and additional revenue One Yellow would have generated.

The pending retirement of Stephen Guthrie has Hawthorn Bank looking for a new CFO.

With a massive debt problem hanging over it, Yellow Corp. says that to avoid bankruptcy it needs additional concessions from International Brotherhood of Teamsters workers. But the union says its members already have given enough.