Sidney Kile explains how he founded what is now one of the biggest and fastest-growing security companies in the Kansas City area when he was only 19 years old, after dropping out of high school. It wasn't the first or the last business he has started.

With bank strength in the spotlight after recent failures, we took a look at the 2022 numbers to identify the strongest midsize banks in the Kansas City area. This year, we've added two categories to the ranking criteria to account for lessons learned from the Silicon Valley collapse.

A Grandview company filed a lawsuit claiming it never got paid for a $729,200 railcar mover because the money got sent to a cyber criminal instead.

With bank strength in the spotlight after recent failures, we took a look at the 2022 numbers to identify the strongest small banks in the Kansas City area. This year, we've added two categories to the ranking criteria to account for lessons learned from the Silicon Valley collapse.

Mammoth Productions LLC of Lake Lotawana filed a federal trademark and unfair competition lawsuit against a Topeka-area marketing company that does business as Mammoth Creative.

Lee’s Summit-based GEHA plans to eliminate an undisclosed number of jobs this year but will offer those employees an option to apply for other positions at the company. GEHA declined to provide the specific number of jobs that will be cut but said it was “well below 100.” “GEHA regularly assesses its business to ensure the federal employees to whom we proudly provide medical and dental benefits receive the best care, access and value we can deliver,” said Lisa Ketteler, a communications…