Amber Alert issued for Grove Oklahoma 8-month-old girl Friday
GROVE - Authorities issued an Amber Alert Friday for an 8-month-old girl who may be malnourished, the Oklahoma Department of Public Safety ...
View ArticleCity Council advances single-terminal design for KCI Airport
On a 9-3 vote, the City Council approved changing Kansas City International Airport's long-range plan to include converting the airport to a single ...
View ArticleTODAY 2 Kansas-City area YMCAs to close
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. - Two Kansas City-area YMCA's are set to close their doors Friday and people in the community are expected to show up in protest. The YMCA says it is battling issues with declining...
View ArticleBrawl leaves Greinke with broken collarbone
Formal Kansas City Royals pitcher Zack Greinke threw a high-and-tight pitch on a 3-2 count, hit the batter and then found himself on the ground with a broken collarbone, The Associated Press reports....
View ArticleKansas ranks No. 3 for building wind generation capacity
Kansas finally has begun to tap its windy prairies, ranking as the third biggest builder of wind generation, behind only Texas and California, The Kansas City Star reports. Kansas more than doubled its...
View ArticleMissouri to Kansas Anything you do we can do better or at least too
The Missouri House gave initial approval to a tax cut and bonding program intended to mimic and compete with similar programs Kansas offers, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports. One bill would layer in...
View ArticleWireCo CEO resigns company names interim leader
WireCo WorldGroup said that CEO Ira Glazer has resigned and announced the naming of an interim leader for the Kansas City-based company. WireCo said Thursday that Glazer resigned as CEO and president,...
View ArticleInsider trading could put ex-KPMG partner inside prison
A former KPMG LLP partner faces federal charges of providing stock tips to a friend in an insider trading case that generated at least $1.2 million in illicit profits, The Wall Street Journal reports....
View ArticleBrownback veto gets close inspection by Realtors
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback vetoed his first bill of the session, eliminating regulations on home inspectors, to the chagrin of real estate professionals, The Topeka Capital-Journal reports. Brownback...
View ArticleSingle-terminal KCI plan moves to next leg of journey
The Kansas City Council has endorsed the plan to convert Kansas City International Airport into a single terminal, allowing planning and study to continue, KCUR reports. In responding to skeptics,...
View ArticleBusinesses should think of hashtags this way MakeMoreMoney
The hashtag (#) is making news again. If your company regularly uses Twitter, then you know how crucial the hashtag is to a successful social media campaign. Perhaps you are primarily a casual Twitter,...
View ArticleKansas City moves to combine development agencies
The Kansas City Council took another step Thursday toward seizing control of economic development activities that have been dispersed among a number of competing agencies. The council passed a...
View ArticleTop of the List Business Professional Associations
This week, the Kansas City Business Journal ranks the areas top business and professional associations based on number of local members. See the top 5 >> For the full list, subscribers can take a...
View ArticleClements will step down as head of UMKC real estate program
Walt Clements Walt Clements, head of the real estate program at the University of Missouri-Kansas City, will relocate. Clements said he will step down as director of the Lewis White Real Estate Center,...
View ArticleMissouri released gun permits list to feds WI says cant happen here
Some Missouri lawmakers are concerned that the state agency in charge of permits to carry concealed weapons apparently shared a list of all the permittees with the federal government. As ...
View ArticleWhat Actually Happened To That Same-Sex Couple In The Missouri Hospital
arrested away from his husband Allen’s bedside in a Missouri hospital earlier this week. Despite the fact Roger and Allen have granted each other power of attorney for medical decisions, the Research...
View ArticleThreat prompts search at Atchison County Courthouse
The Atchison County Sheriff's Office said the district court office received a telephone call at 8:15 a.m. from a man who said he received a call from someone in Colorado, claiming that there were two...
View ArticleNuclear North Korea unacceptable Kerry says
The United States will talk to North Korea, but only if the country gets serious about negotiating the end of its nuclear weapons program, Secretary of State John Kerry said after arriving Friday in...
View ArticleCraigslist scams increase cops step up
LENEXA, Kan. - Millions of Americans are turning to online sites to sell unwanted stuff, find a job or even a place to live, but according to the Better Business Bureau, scams are becoming more common...
View ArticleThreat evacuates Atchison Co. Courthouse
ATCHISON, Kan. - Authorities have evacuated the Atchison County Courthouse because of a bomb threat. The county sheriff's office says the threat was called in just after 8 a.m. All people inside the...
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