Missouri House alters tax cut bill
Changes made to tax cut bill. A Missouri House committee made significant changes to a bill that would reduce Missouri's income tax over five years while raising the state's sales tax. The bill was...
View Article2 plead in KSU researchers arson death
MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) - Two people have pleaded guilty in the arson death of a Kansas State University researcher. The U.S. attorney's office says 20-year-old Patrick Scahill and 19-year-old Virginia...
View ArticleKC couples playful pic an Internet hit
They say a picture is worth a thousand words, but a Kansas City, Mo., couple's pregnancy picture hit the Internet and it appears to be worth thousands of likes on Facebook. Now, Iowa photographer...
View ArticleOfficial Footage shows marathon suspect
Boston police officer clears Boylston Street following explosions at the finish line of the 2013 Boston Marathon, Boston, Massachusetts Photographer: AP Graphics ...
View ArticleBrownback ends Kan. AIDS quarantine ban
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Governor Sam Brownback has signed legislation aimed at protecting medical and emergency workers that also repeals a 25-year-old ban on quarantining people diagnosed with AIDS and...
View ArticleChairman expects review of guns policy
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - The chairman of the Kansas Board of Regents expects the board to reconsider its policy banning concealed weapons on state university ...
View ArticleCriminals ram into pharmacy steal drugs
KANSAS CITY - A longtime Kansas City pharmacist says two criminals crashed a van into his building early Thursday and stole drugs. Shortly before 3 a.m. third generation pharmacist Pete Spalitto says a...
View ArticleMo. Senate moves Joplin aid bill forward
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - Missouri senators have endorsed a plan that could provide $15 million to Joplin to rebuild street curbs and gutters that were damaged as a result of the 2011 ...
View ArticleLawmaker blasts food Nazis for blocking charitable chili suppers in Missouri
We can thank four Cassville High School teenagers in Missouri for another contender of things you never imagine you would have to explain to ...
View ArticleBoston entrepreneurs help bombing witnesses give FBI footage
Entrepreneurs in Boston have reached out a tech-saavy hand to aid in the efforts to nail down suspects in the Boston Marathon bombings, the Boston Business Journal reports. EvidenceUpload.org allows...
View ArticleFederal government cuts Kansas Citys Homeland Security funding
The federal government is pulling its Homeland Security funding from the Kansas City a hot topic of discussion in Wednesday's City Hall meeting, WDAF reports. While the metro's funding reached as much...
View ArticleSenate shoots down expanded background checks on gun purchases Video
April 17 (Bloomberg) -- The Senate defeated a plan to expand background checks for firearm purchasers, imperiling President Barack Obamas bid for new gun-control measures four months after 20...
View ArticleBrownback signs bill permitting concealed carry in public schools
Gov. Sam Brownback signed a bill allowing Kansas employees of public schools and colleges to carry concealed weapons, the Lawrence Journal-World reports. The University of Kansas, however, may not...
View ArticleKansas schools express concern over million-dollar budget cuts
University of Kansas Chancellor Bernadette Gray-Little said in the report that no group as a whole supports concealed carry on KU's campus. Officials spelled out the damage that budget cuts to the...
View ArticleBrookings Institute KC job sprawl leads workers away from Downtown
A number of businesses are moving away from Kansas City's central core to meet their needs of space and workers in the suburbs, following the growing trend of job sprawl in metropolitan areas...
View ArticleAdair Green fertilizer plant explosion among worst-ever industrial diasters
In what's been called the worst U.S. industrial disaster since 2005, an Adair Grain Inc. fertilizer facility exploded Wednesday evening in West, Texas, killing 15, injuring more than 100 and leveling...
View ArticleHeadlight flashing prosecution prompts lawsuit
A new lawsuit accuses police in the St. Louis County town of Ellisville of violating the rights of drivers by prosecuting those who flash headlights to warn other drivers of police presence and speed ...
View ArticleKCPD investigates pharmacy smash-and-grab
Police said they received an intrusion alarm at 2:49 a.m. for a pharmacy in the 3900 block of Independence Avenue. Investigators said that it appears a vehicle was crashed into the building and items...
View ArticleTexas plant explosion kills 5 to 15 police say
As the sun rose Thursday over West, Texas, the scope of the small town's devastation came into fuller view: a gruesome, bloody scene, homes flattened to rubble, and scores of firefighters battling a...
View ArticleHouse passes tougher abortion drug rules
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - The Missouri House has endorsed legislation requiring the prescribing doctor to be present when a woman takes any drug to induce an abortion. The bill received first-round...
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