Howson named COO of BATS Chi-X Europe
New Chief Operating Officer David Howson will report to Mark Hemsley, CEO of BATS Chi-X Europe. BATS Global Markets Inc. announced David Howson is the new chief operating officer of BATS Chi-X Europe....
View ArticleSix Missouri companies raise $17.5 million in first quarter
After attracting just $21 million in venture capital investments for all of 2012, Missouri companies are off to a better start this year. Six companies raised a combined $17.5 million from VCs in the...
View ArticleBody found in van in Kansas City Kan.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. - Police say someone called just after 8 a.m. Monday to report a body in a van outside a home in Kansas City, Kan. Officers arrived to N. 7th and Stewart and discovered a man with a...
View ArticleBurglars target Kansas City hookah lounge
A petition effort challenging the Kansas City Councils plans for a new airport terminal is invalid, city officials said today. A committee of petitioners had turned in preliminary signatures to the...
View Article2012 NFL Draft Memories Dontari Poe
We're just days away from the 2013 NFL Draft, with the Kansas City Chiefs currently on the clock. Rewind nearly one year ago, when the Chiefs owned the #11th overall pick and selected former Memphis ...
View ArticleSource Bombing suspect communicating
Despite being seriously wounded and heavily sedated, the surviving suspect in the Boston Marathon bombings is answering brief questions from authorities by nodding his head, a source with first-hand...
View ArticleMan charged in death of well known KCK dog breeder
A Kansas City, Mo., man on parole has been charged in the murder of Peter Belmont, Jr., a well known Kansas City, Kan., dog breeder, the Wyandotte County District Attorney's Office ...
View ArticleShould the age to buy tobacco be raised
NEW YORK (AP) - New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn is proposing raising the minimum age for tobacco purchases from 18 to 21. Quinn announced the proposed legislation on Monday and was joined...
View ArticleMan pleads in attempted drowning case
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) - A Kansas City, Kan., man accused of attempting to drown two children has pleaded guilty to reduced charges. Lamonte J. Brown was scheduled to go to trial Monday on a charge of...
View ArticleJudge Arson charges only in JoCo fire
OLATHE, Kan. - A Johnson County judge has ruled there is enough evidence to try an Olathe man on arson charges, but not attempted premeditated murder, according to the Johnson County District...
View ArticleEastern Missouri man rescues boy 12 from flooded river
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 ArticleNazdar shakes up its leadership team
Peter Walsh Shawnee-based Nazdar Company named presidents for its two main subsidiaries. Peter Walsh is now president of Nazdar SourceOne and Richard Bowles is president of Nazdar Ink Technologies....
View ArticleKansas construction employment down 3.2 from last year
Kansas was among 19 states losing construction jobs from March 2012 to March 2013, the Associated General Contractors of America said in a report Friday. Kansas was among 19 states losing construction...
View ArticleDemolition of Orion Pictures old Film Row building underway at 17th and...
Demolition of Orion Pictures, old Film Row building, underway at 17th and Wyandotte Former 1940s movie distribution building will be replaced by garage serving Webster ...
View Article86th annual Kansas Relays
The four days of elite, college, and high school track and field events at Memorial Stadium in Lawrence were the 86th such event since 1923, and may be the last held at the historic ...
View ArticleBomb suspect makes initial appearance
The surviving suspect in last week's Boston Marathon bombings, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, "will not be treated as an enemy combatant" but rather will be prosecuted "through our civilian system of justice,"...
View ArticleMissouri Tigers add former Rutgers recruit
(KSDK Sports) -- The Missouri Tigers basketball program added a fifth member of it's nationally ranked recruiting class on Monday as Shane Rector, a 6-foot, 175-pound point guard from South Kent School...
View ArticleDoctors All bomb victims likely to live
BOSTON (AP) - In a rebuttal to the terrorists and a tribute to stellar medical care, all of the more than 180 people injured in the Boston Marathon blasts one week ago who made it to a hospital alive...
View ArticleKC stand-off leads to robbery charges
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - A Kansas City man faces charges in four robberies, including one that prompted a stand-off with police late Saturday night. Gary P. Goodspeed, 22, is charged with four counts of...
View ArticleMan sought in Kansas City shooting
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Police are looking for a man who may have been involved in a shooting in Kansas City Monday afternoon. Authorities said the shooting occurred at 30th Street and Prospect just after...
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