Debate over Kansas education funding pits Brownback against his allies
The Kansas governor is touring the state campaigning for higher education funding in a political battle that pits him against traditional conservative allies. Regardless of the results, the governor...
View ArticleMissouri Department of Insurance Reports Leadership Changes
Several veteran regulators were appointed into new positions at the Missouri Department of Insurance during the first quarter of 2013. Department of Insurance Director John M. Huff announced that John...
View ArticleOdd results lurk in Missouri budget cuts
JEFFERSON CITY - Missouri senators trying to focus budget cuts on the agency that issues driver’s licenses may have instead blocked funding for the registration of boats and mobile homes. And other...
View ArticleUncle Boston suspect brainwashed by friend
The evolution of Tamerlan Tsarnaev from aspiring Olympic boxer to apparent self-radicalized jihadist may have been influenced by a friend in Cambridge, ...
View ArticleJudge rules against SNAP Call to Action in upholding Missouri law against...
A federal district court judge has upheld the constitutionality of the Missouri House of Worship Protection Act, a 2012 law declaring that "a person commits a commits the crime of disrupting a house of...
View ArticleHot Topic Who knew what about Boston
BOSTON (AP) - Lawmakers are asking tough questions about how the government tracked suspected Boston Marathon bomber Tamerlan Tsarnaev when he traveled to Russia last year, renewing criticism from...
View ArticleFirefighters block highway in Raytown
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Westbound lanes of 350 Highway are blocked as fire crews wrap up work at a house fire early Wednesday. Authorities were called a little before 5 a.m. to the home in the 11120 block...
View ArticleMissouri photo biometrics program up in the air
Missouri has slowed work on a high-tech computer system that would be used to catch potential fraud by conducing a biometric analysis of digital photographs taken for state driver's licenses and...
View ArticleCustomers avoid Sprint in 1Q as suitors circle
NEW YORK - The flow of new customers to Sprint stopped in the latest quarter, even as the company weighs the offers of two corporate suitors.Sprint Nextel Corp. says it added a net of just 12,000...
View ArticleMultiple vehicles involved in collision on I-35 near Chouteau
Click here to watch live coverage from your mobile device. Police said injuries were reported. At least three vehicles caught fire. Accident investigators have been called to the scene. Watch KMBC 9...
View ArticleCar fire shuts down I-35 in Northland
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - At least three cars caught fire after a crash on Interstate 35 in Kansas City, Mo., Wednesday morning, critically injuring at least one person, closing the highway and causing a...
View ArticleResources at issue in teen curfew talks
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The City Council in Kansas City will discuss transitioning the summer-time curfew for teenagers at the city's entertainment districts into a year-long curfew. The summer curfew was...
View ArticleSite of Boston blasts reopens
Workers replaced missing bricks and patched up concrete just before opening the area to pedestrian traffic Wednesday morning. It's another sign that Boston is recovering from the dual bombings that...
View ArticleSprint tightens loss as sales remain flat
Sprint Nextel Corp.s main platform clocked a record number of subscribers in a quarter that saw flat revenue and little movement in iPhone sales. But the Overland Park-based wireless carrier (NYSE: S)...
View ArticleUMB Financial sees drop in first-quarter earnings
After a breaking profit records in 2012, Kansas City-based UMB Financial Corporation (Nasdaq: UMBF) saw its first quarter revenue notch $34.9 million, or $0.88 a share for the first three months ending...
View ArticleIndependence OKs razing old hospital for Power and Light offices
The Independence City Council signed off on an ordinance to raze the old, vacant MCI hospital in Eastern Jackson County to replace it with Power and Light Department office spaces, The Independence...
View ArticleU.S. Bank Yarco give $7M for Friendship Village renovation
The Yarco Co. Inc. is garnering roughly $7 million in financial assistance from U.S. Bank to renovate the 145-unit Friendship Village apartments at 56th Terrace and Swope Parkway, The Kansas City Star...
View ArticleHacker tweet causes Dow to plummet Video
April 23 (Bloomberg) -- The Associated Press Twitter account earlier carried word of explosions at the White House, and injury to president. There is no explosion. The account was hacked into. Michael...
View ArticleCorbin Park welcomes handful of new tenants
Corbin Park's current site plan Corbin Park is welcoming a number of new tenants and has plans to announce more in near future. In addition to landing Scheels All Sports as its anchor tenant which is...
View ArticleAssessing role of brotherhood in bombing
"He was the eldest one and he, in many ways, was the role model for his sisters and his brother," said Elmirza Khozhugov, 26, the ex-husband of Tamerlan's sister, Ailina. "You could always hear his...
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