Temps back in the 70s but rain chances also return
Monday will start foggy but the fog will eventually clear out and the sun will return later in the day with highs reaching into the 70s. We'll only drop to the 50s ...
View ArticleCemeteries dont want to bury Tamerlan Tsarnaev
As one bombing suspect recovers in a prison hospital and cemeteries reject the body of the other, a whirlwind of new developments are swirling around the investigation into the Boston Marathon ...
View Article2 hurt when car slams into pole in KC
KANSAS CITY, Mo - Two women were hurt early Monday when a pickup truck slammed into a pole on Prospect Avenue in Kansas City, Mo. It happened around 5:45 a.m. on Prospect Avenue near 45th Street....
View ArticleBrownback on higher education tour
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - Gov. Sam Brownback is continuing his statewide tour aimed at building support for protecting cuts to the Kansas higher education ...
View ArticleDeadline nears to finalize Missouri budget
Missouri lawmakers have until Friday to wrap up the state's roughly $25 billion operating budget. The House and Senate have submitted their versions and now must find an agreement on the spending plan...
View ArticleHouston company will buy control of Inergy form $7B operation
A Houston-based energy company has agreed to buy Inergy LP as part of a deal that will create a $7.3 billion business, the companies announced on Monday. Crestwood Midstream Partners LP and Crestwood...
View ArticlePolice arent immune to dangers of distracted driving
Perhaps the police should police themselves more for distractions from technology while driving, KSHB reports. The station said records show 29 traffic accidents involving police in Missouri and...
View ArticleMissouri must shift gears on commercial driving rules
Missouri lawmakers will have to put the pedal to the metal if theyre to avoid losing $30 million or more in federal transportation funds, KMBC reports. Legislators have two weeks left to pass a bill...
View ArticleCollege grads score jobs even during tough times
Good news for prospective college grads: Youre about to join the only group in which more people have jobs now than when the recession began, The New York Times reports. The unemployment rate for...
View ArticleKU star McLemores former coach took cash
KU basketball star Ben McLemores former AAU coach says he and one of McLemores cousins took thousands of dollars in cash and trips from a man who introduced them to potential sports agents, USA Today...
View ArticleJudge ends receivership of KC Housing Authority
A federal judge returned the Kansas City Housing Authority to local control on Friday after 20 years in receivership for mismanagement, The Kansas City Star reports. U.S. District Judge Dean Whipple...
View ArticleFacebook shocker political posters arent funny
Want to be viewed as humorous by your Facebook friends? KU researchers suggest you lay off the political comments, The Lawrence Journal-World reports. A recent study by the University of Kansas found...
View ArticleMissouri school officials sue over education initiative petition
Making, distributing and retailing alcoholic beverages are multimillion-dollar businesses in Missouri and Kansas, involving dozens of companies, thousands of workers and millions in tax revenue. It’s...
View Article1 dead 2 injured in house fire on E. 54th Street
The two children, ages 5 and 9, made it out of the home and were not injured, KMBC's Brenda Washington reported. Their father was found dead inside the ...
View ArticleShawnee benefits from aggressively shopping itself
After absorbing the blow of losing a major employer to Lenexa, leaders in Shawnee have the city back in the thick of the area development game, The Shawnee Dispatch reports. The $50 million Westlink...
View ArticleTallgrass Energy plans initial stock offering
CEO David Dehaemers Jr. Overland Park-based Tallgrass Energy Partners LP plans an initial public stock offering worth at least $274 million, the company announced on Monday. Tallgrass Energy Partners...
View ArticleMissouri meth lab fire sends nude man fleeing
On the day the Boston Marathon bombing transfixed the world, Mark Watkins of suburban Kansas City lay face to face with a crisis of life, death and faith of his own. Little could he guess that, in the...
View ArticleLegal concerns remain on Missouri vehicle sales tax
Every year as the clock ticks toward the constitutionally mandated end of the Missouri Legislature's session, the rush to the finish line ...
View ArticleDaughter of pitcher in 42 says movie unfair
JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) -- The daughter of a pitcher portrayed in the new movie about famed baseball player Jackie Robinson says the movie unfairly characterizes her father as a ...
View ArticleMissouri man to be sentenced for raping woman leaving her in to die a freezer
On the day the Boston Marathon bombing transfixed the world, Mark Watkins of suburban Kansas City lay face to face with a crisis of life, death and faith of his own. Little could he guess that, in the...
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