Illinois tech job growth rate higher than national average -- but well behind...
Illinois keeps adding tech sector jobs, but other Midwestern states are slowly catching up. Illinoiss technology sector is growing and adding jobs faster than the national rate, but the state has not...
View ArticleWiggins Headed To Kansas
Andrew Wiggins selected Kansas over other contenders like North Carolina, Kentucky and Florida State. (Robin Alam/Icon SMI) Mega-recruit Andrew Wiggins, arguably the best prep prospect since LeBron...
View ArticleBerkebile Fowler will lead KCI advisory committee
Bob Berkebile Bob Berkebile and David Fowler will lead the Mayors KCI Advisory Group, Mayor Sly James announced at a press event at City Hall on Tuesday. Berkebile, a principal at Kansas City...
View ArticleBREAKING Guilty plea in Missouri voter fraud case UPDATED
state race like Rizzo’s.The plea agreement specifically allows other jurisdictions to pursue prosecutions, including state and local authorities.This is a fairly simple concept, which at times eludes...
View ArticleBasketball standout Wiggins to play at KU
Wiggins signed a letter-of-intent at a private ceremony Tuesday afternoon in Huntington. He previously narrowed his choices to Kentucky, Kansas, North Carolina and Florida ...
View ArticleNTSB wants lower blood-alcohol threshold for drivers
"This is critical because impaired driving remains one of the biggest killers in the United States," NTSB Chairman Debbie Hersman said ahead of a vote by the panel on a staff ...
View ArticleNTSB suggests lower DUI threshold
WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal accident investigators recommended Tuesday that states cut their threshold for drunken driving by nearly half, matching a standard that has substantially reduced highway...
View ArticleJolie’s big move to stop breast cancer
LOS ANGELES - Angelina Jolie says that she has had a preventive double mastectomy after learning she carried a gene that made it extremely likely she would get breast cancer. The Oscar-winning actress...
View ArticleJohn Rizzos uncle admits to voter fraud
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - The uncle of a Democratic Missouri lawmaker has pleaded guilty to voter fraud in an election that his nephew won by a single vote. John Moretina pleaded guilty Monday in federal...
View ArticleNASB continues to add mortgage jobs
Bruce Thielen North American Savings Bank added nearly 250 employees to its mortgage operations center in Kansas City in 2012 and plans to add 75 more workers by the end of 2014. Grandview-based NASBs...
View ArticleNorth American Savings Bank continues to add mortgage employees
Bruce Thielen North American Savings Bank added nearly 250 employees to its mortgage operations center in Kansas City in 2012, and plans to add another 75 workers by the end of 2014. Grandview-based...
View ArticleFuzzy crystal ball or not Dish prepares for Sprint merger
Charles Ergen, chairman, CEO and co-founder, EchoStar Communications Corp. speaks at a CEO luncheon given by The Progress & Freedom Foundation in Washington, DC, March 4, 2004. A Dish Network...
View ArticleLCRA seeks law firm to replace King Hershey
The Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority of Kansas City put its legal services up for bids on Monday. Thats a result of the breakup of King Hershey PC, the law firm that handled LCRAs legal work...
View ArticleNo. 1 prospect Wiggins commits to Kansas
John Calipari spent more than two years trying to bring Andrew Wiggins to Lexington.On Tuesday, Wiggins decided to go his own way.The No. 1 high school basketball prospect in the country announced that...
View ArticleKan. ed board member criticized for racial comment
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -- Several black leaders in Topeka say a Kansas State Board of Education member's use of a racial slur during a meeting last month was unnecessary and ...
View ArticleArgyle Building gets new developer with $21.3M plan
Argyle Building, 306 E. 12th St. Theres a new $21.3 million rehab plan for the Argyle Building, along with a substitution on the development team. The Land Clearance for Redevelopment Authority of...
View ArticleStructural problems in 100-year-old building force Platte City Police...
The trek by 24-year-old Ryan Chalmers, who is scheduled to be in Kansas City on Tuesday, aims to inspire people with disabilities and raise money for ...
View ArticleKansas woman 58 hospitalized after chasing children with knife
The trek by 24-year-old Ryan Chalmers, who is scheduled to be in Kansas City on Tuesday, aims to inspire people with disabilities and raise money for ...
View ArticleMayor names Save KCI founder to airport study group
Kansas City Mayor Sly James named a high-profile critic of the plans to convert Kansas City International Airport to a single terminal to a panel to study the ...
View ArticleSource Holder recused himself from AP probe
Attorney General Eric Holder said Tuesday he was not involved in the decision to collect telephone records of Associated Press journalists in a probe into leaks of classified information, having...
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