Oft-injured Kansas linebacker Tharp ends career
Kansas linebacker Huldon Tharp is calling it a career. (AP) Our best wishes to Kansas starting linebacker Huldon Tharp, who’s giving up football due to repeated injuries in service of the game. ...
View ArticleOlathe will vote on bonds for Logistics Park project
The Olathe City Council on Tuesday will vote on authorizing $33 million in industrial revenue bonds for a large warehouse and distribution facility. Sun Life Assurance Co. of Canada is the financing ...
View ArticleSome impacts from cuts already being felt
Congress returned to work on Monday amid the first full week of forced spending cuts, with President Barack Obama and Republicans sticking to deeply entrenched positions that have caused a series of ...
View ArticleSBA lending soars in Kansas City
Small Business Administration lending in the Kansas City area is experiencing rapid growth. SBA-backed loans in the Kansas City area reached $113 million from October to January, up 33 percent from ...
View ArticleGeologists examining Kansas sinkhole
GALENA, Kan. (AP) - State geologists are studying a sinkhole near a highway in southeast Kansas. The hole is south of Kansas 66 at the western edge of Galena. Officials say the hole, which was found ...
View ArticleLearjet with faulty gear lands safely
ST. LOUIS (AP) - An official says the eight passengers aboard a small aircraft with landing gear troubles walked off the plane after it landed safely at Lambert-St. Louis International Airport. ...
View ArticleTeacher accused of threatening students
LAKE STATION, Ind. - A teacher in northern Indiana is on leave after students said he scrawled a threatening message on a classroom chalkboard. Lake Station Schools Superintendent Dan ...
View ArticleKC Internet service providers sell again in perfect storm
Rob Howe Before the dust had settled on a January acquisition from a private Wichita investment firm, Kansas City-based Internet service providers Computers & Tele-Comm Inc. and KC Nap LLC have a...
View ArticleCredit union earnings hit all-time high $8.5B
Debbie Matz Federally insured credit union earnings reached an all-time high of $8.5 billion in 2012. Earnings are up 36.1 percent from 2011. Membership grew 2.2 percent to 93.8 million, but the ...
View ArticleKill Devil Club will open in Cordishs Louisville property
A second location of The Kill Devil Club in Kansas City is set to open in Louisville. Kansas Citys The Kill Devil Club is about to go national to Louisville. The Cordish Co., owner of the Kansas ...
View ArticleCampaign launches in support of Kansas City health levy
Truman Medical Center President and CEO John Bluford Proponents of the Kansas City health levy gathered Monday at Truman Medical Center to officially launch their campaign to urge Kansas City voters ...
View ArticleFour die in Tennessee house fire
Four people were killed in a house fire in Tennessee's Macon County, officials said. The fire started in the home in Lafayette at about 7 p.m. Sunday, WSMV-TV, Nashville, reported. An elderly ...
View ArticleBlocked T-Mobile merger could send Sprint and Dish after MetroPCS
Sprint Nextel Corp. and Dish Network Corp. may be running after the same acquisition target again if Metro PCS Communications Inc. shareholders block a merger with T-Mobile USA, a telecommunications ...
View ArticleUMKC School of Nursing gets a name change
The University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Nursing announced Monday that it will change its name to the UMKC School of Nursing and Health Studies. The change reflects the important and evolving ...
View ArticleCerner joins formation of nonprofit Commonwell Health Alliance
Neal Patterson Six vendors of electronic health records, including Kansas City-based Cerner Corp., have formed a collaboration called the Commonwell Health Alliance. The group of vendors, which ...
View ArticleEmployer credit checks keep jobless out of workforce
One in four unemployed Americans have been required to go through a credit check when applying for a job, and one in ten have been denied jobs due to information in their credit report, according to ...
View ArticleWhat Kansas Basketball Star Ben McLemore Can Teach America About Poverty
Ben McLemore is a 6-foot-5 inch phenom, a 20-year-old redshirt freshman who leads one of college basketball’s best teams in scoring, has the Kansas Jayhawks on the verge of another deep run ...
View ArticleOklahoman admits coercing Missouri teen into sending him lewd photos
That Missouri needs to follow Kansas’ lead and slash taxes has become gospel among Republicans in Jefferson City. But critics worry that Missouri would also be replicating the Sunflower ...
View ArticleSchool bus slides into Cass County ditch
There were about 30 students from Ray-Pec Middle School on board the bus at the time of the crash. Investigators said the driver was taken to a hospital but the students were not ...
View ArticleLittle immediate impact from cuts
Congress returned to work on Monday amid the first full week of forced spending cuts, with President Barack Obama and Republicans sticking to deeply entrenched positions that have caused a series of ...
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