SAFC expands in Scotland redundancy wont bring Lenexa layoffs
SAFC, a global specialty chemicals and biologics supplier with offices in Lenexa and St. Louis, announced Tuesday that it will expand its facilities in Irvine, Scotland. The Irvine expansion will ...
View ArticleHunt Midwest seeks facility to serve new Ford transit van
Hunt Midwest Real Estate Development Inc. is investing $11 million in a Northland facility to serve Ford Motor Co.s transit commercial van produced in Kansas City. Hunt Midwest has secured municipal ...
View ArticleFormer county auditor sentenced to jail probation
A former northwest Missouri county auditor has been sentenced for violating an election law and posting nude photos of a woman on a website without her ...
View ArticleKan. House panel endorses expanded concealed carry bill
The Federal and State Affairs Committee also amended the measure Tuesday to allow local school boards and state university and college presidents to designate employees who can carry concealed ...
View ArticleHouse passes GOP measure on funding
A Republican measure to keep the government funded through September while softening the impact of forced spending cuts on the military and veterans affairs programs won approval from the GOP-led ...
View ArticleNext NYC health campaign too-loud earphones
In this photo of Tuesday, March 5, 2013, a young boy listens to music by sharing an earphone with his mother while riding a New York subway. Add cranked-up earphones to the list of health dangers ...
View ArticleStudents wrongly get college acceptance
"I was very excited. I was happy. I know that I was making the next step in my life," Jeremy Abrahamson said. But after that acceptance letter, he got another one saying there was a ...
View ArticleThousands of sharks spotted in Florida
PALM BEACH, Fla. - West Palm Beach, Fla., beaches are closed to swimmers after thousands of sharks have been spotted swimming along South Florida shores. Marine biologists have spotted tens of ...
View ArticleGeneral manager of CoSentrys KC data centers leaves company
Doug West The longtime general manager of CoSentrys data center operations in Kansas City no longer is with the company. Doug West, who helped oversee an expansion into Lenexa last year, said this ...
View ArticleJurors side with Chiefs in age-discrimination case
Former employee Steve Cox said he was fired from his job as a maintenance manager for the Chiefs two years ago, despite what he said was an exemplary record. Cox said he was told he was fired for ...
View ArticleMo. House offers constitutional amendment for child sex trials
Supporters say federal courts and many states allow that type of evidence. The Missouri Supreme Court previously has ruled it violates the state constitution. In January, a Missouri child sex abuse ...
View ArticlePolice release names in Olathe shooting
Sgt. Grant Allen of the Olathe Police Department told KMBC-TV that around 10:20 p.m. Tuesday police received a call of a shooting inside a house in the 15800 block of West 148th ...
View ArticleLawrence approves deal for Rock Chalk rec center
Lawrence city commissioners have approved agreements for a city-owned recreation center and tax abatements for a larger project that will include athletic facilities for the University of ...
View ArticleTown split as Mark Woodworth awaits 3rd murder trial
Balloons, flowers, hugs and a hero's welcome greeted Mark Woodworth when he walked out of jail on a cold Friday in February, free to return to his northern Missouri home for the first time in 13 ...
View ArticleUpdate1 killed 1 hurt in Overland Park crash
One person died and another was injured after a car and pickup truck collided Monday night near 103rd Street and Metcalf Avenue, Overland Park police ...
View ArticleUpdate Discarded cigarette blamed in Mission apartment fire
Chief Gary Lamons of Consolidated Fire District No. 2 says the fire started as the result of a discarded cigarette on an apartment deck. He said that's not uncommon, especially with dry weather ...
View ArticleDow closes at record high for 2nd day
The Dow Jones industrial average rose 0.3%, to end at a new record high of 14,296.39. The S&P 500 gained 0.1%. The S&P 500 is now only about 1.3% away from its record high, set in October ...
View Article2 killed in shooting at trail in Shawnee
SHAWNEE, Kan. - The bodies of two women fatally shot in the head were found on a trail in Shawnee, Kan., Wednesday afternoon. The women were found on the Millcreek Streamway Trail near 6040 Barker ...
View ArticleIs Missouri tracking personal info through drivers licenses gun permits
This Jan. 4, 2012, file photo shows legislators and lobbyists looking down in the rotunda of the Missouri Capitol building. Photo by Robert Cohen, ...
View ArticleKan. Supreme Court hears appeal in students death
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -- A defense attorney is asking the Kansas Supreme Court to order a new trial for a man convicted of raping and killing an El Dorado teenager who led a secret life as an Internet ...
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