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In the plains of central Kansas, tornadoes are so unremarkable that guests barely flinched as a barrel-racing bride wed her bull-riding groom with a twister dropping from the sky just miles away.
The Kansas City Council agreed unanimously Thursday to ask voters this summer to approve ballot measures that would address the city's neglected parks, streets and sewers.
JEFFERSON CITY | The Missouri House has spent more than $1,100 on a security camera to keep watch over a new bronze bust of conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh.
Ray County authorities have charged three persons in the death of a 40-year-old woman found in her Richmond residence early Wednesday.
Gardner man with past exotic pet problems is charged with trying to hire hit manThu, 24 May 2012 05:00 CDT
Johnson County prosecutors on Thursday accused a Gardner man of attempting to hire a hit man to kill his former wife. Rheuben Clifford Johnson III, 49, was charged in Johnson County District Court with solicitation to commit first-degree murder.
Many television screens tuned to KMBC-TV went blank shortly before 9 p.m. Thursday, apparently due to the weather.
Prowling around strangers' homes or loitering on their property will violate the law during the day as well as at night, the Kansas City Council decided Thursday.
The promotional material says the wearing of jeans projects authority, confidence and a willingness to live on the cutting edge. But when I read that, I do not find myself described.
"Follow the money" is a time-tested method of tracing malfeasance back to its origins. Corporate scams, insider trading or, as former presidential candidate John Edwards is learning, even sex scandals fall to such tracking.
KC doesn't need a downtown convention hotel Tony's Kansas City is frustrated that talk of a downtown convention hotel has resurfaced. ###Polls aren't good at predicting long-term results Axiom Strategies ...
Kansas' Republican attorney general will be allowed to participate in a redistricting lawsuit, three federal judges ruled Thursday, but only to weigh in on fees lawyers will seek after the ...
Blunt's surprising comments on health care Fired Up! Missouri is stunned to hear U.S. Sen
Citing family obligations and other commitments, Clay County Eastern Commissioner Katee Porter said that she has withdrawn her bid to be re-elected. Porter was seeking her second term on the ...
Imagine all the complexities of your job reduced to a single measuring point. Imagine your score displayed with the click of a mouse to anyone in the world. "I felt my heart stopping," said Alicia Herald, who spent two years as a teacher in Los Angeles.
A flood is also a disaster for taxpayers far from the Missouri River's banks. Public spending to prevent floods and to pay for their damage is extraordinarily tricky.
To label Hartzler a solid favorite in Missouri's 4th District would not be a stretch. And yet recent developments suggest Hensley has a shot.
Should apologies to injured patients be enough to keep malpractice cases off a doctor's record? A campaign has gotten under way to make that happen. And patient safety advocates are raising red flags.
A longtime restaurant in southeast Kansas City had never been robbed until this week, but the workers were ready to fight back.
LAWRENCE | A buyout offer from the University of Kansas has attracted interest from 149 university employees in Lawrence and Overland Park, with about a quarter of the applications coming from faculty, school officials said.
Sherry Love, a cook at the Kansas City Rescue Mission, makes a mean pot of soup, so it's a good thing the shelter's refrigerator is full of ham bones.
Johnson County Motor Vehicle Offices processed 28,814 transactions for the month as of Wednesday.
This weekend marks the unofficial start of summer.
A federal magistrate judge rejected on Thursday efforts by a Kansas military school to bar distribution of a mess hall video depicting a student pleading for help as an adult instructor tries to make him stand on two broken legs.
Missouri has black bears. Lots of them. In the last two years, 108 bears have been collared, weighed, measured, had their teeth pulled and hair snipped by resource scientists from the state's Department of Conservation. Just how many more are out there -- twice as many, three times? -- remains to be figured out.
Police in St. Joseph are praising three citizens who prevented a distraught woman from jumping off a heavily traveled bridge into the Missouri River.
A knife-wielding man suspected of breaking into a Kansas television station and fighting with employees had a court record and had been kicked out of at least two homeless shelters.
Lanagan's police chief and an officer have been suspended without pay following their indictment for writing citations on a nonexistent statute and altering an annual racial profiling report.
The buck stops here: Ex-newsboy finally paid bill said owed by Harry TrumanWed, 23 May 2012 05:00 CDT
Harry Truman paid off his last debt Wednesday. The former president -- actually, longtime Truman impersonator Niel Johnson -- handed $56.63 to Truman's former paperboy.
A two-alarm fire swept through a Kansas City, Kan., apartment building late Tuesday, injuring five people and displacing 20 residents. Firefighters pulled two of the injured people from their upper-floor apartment -- one critically hurt and the other seriously injured.
An Overland Park man accused of scamming investors last year with non-existent Facebook stock was on the lam Wednesday after failing to appear for two Kansas federal court hearings.
A Jackson County judge on Wednesday set a June hearing to hear lawyers discuss evidence questions in the misdemeanor case against Kansas City's Catholic bishop and the diocese he serves.
Authorities in Olathe have arrested a 49-year-old Gardner man for allegedly trying to hire someone to kill his former wife.
Marcus Heilderberg died because someone expecting an apology inside a nightclub did not get one, according to new details released by Kansas City police today.
A convicted bank robber who was freed from federal custody in March is again accused of robbing a bank.
A suspected drunken driver allegedly rear-ended and side-swiped three vehicles in Kansas City Tuesday night before a hit-and-run victim followed him and ended up shooting at him.
A knife-wielding man, apparently disgruntled with the federal Department of Veterans Affairs, broke into the WIBW television station Wednesday morning and stabbed two sales employees.
After years of feeling slighted, residents of the Hickman Mills/Longview area of southeast Kansas City have a public pool of their own.
For a true French driving experience head, tout de suite - or, right away -- to Interstate 435 and Front Street.
It's now up to about 600 downtown residents to decide whether Kansas City takes the next step in making streetcars a reality.
Freightquote, a fast-growing, online shipping provider in Lenexa, is seeking space to expand, and with more than 1,000 employees locally it could be the biggest prize yet in the cross-border economic war that's flared recently within the metropolitan area.
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Citing family obligations and other commitments, Clay County Eastern Commissioner Katee Porter said that she has withdrawn her bid to be re-elected.
A large campaign banner for a Republican gubernatorial candidate came down Wednesday at a fraternity at the University of Missouri-Columbia after a high-ranking staff member for Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon apparently raised concerns about whether the political sign was appropriate.
Economic gold rush? Or fiscal wreck? Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback took a grand gamble Tuesday with a monumental tax plan that he hopes will spur an economic revival and not an unparalleled budget crisis that leaves state services in ruins.
The U.N. atomic agency has found evidence at an underground bunker in Iran that could mean the country has moved closer to producing the uranium threshold needed to arm nuclear missiles, diplomats said Friday.
In a potential break in one of the nation's most baffling missing-children cases, a former convenience-store employee has told police that he suffocated 6-year-old Etan Patz in 1979 and left the boy's body in a box in an alley, law enforcement officials said Thursday.
A nationwide sex trafficking ring run by a violent pimp and his associates used Backpage.com to solicit customers for prostitutes as young as age 17, advertising the women as "smok
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Kansas' Republican attorney general will be allowed to participate in a redistricting lawsuit, three federal judges ruled Thursday, but only to weigh in on fees lawyers will seek after the case ends.
Sporting Kansas City defender Chance Myers was at the Kansas Sampler store in Mission on Wednesday for an autograph session.
Meet Taffy, a playful and bright Lab mix who likes to play with toys. Find out more about Taffy and other pets in need of good homes in our gallery.
Fans of the arena rockers Van Halen and R&B/funk band Kool & The Gang showed up in droves at the Sprint Center for this Tuesday night concert.
This annual Kansas City food and drink festival was Sunday in the Power & Light District with
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more than 20 restaurants offering samples. In addition, six chefs competed Iron Chef-style for the Gold Fork, with Chef Charles D'Ablaing of the Raphael Hotel taking the prize.
The Dead Girl Derby teams held its fourth match of the season Sunday evening at River Roll Skate Center. At halftime, there was a derby-style wedding for skater Ida Watchit and her fan man Yoshi.
The Independence Police Department traffic safety unit will conduct a sobriety checkpoint and saturation patrol on Friday.
A priceless journey: Friend's birthday poem turned into a children's storybook to help those dealing with cancerWed, 23 May 2012 05:00 CDT
It began as a birthday present--a poem written by Laura Myer for her good friend Lori Lober, who at one time had been given only a 2 to 3 percent chance of living five years.
One thing stood between the lad and eighth grade. Some may call it a time-honored tradition or a rite of passage, but he knew that he must master it to achieve greatness.
When most of the interchange construction was finished where Interstate 70 meets Interstate 435 near the sports complex, south Kansas City resident John Kiesendahl wondered why some overhead lights were slow to come on.
If you look closely, you're likely to see wildlife in the lush expanse of Kansas City's Penn Valley Park. Then there are the sitting ducks.
Firefighters late Tuesday night were battling a fire in Kansas City, Kan..
A New Jersey man who confessed to choking a 6-year-old New York City boy to death in 1979 was arrested on a murder charge on Thursday, police said, the first arrest in a case that helped give rise to the nation's missing-children movement.
The Muslim Brotherhood has quickly staked a claim for its candidate to advance to a runoff vote, saying its exit polls showed him leading in Egypt's landmark presidential election to succeed ousted leader Hosni Mubarak.
