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Missouri Baptist University student charged with setting car fires at campuses in Creve Coeur
o A Missouri Baptist University student and former missionary has been charged with setting four parked cars on fire on and near campus earlier this month.Andrew Wos, 21, of the 5200 block of Sunflower Drive in Eureka was charged today with four counts of knowingly burning or exploding after Creve Coeur police say he set four cars ablaze on two parking lots at the university on May 1.Two cars ...
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Local school How to move on after storm
GLADSTONE, Mo. - Suzanne McCanles is Head of School at Oakhill Day School in Gladstone, Mo. Five years ago, a tornado damaged the school overnight. No one was in the building when the twister struck, so there was no loss of life. When she looks at the tornado damage at Plaza Towers Elementary School in Moore, Okla., she says she's heartbroken and realizes once again how grateful she is that ...
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Would-be pipe bomber gets 37-year sentence
An Iowa letter carrier was sentenced to 37 years in prison Tuesday for sending dud pipe bombs with letters signed "The Bishop" in an odd but potentially deadly bid to drive up the value of shares he ...
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2 new lawsuits filed over priest sex abuse
Plaintiff's attorney Rebecca Randles says the latest suits bring the total number of cases filed over the Rev. Shawn Ratigan's conduct to seven. Ratigan pleaded guilty in August to producing child pornography after police learned of hundreds of images of children, most of them clothed, with the focus on their crotch areas. Ratigan's case led Bishop Robert Finn to be charged with ...
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Nixon mulls future of Missouri tax cut bill
KMBC 9's Micheal Mahoney said the measure, in many respects, is Missouri's answer to tax cuts enacted in Kansas. Those tax cuts have been credited with luring businesses across the state ...
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Kansas Senate GOP leaders propose compromise tax plan
As an affordable getaway, Travel + Leisure magazine said Kansas City is one of the few cities where hotel prices have stayed the same or even dropped in the past year. According to Kayak.com, the aveage summer rate here is $137 a ...
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Kansas City Zoo will open early all summer
A monstrous tornado at least a half-mile wide roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds up to 200 ...
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Four FC Kansas City players selected to national team
Huge tornado devastates Oklahoma City suburb, killing dozens A monstrous tornado at least a half-mile wide roared through the Oklahoma City suburbs Monday, flattening entire neighborhoods and destroying an elementary school with a direct blow as children and teachers huddled against winds up to 200 ...
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2013 5150 Kansas Triathlon sprint course results
triathlon course with the swim in Clinton Lake, the bike portion on the rural roads around the lake and the run on the campground roads within the ...
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Weather service Okla. Tornado was EF5
Search and rescue crews with dogs went through smashed houses and crushed cars on Tuesday, looking for signs of life in the aftermath of the monster tornado that pulverized a vast swath of Oklahoma City's ...
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Crews told food covered prayers needed
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Two Representatives from the Kansas City chapter of the Salvation Army are headed to help with tornado relief in Oklahoma. They left in a small SUV carrying only one cooler with cool drinks, compressors, batteries, flashlights and other essentials. Oklahoma officials told the Salvation Army they didn't need food and supplies just yet, but they are in need of emotional ...
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Deadly twister a top-of-the-scale EF-5
MOORE, Okla. (AP) - The National Weather Service says the tornado that hit Moore, Okla., was a top-of-the-scale EF-5 twister with winds of at least 200 ...
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KC residents can help with Oklahoma relief effort
John Miller was one of the Salvation Army volunteers who left for Oklahoma hours after the storm struck. He said even after helping in the relief efforts after tornadoes in Greensburg, Kan., and Joplin, Mo., he said there's no way he'll ever be ...
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Helmet 2 Helmet My First Road Trip Experience
My first experience traveling with the Kansas City Chiefs into the local community was to the Army post at Ft. Leavenworth, Kansas. I was accompanied by Chiefs players, ...
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Appeals court restores malpractice suit against Husch Blackwell
The Husch Blackwell LLP headquarters is near the Country Club Plaza. An appeals court ruling Tuesday allowed a legal malpractice lawsuit against Husch Blackwell LLP to go forward. The dispute dates to 2001, when MTW Corp., a software company formerly based in Mission Woods, sold to a British company for $85 million. Brian Nail, who had been MTWs CFO, sought advice from attorneys at what was then ...
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Power of Moore tornado Hiroshima bomb
WASHINGTON (AP) - Wind, humidity and rainfall combined precisely to create the massive killer tornado in Moore, Okla. And when they did, the awesome amount of energy released over that city dwarfed the power of the atomic bomb that leveled Hiroshima. Meteorologists contacted by The Associated Press used real time measurements to calculate the energy released during the storm's life span of ...
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Mo. juvenile life sentences still in flux
Prison sentences for Missouri juveniles convicted of first-degree murder remain uncertain because lawmakers did not pass a new sentencing scheme before ...
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Boy 4 left on day cares van investigation underway
The center's officials said that there was a commotion on the van; children arguing over a toy. By the time the other children were inside the center, the 4-year-old was left behind, perhaps ...
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Tea party activists rally at KC IRS building
About 30 tea party activists are rallying outside the IRS building in Kansas City to express outrage that the agency singled out conservative political groups for additional ...
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Nixon to continue seeking Medicaid expansion
The Democratic governor campaigned throughout this year's legislative session to increase Medicaid eligibility for lower-income adults as called for under the federal health care law. Nixon's proposal would have tapped more than $900 million in federal funds to cover about 260,000 adults. But the Republican-led Legislature repeatedly rejected the plan, citing concerns about the ...
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Man charged with assaulting confining girlfriend
According to court documents, on or between May 16 to May 19, Coleman assaulted his girlfriend by hitting her with a belt and tried to choke her with it. Investigators also alleged that Coleman used a methamphetamine pipe and burned his girlfriend. Authorities said the woman was restrained with handcuffs and at one point, had a .38-caliber revolver put in her ...
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Sprints new Clearwire bid could help KC local wireless official says
Curtis Holland Sprint Nextel Corp. raising its bid price for Clearwire Corp. at the last minute on Tuesday bodes well for Kansas City, a former president of the Mokan Wireless Association said. Dish Network Corp.s competing bids for Clearwire Corp. (Nasdaq: CLWR) and Sprint (NYSE: S) have some locals concerned that the wireless carriers Overland Park headquarters could be threatened, Overland ...
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Commercial construction remains sluggish in first quarter
Commercial construction activity declined by 1.1 percent during the first quarter of 2013, but was 7 percent stronger than the first quarter of the previous year, according to an analysis of industry data from the Associated Builders and Contractors Inc. The contractors organization's chief economist, Anirban Basu, said in a release that the sporadic recovery in the industry is being held ...
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Dish Sprint-SoftBank deal threatens national security
Dish Network Corp. played up a Sprint Nextel Corp. suitors ties to China as new plot points unfolded Tuesday in the Sprint-Dish-SoftBank Corp.-Clearwire Corp. drama. A Tuesday filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission showed text from an anti-SoftBank-Sprint merger website paid for by Dish (Nasdaq: DISH), NationalSecurityMatters.com. On the site, Dish provides its take on SoftBanks ...
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Plenty of reasons to Fill the Fridge
People poured into Price chopper Tuesday in Shawnee to donate entire carts of food for the 41 Action News Fill the Fridge perishable food drive. There were all kinds of people that decided to donate Tuesday, and many donated for different reasons. Betty Sims says when she grew up, her family struggled to put food on the table. "It was import to donate because as a child, there were days I ...
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Kansas City women focus on micro-finance
Kansas City women are trying to make an impact in the world by teaming up with micro-finance providers for people living in poverty.
All too often charitable causes and organisations looking for funding focus on symptomatic poverty, responding to the causes of poverty worldwide in a similar manner to a doctor giving a patient painkillers for a cancer tumor instead of removing the tumor. We donate so that children in poverty around the world can get food, education, clothing, medicines and various other basic needs. But it doesn’t solve the problem of why they’re in poverty in the first place. Read more
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