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New judge sought in Kansas sperm donor case
The Topeka Capital-Journal reported that William Marotta's attorney filed a motion Friday asking Judge Mary E. Mattivi to disqualify herself from the case. The filing doesn't include a reason for the request, and state statute doesn't require Marotta to give one. Marotta says he signed a contract waiving his parental rights and responsibilities when he answered a sperm donor ad ...
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Gun measure nears passage in Kansas Legislature
A favorable Kansas House vote is all supporters need for final legislative approval of restrictions on the use of state tax dollars for promoting or opposing gun-control ...
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Fitch Releases Report on Overland Park KS
Slow Progress on GAAP and IFRS Convergence; Optionality for Impairments Increases Significant differences will remain between the GAAP and IFRS accounting standards in 2013, although cooperation and progress continues on some remaining joint projects, according to Fitch Ratings. The pipeline of new standards promises increasing commonality between the two platforms over coming years. Progress ...
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Missouri transportation tax backers consider other options
Supporters of a proposal to put a 1-cent sales tax designated to raise money for state transportation projects on the Missouri ballot are disappointed the measure did not make it out of the General Assembly on the final day of the 2013 legislative session. The bill, Senate Joint Resolution No. 16, passed Missouri's House and Senate during the session but did not win the Senate's final ...
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Tornadoes kill 2 more bad weather expected
Tornadoes destroyed homes and tossed trees around like toothpicks as powerful storms ripped through Oklahoma and the Midwest on Sunday and ...
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Sequestration hits long-term unemployment benefits in Missouri
Missourians currently receiving benefits through the federal Emergency Unemployment Compensation program will not receive benefits for the claim weeks ...
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Is it you 2 Missouri tickets worth $1M
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Two Missouri Powerball players were so close to picking all the winning numbers Saturday night that their tickets are worth $1 million each. One ticket was sold in St. Louis and the other in ...
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Regulators find BMO Harris lax on compliance
Bank regulators found BMO Harris Bank deficient in compliance with the Bank Secrecy Act and anti-money laundering regulations, placing the bank under a written agreement to improve the situation. The agreement stems from the Federal Reserve Bank's most recent examination of the Chicago branch of BMO Harris, which serves as the headquarters for the United States operation of the bank which is ...
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Its Clearwire Eve Sprint expected to raise bid price for merger
The wireless industry is watching Sprint Nextel Corp. for a higher bid on Clearwire Corp. before Tuesdays shareholder vote. Clearwire (Nasdaq: CLWR) shareholders vote at noon in Bellevue, Wash., on whether to accept or reject Sprints (NYSE: S) $2.2 billion acquisition offer. The vote comes as uncertainty around the deal is at a peak. Sprints bid, which offers $2.97 a share for stock that ...
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Girl saves grandpas church from storm
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. - Churchgoers in Independence rushed out of a service Sunday night just minutes before strong winds blew the roof off of the building and caused hundreds of thousands of dollars' worth of damage. And they all have a 12-year-old girl to thank. Gracie Ankrom heard about strong storms moving into the area and ran next door to her grandfather's church, Full Gospel ...
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Mo. county considers online visits with inmates
A southwest Missouri county's plans to provide videoconferencing for jail inmates in an effort to improve safety for everyone, the county sheriff ...
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Deuce Bello will transfer from Baylor to Missouri
Deuce Bello will transfer from Baylor to Missouri Former Baylor swingman Deuce Bello — once ranked by Rivals.com as the No. 54 player in the country — has decided to transfer to Mizzou. “I just feel like the coaching staff is good, and I’ve been cool with (associate coach) Tim (Fuller) for a while,” Bello said. “At Baylor, we played Mizzou three times and I ...
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Running for Congress keeps 2 Missouri lawmakers from voting
. oRepublican congressional candidate Jason Smith missed three-fifths of the Missouri House's votes before the final day of this year's legislative session, while his Democratic opponent, Steve Hodges, missed about one-fifth of the votes.Smith and Hodges, who both currently serve in the state House, are facing off in a June 4 special election to succeed U.S. Rep Jo Ann Emerson, who is ...
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DEG hires service delivery director to manage business flow
Digital Evolution Group LLC is seeing so much traffic, CEO Neal Sharma has had to create a completely new role within the company. Theres so much business flowing through Digital Evolution Group LLC's Corporate Woods office that the digital marketing company needed a traffic cop. Scott Miles is now filling that role as director of service delivery. DEG hired him from KANA, a software company ...
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Tornadoes wallop several states 2 killed
The death toll now stands at two after tornadoes swept through Oklahoma on Sunday, the state medical examiner's office said Monday. Both victims were elderly men from ...
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Another Missouri legislative session and still no action on early voting
Forty games in, approximately one-fourth of the way through the season, and the Royals are 20-20 after suffering a weekend sweep in Oakland. Lets get this out of the way: It was a brutal weekend. Three one-run losses after holding early leads in each game. The Royals open a three-game series tonight in Houston and need to take advantage of the struggling Astros. The quarter point in the season ...
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The Lede Video of the Damage Caused by Tornadoes in Oklahoma and Kansas
Raw footage of a tornado that killed one person and damaged more than 85 homes in Oklahoma, via KOCO-TV. More severe weather is expected on Monday in the central United States after a large storm spawned at least two dozen tornadoes across Oklahoma, Kansas, Iowa and Illinois on Sunday, according ...
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GSA requests downtown office lease proposals
It's pencil-sharpening time for the downtown Kansas City office building owners in the running to lease space for 1,000 federal workers. The General Services Administration has sent requests for lease proposals to landlords who have expressed interest in landing the huge lease deal, GSA Heartland Regional Administrator Jason Klumb said Friday. Responses are due June 7. "We expect to sign ...
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Cable-Dahmer beefs up repair capabilities
Cable-Dahmer Auto Group Inc. is betting heavily on its auto repair and body shop business to the tune of $2.2 million. That's how much the Independence-based company spent remodeling the former Broome Cadillac, located at 11911 E. U.S. Highway 40, to convert it into a new business called Auto Direct. The 18,000-square-foot collision center is an eco-friendly collision repair center that ...
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Raytown Walmart proposal has supporters too
The Raytown Plaza is located across Blue Ridge Boulevard from a proposed Walmart Neighborhood Market that will be debated during the May 21 meeting of the city's board of aldermen. Consideration of rezoning for a Walmart Neighborhood Market proposed for downtown Raytown is expected to attract dozens of opponents to the 7 p.m. meeting of the city's board of aldermen Tuesday at Raytown ...
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Chiefs WRs Improving under Coach Culley
The Kansas City Chiefs averaged 13.2 points per game in the 2012 season, while totaling just under 170 passing yards in each contest. Enter the new Kansas City Chiefs regime, including assistant head coach/wide receivers coach David Culley, who was hired by Chiefs head coach Andy Reid to prepare the wideouts for a much bigger and better season in 2013. Since the voluntary workouts, as well as ...
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CORRECTED-Severe Kansas tornado prompts stark National Weather Service warning
Mon May 20, 2013 10:06am EDT (Corrects lead of May 19 story to read "tornado," not "hurricane") By Chris Francescani NEW YORK May 19 (Reuters) - A dangerous, half mile-wide tornado struck near Oklahoma City Sunday afternoon, part of an extreme weather system moving through the central U.S. and stretching from north Texas to Minnesota. Earlier, a "large tornado" touched ...
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Buckner Sibley have low water pressure
BUCKNER, Mo. - Mayor Dan Hickson says he learned about 5:00 this morning that Buckner had a major water leak. Hickson says the town of just over 3,000 residents suffered some type of major water leak, but they don't yet know what happened. Sibley, a town of more than 300 residents a few miles north, also receives its water from Buckner. Mayor Hickson says there is some water in the tower, ...
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More storms expected after rash of tornadoes
And the destructive weather isn't over. Baseball-sized hail, wind gusts and tornadoes could pummel parts of the central Plains and Midwest through ...
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Powerful Storms Strike Parts of Iowa Oklahoma and Kansas
(Reuters) - A massive storm front swept north through the central United States on Sunday, hammering the region with fist-sized hail, blinding rain and tornadoes, including a half-mile wide twister that struck near Oklahoma City. News reports said at least one person had ...
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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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