Floodwaters that bedeviled Iowans for the past week have flowed out of the state and are now threatening Mississippi Rivers towns in Illinois and Missouri.
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The Kansas City School Board too often has members who see themselves as “superheroes” who must single-handedly rescue the district. That’s the candid view of interim Superintendent John Martin.
Kansas City police arrested a partially naked man covered in baby oil Monday after he allegedly exposed himself to a woman outside a day-care center.
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Shakespeare’s classic play of “one that lov’d not wisely but too well” takes center stage in Kansas City. The Heart of America Shakespeare Festival on Tuesday night kicked off its production of “Othello.” Damon Gupton plays the lead.
The Rockhurst-Blue Springs South high school football game — the season opener for both teams — will be televised on ESPN.
A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled that the trial judge did not abuse her discretion when she sentenced David Wittig to 24 months in prison on bank fraud, money laundering and conspiracy charges.
Michelle Obama and Cindy McCain are not running for president, but some days you’d never know it. In the world of politics, potential first ladies are targets, too.
Paul Pierce, who played for the Jayhawks from 1995 to 1998, scored 17 points as the Boston Celtics beat the Los Angeles Lakers, 131-92, and won their first NBA title since 1986.
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David DeJesus’ RBI single in the fifth tied the game and Mike Aviles, a recent call-up from Class AAA Omaha, homered in the eighth to give the Royals the victory.
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After the farm's entire crop was lost in 2007 because of an April freeze, fans of fresh fruit came out in force Tuesday to the Berry Patch in Cleveland, Mo., to pick blueberries on the first day of the 2008 “you-picking” season.
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By district and school, both public and private: Results of state testing mandated by federal law, including demographic information, profiles and more.
If “Crash” had been made by a magic realist, it might resemble this multi-character film about relations between mothers and children.
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