The Royals, a baseball team-turned-freight train, were cruising to a 10-5 blowout over the Tampa Bay Rays, rolling to a fifth straight win and a sixth straight series victory when rookie left fielder Brett Eibner went down with a sprained left ankle in the fifth inning. Even if the Royals dodge another serious injury, the moment offered another scare in an otherwise dominating victory.
The Kansas City Public Schools is working on a challenging repurposing program to find new uses for closed school buildings. Options include selling them to developers to adapt to housing or commercial use. Other buildings need to be demolished because of disrepair and vandalism. The vacant inventory is in flux based on district enrollment and future predictions.
Zoo director Randy Wisthoff said a trained team of employees at the has the firepower and the instruction to use it if a situation ever arose like the one in Cincinnati when zookeepers shot and killed a gorilla after a small boy fell into an enclosure. Patrons remain sympathetic to both sides of the situation.
Madeleine PtacinKansas City Star
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At the Kansas City Zoo, human life comes first
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Ned Yost says Royals leading All-Star balloting deserve to be there
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Small garden has produced 40,000 pounds of food
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Chiefs rookie outside lineman Parker Ehinger gets practice time with starters
