Google Fiber is starting its second round of “rallies” to sign up prospective customers in northern and southern Kansas City and in Raytown, Grandview and Gladstone. The process will determine which neighborhoods ultimately get the ultra-fast Internet and TV service. The company says it will complete installations by year’s end.
There was some speculation going into Monday night’s “Bachelor” finale that Juan Pablo Galavis was the most hated bachelor of all time. Let that speculation now be put to rest. He is. KC's own Nikki Ferrell had to settle only for the final rose – no marriage proposal or declaration of love. And that’s all she really wanted, she said. She just wanted to hear those three little words. Instead, he said, "I like you a lot, a lot.”
Kansas coach Bill Self ruled Joel Embiid out of the Big 12 Tournament this week because of a stress fracture in his back. Embiid is also unlikely to play in the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament.
While the Chiefs are apparently in wait-and-see mode before NFL free agency begins Tuesday, it appears a few of their players who keyed last season’s playoff run won’t be back in 2014: namely Dexter McCluster and Branden Albert. The Chiefs — who will have about $9.62 million in salary cap space — will probably shop for bargains during the first phase of free agency.
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Paralympic Games begin over the weekend in Sochi
SXSW: Justin Bieber, Edward Snowden, Ethan Hawke, Mike Myers, Nicholas Cage,
Entertainment Lorde, Paris Hilton, Prince Harry, Alex Hepburn, Red Carpet Canada
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Undefeated Wichita State wins Missouri Valley Conference championship
25 Under 25 awards banquet
West Bottoms Warehouse Weekend: Saturday
Gala of the Royal Horses attendees
Leprechaun Lane 5K/10K
First Friday in the West Bottoms
2014 KC Gem & Mineral Show
Greater KC Int'l Auto Show
Network After Work: March 6
Sporting KC Takeoff
Beads, Beans & Beer
Johnson County Home & Garden Show
Hotel & Lodging Association Recognition Dinner
Kansas City officials hope that a bill in the Missouri House will, if passed, allow police to again ticket drivers for running red lights at intersections equipped with surveillance cameras. The city has suspended enforcement of its red-light cameras after court rulings questioned the program’s legality.
The Missouri Democrat brings a “House of Cards” plot line to the Senate floor on the military sexual assault bill.
Kansas City holds onto federal agencies and jobs leaving the obsolete Bannister Federal Complex in south Kansas City thanks to cooperative lobbying by government officials and civic leaders.
A newspaper report says the attorney for a man whose conviction in a Missouri sports editor’s slaying was overturned has filed a civil rights lawsuit in her client’s name.
The Senate overwhelmingly approved a bill late Monday making big changes in the military justice system to deal with sexual assault, including scrapping the nearly century-old practice of using a "good soldier defense" to raise doubts that a crime has been committed.
It has taken 10 years for a concept hatched by UMKC professor Reza Derakhshani to be developed into a viable commercial product sold by a company headed by entrepreneur Toby Rush. In the last few months, EyeVerify has won awards for innovation and marketability of its password-replacement invention for smartphone cameras.
Royals manager Ned Yost indicated his level of concern was “none” after catcher Salvador Perez took a foul tip off his hand. He only suffered a bruise. Still, any injury involving Perez is a cause for at least a small bit of worry. He is likely the most irreplaceable player on this club, a 23-year-old with burgeoning offensive skills and a Gold Glove already on his resume.
City Market’s new The Bite offers gourmet sandwiches, gluten-free build-your-own-tamales and gourmet ice cream sandwiches. St. Louis-based Kaldi’s Coffee taking over area Lattelands.
In an age when people assume that any bit of information is just a click away, the thought that a jetliner could simply disappear over the ocean for more than two days is staggering. But Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 is hardly the first reminder of how big the seas are, and of how agonizing it can be to try to find something lost in them. It took two years to find the main wreckage of an Air France jet that plunged into the Atlantic Ocean in 2009.
Democratic senators clocked an all-nighter, working in shifts into Tuesday morning to warn of the devastation from climate change and the danger of inaction.
Conflicting and sometimes inappropriate agendas have long hampered efforts to help struggling schools in Missouri. The task now is for the Board of Education and the legislature to draw clear lines of jurisdiction and mutually embrace policies that will help public schools and their students.
Martha Baird, a 61-year-old psychiatric nurse from Leawood, works in Kansas City’s Sudanese refugee community to heal mental health issues among the women. She wants to see “lay counselors” emerge from within the community and build a network of women helping women to live healthy.
Oprah wants Lindsay Lohan to win. I do, too. But as I watched Sunday’s debut of the eight-episode series documenting Lindsay Lohan’s recovery, I felt sad. And guilty. Reality TV probably isn’t the best idea for someone fresh out of rehab.
