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JEFFERSON CITY | Democratic Senate candidate Robin Carnahan says she is both excited and concerned about House-passed legislation that would overhaul the nation’s health care system. But Carnahan, who is Missouri’s secretary of state, declined to specifically say Tuesday whether she supported the bill.
KSHB meteorologist Gary Lezak says the pleasant weather will continue at least through the weekend. No big storms are showing up yet. Wednesday will be mostly sunny with a high of 60.
If you wanted evidence that Kansas City is the 20th-most-dangerous metro area for pedestrians, look no further than results from a crackdown in crosswalk enforcement. Police today reported that they handed out 122 tickets to drivers who failed to yield to pedestrians and 11 tickets for other traffic violations.
A Kansas City woman has been charged with murdering her live-in partner Sunday night after the partner said she wanted to end their relationship. Blanche L. Johnson, 38, was in the victim’s van in the 6600 block of South Benton Avenue when the victim, 38-year-old Yolanda Walker, said she wanted to break up, court documents say. Johnson then told Walker she “had something for her,” pulled a handgun and shot her twice in the chest, the documents say.
TOPEKA | The state’s 10-member Board of Education will get an update on the declining Kansas revenue picture and the prospect for further cuts for Kansas schools. The board’s meeting Tuesday is the first since a group of economists and policymakers slashed the Kansas revenue outlook by $235 million for the remainder of the fiscal year, which ends June 30, 2010.
A group of Missouri death row inmates on Tuesday lost an appeal that had temporarily halted executions in the state. Though the ruling by the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals moves the state closer to once again scheduling executions, it could be several more months before the ruling is considered final.
KSHB meteorologist Brett Anthony says the cloudy skies will give way to sunshine Tuesday afternoon. The high will reach 63. Expect northeast winds at 5 to 10 mph.
480,129. That’s the new official population of Kansas City, City Manager Wayne Cauthen announced today.
A construction accident Tuesday at the future home of the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts killed one man and critically injured another. A portable boom lift toppled over about 1:45 p.m. just north of the building under construction at 16th Street and Broadway.
A mother cradling a newborn and holding a toddler’s hand suffered minor burns this morning as she rushed her children out of an apartment engulfed in flames. The mother suffered burns to her neck and back as she tried to protect her children from the heat of the blaze as she bolted through the flames.
At least 20 cars, if not more, were vandalized overnight in Overland Park by someone or some people who spray painted the vehicles. Police started receiving reports of the vandalism about 1 a.m. and were still taking reports about 7:30 as people discovered the damage, according to Jim Weaver, an Overland Park police spokesman.
The Kansas City School District will take extra security measures today at Central High School, a day after a large fight broke out at the school and four people were shot in an off-campus disturbance. Extra school district administrators and security will be at Central High School, said Andrew Riley, district spokesman. Police plan additional patrols around the school.
A man was shot in a neighborhood east of Rockhurst University early this evening. The shooting was reported about 5:40 p.m. near 54th Street and Michigan Avenue. Police found a man in his 20s inside a vehicle with a life-threatening gunshot wound. Witnesses told police that he was shot after a fight with the shooter.
Jefferson City police on Tuesday surrounded an office building near the Missouri governor’s mansion after a report of a disturbance initially believed to be a hostage situation. The situation has been resolved, and police say no hostages were taken.
Three teenage girls and one man were shot after a group argument in Kansas City this evening. A group of 10 to 20 teens were arguing in the street in the 4500 block of Prospect around 4:45 p.m., when one of the men in the group began shooting, according to officer Darin Snapp of the Kansas City Police Department.
MULLINVILLE, Kan. | A southern Kansas man has been charged with killing his wife.
Olathe police have identified a suspect in an aggravated robbery that was reported Saturday night and is a “person of interest” in two other cases now under investigation.
The Kansas City Star, beginning today, will be one of the printers of the Midwest edition of The Wall Street Journal. The edition will be delivered to Kansas and Missouri residents.
MANHATTAN, Kan. | Capital murder charges have been filed against a former Riley County man accused of killing a woman and her toddler son whose remains were found in a shallow grave. Kansas Attorney General Steve Six on Monday charged 22-year-old Luis Antonio Aguirre in the Sept. 19 deaths of 18-year-old Tanya Carmen Lydia Maldonado and her 1-year-old son Juan.
JEFFERSON CITY | Missouri Attorney General Chris Koster has filed two lawsuits accusing businesses of allowing sewage to be dumped into the Lake of the Ozarks. One lawsuit alleges that Sunset Palms and Royale Palms condominiums discharged polluted wastewater into the sprawling mid-Missouri lake. The other accuses Shady Gators restaurant and bar of discharging partially treated wastewater and not filing reports with the Department of Natural Resources.
Firefighters had to rescue residents of a third-story apartment after a fire broke out in a basement storage unit of a Gladstone apartment building. The fire was reported shortly after 9:15 a.m. Monday in an apartment building at 2705 Kendallwood Parkway.
Kansas City police today identified a 38-year-old woman found shot to death in her van last night as Yolanda M. Walker of Kansas City. Officers found Walker slumped over the steering wheel about 10:05 p.m. in the 6600 block of South Benton. The van was parked in the middle of the street with its headlights on and the engine off.
KSHB meteorologist Gary Lezak says scattered showers and thunderstorms are likely Monday night with clouds lingering Tuesday. The rest of the workweek looks nice before our next storm may arrive for the weekend.
Clay County prosecutors have charged a Shawnee man in connection with an attempted rape in a parking garage at the Ameristar Casino last week. Manoxay J. Salivanh, 37, allegedly followed a 23-year-old woman from the casino at 8201 N.E. Birmingham Road into a parking garage elevator and later a stairwell, where he allegedly attacked her.
Kansas City police arrested a Central High School student after he allegedly hit a security guard during a melee this afternoon. A large fight erupted about 1:05 p.m. at the school at 3221 Indiana Avenue. Security guards used pepper spray to break it up. That’s when a juvenile hit a guard, police said.
Shawnee Mission park officials reported today that 313 deer were killed by volunteer sharpshooters last week.
WICHITA | Larry Williams expected to wait 10 years to see the death sentence carried out for his daughter’s killer. Now, 13 years later, Williams said he may have to wait another decade before Gary Kleypas exhausts his appeals. Lawyers understand the need for such scrutiny in death penalty cases, but others like Williams wonder whether the execution chamber in Lansing will ever be used.
CARTHAGE, Mo. | The reaction was dramatic after state officials learned that bacteria levels at Lake of the Ozarks made beaches there unsafe for swimming over the Memorial Day weekend. True, much of the response stemmed from the fact that the information was withheld until July by state officials, some of whom may have believed that the revelation would hurt business at the lake during the first holiday of the summer.
JEFFERSON CITY | Dozens of Missouri communities will get $266 million for wastewater and drinking water improvements. The money for the projects is to be split, with $146 million coming from the federal stimulus and $120 million from the state. Gov. Jay Nixon announced the construction plan Monday. Nixon, a Democrat, said it will improve important infrastructure and put people back to work.
The Border War football game between Missouri and Kansas has drawn the 2:30 kickoff slot and will be telecast by ABC from Arrowhead Stadium in Kansas City on Nov. 28.
Defiant and unapologetic, Scott Roeder confessed Monday to the slaying of Wichita abortion provider George Tiller, telling The Associated Press that he killed the doctor to protect unborn children.
The Kansas City area is the most dangerous place for pedestrians in either Kansas or Missouri, according to a new report out today. The report – by the Surface Transportation Policy Partnership and Transportation for America – showed Kansas City with the highest pedestrian danger index of any major metropolis in either state.
FORT RILEY, Kan. | The Army’s 1st Infantry Division at Fort Riley says another soldier from the Kansas post has died in Iraq. Spc. Tony Carrasco Jr., a 25-year-old soldier from Berino, N.M., died Wednesday when his unit was attacked by insurgents while providing security in Ad Dawr, Iraq.
A man who followed a prostitute to her apartment Sunday night thought he was going to pay $40 in exchange for sex. Instead, the prostitute and her gun-toting pimp robbed him of $360 and his car, Kansas City police said. The victim said he met the prostitute about 8 p.m. on Independence Avenue near Brooklyn Avenue. He drove her to a parking lot near Independence and Tracy Avenue, and they walked into an apartment.
TOPEKA | Another round of litigation over Kansas school funding could take place soon as school districts consider their options. Thirty-six school districts have joined Schools for Fair Funding, the nonprofit coalition that started the lawsuit in 1999 to increase school funding. Those districts have nearly 130,000 students, which is almost a third of all students in Kansas.
HOLCOMB, Kan. | It’s one of America’s most haunting crime stories: four members of a Kansas family brutally murdered on Nov. 15, 1959, at their rural farmhouse. The slayings of the Clutters — chronicled in Truman Capote’s book, “In Cold Blood” — have overshadowed the town of Holcomb for the past half century and the trial and execution of the culprits has brought little, if any, closure.
Kansas City police are investigating the fatal shooting of a woman late Sunday. Police responded to calls of shots fired about 10 p.m. in the 600 block of South Benton. When they arrived, they found a woman who had been shot to death in a vehicle stopped in the middle of the roadway. Police arrested a person at the scene.
A 20-year-old Excelsior Springs man was killed when he was ejected from a car that deputies were trying to stop Sunday night. The man was identified as Stephen R. Harris.
Two crashes along northbound Interstate 435 on the Kansas City area’s East Side forced the closure of some lanes of the highway, delaying commuters this morning. There were reports of injuries, but they were believed to be minor.
Authorities are looking for a woman feared to have been taken from her rural Atchison County home.
Oregon police say a shooting at drug-testing facility in a suburban Portland office park has left two people dead and two others wounded. Police say the apparent shooter was among those killed, apparently from a self-inflected gunshot wound. A woman who was killed was not identified.
The White House says President Barack Obama has narrowed down his decision for an Afghanistan strategy to four options.
Police surrounded an office building near the governor's mansion on Tuesday after a report of a disturbance initially believed to be a hostage situation. But they said there was no confirmation of hostages taken.
President Barack Obama is blaming "twisted logic" for the killing of 13 men and women at Fort Hood, and says there is no faith that justifies acts he describes as "murderous and craven."
Several soldiers wounded in last week's shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas, have made their way onto a stage in front of thousands gathered for a military memorial service.
U.S. officials say a Pentagon worker on a terrorism task force looked into Fort Hood shooting suspect Nidal Hasan's background months ago, and concluded he did not merit further investigation.
Former New York City police Commissioner Bernard Kerik can get out of jail for the holidays, a federal court ruled Tuesday.
One by one, President Barack Obama spoke the names and told the stories Tuesday of the 13 people slain in the Fort Hood shooting rampage, honoring their memories as he denounced the "twisted logic" that led to their deaths.
The Obama administration will nominate a young former executive with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to run America's top foreign assistance program, ending months of speculation and complaints about who would take the vacant post, U.S. officials said Tuesday.
President Barack Obama is remembering the 13 men and women who died in the shooting at the U.S. Army post at Fort Hood, Texas.
A South Carolina mother fruitlessly tried to shield her 20-month-old toddler from a barrage of bullets in a drive-by shooting that killed the baby and two adults and injured at least five others, relatives said Tuesday.
Police in Kansas City, Mo., say one worker has died following a crane accident at the construction site of a performing arts center.
Former Miss California USA Carrie Prejean calls a sex tape she made for an ex-boyfriend several years ago "the biggest mistake of my life."
Los Angeles County has given moonwalker Buzz Aldrin a new title: Honorary consul general to the moon.
A look at key issues in the health care debate:
A Pennsylvania man has pleaded guilty to accidentally starting a fire that killed his bedridden mother by using a lighter to get a cat to come out of hiding.
The White House on Tuesday shuffled its communications team, with Anita Dunn stepping down as expected and her deputy taking over day-to-day management of President Barack Obama's vaunted messaging machine.
The Associated Press-GfK Poll on President Obama and the direction of the country was conducted by GfK Roper Public Affairs & Media from Nov. 5-9, 2009. It is based on landline and cell phone telephone interviews with a nationally representative random sample of 1,006 adults. Interviews were conducted with 806 respondents on landline telephones and 200 on cellular phones.
A Republican upstate New York lawmaker has resigned from her state legislative leadership position more than a week after pulling out of a special congressional election and endorsing a Democrat in the race.
A federal appeals court has rejected a lawsuit challenging the training and competence of Missouri's execution team in a decision likely to move the state closer to resuming executions.
The driver and the child in her lap survived when a pickup truck slammed into a 1,500-gallon aquarium at Tampa International Airport. The tropical fish were not so lucky. Airport officials said 36-year-old Yamile Campuzano-Martine lost control of her truck and drove into the saltwater tank outside the American Airlines baggage claim Monday night. Airport spokeswoman Brenda Geoghagan said the driver had an unrestrained 6-year-old boy in her lap.
In a Nov. 6 story about the tactics of gay marriage opponents, The Associated Press reported erroneously that gay marriage foes had won 31 consecutive statewide ballot measures against the issue. While 31 states have indeed voted down gay marriage, it was not an unbroken string of defeats. Arizona voters in 2006 rejected a proposal to ban same-sex marriage. They reversed course and adopted a ban two years later.
A report by California Attorney General Jerry Brown's office says a spokesman secretly recorded phone calls with five reporters, even though he was explicitly warned not to do so.
The United States accused Iran Tuesday of violating a U.N. arms embargo by secretly sending weapons to Syria in a cargo ship seized by Israel, a U.S. official said.
The only Republican in the House to vote for a Democrat-backed health care bill says he has had two fundraisers canceled since Saturday's vote and some campaign contributors have asked for their money back.
Prosecutors claimed in court Tuesday that Northwestern University journalism students paid two witness in order to make their case that an innocent man was wrongly convicted of murder.
White House pastry chef Bill Yosses' light, flaky pie crusts have earned him the nickname "The Crustmaster" from President Barack Obama. His trick to making fruit pies worthy of a president is to bake the bottom crust first, then fill and top the pie and bake it again.
A Colorado man convicted in the disappearance and presumed death of his daughter has been sentenced to 106 years behind bars.
Texas authorities are trying to figure out how a 16-year-old may have gotten a loaded handgun past officers at a juvenile detention center in Houston.
A three-alarm fire has been reported at an Oregon elementary school.
Tropical Storm Ida blew ashore with rain and gusty but weakening winds before dawn Tuesday as weather-hardened Gulf Coast residents rode out the rare late-season storm.
A New Jersey man detained for months in Ethiopia on allegations of supporting Islamic militants is suing the FBI agents involved in his interrogations.
A 42-year-old man sneaked a disassembled shotgun into a middle school just after classes began Tuesday, put it together in a bathroom, then held the principal hostage for more than two hours before surrendering without firing a shot, police said.
A state trooper in northwest Ohio who was honored by Mothers Against Drunk Driving in 1997 for the number of drunken-driving arrests he made has been charged with drunken driving.
Oklahoma City police say a fire that swept through a home where four people were found dead was intentional.
