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LL Cool J stopped in Kansas City on his way to St. Louis this week, but not because he wanted to.

After hearing two gunshots coming from her family’s kitchen, an 18-year-old found her mother dead on the floor and her father sitting next to her smoking a cigarette, court records say.
Remember the army of volunteers that pushed Barack Obama to November victory? Like a faint cry from Whoville, Debbie Colozza is calling for their re-emergence.
Mayor Mark Funkhouser’s proposed education summit was still breathing Wednesday despite a letter from a group of school districts suggesting that it wanted no part of the event as planned.
A former Kansas City man already imprisoned for murdering a Lenexa teenager has been indicted by a Clay County grand jury in the 1990 stabbing death of another woman.
Prosecutors on Wednesday charged Justin D. Parker, 35, of Kansas City, with two counts of driving while intoxicated, two counts of stealing a vehicle and one count of resisting arrest after he allegedly stole an ambulance Monday.
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A former aide to Mayor Mark Funkhouser says in a court filing that he investigated the personal finances of the co-worker who filed a discrimination complaint against the mayor. Then he and two others in the mayor’s office — including the mayor’s wife, Gloria Squitiro — attempted to distribute the information in the media.
The City Council’s Finance and Audit Committee on Wednesday indefinitely postponed a contract with a Westport group that wants to bring an amusement trolley service back to Kansas City.
Who: Maria Hubertina Van Loo Eklund Independence Age: 80

Schlitterbahn Vacation Village is now officially open for business. About 3:30 p.m. today, at least 10 anxious guests had already turned out to take a ride on the slides.
One man died and another suffered serious injuries in a dispute Tuesday night that led to a shooting in Kansas City.

A man doubled his trouble Monday night when he tried to dodge a DUI charge by stealing an ambulance from a Kansas City hospital.
Children are invited to view owls and other birds during a special program at 3 p.m. Thursday at Wonderscope Children’s Museum of Kansas City.
When things aren’t right in their schools, the students know it. They know the good teachers and counselors from the bad, Kansas City students told new superintendent John Covington on Monday.
A fifth-generation farmer and Democratic state lawmaker will be Kansas’ next secretary of agriculture, Gov. Mark Parkinson announced Tuesday.
The release of Gloria Squitiro’s diary certainly won’t help her husband’s already badly weakened administration. But, there’s not much political capital left to lose, anyway.
As murder suspect Gevante Anderson was led from a crowded courtroom Monday, a man sitting in an aisle seat tried to talk to him. But detectives kept Anderson moving.
A North Kansas City man has been charged with victim tampering for allegedly trying to persuade a person not to testify against his son, who is accused of stabbing two people.
Nebraska Furniture Mart and the Unified Government exchanged heated words Tuesday, a day after the government’s top administrator took Wyandotte County’s largest retailer to task for not paying taxes.