News Nikita, one of Kansas City Zoo’s two polar bears, is ill The male polar bear at the Kansas City Zoo is off exhibit and is being treated with gastrointestinal medication, officials said Tuesday. Nikita is also being fed a diet of boiled beef in the holding area behind the exhibit.
News Jury’s award ‘wonderful’ for Lee’s Summit woman who sued Vatterott College A Jackson County jury found in favor of Jennifer Kerr in her lawsuit against Vatterott and found that the Missouri-based Vatterott Educational Centers Inc. had violated the Missouri Merchandising Practices Act.
ROYALS NOTEBOOK Accelerated approach helps Royals to unlock Eric Hosmer’s swing Everyone knows someone who is habitually late. It’s a maddening trait to the unafflicted who see the problem as remarkably easy to fix: Start earlier. That’s how the Royals’ two new hitting coaches, George Brett and Pedro Grifol, diagnosed Eric Hosmer’s swing.
University of Kansas Some KU basketball games will air on Metro Sports under new deal with Time Warner KU athletics and IMG College, which holds multimedia rights for KU sports, announced Tuesday a long-term television partnership with Time Warner Cable Sports to distribute 300 hours of original KU sports programming annually, including live games, other coverage and replays. That means KU men’s basketball games carried by Jayhawk Television and aired on KSMO-TV Channel 62 in Kansas City last season will move to Metro Sports. Last season, Jayhawk Television aired six KU basketball games, including two exhibitions.
Business Dish fails to renew bid for Sprint The satellite television company faced a deadline late Tuesday to make its “best and final offer” to buy Sprint. A statement from Dish blamed Sprint for making a new bid impossible by the deadline.
Business Missouri moves to lift ban on foreign farm owners Weeks before a Chinese conglomerate agreed to buy Smithfield Foods Inc. in the largest such takeover of a U.S. business, Missouri lawmakers quietly approved legislation removing a ban on foreign ownership of agricultural land.
DEAR ABBY Son has been drifting away since marriage three years ago DEAR ABBY: My son married a sweet girl three years ago, and I thought we would become a close family. I haven’t bothered them at all. Since then, she has become cold and distant to me. My son rarely calls or comes around.
FYI / Living Getting to first base: Meet the mastermind behind the Royals’ Kiss Cam Contrary to popular opinion, the most powerful man in the Kansas City Royals organization isn’t owner David Glass or manager Ned Yost or even power hitter Billy Butler. No, the most powerful man in the organization is the guy striding into the office right now, the guy who runs the Kiss Cam.
Entertainment (Video) Shakespeare Festival starts previews tonight This year the Heart of America Shakespeare Festival turns to “As You Like It,” one of the Bard’s pastoral comedies, which follows the circuitous path of true love as embodied in the character of the quick-witted Rosalind.
Concert review Kenny Chesney, Eric Church rock Arrowhead with their polished hits For the third straight year, more than 50,000 fans showed up at Arrowhead Stadium to see Kenny Chesney, who has sold more concert tickets over the past 10 years than anyone in the music industry. As he did the past two years, he brought another arena headliner with him. This year was Eric Church.
Editorial Resolve the reassessment debacle in Jackson County It’s disturbing that Jackson County’s poor performance in fulfilling one of its major obligations to taxpayers has made such a review necessary. Widespread problems like these erode public trust in government.
As I See It Kansas taxes are now flatter and fairer “Kansans will pay significantly less in taxes in 2013 than they did in 2012, and the savings will grow from there, even as the state spends billions annually on core responsibilities such as education, roads and Medicaid,” writes Nick Jordan, secretary of the Kansas Department of Revenue.
