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School board member Ray Wilson says the Kansas City School District needs a permanent home for items from its history and a system for preserving the archives.
Local school districts struggle to properly keep and display their archives
Ray Wilson stumbled upon the school district history by accident — which is often the only way to find such history in Kansas City or most any other district.
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New monthly water bills come with higher fees
Sep 5, 11:06 PMWhen the Kansas City Water Services Department started billing homeowners every month in July, instead of every other month, the department touted convenience for customers. It turns out, however, that the department essentially increased its service charge without letting many people know.
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Students support giving undocumented people path to citizenship via education
Sep 4, 11:50 PM
It wasn’t so long ago that Yahaira Carrillo wished for invisibility. Stopping at a gas station in the middle of nowhere, say, for Pepsi and chips, she would get in and out as quickly and quietly as possible.
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Attorney: JetBlue attendant in NYC flap resigned
Sep 5, 9:06 PM
A flight attendant who captured America's attention when he told off a plane full of passengers and then slid down an emergency chute resigned from his job and wasn't fired, his lawyer said Sunday.
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Farmland readied for a nuclear crop
Sep 5, 5:01 PMBulldozers are rolling on a billion-dollar project that will transform a former soybean field in south Kansas City into America’s only privately developed plant making parts for nuclear weapons. When it comes to the area economy, there is no question about the importance of the facility being built for Honeywell Federal Manufacturing & Technologies.
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Concussion testing finds place on playing field
Sep 4, 11:24 PM
Football players are used to tackling drills and strength conditioning. But De Soto High School sizes up players for more than their biceps. It also assesses memory, attention span and reaction times.
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Craigslist shuts down adult services section
Sep 4, 2:26 PMHARTFORD, Conn. | Craigslist has apparently closed the adult services section of its website, two weeks after 17 state attorneys general demanded it shut down the section. The section had been replaced today by a “censored” logo.
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Vacation from hell: Readers share their tales of woe
Sep 4, 9:11 AM
Kid locking herself in a motel bathroom? That’s, well, kid stuff. Clutching a barf bag and turning green on a plane? Ho-hum.
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Family spreads word of man missing three months: 'Luke is home and safe!'
Sep 5, 5:45 PM
Larry Schnackenberg, meet Luke Stevens. Replaying this summer’s bizarre mystery in which Lenexa’s Schnackenberg disappeared for 20 days before wandering shirtless and weak from Johnson County woods, Stevens, a 23-year-old Tonganoxie man, re-emerged Thursday from a different set of woods.
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Area libraries are going Hollywood in a big way
Sep 4, 9:16 AM
Want to see “Date Night” for free? The Johnson County Library has 31 copies of the hot new DVD, with more on the way — but you’ll be in line behind 474 other people, and the wait could take months.
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Families seek justice for soldiers, Marines known as Leavenworth 10
Sep 3, 5:56 PM
As major U.S. combat operations in Iraq end, some families of soldiers and Marines convicted of crimes during battle hope the nation doesn't forget their sons.
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Gardner Edgerton schools offering support following student’s death
Sep 3, 5:53 PM
Parents on Friday carefully picked up children at a Gardner elementary school where a child was fatally injured in a Thursday traffic accident. Counselors were also available at schools in the Gardner Edgerton School District following the death of a 7-year-old Kade M. Meyer.
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KMBC discrimination lawsuit has ‘amicable’ ending
Sep 2, 11:12 PMThree KMBC journalists who sued the ABC affiliate for age and gender discrimination have reached a settlement with the station. KMBC management made the announcement at a Thursday staff meeting. The three — Kelly Eckerman, Peggy Breit and Maria Albisu-Twyman, known on air as Maria Antonia — will be staying on at the television station.
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Raw video | Northland car chase
Sep 2, 6:17 PM
Police release video of a Northland police pursuit of shoplifters on Tuesday evening. You can hear officers talking to each other during the chase.
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Gardner boy dies after being hit outside school
Sep 3, 5:53 PM
A 7-year-old boy died Thursday afternoon after being hit by a vehicle outside the Gardner elementary school he attended. Kade M. Meyer, a second-grader at Madison Elementary School, was fatally injured shortly after 3:30 p.m.
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Oil platform explodes off Louisiana coast; crew rescued
Sep 2, 8:10 PM
An oil platform exploded and burned off the Louisiana coast Thursday, the second such disaster in the Gulf of Mexico in less than five months. This time, the Coast Guard said there was no leak, and no one was killed.
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Photos | East Coast braces for hurricane
Sep 2, 5:02 PM
The last ferry left for the mainland and coastal residents hunkered down at home as Hurricane Earl closed in with 115 mph winds today on North Carolina's dangerously exposed Outer Banks.
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KC commuters have a low tolerance for taking the long way home
Sep 1, 11:35 PM
A new study done for The Hartford insurance company surveyed driving habits in seven metro areas and found that Kansas City commuters are not willing to drive very long to get to work — at most 30 to 45 minutes one way.
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Photos | Happy 3rd birthday to Cotu the chimpanzee
Sep 2, 1:06 AM
Cotu, a chimpanzee at the Kansas City Zoo, turned 3 today, so the zoo had a birthday party for her. Cotu received lots of gifts, and she and the other chimps got some birthday treats.
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Deal reached to fix odor problem on company's Missouri hog farms
Sep 2, 1:11 AM
An agreement Wednesday could settle an epic battle over odors emanating from 365 hog barns, primarily in northwest Missouri. Attorney General Chris Koster gave Premium Standard Farms two years to install odor-reducing technology in the barns.
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Gunman killed, hostages safe after Discovery building standoff
Sep 1, 5:10 PM
Police say the gunman who took three people hostage at the Discovery Channel network's programming has died after they shot him. All three hostages escaped safely.
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Despite messy aftermath this year, Rockfest will return to park in 2011
Sep 1, 10:20 AM
Rockfest, which created a tempest in the spring when fans turned parkland into a mud pit, will return to Penn Valley Park. The Kansas City park board voted 3-2 to approve a one-year agreement allowing the music festival in the park and on the grounds of the Liberty Memorial on May 14, 2011.
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With shooting death, a juvenile justice success story has a tragic end
Sep 1, 12:18 AM
Just two years ago, Terrence J. Barkley was acclaimed as a juvenile justice success story, traveling with Missouri social services officials to Washington, D.C., and speaking at Harvard University. On Monday afternoon, two gunmen in a car shot Barkley three times. He died nine hours later at a hospital.
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'It is time to turn the page,' Obama says in speech on end of combat in Iraq
Aug 31, 8:24 PM
In a speech tonight from the Oval Office, President Barack Obama declared an end to the U.S. combat role in Iraq after more than seven years of war, saying the country's future now is up to the Iraqi people. "It is time to turn the page," Obama said.
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Escaped sexual predator is caught in Kansas City
Aug 31, 6:44 PM
Police on Tuesday captured a sexual predator who escaped from the Wyandotte County Courthouse on Monday and had bought a used car. George Dudley’s run ended at 1:46 p.m. Tuesday when Kansas City police arrested him, Police Chief Jim Corwin reported in his blog.
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KC police find skeleton in woods near yard with skull
Sep 1, 2:20 AM
Kansas City police conducting a grid search this morning found a headless skeleton in thick woods about 50 yards from where a man found a human skull on Saturday.
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‘Speeder camera’ will be watching drivers soon in Sugar Creek
Aug 30, 11:12 PMLicense and registration, please? Nah. Just a photograph of the south end of your car heading north. And a ticket in the mail. That is what speeders can expect in Sugar Creek this fall.
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Utility programs succeed in cooling off summertime demand for electricity
Aug 31, 10:51 AM
Heat waves like the one this summer used to mean one thing: a record for how much electricity utilities had to provide on the hottest days. But this year, Kansas City Power & Light Co. fell well short of its record for “peak demand” for electricity.
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KC Jesuit priest nears end of cross country bike tour
Aug 30, 6:13 PM
A Kansas City Jesuit priest is nearing the end of his 5,000-mile bike ride aimed at raising awareness about poverty.
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Man to get 'Hard 50' for murder of pregnant wife
Aug 30, 11:09 AM
Jason Cott faces a sentence of life without parole for 50 years after pleading guilty to murdering his pregnant wife and their unborn child. Cott agreed to the sentence as part of his Friday plea to two counts of first-degree murder, according to court records. As part of the plea, prosecutors dropped a capital murder charge that could have allowed the death penalty.
