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Volunteers are collecting coats, blankets and donations today as part of the annual Project Warmth drive. People are being asked to clean out their closets and drop off extra coats and blankets that they are no longer using or make a donation.
The Missouri Highway patrol has identified the man killed in a rollover crash along Interstate 70 as Andrew G. Warren of Odessa. He was 31. Warren was eastbound on I-70 about 4:20 p.m. Friday near the Jackson and Lafayette counties line when he ran off the left side of the roadway.
In a NASA-backed competition to develop the science fiction space elevator concept, a Seattle team Friday collected $900,000 after its laser-powered robotic machine raced up more than 2,950 feet of cable dangling from a helicopter.
COLUMBIA | Missouri’s starting five bolted to a 15-3 lead over an overwhelmed Truman State. The Tigers went on to a 96-33 season-opening exhibition basketball victory.
JEFFERSON CITY | The Missouri Department of Natural Resources has announced it is laying off 48 employees in its Division of State Parks and Historic Sites, far fewer than the 100 the agency originally estimated it would lose.
Call it a sign of the times, but some of the best recent design work by architects has come in service of the humblest of projects. At least according to judges of Kansas City architecture awards handed out Friday night.
ST. LOUIS | A county commissioner from eastern Missouri is facing drug charges.
FARMINGTON, Mo. | Two people in separate apartments in the same eastern Missouri duplex have died of suspected carbon monoxide poisoning.
COLUMBIA | Missouri’s starting five bolted to a 15-3 lead on overwhelmed Truman State. Then things really got interesting.
The Missouri State Lottery Commission voted Friday to start selling lottery tickets for Mega Millions. Missouri is one of 33 states that participate in Powerball, and 12 states participate in Mega Millions, which started in 1996.
A multiple-car pileup snarled traffic in Lenexa this evening. Just after 5:15 p.m., a series of two or three accidents happened on Kansas 10 at Renner Road, according to Lenexa police dispatchers. Authorities shut one eastbound lane. No serious injuries were reported.
Broken glass hit a high school freshman in the face this afternoon after a juvenile fired a BB gun at a school bus near 19th Street and Benton Boulevard in Kansas City. Witnesses told police three juveniles had a BB gun and one of them fired it at the bus containing six students from the Imagine Renaissance Academy about 3 p.m. A window broke and glass hit a 14-year-old boy. He suffered no visible injuries, police said. The Academy, a charter school, is located at 414 Wallace Avenue.
The great weather will last through the weekend with possibly record warmth.
Texas billionaire and two-time presidential candidate Ross Perot has pledged $6.1 million to a private foundation to pay for programs at the Army's Command and General Staff College in Fort Leavenworth, Kansas.
Locust Street from 11th to 12th streets in Kansas City will be closed from 7 p.m. tonight until 6 a.m. on Monday while contractors repair and replace a sewer line. Approximately 10 feet of 18-inch clay sewer line will be replaced and repaired. An obstruction in the sewer line is reducing its capacity.
A 40-year-old south Kansas City woman was killed and another woman was injured Thursday in a freak accident at a Grandview car wash. Grandview police said the women were sitting on a bench in front of the business, 12204 Blue Ridge Blvd., waiting for their vehicles to come out of the car wash at 3:55 p.m. when they were struck by an SUV that apparently went out of control as it emerged from the wash.
Bob Ziehmer will become the eighth director in the history of the Missouri Department of Conservation. He will take over for John Hoskins, who recently announced his retirement. Ziehmer, who had been assistant director of the agency, will assume his new position Jan. 15.
A Wyandotte County judge sentenced a man on Friday to four years in prison for a car crash that killed 17-year-old Christopher Brown of Kansas City, Kan. Eric Snitz, 41, of Basehor, pleaded no contest in August to involuntary manslaughter while under the influence of drugs or alcohol. Snitz, who has two previous drunken driving convictions, slammed into the back of Brown’s car on Jan. 26, 2008, at 86th Street and State Avenue in Kansas City, Kan. Authorities said Snitz had a loaded weapon and ran from the crash scene. He was stopped by passers-by including an off-duty sheriff’s deputy. Snitz refused to take a blood-alcohol test.
A boy who was 13 when he killed a Kansas City, Kan., man last year pleaded guilty Thursday in juvenile court. Antwuan Taylor, now 15, pleaded guilty in Wyandotte County to the first-degree murder of Charles McElroy, 47.
Clay County officials today charged three persons with the kidnapping of Carol A. Thomas, whose body was found Thursday in a wooded field.
Two overriding factors surfaced Friday in explaining the Royals’ decision to send third baseman/outfielder Mark Teahen to division-rival Chicago with cash for second baseman Chris Getz and third baseman/outfielder Josh Fields. Increasing inventory while gaining financial flexibility.
Fire officials responded to an overnight house fire in Kansas City, Kan. No one was hurt.
The former school leader in Abilene and Lindsborg, Kan., will become the next superintendent of the 27,000-student Olathe School District July 1. Marlin Berry, the district’s assistant superintendent for general administration, was selected Thursday by the school board to succeed the current superintendent, Pat All, when she retires next year.
A massive blast at a production plant in St. Joseph rocked part of the city but initial reports were that everyone at the plant escaped injury.
ST. LOUIS | A joint state and federal investigation of locksmith fraud in the St. Louis and Kansas City areas has led to criminal charges against four people.
ORLANDO, Fla. | A man so broke that he said he didn’t have the money to visit his son 30 minutes away opened fire Friday at the engineering firm that fired him two years ago, killing one person and wounding five, authorities said.
TOPEKA | William Avery, a one-term Republican governor in the 1960s and former U.S. House member, has died, the governor's office said Thursday. He was 98.
WICHITA | The Kickapoo Tribe in Kansas has won its argument that it is entitled to sovereign immunity as a federally recognized Indian tribe.
A man is in critical condition tonight after a Kansas City police officer shot him in the chest. The 20-year-old man walked onto his porch at East 7th Street and Spruce Avenue holding a shotgun pointed upward. As he began to lower the shotgun, one of two officers in front of his house fired one shot, according to Officer Darin Snapp of the Kansas City Police Department.
Army Reserve Spc. Keara Bono’s family was working up to the idea of her going to Iraq. “I didn’t know I had to worry about her getting shot down in Texas,” her mother, Peggy McCarty, said Thursday night.
Video | Bono's mother speaks outPolice today identified a man shot to death in south Kansas City Wednesday afternoon as Maurice West, 20, of Kansas City. West was walking down the street near 116th Street and Holiday Drive about 4 p.m. with a friend when two men confronted and argued with them. At least one suspect shot at West, who collapsed in the street.
Kansas City’s latest citizen satisfaction survey shows more areas of decline than areas of improvement, according to a report issued today. The quarterly survey showed declines in citizen perceptions of elected leaders, customer service, bulky item pickup, the 3-1-1 Action Center hotline, swimming pools and youth athletic programs.
Olathe police are asking for help in identifying a man who robbed a restaurant Wednesday evening.
A plan to charge admission at Overland Park’s Deanna Rose Children’s Farmstead probably will be broadened to include everybody.
Federal prosecutors have charged a Shawnee husband and wife with poisoning the salsa at the Mi Ranchito restaurant in Lenexa.
An Emporia State University student athlete who had been missing for three days was found dead along a road in Lyon County. A county sheriff’s deputy, who had heard that Emporia State track star Samuel Jacob Williams enjoyed weekend motorcycle rides, found the student’s body about one-tenth mile off the roadway near the K-99 intersection with Lyon County Road 190, just north of Emporia.
Kansas City police today are looking for two masked men who robbed the Mr. Goodcents restaurant in Westport last night. The robbers – one with a semi-automatic handgun – barged into the restaurant at 4100 Mill St. about 7:55 p.m. The robbers ordered three employees to lie on the floor and forced a fourth employee open the safe. The robbers fled with a cash box containing an undisclosed amount of money.
A gunman robbed the 7-Eleven at 8501 Bannister Road early today. The suspect walked into the store about 2:15 a.m. wearing a hooded jacket with the hood up. The clerk told him to remove the hood and the man pointed a gun at the clerk and demanded cash. The robber left with an undisclosed amount of money.
A University of Kansas graduate student is in critical condition at a Lawrence hospital after he ingested a toxic chemical, according to an alert put out by the university. The student is believed to have accidentally ingested sodium azide while working on the Fifth Floor of Malott Hall late Wednesday.
President Barack Obama made a last-minute personal appeal to Democrats to pass landmark health care legislation Saturday as the House opened debate on a bill to expand coverage to millions of the uninsured.
Texas governor Rick Perry has visited with wounded victims from the Fort Hood shooting.
Ida has become a tropical storm again, with top winds of 45 mph (72 kph), as it swirls in the Caribbean on a track that could bring it to the U.S. Gulf Coast next week.
The House has opened debate on President Barack Obama's landmark health care overhaul that would extend insurance to tens of millions of Americans and enact dramatic changes to the country's medical system.
A military band played and sailors fired off cannons as the Navy began a ceremony to commission its newest assault ship forged with tons of steel from the World Trade Center.
Oh, how the tables have turned.
The sign going on the front door at the Perry County courthouse reads: "Closed for the Obama Holiday."
Former President George W. Bush and his wife, Laura, have visited wounded soldiers and their families after the mass shooting at Fort Hood.
Tropical storm warnings have been issued for parts of Mexico and Cuba as Ida rapidly gains strength over Caribbean waters.
The family of an Ecuadorean man slain on a Long Island street will be among those participating in a candlelight vigil and memorial service to mark the first anniversary of the killing.
Suspected swine flu is sweeping a traditional Eskimo whaling village on a remote Alaska island - prompting an urgent medical mission to deliver help.
The accusations that Mayor Sheila Dixon used holiday gift cards for the needy during personal shopping sprees may sound like a minor embarrassment at worst, a small-time case of a politician enjoying the perks of power.
Democrats gave the gavel to the longest-serving House member ever as the chamber began debating legislation overhauling the country's health care system.
A man who threatened to kill Barack Obama last summer just before the Democratic National Convention in Denver has pleaded guilty to federal weapons charges.
Amputations. Combat stress. Divorce. Suicide. For every physical and mental strain on service members, there's often a military therapist at their side.
The high school buddies who trolled the streets looking for Hispanics to attack called it "beaner hopping."
Esther Heymann was overflowing with grief for her stepdaughter. Standing in a blustery snow, overlooking the empty field where Flight 93 had crashed a couple of years earlier, she couldn't stop crying.
Joe Sullivan was sent away for life for raping an elderly woman and judged incorrigible though he was only 13 at the time of the attack.
President Barack Obama urged lawmakers to pass a proposed health care overhaul during a rare visit to Capitol Hill on Saturday.
Tropical storm warnings were issued Saturday for parts of Mexico and Cuba as Ida rapidly gained strength over Caribbean waters, and the storm could start affecting the U.S. Gulf Coast by Tuesday.
An effort to honor a Sept. 11 victim in Connecticut has been halted by the unexpected conflict arising from the victim's father insisting that his son's memorial say he was murdered by "Muslim terrorists."
A federal appeals court has ruled that Santa Cruz City Council members did not violate a man's rights when they ordered him removed from a council meeting after he made a one-armed Nazi salute.
The base commander at Fort Hood says survivors of the shooting rampage have told him that the Army psychiatrist suspected in the violence carried out his gunfire in "a very calm and measured approach."
The family of the suspected Fort Hood shooter says "the actions of their cousin are despicable and deplorable."
A classmate of the Fort Hood shooting suspect says Maj. Nidal Hasan was an outspoken opponent of the U.S. war on terror and called it a "war against Islam."
The cousin of the suspected Fort Hood shooter says family members have met with the FBI and answered all their questions.
A civilian police officer is being praised for taking down a man suspected of opening fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood when she shot him in the torso.
A doctor at a hospital where several of the wounded from the shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas were taken says some patients may still die.
A 5.7-millimeter pistol used in the Fort Hood shooting was purchased legally by suspect Nidal Hasan at a Texas gun shop, law enforcement officials said Friday.
He was by turns caring and contentious, a man quick to say "I am blessed" in casual greeting yet one who seemed to stew in discontent that he could not always keep to himself.
Military, friends and families have observed a moment of silence at Fort Hood, Texas and other U.S. military bases as a show of respect for the victims of the shooting rampage.
Army Chief of Staff George Casey has asked Army leaders across the country to review force protection measures after the shooting rampage at Fort Hood, Texas, left 13 people dead.
An Army medical official says the man suspected of opening fire on fellow soldiers at Fort Hood has been transferred to Brooke Army Medical Center in San Antonio.
A pair of military briefings to members of Congress about the Fort Hood rampage resulted in confusion and conflicting information late Friday on the number of wounded.
