http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation/index.xml News, sports and entertainment from The Kansas City Star en-us Copyright 2012Kansas City Star Nation 60 Sat, 26 May 2012 09:00:19 CDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys 1.1.fi feedback@kansascity.com (Feedback) http://www.kansascity.com/2008/09/16/800451/government-announces-85-billion.html http://www.kansascity.com/2008/09/16/800451/government-announces-85-billion.html#storylink=rss Tue, 16 Sep 2008 21:26 CDT The U.S. government has agreed to provide an $85 billion emergency loan to rescue the huge insurer AIG, the The Federal Reserve said Tuesday. The Fed said the U.S. Treasury Department was in full support of the decision. 846695 http://www.kansascity.com/2008/08/02/731479/new-fair-food-to-debut-on-a-stick.html http://www.kansascity.com/2008/08/02/731479/new-fair-food-to-debut-on-a-stick.html#storylink=rss Sat, 02 Aug 2008 21:43 CDT The Iowa State Fair is adding pineapple and salad to the food fairgoers can buy on a stick, adding to traditional favorites, such as corn dogs and the pork chop. 846695 http://www.kansascity.com/2008/07/28/724470/jazz-guitarist-joe-beck-dies-at.html http://www.kansascity.com/2008/07/28/724470/jazz-guitarist-joe-beck-dies-at.html#storylink=rss Mon, 28 Jul 2008 23:10 CDT Joe Beck, a jazz guitarist who collaborated with artists such as Frank Sinatra, Miles Davis and James Brown, died July 22. He was 62. 846695 http://www.kansascity.com/2008/05/25/635448/new-zealander-scott-dixon-wins.html http://www.kansascity.com/2008/05/25/635448/new-zealander-scott-dixon-wins.html#storylink=rss Sun, 25 May 2008 15:57 CDT Scott Dixon came out of the pits first after the final caution of the day and held on to win the 92nd running of the Indianapolis 500 Sunday. It was the New Zealander's first victory in the world's biggest race. 846695 http://www.kansascity.com/2008/05/23/634104/anheuser-busch-beer-co-to-pay.html http://www.kansascity.com/2008/05/23/634104/anheuser-busch-beer-co-to-pay.html#storylink=rss Fri, 23 May 2008 23:29 CDT PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) -- Brewer Anheuser-Busch Inc. and a Rhode Island beer distributor have agreed to pay $21 million to settle lawsuits brought by survivors of a 2003 nightclub fire and relatives of the 100 people killed, according to court papers filed Friday. 846695 http://www.kansascity.com/2008/05/21/630711/sen-ted-kennedy-leaves-massachusetts.html http://www.kansascity.com/2008/05/21/630711/sen-ted-kennedy-leaves-massachusetts.html#storylink=rss Wed, 21 May 2008 23:43 CDT HYANNIS PORT, Mass. | Smiling, waving, and flashing a thumbs-up, U.S. Senator Edward M. Kennedy walked out of Massachusetts General Hospital days earlier than scheduled, greeted well-wishers outside his family compound on Cape Cod, and immediately departed shore for a familiar refuge: the waters of Nantucket Sound. 846695 http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/21/3621215/man-survives-180-foot-plunge-over.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/21/3621215/man-survives-180-foot-plunge-over.html#storylink=rss Mon, 21 May 2012 05:00 CDT A man survived a plunge of at least 180 feet over Niagara Falls in an apparent suicide attempt Monday - only the third person known to have lived after going over the falls without a safety device. 846698 http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/13/3607529/military-deaths.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/13/3607529/military-deaths.html#storylink=rss Sun, 13 May 2012 00:00 CDT The U.S. Defense Department's latest identifications of fatalities in Afghanistan: 846698 http://midwestdemocracy.com/articles/obamas-stand-is-a-symbolic-watershed-in-nations-uneasy-approach-to-gay-rights/ http://midwestdemocracy.com/articles/obamas-stand-is-a-symbolic-watershed-in-nations-uneasy-approach-to-gay-rights/#storylink=rss Fri, 11 May 2012 00:00 CDT Sitting at work in Kansas City, 20-year-old Caleb-Michael Files heard the news that his country's president had endorsed same sex marriage. "My heart started racing," said Files, who's gay. "It was like, oh, this is really happening." 846698 http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/10/3605666/romney-apologizes-for-school-pranks.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/10/3605666/romney-apologizes-for-school-pranks.html#storylink=rss Thu, 10 May 2012 05:00 CDT Mitt Romney apologized Thursday for "stupid" high school pranks that may have gone too far and moved quickly to stamp out any notion that he bullied schoolmates because they were gay. 846698 http://www.kansascity.com/2012/04/28/3582291/the-war-on-women-sparks-battle.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/04/28/3582291/the-war-on-women-sparks-battle.html#storylink=rss Sat, 28 Apr 2012 05:00 CDT There's little question that the political battle for the women's vote is intensifying, as Democrats were on the march this weekend across the nation, protesting what they see as an assault on reproductive rights. Yet some wonder whether the fierce infighting will have much impact on the outcome of the presidential election this fall, and whether any of this is all that new. 846698 http://www.kansascity.com/2012/04/28/3581846/the-buzz-hopes-that-obama-would.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/04/28/3581846/the-buzz-hopes-that-obama-would.html#storylink=rss Sat, 28 Apr 2012 05:00 CDT Back when he was running for president in 2008, Barack Obama said that he supported the basic concept of using medical marijuana for the same purposes and with the same controls as other drugs and that he was not going to be using Justice Department resources to try to circumvent state laws. 846690 http://www.kansascity.com/2012/04/28/3581441/military-deaths.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/04/28/3581441/military-deaths.html#storylink=rss Sat, 28 Apr 2012 05:00 CDT The U.S. Defense Department's latest identifications of fatalities from Afghanistan: 846690 http://www.kansascity.com/2010/12/12/2515543/payroll-tax-cut-worries-social.html http://www.kansascity.com/2010/12/12/2515543/payroll-tax-cut-worries-social.html#storylink=rss Sun, 12 Dec 2010 22:15 CST President Barack Obama's plan to cut payroll taxes for a year would provide big savings for many workers, but makes Social Security advocates nervous that it could jeopardize the retirement program's finances. 846690 http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/26/3628365/police-search-for-missing-college.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/26/3628365/police-search-for-missing-college.html#storylink=rss Sat, 26 May 2012 07:57 CDT Louisiana authorities are searching for a college student who has been missing for nearly a week after she was last seen on a bicycle in the early morning hours. 846691 http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/26/3628305/new-mexico-wildfire-spreads-smoke.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/26/3628305/new-mexico-wildfire-spreads-smoke.html#storylink=rss Sat, 26 May 2012 03:17 CDT Firefighters are battling a massive wildfire in southwestern New Mexico that has destroyed a dozen cabins and spread smoke across the state, prompting holiday weekend air-quality warnings. 846691 http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/26/3628286/quotations-of-the-day.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/26/3628286/quotations-of-the-day.html#storylink=rss Sat, 26 May 2012 02:02 CDT "Looks like we've got us a dragon by the tail." - NASA astronaut Donald Pettit after he used the International Space Station's 58-foot robot arm Friday to snare SpaceX's Dragon capsule, the first time a business enterprise delivered a supply ship to the space station. 846691 http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/25/3627652/barbara-graves-wife-of-prominent.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/25/3627652/barbara-graves-wife-of-prominent.html#storylink=rss Fri, 25 May 2012 17:12 CDT Barbara Kydd Graves, the wife of the publisher of Black Enterprise Magazine who aided in the growth of the publication and media company, died Friday. 846691 http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/25/3627879/tropical-storm-warnings-for-southeast.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/25/3627879/tropical-storm-warnings-for-southeast.html#storylink=rss Fri, 25 May 2012 22:02 CDT Tropical storm warnings have been issued for the Southeast coast from north Florida to South Carolina as a cluster of thunderstorms was gathering strength early Saturday and expected to become Tropical Storm Beryl over the Memorial Day weekend. 846691 http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/25/3627815/correction-california-church-abuse.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/25/3627815/correction-california-church-abuse.html#storylink=rss Fri, 25 May 2012 21:02 CDT In a story May 22 about internal files of nine Franciscan priests that were released as part of a sexual abuse lawsuit settlement in California, The Associated Press incorrectly spelled the name of the attorney for the Roman Catholic order. His name is Brian Brosnahan. 846691 http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/25/3627774/report-lapd-seeks-manson-family.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/25/3627774/report-lapd-seeks-manson-family.html#storylink=rss Fri, 25 May 2012 19:17 CDT Police want to review audio recordings of conversations between a Manson family member and his attorney as detectives search for information about unsolved killings. 846691 http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/25/3627772/farm-traced-to-listeria-outbreak.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/25/3627772/farm-traced-to-listeria-outbreak.html#storylink=rss Fri, 25 May 2012 19:12 CDT A Colorado farm that was traced to a listeria outbreak in cantaloupe last year has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. 846691 http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/25/3627757/wis-officials-unknowingly-break.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/25/3627757/wis-officials-unknowingly-break.html#storylink=rss Fri, 25 May 2012 18:57 CDT High-ranking members of both political parties were unaware that posting photos of completed ballots on Facebook or Twitter is illegal in Wisconsin, and they promised to quickly take down the posts Friday after election officials reminded voters of the law. 846691 http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/25/3627721/quebec-students-challenge-anti.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/25/3627721/quebec-students-challenge-anti.html#storylink=rss Fri, 25 May 2012 18:27 CDT Student groups in Quebec have filed a legal motion against a provincial law aimed at ending more than three months of protests over proposed tuition hikes. 846691 http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/25/3627711/ap-photos-star-wars-celebrates.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/25/3627711/ap-photos-star-wars-celebrates.html#storylink=rss Fri, 25 May 2012 18:22 CDT It was 35 years ago Friday that moviegoers were first transported to a galaxy far, far away. 846691 http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/25/3627699/bus-driver-taking-kids-to-disneyland.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/25/3627699/bus-driver-taking-kids-to-disneyland.html#storylink=rss Fri, 25 May 2012 18:17 CDT An alert police officer who boarded a bus full of recent Utah high school graduates headed to Disneyland averted what could have been a deadly road trip after arresting the driver for suspicion of being under the influence of drugs, authorities said Friday. 846691 http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/25/3627688/miss-district-agrees-to-stop-handcuffing.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/25/3627688/miss-district-agrees-to-stop-handcuffing.html#storylink=rss Fri, 25 May 2012 18:02 CDT Jackson public schools will no longer handcuff students to poles or other objects and will train staff at its alternative school on better methods of discipline. 846691 http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/25/3627643/judge-wont-preside-in-trial-in.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/25/3627643/judge-wont-preside-in-trial-in.html#storylink=rss Fri, 25 May 2012 17:12 CDT An Arkansas judge who ordered a new trial in a lawsuit over a $1 million lottery ticket that a woman says she mistakenly discarded announced Friday that he won't preside over the case. 846691 http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/25/3627628/campaign-styles-clash-in-wis-recall.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/25/3627628/campaign-styles-clash-in-wis-recall.html#storylink=rss Fri, 25 May 2012 16:52 CDT Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker and his opponent, Democrat Tom Barrett, are locked together in a fiercely fought recall campaign, but that's where the similarity ends. They don't campaign the same way. 846691 http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/25/3627611/edwards-juror-issue-arises-case.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/25/3627611/edwards-juror-issue-arises-case.html#storylink=rss Fri, 25 May 2012 16:42 CDT Jurors in the John Edwards campaign fraud trial have the long holiday weekend to think over the case - but not talk about it - as the judge sternly warned before sending them home after six days of deliberations. 846691 http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/25/3627610/un-chief-cites-unacceptable-violence.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/25/3627610/un-chief-cites-unacceptable-violence.html#storylink=rss Fri, 25 May 2012 16:42 CDT Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon blamed the Syrian government Friday for much of the "unacceptable levels of violence and abuses" occurring every day in violation of a U.N.-backed peace plan. 846691 http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/25/3627570/kan-gov-signs-bill-blocking-use.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/25/3627570/kan-gov-signs-bill-blocking-use.html#storylink=rss Fri, 25 May 2012 16:17 CDT Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has signed a law aimed at keeping the state's courts or government agencies from basing decisions on Islamic or other foreign legal codes, and a national Muslim group's spokesman said Friday that a court challenge is likely. 846691 http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/25/3627504/judge-anti-gay-marriage-law-is.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/25/3627504/judge-anti-gay-marriage-law-is.html#storylink=rss Fri, 25 May 2012 15:42 CDT A judge in California has ruled that the federal law that prohibits recognition of same-sex unions is unconstitutional because it denies long-term health insurance benefits to legal spouses of state employees and retirees. 846691 http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/25/3627503/ex-mexican-officer-pleads-guilty.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/25/3627503/ex-mexican-officer-pleads-guilty.html#storylink=rss Fri, 25 May 2012 15:42 CDT A Mexican police officer pleaded guilty Friday in a drug smuggling case and admitted he hired a fellow officer to run a hit squad on behalf of a Tijuana-based drug cartel, prosecutors said. 846691 http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/25/3627485/seattle-man-shot-by-stray-bullet.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/25/3627485/seattle-man-shot-by-stray-bullet.html#storylink=rss Fri, 25 May 2012 15:21 CDT Seattle-based Zillow says the man fatally shot by a stray bullet while he and his family drove down a Seattle street was an employee of the high-tech real estate company. 846691 http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/25/3627484/homeless-man-charged-in-kansas.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/25/3627484/homeless-man-charged-in-kansas.html#storylink=rss Fri, 25 May 2012 15:21 CDT A homeless military veteran has been charged with breaking into a Kansas television station and attacking several employees. 846691 http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/25/3627483/suspect-indicted-in-ore-health.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/25/3627483/suspect-indicted-in-ore-health.html#storylink=rss Fri, 25 May 2012 15:16 CDT A grand jury has indicted a man for murder after he was released from the Oregon state mental hospital and accused of killing a woman making a routine medicine delivery to his apartment. 846691 http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/25/3627264/more-travelers-to-hit-the-road.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/25/3627264/more-travelers-to-hit-the-road.html#storylink=rss Fri, 25 May 2012 12:26 CDT More Americans will hit the road this holiday weekend than a year ago. And they'll have a bit more money to spend thanks to lower gas prices. 846691 http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/25/3627426/smoke-from-massive-fire-spreads.html http://www.kansascity.com/2012/05/25/3627426/smoke-from-massive-fire-spreads.html#storylink=rss Fri, 25 May 2012 14:31 CDT Wildfires cast a pall over Memorial Day weekend in parts of the West Friday as smoke from a massive New Mexico blaze prompted widespread air-quality warnings and high fire danger in Colorado spurred officials to put thousands of firefighters on standby. 846691