http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation/index.xml News, sports and entertainment from Kansas City Star en-us Copyright 2008 Kansas City Star Nation 60 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:07:19 CDT http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss McClatchy Interactive's PubSys feedback@kansascity.com http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/696608.html http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/696608.html Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:44 CDT A House panel threatened Tuesday to cite Attorney General Michael Mukasey with contempt of Congress unless he produces documents from an FBI interview with Vice President Dick Cheney regarding the leak of a CIA agent's identity. http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/697554.html http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/697554.html Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:43 CDT Firefighters pushed back a blaze threatening this small coastal community just enough to allow hundreds of people to check on their homes Tuesday as a separate fire 300 miles north forced residents of other towns to evacuate. http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/696843.html http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/696843.html Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:41 CDT The Pentagon is expected to announce Wednesday whether the Air Force will rebid a $35 billion contract to build new refueling tankers. http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/696983.html http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/696983.html Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:39 CDT Sellers of wheelchairs, drugs and other medical supplies collected as much as $93 million in fraudulent Medicare claims based on prescriptions from doctors who actually were dead, some for 10 years or more, a congressional investigation has found. http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/697584.html http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/697584.html Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:21 CDT HOUSTON | Six cases have been settled out of court over the deadly explosion at a BP PLC refinery in Southeast Texas, leaving four plaintiffs in the civil trial against the oil company. http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/695809.html http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/695809.html Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:36 CDT The next time the president goes to war, Congress should be consulted and vote on whether it agrees, according to a bipartisan study group chaired by former secretaries of state James Baker III and Warren Christopher. http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/697585.html http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/697585.html Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:21 CDT ATLANTA | The Federal Aviation Administration is ordering U.S. airlines to conduct safety inspections to look for cracking on overwing frames on certain MD-80 series aircraft, a directive that could be a headache for an industry reeling from soaring fuel prices. http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/696670.html http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/696670.html Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:34 CDT Nineteen Los Angeles police officers face discipline over the use of batons and other force on peaceful demonstrators and journalists at an immigration rights rally last year. http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/697070.html http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/697070.html Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:28 CDT Two conservation groups filed a lawsuit on Tuesday challenging the Bush administration's decision to let oil companies unintentionally harass or harm polar bears and walruses off the northwestern Alaska coast. http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/697051.html http://www.kansascity.com/811/story/697051.html Tue, 08 Jul 2008 23:27 CDT A teenager is suspected of delivering baskets of drug-laced treats to about a dozen police departments in the Dallas-Fort Worth area, according to police who charged him Tuesday with LSD possession. At least three officers have gotten sick. http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation/story/697392.html http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation/story/697392.html Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:21 CDT SAN FRANCISCO | Installing a suicide barrier on the Golden Gate Bridge would alter the view and cost as much as $50 million, a report says. http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation/story/697496.html http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation/story/697496.html Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:56 CDT CHICAGO | Pressured by desperate parents, government researchers are pushing to test an unproven treatment on autistic children, a move some scientists see as an unethical experiment in voodoo medicine. http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation/story/697378.html http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation/story/697378.html Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:31 CDT MIAMI | Delicately carved emeralds, rare gold nose rings and clay vessels that may have held bones 2,000 years ago — all plundered from ancient graves — will be returned to Colombia. http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation/story/697500.html http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation/story/697500.html Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:56 CDT John McCain’s pledge to balance the budget by 2013 is hooted by lib blogs as “delusional” and “fantasy.” http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation/story/697385.html http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation/story/697385.html Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:31 CDT PAMPLONA, Spain | The running of the bulls through Pamplona on Tuesday left one man gored and four slightly injured during the annual San Fermin festival, the Spanish Red Cross said. http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation/story/697405.html http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation/story/697405.html Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:31 CDT WASHINGTON | Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama pitched competing economic plans to Hispanics on Tuesday. http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation/story/697501.html http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation/story/697501.html Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:56 CDT CHICAGO | A prostate cancer study found that widely used hormone-blocking drugs did not improve survival chances for older men whose disease hadn’t spread. http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation/story/696791.html http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation/story/696791.html Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:44 CDT WASHINGTON | Barack Obama says John McCain's plan to balance the budget doesn't add up. Easy for him to say: It's not a goal he's even trying to reach. http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation/story/695588.html http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation/story/695588.html Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:27 CDT WASHINGTON | The Bush administration didn’t pursue hundreds of potential water pollution cases after a 2006 Supreme Court decision that restricted the EPA’s authority to regulate seasonal streams and wetlands. http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation/story/695633.html http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation/story/695633.html Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:32 CDT BOSTON | Sen. Edward Kennedy, midway through six weeks of radiation and chemotherapy treatments for brain cancer, is doing well aside from some fatigue, his wife says. http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation/story/695747.html http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation/story/695747.html Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:52 CDT DENVER | Barack Obama and John McCain agree: The economy is staggering under the Bush administration, and Americans are hurting. http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation/story/695624.html http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation/story/695624.html Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:32 CDT FORT SAM HOUSTON, Texas | Among the smiles and hugs shared by three American hostages freed last week from rebels in Colombia, one of the men on Monday angrily denounced their captors as “terrorists with a capital ‘T.’ ” http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation/story/695641.html http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation/story/695641.html Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:32 CDT BURLINGTON, Vt. | A girl found buried last week near her uncle’s home was killed, a prosecutor said Monday at an initial appearance for the uncle on charges of kidnapping the girl. http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation/story/695583.html http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation/story/695583.html Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:27 CDT John McCain is getting an extreme makeover as a political performer. First, ex-White House advanceman/Fox News producer Greg Jenkins has come aboard to oversee the stagecraft of campaign events. http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation/story/695629.html http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation/story/695629.html Mon, 07 Jul 2008 22:32 CDT HOUSTON | The FBI and federal aviation officials were investigating whether a model rocket with a flaming tail shot past a cockpit window of a Continental jet. http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation/story/695742.html http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation/story/695742.html Mon, 07 Jul 2008 23:12 CDT NEW YORK | In a break with tradition, Barack Obama will accept the Democratic presidential nomination at Invesco Field at Mile High, a 76,000-seat stadium, rather than at the site of the party’s national convention across town. http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation/story/694267.html http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation/story/694267.html Mon, 07 Jul 2008 00:02 CDT EAU CLAIRE, Mich. | Brian “Young Gun” Krause has out-spit his father to claim his seventh championship at the International Cherry Pit Spitting Championship. http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation/story/694376.html http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation/story/694376.html Sun, 06 Jul 2008 22:37 CDT Early in the primaries, The Buzz noted all the “lucky” items in John McCain’s pockets. http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation/story/693211.html http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation/story/693211.html Sat, 05 Jul 2008 19:21 CDT BERLIN | A man tore the head off an Adolf Hitler wax figure on the opening day of Madame Tussauds’ new branch in Berlin on Saturday, police said. http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation/story/693304.html http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation/story/693304.html Sat, 05 Jul 2008 20:16 CDT WASHINGTON | The government Saturday increased the number of people reported being sickened in a record salmonella outbreak. http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation/story/693328.html http://www.kansascity.com/news/nation/story/693328.html Sat, 05 Jul 2008 21:56 CDT DES MOINES, Iowa | A Fourth of July fireworks shell misfired in northern Iowa, sending a fireball skidding down a street and into a crowd of spectators, injuring 37 people, officials said Saturday. http://www.kansascity.com/440/story/697609.html http://www.kansascity.com/440/story/697609.html Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:00 CDT Polygamist sect leader Warren Jeffs was taken from jail to a Las Vegas hospital Tuesday for an unspecified medical problem. http://www.kansascity.com/440/story/697731.html http://www.kansascity.com/440/story/697731.html Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:25 CDT Marcia Frey laid down the law when her daughter and son-in-law, Holly and Nicholas Sheley, moved into her trailer after losing their apartment last month: No alcohol. No drugs. http://www.kansascity.com/440/story/697634.html http://www.kansascity.com/440/story/697634.html Wed, 09 Jul 2008 05:05 CDT A man scaled a portion of The New York Times' 52-story headquarters early Wednesday morning, becoming the third person to do so in a span of a few weeks, the police said. http://www.kansascity.com/440/story/697741.html http://www.kansascity.com/440/story/697741.html Wed, 09 Jul 2008 04:15 CDT The U.S. agriculture secretary expressed confidence in the nation's food safety system, but said the meat processing industry will always face challenges because the bacteria that animals carry evolves. http://www.kansascity.com/440/story/697602.html http://www.kansascity.com/440/story/697602.html Wed, 09 Jul 2008 00:46 CDT Ohio now allows out-of-state veterans to pay in-state tuition at public colleges and universities. http://www.kansascity.com/440/story/697720.html http://www.kansascity.com/440/story/697720.html Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:41 CDT Amid flowers, snapshots from her short life and somber greetings, mourners remembered slain 12-year-old Brooke Bennett at a wake in the building where she just graduated from seventh grade. http://www.kansascity.com/440/story/697462.html http://www.kansascity.com/440/story/697462.html Wed, 09 Jul 2008 03:55 CDT Forecasters say Hurricane Bertha could become slightly stronger in the next couple of days as it heads toward Bermuda. http://www.kansascity.com/440/story/695903.html http://www.kansascity.com/440/story/695903.html Tue, 08 Jul 2008 21:42 CDT The United States and leaders of the Czech Republic agreed Tuesday to place a radar system in this former Soviet satellite that would warn of long-range missiles coming to Europe from the Middle East. http://www.kansascity.com/440/story/696141.html http://www.kansascity.com/440/story/696141.html Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:51 CDT The daughter of a woman who died unnoticed on the floor of a hospital psychiatric unit called Tuesday for criminal prosecution of the workers who did nothing to help her. http://www.kansascity.com/440/story/695522.html http://www.kansascity.com/440/story/695522.html Wed, 09 Jul 2008 01:01 CDT Firefighters pushed back a blaze threatening this small coastal community just enough to allow hundreds of people to check on their homes Tuesday as a separate fire 300 miles north forced residents of other towns to evacuate. http://www.kansascity.com/440/story/695474.html http://www.kansascity.com/440/story/695474.html Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:36 CDT Investigators confirmed Tuesday that a body a prominent software engineer led them to is, in fact, that of the estranged wife he was about to be sentenced for killing, pulling closer together the final pieces of a murder mystery. http://www.kansascity.com/440/story/695564.html http://www.kansascity.com/440/story/695564.html Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:11 CDT Forecasters say Hurricane Bertha has weakened to a Category 1 storm. http://www.kansascity.com/440/story/696854.html http://www.kansascity.com/440/story/696854.html Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:45 CDT No criminal charges will be filed against medical staff at a troubled inner-city hospital over the death of a homeless woman who writhed in pain on the emergency room floor for nearly an hour, a county prosecutor concluded Tuesday. http://www.kansascity.com/440/story/696615.html http://www.kansascity.com/440/story/696615.html Tue, 08 Jul 2008 14:46 CDT This city on the Rio Grande stands virtually alone, and not just because it's in vast, desolate West Texas. http://www.kansascity.com/440/story/696715.html http://www.kansascity.com/440/story/696715.html Tue, 08 Jul 2008 15:20 CDT A new report says installing a suicide barrier on the Golden Gate Bridge would alter the view and cost as much as $50 million. http://www.kansascity.com/440/story/694739.html http://www.kansascity.com/440/story/694739.html Tue, 08 Jul 2008 10:42 CDT A man suspected of assaulting a U.S. Border Patrol agent near the Vermont-Quebec line has been arrested in Canada, an agency spokesman said Tuesday. http://www.kansascity.com/440/story/696873.html http://www.kansascity.com/440/story/696873.html Tue, 08 Jul 2008 22:00 CDT Passengers on a Dallas-bound flight that made an emergency landing in Arkansas because of smoke in the cockpit were diverted again, this time to Louisiana, because of storms, authorities said. http://www.kansascity.com/440/story/695526.html http://www.kansascity.com/440/story/695526.html Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:06 CDT NASA has tentatively set the final space shuttle mission for May 31, 2010, four months before the shuttle fleet retires. http://www.kansascity.com/440/story/696889.html http://www.kansascity.com/440/story/696889.html Tue, 08 Jul 2008 16:35 CDT A Nevada man has pleaded guilty to shooting two people in a casino elevator lobby on the Las Vegas Strip and avoided trial on charges that could have gotten him life in prison. http://www.kansascity.com/440/story/695857.html http://www.kansascity.com/440/story/695857.html Tue, 08 Jul 2008 02:46 CDT In a women's restroom at Sheppard Air Force Base, a pink poster features two wine glasses and a sobering message. http://www.kansascity.com/440/story/697034.html http://www.kansascity.com/440/story/697034.html Tue, 08 Jul 2008 18:21 CDT Nine environmental groups said Tuesday they plan to sue the federal government if wolverines aren't granted protection under the Endangered Species Act within 60 days. http://www.kansascity.com/440/story/695907.html http://www.kansascity.com/440/story/695907.html Tue, 08 Jul 2008 08:48 CDT It flew on a daring but unsuccessful raid to free U.S. POWs in North Vietnam in 1970. Thirty-eight years later, after subsequent tours in Bosnia and Iraq, helicopter No. 357 is being retired - with honor.