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December 18, 2014

• Truman girls rally past Olathe Northwest at Hy-Vee Shootout
• High school results - December 17
• Alex Smith and Chiefs take personality test with season on the line
• Congress has little chance of scuttling Cuba policy
• It’s official: East Patrol campus will be named for Leon Jordan
• Platte County prosecutor will consider assault case against Councilman Michael Brooks
• With a second KC municipal judge retiring, council members must decide whether to fill vacancy
• Cuter than a kitty video: The city of Liberty says happy holidays
• Dayton Moore headlines 2014 class for Kansas Baseball Hall of Fame
• Former head coach Todd Haley thankful for time with Chiefs
• Defensive end Allen Bailey, cornerback Phillip Gaines return to Chiefs practice after concussions
• Donna Thomason is back on stage in “I’ll Eat You Last”
• Sporting KC signs goalkeeper Luis Marin, forward Krisztian Nemeth
• Royals sign right-hander Kris Medlen to two-year contract worth $8.5 million guaranteed
• Michael Brooks made a wise decision to resign from the Kansas City Council
• Readers share thoughts on CIA torture, Eric Garner and Rep. Kevin Yoder
• Letters to the editor: American Royal, renewing vehicle tags in person, poor road plan
• Letters: OP must help improve Ranchmart, justice for whom?
• TheChat: Jason Kander touts work of new Elections Integrity Unit
• Peter Kinder is growing impatient with Eric Holder’s Ferguson investigation
• Former KC Fed president says Congress wrong to allow swaps in insured banks
• Woman shot in head on the Paseo
• Police: Man's court-ordered GPS ankle bracelet links him to 34 Kansas City burglaries
• Person stabbed across street from KCK police department
• Independence police rescue Christmas for burglary victims
• Jackson County authorities arrest registered sex offender working as Santa Claus
• Death penalty will be sought for F. Glenn Miller Jr. in killings outside Jewish facilities
• Emily Parnell: The joy of humble gifts
• Winning numbers for Wednesday, Dec. 17
• Fishing and hunting report for Dec. 18
• Kansas hunter was aiming for deer, but a surprise elk changed the game
• Hy-Vee Shootout will be played as scheduled Thursday
• Bears will start Jimmy Clausen over Jay Cutler and inevitably Charlie Weis’ name comes up
• There’s a favorable reaction to Kris Medlen signing by the Royals
• A 5-year-old boy in Ohio used his allowance to try saving the UAB football program
• The Internet agrees: Royals won their Wil Myers trade
• Ringling Bros. circus disputes citation for injured hair-hanging acrobats
• Analysis: On Cuba policy, U.S. was at odds with the world
• Girl, 13, competent to stand trial in Slender Man stabbing
• Missouri man gets 35 years for driving into party, killing relative
• Reformers target Ferguson traffic courts
• Boston Marathon bombing suspect in court for first time since 2013
• Texas plumber’s old truck ends up with Islamic militant group
• ‘Horrible’ scene; car slams into church crowd
• Program shows area families how to stretch food dollars to fight hunger
• Winter storm leaves Kansas City roads a mess, forces some schools to cancel classes
• North Kansas City School District apologizes for taking blind boy’s cane
• University of Kansas Hospital tells regents it’s making progress in streamlining efforts
• Gold tooth turns up in Salvation Army kettle in Kansas City, North
• Two penguin chicks hatch at the Kansas City Zoo
• Update: Express Factory Outlet store for KCK
• Restaurant & grocery store inspections for Dec. 18
• Chase Daniel, Chase Coffman, Jeremy Maclin highlight MU’s 2015 Hall of Fame class
• Dave Steckel adds three former MU grad assistants to Missouri State staff
• FedEx, UPS and U.S. Postal Service scramble to cope with peak holiday shipping days
• Shirley Helzberg wins tax breaks for Crossroads redevelopment
• Competition cuts into Sprint’s credit rating
• U.S. wealth gap is the widest in at least 30 years, study finds
• College football bowl schedule, TV times and game previews
• Kansas State basketball will return to Wichita’s Intrust Bank Arena in 2015
• Man arrested in former K-State football player’s death
• Kansas State ramping up interest in Duke basketball transfer Semi Ojeleye
• Police refute former Kansas State football player’s racial profiling allegation
• Money Matters: What happens if you die without a will?
• KU-Lafayette men’s basketball preview
• Naked Kansas woman tries to get into wrong car, ends up in police car
• Bedbugs found in Kansas state office building