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December 4, 2014

• Chiefs’ run defense needs fast fix so two-game slide doesn’t reach three
• Five teams and players to watch in Missouri high school girls basketball
• Five teams and players to watch in Kansas high school girls basketball
• This week in Kansas City: Eddie Ifft, Heartland Men’s Chorus, “Messiah” and “The Nativity”
• Pentagon confirms failed effort to rescue American held by Al-Qaida
• House passes bill declaring Obama immigration action ‘null and void’
• Retaliating in today’s NFL no simple task, but sometimes it must be done
• Chiefs hope to get Jamaal Charles more touches
• Five reasons to dislike the Cardinals, a team that’s had its wings clipped
• Readers react to Kansas budget cuts, sewers, Ferguson
• Eric Garner grand jury leaves no doubt: U.S. has a policing problem
• Focus on murder in KC: The Star’s editorial series
• Restore KC’s iconic fountains to boost city’s image
• Caption contest for Dec. 5
• KC man who once cut off a woman’s finger convicted in stabbing
• Claire McCaskill: Numbers on military sexual assaults going the right way
• TheChat: Tim Huelskamp backs immigration bill that won’t matter
• GOP Missouri Rep. Noel Torpey quits to become a lobbyist
• KCK police investigating homicide at apartment complex
• Man shot by U.S. marshals in Overland Park identified
• Johnson County officials warn of phone scam involving jury duty
• Prosecutors move to dismiss charges against bomb-threat suspect
• KC man pleads guilty in murders of two whose burned bodies were found in KCK
• Two more charged in brutal KCK beating
• KC is a center for training police to use an alternative to a choke hold
• Updated: FBI investigating possible hate crime in fatal hit-and-run of Muslim boy in KC
• Jazz up your holidays with the latest in lights
• Adult survivors of childhood cancer get help with late effects of treatment
• Higginsville man retires his bow by taking a huge deer
• Rockhurst senior T.J. Green wins Missouri Gatorade player of the year award
• U.S. Postal Service issuing Wilt Chamberlain stamp on Friday
• Billy Butler gave away a winch to get his No. 16 with the A's
• Police make arrest in American teacher’s stabbing in Abu Dhabi mall
• Ferguson protesters met with hecklers, Confederate flag in rural Missouri
• Former police chief charged with murder in shooting of unarmed black man
• Authorities investigate man accused of posing as Army ranger
• NASA scrubs Orion launch; will try again Friday
• Protests erupt after decision in Eric Garner’s chokehold death
• Florida college accused of using strippers to lure students
• Fatal traffic crash reported in Kansas City, Kan.
• Lee’s Summit assistant city manager resigns while theft case is pending
• Toys for Tots program in urgent need of donations
• Settlement reached in medical billing records case
• Thomas Hart Benton painting, once owned by Churchill, returns to Westminster College in Fulton, Mo.
• It’s official: KC’s weather the wackiest among major U.S. cities
• Protesters renew push for higher minimum wage, unionization
• MRIGlobal wins contract to make HPV vaccine
• Business startup advice offered for boomers
• Unemployment aid applications fall
• Barnes & Noble, Microsoft end Nook deal
• Winning numbers for Thursday, Dec. 4
• Week Ahead: H&R Block reports earnings on Monday
• Video: Why the leaves aren’t falling from your trees
• Huskers make solid hire with Mike Riley
• Park volleyball heads to NAIA quarterfinals
• Lynchburg’s Dessi Dupuy leads goal scorers into Division III soccer championships in KC
• Nebraska hires Oregon State’s Mike Riley as new football coach
• Kansas State volleyball hoping for another NCAA Tournament run
• Kansas State receivers Tyler Lockett and Curry Sexton are one dynamic duo
• Kansas State’s Curry Sexton earns academic All-America honor
• Kansas State women’s basketball team adds game against William Jewell
• Cassie Wait helps KU volleyball to third straight national tournament
• Kansas basketball team needs to force more turnovers
• KU coaching search focusing on candidates with ties to program’s past success
• College basketball preview: Florida at No. 11 Kansas
• JoyceKC: Smokehouse pub for Waldo, pizza for 39th St., Westport hookah lounge
• For Markus Golden, getting to star at Mizzou was worth the wait
• Missouri plans to build new football complex in south end zone of Memorial Stadium
• Missouri, Johnathan Williams III working on improving intensity from opening tip
• Former Missouri receiver Lawrence Lee arrested
• College basketball preview: Missouri at No. 22 Oklahoma