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March 4, 2014

• Common Core’s greatest challenge: testing students’ ability to think
• Missouri audit of Hickman Mills School District exposes past turmoil
• Kobach’s drive against illegal immigration set back as U.S. Supreme Court declines cases
• Royals keep Omar Infante out of Tuesday’s lineup because of his shoulder
• FC Kansas City inks first international player
• High school results - Mar. 3
• Health care politics, anti-gay bias, Alzheimer’s disease
• Drug names, guns, single-parent homes
• Beads, Beans & Beer
• Finley Engineering opens Overland Park office
• Park Place adding $40 million residential phase
• Olathe’s Great Mall adds art studio
• Letters to the editor
• Editorial: Housing, retail should replace Metcalf South Shopping Center
• Snarky in the Suburbs — ’Tis the season for disaster: A spring break in a winter wonderland
• Around our towns
• Community calendar
• Fire damages mobile home in Kansas City, North
• Gradual warm up could bring 60-degree temperatures to KC by early next week
• Kansas man pleads guilty to producing child pornography
• ‘Hot mug shot’ mom Meagan Simmons sues company for using the photo that went viral
• Police arrest suspect in robbery of mail carrier in east Kansas City
• On the way this summer: Tori Amos
• Authorities search for missing 15-year-old KC girl Nateriel Beaver
• Military’s top general offers grim outlook on nation’s defense
• KC man and girlfriend are charged after bruises are found on her 3-year-old son
• Lee’s Summit license readers are subject of lawsuit
• Car theft investigation ends in security breach at KCI
• After stretch of record cold in KC, warming trend is forecast
• Salina military school settles lawsuit one day before jury selection was to begin
• Crisis leaves Kansas group helping Ukraine kids in uncertain position
• Cold winter killing fish in Missouri lakes
• Raid finds nearly 100 meth labs on Missouri property
• Missing 12-year-old Lafayette County boy drowns in ice-covered lake
• Video captures a weather reporter getting blasted by a snowplow
• ‘Bachelor’ contestant Lucy Aragon tells Juan Pablo ‘Ess Okay’ with naked ukulele song
• Body in Tuttle Creek identified as Kansas woman
• Chiefs decline to use franchise or transition tag on Branden Albert
• Wal-Mart customer cusses out self-checkout machine, loses tooth in fight
• On the way to Starlight: Sarah McLachlan
• Harry J. Wilson resigns from YRC’s board of directors
• Former doctor at Haysville clinic sentenced to 6 years in federal prison
• Video shows locked-antlered buck saved by Kansas hunter
• Rockfest lineup announced: Korn, Five Finger Death Punch, Staind on list of 15 bands
• BuzzChatter Tuesday: Logan insists that Brownback doesn’t want KU chancellor to quit
• It’s time to make a deal on budget
• KCK gets a new state rep
• Former lecturer at UMKC wins round in federal court
• Kansas delegation applauds $300 million in new federal budget for biolab
• Adult trial sought for teen charged with killing his father in Shawnee
• Wichita’s Mid-Continent Airport becomes Dwight D. Eisenhower National with council’s backing
• Gold medalists Meryl Davis and Charlie White head to ‘Dancing With the Stars’
• Senate panel to examine Kansas’ current protections for religious freedom
• Contestants take aim at ‘Bachelor’ Juan Pablo in ‘Women Tell All’ special
• Strawberry Smoothie Breakfast Pops make nutrition fun for the whole family
• Local musicians talk about their own versions of showmanship
• With Luke Hochevar thriving, Royals shouldn’t rock the boat
• Rockhurst University breaks ground on a $25 million classroom building
• Mission Woods wields big hammer in tussle over eminent domain
• In novel, Lee’s Summit woman reveals cultural shame endured by daughter and mom
• H&R Block rolls out tax season contest for teachers
• Learning to love the brown bag
• To players’ relief, no more road games for Wildcats
• Oklahoma State uses balanced attack that Kansas State lacks, beats Wildcats 77-61
• Eric Hosmer blasts a home run as Royals bats heat up in 9-5 victory over Reds
• No contract extension in sight as Royals’ James Shields prepares for Opening Day, his deadline
• Billy Butler to play more at first in hopes of giving Royals more lineup flexibility
• Missouri’s Bri Kulas, Lianna Doty receive postseason SEC basketball honors
• Dish, SEC Network reach carriage agreement
• Missouri reportedly agrees to $3 million per year contract extension for coach Gary Pinkel
• Missouri women’s basketball team finds positives from this season
• KU probably needs a strong finish to earn a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament
• Jayhawks begin search for a starting quarterback
• Kaldi’s Coffee purchases the six Latteland Espresso & Tea shops
• Olathe’s Great Mall adds art studio
• Let your personality shine in your landscape
• It’s no slam dunk for Big 12, SEC players of the year
• Now open: The Hillary Clinton (campaign?) store