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March 4, 2014

• House votes to curtail flood insurance rate hikes
• Common Core’s greatest challenge: testing students’ ability to think
• Missouri audit of Hickman Mills School District exposes past turmoil
• Royals keep Omar Infante out of Tuesday’s lineup because of his shoulder
• FC Kansas City inks first international player
• 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
• Lori Allen — One error in judgment and an athlete’s future dims
• 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 police investigate homicide in vehicle on the East Side
• Truman Heartland foundation will award at least $265,000 in grants this year
• KC man and girlfriend are charged after bruises are found on her 3-year-old son
• Union Station ends its fourth year in a row with a seven-digit cash surplus
• Lee’s Summit license readers are subject of lawsuit
• After stretch of record cold in KC, warming trend is forecast
• 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
• 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
• Ferrelview man pleads guilty as part of child porn ring
• Lee’s Summit students don’t want peers to be priced out of prom
• 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
• 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
• Letters to the editor
• Strawberry Smoothie Breakfast Pops make nutrition fun for the whole family
• Local musicians talk about their own versions of showmanship
• Sporting KC names Matt Besler captain, unveils new secondary jerseys
• High school results - March 4
• Royals lefty pitcher Danny Duffy is hard-wired with resilience
• Rockhurst University breaks ground on a $25 million classroom building
• Cellar & Loft wine shop adds craft beers and pizza
• Wildcats seeking offensive consistency before Big 12 Tournament
• H&R Block rolls out tax season contest for teachers
• Learning to love the brown bag
• Justin Wesley finds an unexpected role in his time at Kansas
• KU probably needs a strong finish to earn a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament
• Texas Tech-Kansas basketball preview
• Let your personality shine in your landscape
• Now open: The Hillary Clinton (campaign?) store
• 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
• Near the end of a frustrating first season at Missouri, center Keanau Post shows what he can do
• Missouri-Texas A&M basketball preview
• Missouri’s Bri Kulas, Lianna Doty receive postseason SEC basketball honors
• Dish, SEC Network reach carriage agreement
• Kaldi’s Coffee purchases the six Latteland Espresso & Tea shops
• Changes coming for BarryWoods Crossing after Boston Market's departure
• Olathe’s Great Mall adds art studio