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January 15, 2015

• Harlem Globetrotter Corey ‘Thunder’ Law goes from long shot to sure shot
• Courageous women get audiences thinking in ‘Waiting to Be Invited’
• A True Culinary Experience: Sasha’s Baking Co.
• Lee’s Summit’s Emily Robinson is The Star’s All-Metro Missouri softball player of the year
• After man’s drowning in handcuffs, legislators urge changes to improve safety on Missouri lakes, rivers
• Flu shot this season just 23 precent effective
• Kerry says he’s going to France to give ‘a big hug to Paris’
• Analysis: Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback faces tough fights on taxes and school funding
• Kansas City Council appoints Courtney Ann Wachal as a Municipal Court judge
• Obama to renew push for paid leave for working parents
• Gov. Sam Brownback, wrestling with budget shortages, says Kansas is headed in the right direction
• Missouri bill would ban spanking in public schools
• Rep. Emanuel Cleaver urges President Obama to increase heating help for the poor
• Royals and nine arbitration-eligible players to exchange figures Friday
• Chiefs, Missouri Western agree to three-year training camp extension in St. Joseph
• Chiefs’ Eric Fisher heads toward a career-defining offseason
• Sporting KC selects Clemson’s Amadou Dia with 20th pick in MLS SuperDraft
• Sporting KC takes midfielder Connor Hallisey with 10th pick in MLS SuperDraft
• Sporting KC adds one midfielder, two defenders in MLS SuperDraft first round
• FC Kansas City looking for impact players in Friday’s college draft
• Mya Mertz leads Blue Valley Northwest past Gardner Edgerton in girls basketball
• The Star’s high school athletes of the week (Jan. 15)
• Readers share views on body cameras, Gov. Sam Brownback and violence in Mexico
• Find better ways to support education in rural counties
• FBI: Ohio man planned to bomb U.S. Capitol, kill officials
• Wagle: Young people aren’t worried about elected officials’ gender breakdown
• Catherine Hanaway, Tom Schweich each have more than $1 million for campaigns for governor
• TheChat: Mitt Romney is under fire
• Candlelight vigils planned for recent KC area homicide victims
• Man declared dead from Olathe traffic crash injuries, other driver charged
• Charges are filed in the accidental shooting of a 3-year-old girl
• Person is in custody after teen is wounded in shooting near Olathe Northwest High School
• Police identify woman found dead in Independence parking lot
• Pedestrian struck on I-635 in KCK
• Kansas City man is sentenced to multiple life terms for 2011 double murder
• Vigils in KC and Shawnee mark the deaths of student and businessman
• One of the last Marlboro Men dies at 85
• This week in Kansas City: It’s Restaurant Week! Plus Mid-America RV Show and Harlem Globetrotters
• Sporting KC selects Akron defender Saad Abdul-Salaam with 12th pick in MLS SuperDraft
• Show season kicks off for outdoors enthusiasts
• Hanson brothers from ‘Slap Shot’ ready to take the ice Saturday at Mavericks’ game
• Olathe North High School picks Chris McCartney as its next football coach
• The Star’s high school basketball rankings (Jan. 15)
• Indianapolis Colts linebacker Josh McNary charged with rape
• Kansas City’s favorite NBA team is the LA Lakers by a country mile
• Gov. Sam Brownback: I would have sent Alex Gordon
• Cardale Jones announces he’s returning to Ohio State and people are incredulous, proud
• Forget the cold: KC about to get a weeklong warm spell
• Power outage affects 8,000 customers, disrupts traffic signals in southeast Kansas City
• Belgium police kill two in anti-terror raid shootout
• Woman gets 219 years in prison in incestuous sex ring case
• Michigan BASE jumper dies after launching from TV news tower
• Two friends climb into history by their bloodied fingertips
• Woman finds python during nighttime potty visit
• ‘In Dog We Trust’ accidentally printed on sheriff’s dept. rugs
• Winning numbers for Thursday, Jan. 15
• Seeking international trade growth, Kansas City joins the Global Cities Initiative’s Exchange
• TurboTax changes spark free offer from H&R Block
• MRIGlobal wins $54 million contract from the National Institutes of Health
• Populous shares a peek at its next home near the Country Club Plaza
• Bombardier lays off 620 in Wichita as it ‘pauses’ Learjet 85 program
• End of holiday season boosts unemployment applications
• The week ahead: Housing numbers and earnings reports will be issued
• Medical marijuana supporters to rally at Kansas Statehouse
• Young Kansas couple found dead; twin in custody
• About 75,900 Kansans sign up for federal health plan
• K-State quarterback Jake Waters has surgery, played with hurt shoulder last season
• Kansas’ Bill Self: It’s ‘too early’ to look at the Big 12 race
• Five recent classic Kansas-Iowa State basketball clashes
• Health department temporarily shuts down new restaurant The Rim
• Study shows BBQ more popular in Missouri than Kansas
• JoyceKC: 5 restaurant & bar updates for Jan. 15
• Missouri women fall to No. 1 South Carolina
• Missouri’s Gill-Caesar likely to miss a fourth consecutive game