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January 22, 2015

• This week in Kansas City: Groundhog Run, Nikki Giovanni and the KC Boat and Sportshow
• Opponents of Kansas medical marijuana bill to testify
• In State of the State speech, Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon pushes for Medicaid expansion
• Talks on upgrading KCI are going well, Kansas City Council is told
• Gov. Brownback pledges to sign new anti-abortion proposal
• Cokethea Hill is replacing Michael Brooks on the Kansas City Council
• President Obama to speak today at the University of Kansas
• In Lawrence visit, President Obama focuses on working families and child care
• Replay: Live updates from President Barack Obama’s visit to KU
• Kansas to consider allowing concealed gun carry without permits
• Speeding tickets and DUI busts drop with fewer Kansas troopers on the job
• Chiefs game against Lions in November will start at 8:30 a.m.
• Chiefs’ Clark Hunt, John Dorsey visit Eric Berry, say he’s in good spirits amid cancer battle
• Mizzou’s Markus Golden hopes his competitiveness, effort stand out at Senior Bowl
• Draft analyst discusses prospects from second day of Senior Bowl
• OU Sooners fire a mascot for taunting, ‘spilling’ popcorn on OSU fans
• Will Ferrell hit a cheerleader in the head with a ball at NBA game (for a movie)
• Tom Brady denies everything ... the Internet doesn’t believe him
• Wind is back in the sails of the boating industry
• Photos of four Oak Park Mall robbery suspects released
• Debora Green, imprisoned for the 1995 arson murder of two children, is denied new sentencing
• Mexican national soccer team will play Paraguay at Arrowhead Stadium on March 31
• Caption contest: Open hands, squat down
• Second Fairfax Bridge detonation set for Saturday
• Preliminary hearing set for three murder defendants in She’s A Pistol robbery
• Man kidnapped in Kansas City escapes in St. Louis County
• Funding dilemma divides state districts into winners, losers
• Gov. Jay Nixon’s budget proposal spells trouble for Missouri schools
• Readers share views on guns, the Bieker family and President Obama’s safety
• Olathe police officer dies while detailing motorcycle for presidential ride-along
• Woman robbed at gunpoint near Oak Park Mall
• Winning numbers for Wednesday, Jan. 21
• Seminar at Kansas City Sportshow aims to help new boaters
• Overland Park apartment complex sells for $18.6 million
• St. Louis police officers shoot, kill man armed with gun
• NASCAR’s Jeff Gordon won’t race full time after 2015 season
• Police ID man fatally shot outside south KC apartment complex
• Gov. Sam Brownback to take his show on the road
• OSHA fines contractors for summer construction death in Kansas City
• Some believe Gordon will leave NASCAR as the best driver in history
• A retold Greek myth at the Living Room, a rowdy farce in Lawrence
• Police use cruiser to stop rampaging pit bulls
• Patriots’ Bill Belichick ‘shocked’ to find out there were deflated footballs
• Pats coach Belichik talks football deflation in front of Flexball ad
• TheChat: Speaker John Boehner decries Obama proposals
• Police: Man demolishes house, doesn’t tell his wife
• Energy slump hits regional manufacturers
• Verizon reports a fourth-quarter loss of $2.23 billion
• Area homebuilder Tom Woods is named chairman of national association
• Kansas City development group hires international trade expert
• Compared with most U.S. cities, the Kansas City area’s growth rate struggles
• MU and Cerner collaborate on health clinic
• Sprint’s reported deal with Google carries rewards and risks
• T-Mobile is ready to ignore some bad credit histories
• J.C. Penney shuts down its Foundry Big & Tall stores
• Joe’s Kansas City Bar-B-Que on Yelp’s top 100 places to eat
• Missouri losing streak reaches four as it falls 62-50 at Texas A&M
• Missouri notebook: Senior Keanau Post gets a start
• Ex-Missouri Tiger Phil Pitts joins Gary Pinkel’s staff as defensive analyst
• Royals set opening day first pitch for 3:10 p.m.
• Royals caravan launches Jan. 28, going in three directions
• Royals have seen spike in season-ticket sales on heels of World Series appearance
• Kansas State reportedly agrees to football series with Vanderbilt
• During visit to Lawrence, President Obama meets with Kansas basketball team