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January 23, 2015

• Mark VanLandingham of Olathe East High is The Star’s All-Metro boys soccer player of the year
• The underdog role suits Park Hill point guard Landry Shamet just fine
• New California law makes it harder to skip vaccinations
• Second building is planned at St. Michael’s Veterans Center
• Kobach weighs in on changing how Kansas justices are named
• Kansas lawmaker wants higher bar for winning judicial retention elections
• Mayor Sly James hires press secretary
• Kansas Democrats outline opposition to Gov. Brownback’s budget
• Some Kansas City streetcar planning money is reallocated
• Duke guard Laken Tomlinson goes from “Fluffy” to fearsome, and Chiefs could be interested
• Brooklyn transplants’ Olathe home is an architectural marvel of concrete and steel
• Losses to Chiefs were turning points for Patriots, Seahawks on road to Super Bowl
• Chiefs won’t sign receiver Duron Carter, son of Hall of Famer Cris Carter
• Draft analyst discusses prospects from third day of Senior Bowl
• Smithville man represents KC’s Ford assembly plant at Detroit auto show
• Man files $88 billion lawsuit over Dez Bryant’s famous non-catch
• Coincidence? Today’s word of the day on ‘Sesame Street’ is inflate
• This is an interesting attempt to lip read NFL players, coaches
• Poet Nikki Giovanni to bring revolutionary voice to UMKC
• 2015 Honda CR-V Touring: Honda adds enhanced safety features to the top model
• Tread carefully this time of year: Winter tires can make all the difference
• New Laura Ingalls Wilder book tells the real ‘Little House’ story
• Police seek tips on Raytown liquor store robbery where employee was apparently wounded
• Readers share views on Saturday voting, downtown parking and Obamacare
• Holy cow! Tragedy strikes our heroine in ‘Fifty Shades of Hay’
• 5-year-old twin brothers critically injured in Northland house fire
• 1987 Porsche 911 Targa: From daily driver to race car and back again
• KC kidnap victim returns home; FBI releases photos of suspects
• Westminster College on Saturday will honor Winston Churchill on the 50th anniversary of his death
• Cigarette case ends with guilty plea
• Lee’s Summit woman pleads guilty in designer drug case
• Man convicted of murder involving a drunken dispute
• NFL says no conclusion yet on Patriots’ deflated footballs
• ACLU, Grain Valley settle warning lights case
• ACLU: Grain Valley police will stop ticketing headlight flashers
• March-like weather on tap for Kansas City’s weekend
• KC police honor man who took bullet for woman
• Former coach, teammates remember Olathe North running back James Franklin
• The Star’s high school basketball rankings (Jan. 22)
• $300,000 in wine stolen from famed restaurant French Laundry recovered
• Divers enter crashed AirAsia plane’s fuselage for first time
• Federer out of Australian Open in third round
• The Star’s high school athletes of the week (Jan. 22)
• Mannequin on billboard spurs 911 calls about possible jumper
• Teen accused in crime spree charged with statutory rape
• TheChat: The Barack-Obama-in-Lawrence edition
• Four collections by regional poets describe the all-American experience
• Winning numbers for Thursday, Jan. 22
• ‘Fifty Shades of Hay,’ a parody in six chapters
• Readorama: Kansas City Public Library to feature talk by author of book on Apple vs. Google
• ‘West of Sunset’ imagines novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald’s Hollywood days
• Hallmark and J.C. Penney could expand ‘card shop in a store’ concept
• New king in Saudi Arabia is unlikely to alter oil policy
• MBA paper morphs into award-winning company
• Share of U.S. workers in unions slips again
• Record revenue and soaring profit boost Kansas City Southern
• SkyMall files for bankruptcy as in-flight shopping changes
• McDonald’s earnings fall; changes afoot to woo customers
• Omaha company completes purchase of Olathe-based Elecsys
• TurboTax tells customers in letter: ‘We messed up’
• The week ahead: Federal Reserve policymakers meet Tuesday and Wednesday
• At Home - The Home Decor Superstore is coming to Olathe
• Bonner Springs grad Tyler Howell commits to Missouri’s football team
• Royals, KCSP announce spring training radio schedule
• Kansas State’s Tyler Lockett makes an impression at Senior Bowl workouts
• No. 11 Kansas knows No. 17 Texas offers challenges because of Longhorns’ size
• Kansas-Texas men’s basketball preview
• Stonebridge showcases incredible inventory for the new year
• KCCashHomeBuyers.com offers help for stressed home sellers
• Seattle at UMKC men’s basketball capsule
• UMKC rallies for 66-63 victory over Cal State Bakersfield
• Man gets three years in Lawrence amputation wreck