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July 16, 2015

• A Cut Above
• Kansas City Council votes for minimum wage increase to $13 per hour by 2020
• Senate OKs revised No Child education law, compromise needed
• Jazz museum director may be leaving at the same time city is pushing for more control in district
• Missouri mega-donor Rex Sinquefield to host fundraiser for Scott Walker
• Playing in his final Open, legendary Tom Watson shoots opening-round 76 at St. Andrews
• Children’s Mercy creates transplant center for liver, kidney and heart teams
• Eyewitness in fatal Kansas Turnpike accident says car was sucked into whirlpool
• Police chase from Northland into Wyandotte County leads to fatal shooting of suspect and I-35 traffic snarl
• Robert Streb is 1 shot off lead after opening-round 66 at British Open
• Crimson-and-blue Mizzou is part of SEC football uniforms reimagined in rival colors
• Royals go zero-for-two at the ESPYs
• Living history: Brit actors impress with solo shows
• Missouri launches a mean-spirited, foolish attack on immigrant college students
• Readers react to Hillary Clinton, Kansas and college sports
• Therese Park: Priest’s service still is making ripples
• Olathe Northwest’s Reagan Hathaway is The Star’s All-Metro Kansas softball player of the year
• KCK activist charged in fatal traffic crash is arrested after missing court date
• Police investigate death of 3-year-old as an accidental self-inflicted gunshot
• Olathe police search for suspect in alleged ATM break-in
• TV lie detector fail leads to sex charges against Kansas City man
• Kansas City police investigate dead man with tattoo
• AARP pokes fun at Tiger Woods’ struggles at British Open
• Gov. Jay Nixon throws in the towel on going to citizens on ethics reform
• Obama heads to Oklahoma prison for a fairer justice system
• TheChat: Rep. Tim Huelskamp defends the First Amendment
• Fishing report for July 15
• Emotional Caitlyn Jenner accepts Ashe Courage Award at ESPYs
• Don’t rush to approve proposed Westport entry fee
• Kansas City caterers, city still at odds over convention hotel plan
• Police seek missing woman in Kansas City
• Mountain lions keep wandering into Missouri and sometimes Kansas
• Kansas City puts the brakes on Westport plan to charge an entry fee
• Kauffman Foundation announces $1 million gift to Union Station
• Shawnee Mission East friends recall Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and professor James Tate
• Winning numbers for Wednesday, July 15
• Kansas City Council extends tax abatement for The Star
• Mars will expand its candy plant in Topeka
• Ford offers incentives on new F-150 pickups built at Claycomo and Michigan plants
• Call center will add 333 jobs in Lawrence
• Kansas State picked to finish seventh in Big 12, Kansas predicted to end up 10th
• Kansas State’s Dante Barnett, Glenn Gronkowski, Cody Whitehair make preseason All-Big 12 team
• Royals have tough decisions to make about their starting rotation
• Georgia favored to knock off two-time defending SEC East champ Missouri
• Missouri picked to finish third in SEC East
• Losing DT Harold Brantley for 2015 season ‘a huge blow’ to Missouri Tigers
• Current and former MU swimmer earn bronze at Pan American Games
• Jayhawks celebrate U.S. gold at World University Games
• For coaches at this week’s SEC Media Days, there was no ducking Confederate flag issue
• Missouri is college football’s most misread team
• Restaurant inspections for July 16
• Big Lake is Missouri’s best-kept secret
• Now that my basil is growing, what should I do about yellow leaves?