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August 26, 2015

• Comic actor T.J. Miller: An oddball among oddballs
• Unicorn Theatre kicks off season with ‘The Oldest Boy’
• This week in Kansas City: Psychedelic Furs, Aziz Ansari, Wichita Grand Opera and X
• Casual Fall Transitions
• Gov. Sam Brownback plans a town hall meeting in Leavenworth on Guantanamo detainees
• Not much change in Kansas ACT scores, which again beat the national average
• KC dog grooming school aims to provide jobs to unemployed parents
• Chiefs running back Knile Davis on the receiving end of more passes, playing time
• 9/11 ‘Dust Lady’ Marcy Borders dies of cancer at age 42
• Students’ ACT scores in Missouri and Kansas beat the national average
• Nearly 80 cats are removed from a Kansas City home after complaints
• United Way of Wyandotte County kicks off its campaign Sept. 10
• Graphic online videos and ‘autoplays’ of Virginia TV shootings ignite backlash
• Prosecutors are close to finishing case against F. Glenn Miller Jr. in anti-Jewish shootings
• Two children at center for visually impaired receive scholarships honoring Terri LaManno
• FC Kansas City’s Lauren Holiday prepares for final regular-season home game
• 19-year-old charged in shooting of juvenile in Kansas City
• Authorities arrest 25 people following sweeps at Independence motels
• Keep healthy lunches on school menus
• Virginia news station pays tribute to reporter, cameraman killed in shooting
• Loving coach Janice Ninemire Van Gorp saw potential in every life she touched
• Paul LeVota’s former chief of staff back on the job in Missouri Senate
• Vehicle sought in carjacking wrecks after police chase
• FBI warns of phone scam where ‘special agent’ demands money
• TheChat: Missouri law enforcement looking to alter its training standards in the wake of Ferguson
• Readers react to the air show, eating contests and legislative interns
• Fishing report for Aug. 27
• Video: When Alex Gordon returns to Royals, what position will Ben Zobrist play?
• Pair of juveniles arrested after trying to break-in Fairway residence
• Appalling shootings on live TV should lead to stricter gun laws
• No verdict yet in JJ’s restaurant civil trial
• Independence man is accused of filling wetlands
• Missouri couple accused of forcing girls into prostitution, threatening to feed them to alligators
• Police identify motorist killed Tuesday in Kansas City, North wreck
• Former K-State quarterback Jake Waters released by Seattle Seahawks
• Eric Hosmer spotted in a ‘Free Brady’ T-shirt
• Soccer players wield beer during a team photo
• Editorial: Downtown gets a little livelier in Overland Park
• It runs in the family: Austin Klein wins the KC SuperStar title
• Gardner to get sales tax ballots today
• Planning Commission OKs rezoning for big project on Brookridge site
• Letters: Trump’s bluntness, Danedri Herbert, Iran agreement
• Snarky in the Suburbs: Listen up, school district: You’re not a multinational conglomerate or a cable company, and you do need to listen
• After 50 years, Head Start — now Growing Futures — still inspires
• Curling offers a humbling lesson in underestimating a sport
• Winning numbers for Tuesday, Aug. 25
• De Soto schools to begin hunt for Hancock successor
• Sprint CEO Marcelo Claure to speak at StartupGrind event
• As sales fall, Wal-Mart will stop selling military-style guns
• Kansas City Fed will host annual Jackson Hole economic conference this weekend
• KC Chat Series draws Amy Poehler, Liz Murray, Geena Davis
• Big 12 athletic directors support prohibiting transfers with violent pasts
• Late to football, former SM Northwest lineman Will Smith is catching up at KU
• Defensive end Timmy Hamilton, a prep star in Wichita, transferring from Arizona to Kansas
• Unusual hotel-apartment conversion could save blighted Brookfield Building in downtown KC
• New apartments are planned near Kansas City’s St. Luke’s Hospital
• Wade Davis slams the door again as Royals beat the Orioles 3-2
• Winstead’s closes at 103rd & Metcalf
• Success helped Mizzou linebacker Michael Scherer regain confidence
• Missouri still looking for a punt and kickoff return man