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January 7, 2016

• Starlight Theatre: Come in from the cold for a month of comedies
• Kansas City Council schedules earnings tax election for April 5
• KC urges court to keep downtown convention hotel petition off election ballot
• Missouri Senate floor will soon be off limits to reporters
• Some Kansas lawmakers hope for a session short in length and short on wrangling
• Kansas lawmakers plan Sunday meetings; Senate GOP will meet in private
• McCain: Concerns over Ted Cruz citizenship legitimate
• Kansas City Mayor Sly James speaks about gun violence on ‘Nightline’
• Overland Park homicide suspects appear in court
• Final KC homicide victim of 2015 is identified
• Victim in south Kansas City shooting death identified
• Man with tattooed face is accused in KCK carjacking and shooting
• Police identify fatal shooting victim found on park basketball court
• Raymore-Peculiar school officials respond to sexual assault allegations
• Readers react to guns, the 2016 elections and unethical behavior
• Public transit is moving in the right directions
• Gov. Sam Brownback offers feckless mentoring for welfare recipients
• Two more earthquakes rattle northwestern Oklahoma
• Suspended KCK lawyer convicted of mistreating disabled man
• Platte City man reveals $2 million lottery win on Christmas Day
• KCK man is charged with murder in shooting near 11th and Quindaro
• Kansas City man pleads guilty to second-degree murder
• Excelsior Springs woman is sentenced in 2013 murder of KCK man
• Independence parents ‘furious’ that school puts elementary kids in isolation rooms
• TheChat: Eric Greitens chortles over Gov. Jay Nixon’s ethics stance
• I-49 will close this weekend in Harrisonville
• Two men are arrested after Lenexa undercover police officer is shot at
• Wild December pushes 2015 weather to near record levels
• Missouri bill defines sex between lobbyists and lawmakers as a gift
• Missouri to open more private land for outdoor recreation
• The Star’s high school basketball rankings (Jan. 7)
• Program provides hunting access in Kansas
• Park Hill South’s Olivia Kinsey is The Star’s All-Metro Missouri softball player of the year
• The Star’s high school athletes of the week (Jan. 7)
• BV Northwest’s Matthew Carey is The Star’s All-Metro boys soccer player of the year
• Missouri Mavericks player selected as league’s Goaltender of Month
• Lil Jon will be halftime performer at Chiefs-Texans game
• Former Chiefs players scour Arrowhead sidelines, looking for violations of NFL rules for uniforms
• Ron Parker’s blitzing skill gives Chiefs another weapon
• Chiefs’ Marcus Peters chosen as NFL’s defensive rookie of the month
• The road Chiefs, Texans took to Saturday’s AFC Wild Card Game
• Willows rezoning gets Olathe council approval
• Sporting Kansas City releases full 2016 schedule
• Matt Keenan: What can KU football teach us about humility? God only knows
• Principal of Rolling Ridge Elementary School in Olathe receives national honor
• Sporting Kansas City acquires Houston midfielder Brad Davis in trade
• Stacey Hatton: A dance mom triumphs once again
• For KC area, five shows indoors offer outdoors fun
• Winning lottery numbers for Thursday, Jan. 7
• Three Kansas City area Title Boxing Clubs fold
• Frontier Airlines will add nonstop flights from KCI to Atlanta, Chicago and Philadelphia
• McDonald’s is rolling out new packaging
• Royals add former Yankees starter Chien-Ming Wang on minor-league contract
• 14 dogs killed in Baldwin City, Kansas, fire
• Once grounded by the NCAA, Kansas’ Cheick Diallo now sidelined by learning curve
• As Sprint’s cost cutting rolls along, a T-Mobile merger is ‘not in the cards’
• Ex-Sprint CEO Dan Hesse joins PNC board
• Car companies seek to mimic tech giants
• Kansas, Kansas City restaurant health inspections for Jan. 7