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May 24, 2016

• KC praised as leader in U.S. in improving kids’ reading ability
• ‘Use your turn signal’: Six of the best celebrity commencement speeches of 2016
• KC Fire Department to release report on arson that killed two firefighters
• Monday Poll results: Gov. Sam Brownback’s actions get bashed, and hard
• Iowa woman nearly died from eating a tenderized beef steak
• Man pleads guilty in celebrity online hacking case
• Demolition means more closures this week at I-35 and I-435 in Johnson County
• Video: High school senior born with cerebral palsy walks for first time in public at graduation
• $1.2 million theft from Garmin is alleged against woman accused in another embezzlement
• KU is terminating professor who used N-word in class
• Police investigate shooting in south Kansas City
• Richard Myers will speak at Memorial Day ceremony at World War I museum
• Two men are indicted in 2014 drug-related homicide in Kansas City
• Weekend ATV accident kills Platte City man
• KC Fire Department makes 14 safety recommendations from deaths of two firefighters
• Grand jury indicts Independence man for taking photos of a nude woman
• United Way refocus means some programs will lose funds
• Man dies when his car rolls over him in Kansas City, Kan.
• Kansas City man is charged in chase that included gunshots fired at police
• Kansas City school board will vote Wednesday on budget
• Another lawsuit alleges sexual impropriety at VA Medical Center in Leavenworth
• Bates County girl, 12, dies after being pinned under horse at rodeo
• Former NBA player Kermit Washington is arrested in KC-based federal investigation
• Cause of Kansas City streetcar derailment is still under investigation
• Climate change worries heat up in America and around the world
• Area students brace for start of national spelling bee Wednesday
• Missouri dancer, 15, a cancer survivor with a backward leg, inspires millions worldwide
• United Way refocuses how it serves KC
• Missouri Republicans want changes to state primaries
• Blunt calls on VA secretary to quit for comparing health-care waits to Disneyland lines
• Uproar over ‘Disney’ comments from VA secretary grows
• Trump insists decision to seek donations followed GOP request
• Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon to visit Cuba
• Riverside police prevent man from jumping into Missouri River
• TheChat: Missouri GOP slowly lining up behind Donald Trump
• Woman trying to prove ‘vegans can do anything’ among four dead on Mount Everest
• Chewbacca Mom’s silly, hilarious video gets more than 140 million views
• St. Louis driver hits, kills motorcyclist, checks damage, drives away
• Lightning blamed for igniting fire that damaged Olathe home
• Hit-and-miss storms drench parts of Kansas City metropolitan area
• Single-engine plane makes emergency landing in Clay County field
• Overland Park residents say city failed to live up to 2008 annexation promises
• For these Americans, sewing the Stars and Stripes is a labor of love
• New report cites missteps that led to deaths of two Kansas City firefighters
• SM East, St. Thomas Aquinas win Kansas boys golf state titles
• Tyler Bray opens offseason practices as Chiefs’ No. 2 quarterback, but competition is open
• Chiefs safety Eric Berry absent as OTAs begin, but linebacker Justin Houston is present
• Chiefs’ Steven Nelson seeks to make statement in secondary
• Editorial: Reject GOP extremists on Aug. 2
• How allowing euthanasia and assisted-suicide would save lives
• I haven’t put a photo in an album since 2007. Let that sink in.
• Letters: Bill Self should hire the folks cut from Kansas welfare
• A tribute to my son’s second-grade teacher
• A childhood devoid of school lunches and VBS
• A glimpse of what Meadowbrook park, development will have to offer
• Budget uncertainty still looms for schools
• The Device Shop carves out a niche among incubators
• The J Bar serves elegant culinary mash-ups in an Olathe hotel
• Winning lottery numbers for Monday, May 23
• Silpada Designs shocks its representatives by announcing the company will close in July
• Legos are becoming more violent, new study suggests
• Kat’s Money Corner: Taking Memorial Day beyond the backyard
• Kansas, Kentucky get rematch in 2017 SEC/Big 12 Challenge
• MU Title IX Office involved with investigation of softball coach Ehren Earleywine
• Missouri baseball’s season ends with loss to Vanderbilt at SEC tourney
• Mizzou basketball makes Michael Porter Jr.’s top five, KU among those left out
• Mizzou ace Tanner Houck will try to keep season alive against Vanderbilt
• Paulo Orlando, Salvador Perez stay hot in Royals’ 10-4 win over Twins
• Kansas State women’s soccer finds vision for success as first season approaches
• Kansas State baseball hopes to make noise at Big 12 Tournament
• In this strange dry/wet spring, it’s time to fertilize many vegetables again