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RSSOfficer-involved shooting reported at Noland Road and I-70
NOW BACK TO THIS MORNING'S BREAKING NEWS- THE EXIT RAMP FROM I-70 TO NOLAND ROAD- SHUT DOWN- AFTER AN APPARENT OFFICER INVOLVED SHOOTING- MARTIN AUGUSTINE IS THERE WITH THE ...
CWO Prepared Meals for Ronald McDonald House
Earlier this week, the Chiefs Women's Organization (CWO) volunteered at The Culinary Center of Kansas City to prepare meals for families at the Ronald McDonald House. The Ronald McDonald House serves as a "home away from home" for families, while children are receiving medical care; they have two houses in the Kansas City area, as well as a family room at Children's Mercy ...
Winter weather Outages travel woes await
It's turned travel into a nightmare, left regions freezing in bone-chilling darkness, and made snow over the neon lights of Las Vegas a ...
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RSSWreck snarls SB I-29 traffic near Platte City Friday afternoon
A technical issue at the UK's air traffic control center in Swanwick is causing delays to hundreds of flights Saturday across the United Kingdom, including Heathrow Airport. "We are currently experiencing some difficulty switching from night time to ...
Auburn Missouri face off in SEC title game
Auburn coach Gus Malzahn, left, and Missouri coach Gary Pinkel shake hands behind the SEC title trophy in Atlanta on Friday. (Jason Getz | Atlanta Journal-Constitution | Associated ...
Colorado faces test in Kansas Comet Andrew Wiggins
Andrew Wiggins #22 of the Kansas Jayhawks drives upcourt on a fast break as Timajh Parker-Rivera #15 and Rafriel Guthrie #22 of the Towson Tigers chase during the game at Allen Fieldhouse on Nov. 22, 2013 in Lawrence, Kan. (Jamie Squire, Getty Images) Sports fans are really amateur astronomers - stargazers - and Saturday they'll spot an incandescent comet shooting in Boulder, one not seen ...
Newman deported from North Korea now in China
Merrill Newman -- the 85-year-old American detained by North Korean authorities earlier this fall -- is on a flight back to freedom after being locked up in North ...
Downtown construction work in Kansas City is almost done
The stadium and parking lots are patrolled on game days by more uniformed officers than any city in Missouri on any given day, authorities say. The death of Kyle Van Winkle last Sunday appears to be an isolated incident, they ...
Saturday Storylines Missouri writing its own bounce-back story in SEC title hunt
James Franklin and Missouri will have to overcome the magic of the Auburn Tigers to win the SEC title. (David Eulitt/SI) There's no telling what Auburn and Missouri players were doing on the first weekend of December last year, but one thing’s for sure: they were not playing in the SEC Championship Game in Atlanta. We all remember Alabama clinching a BCS title berth with a narrow ...
Woman assaulted in Olathe parking lot
OLATHE, Kan. - Neighbors in Olathe were on high alert Friday night after a woman was assaulted in an apartment complex in the 11800 Block of south Shannon Street around midnight on December 6. Police said a man forced a 21-year-old woman into her car, showed her a knife and then demanded cash and ATM cards. He drove her to a nearby business where she handed over what he wanted. He then drove her ...
Kansas volleyball wins NCAA opener avenges loss to Wichita State
Officers get recent parolee down from ledge of state parole office in Wichita A nearly two-hour standoff with a recent parolee who perched outside a second-floor window at a state parole office in downtown Wichita ended Friday afternoon when the man fell to the sidewalk after a brief struggle with ...
Report American deported from North Korea
Merrill Newman -- the 85-year-old American detained by North Korean authorities earlier this fall -- has been "deported," North Korea's state news agency KCNA reported early ...
Missouris arrival on SECs big stage is vindication for Alden
COLUMBIA - Almost from the instant Missouri’s move to the Southeastern Conference became official 25 months ago, MU athletic director Mike Alden cautioned — or was it touted? — that a 30-month orientation period lay ...
No. 4 Missouri rattled early but finishes strong in NCAA volleyball opener
Teamsters will vote on YRC Worldwide proposal A statement from the International Brotherhood of Teamsters said its negotiating committee made no recommendation on how to vote when ballots are mailed early next week. The 26,000 Teamsters who work for the struggling Overland Park freight company will have roughly a month to weigh the offer and cast ...
Kansas toddler Trick Shot Titus sinks more amazing shots as Channing Tatum and Bradley Cooper join in
Jimmy Nielsen hopes to end personal championship drought Sporting Kansas City goalie Jimmy Nielsen described the first soccer championship of his career with a certain flavor of sentiment and passion. And perhaps some regret, too. He was only 21 when he hoisted the Danish Superliga trophy as a member of AaB Fodbold. He didnt think much of it, he explained, shaking his head in disappointment as ...
MLS Cup preview Real Salt Lake meets Sporting Kansas City to decide Major League Soccer’s 18th championship
KANSAS CITY - Playing careers will be defined and future coaching careers could be shaped Saturday on a bone-chilling afternoon at Sporting Park, where Major League Soccer's ...
Man petitions horse-drawn carriages
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - One man's petition to ban horse-drawn carriages at the Country Club Plaza is quickly catching on. Every night you can hear their gallops as thousands take the joy ride each year. But if the horses could talk, what would they say? "I want to be the voice that they don't have," Ryan Rhodes said. Rhodes thinks he knows what they would say. "You ...
Missouris offense has rolled up numbers similar to Auburn
Missouri’s offense has rolled up numbers similar to Auburn With its read-option attack, Auburn’s offense has received a lot of attention, but Mizzou’s balanced approach has been ...
Sugar Bowl and maybe more is at stake for Missouri Auburn
Missouri’s offense has rolled up numbers similar to Auburn With its read-option attack, Auburn’s offense has received a lot of attention, but Mizzou’s balanced approach has been ...
Comparing Missouri and Auburn on and off the field
Missouri’s offense has rolled up numbers similar to Auburn With its read-option attack, Auburn’s offense has received a lot of attention, but Mizzou’s balanced approach has been ...
Snow sleet ice continue in Missouri
How in the world can No. 3 Auburn put Chris Davis’ missed field-goal return for a touchdown on the Iron Bowl’s final play in the rearview mirror and focus on No. 5 Missouri? And don’t forget Missouri is coming off a pretty big game, too. It’s not as though Texas A&M, which only lost to Auburn by four points, was a pushover. And beating the Aggies was a must for ...
SEC Championship Auburn Missouri are even but took different roads to Atlanta
Getty Images If there is one song that seems to sum up the recent wild ride the Auburn Tigers have taken the pastfew weeks, it may be Bon ...
Students left waiting in the cold
PARK HILL, Mo. - Students got home on time Friday afternoon along the bus route from Plaza Middle School, but the journey to school that morning took almost an hour longer. "He was all bundled up. He had a hat on, the scarf, gloves everything. He was good to be out there for a little while but not for 45 minutes," Don Bonjour said of his son. Bonjour's 6th grader finally made it ...
Snow on Sunday near record lows tonight and tomorrow
Click here to watch Friday night's forecast KMBC's Lisa Teachman said we'll have our coldest nights of the year so far on Friday night and Saturday night. Lows both nights will hover at or just above 0 degrees.The wind chill on Saturday morning will be dangerously cold, getting as low as -15 degrees. If you're heading to the Sporting Kansas City game or participating in any ...
Missouri basketball streaks are on the line against UCLA
Missouri, Auburn both on an emotional high How in the world can No. 3 Auburn put Chris Davis’ missed field-goal return for a touchdown on the Iron Bowl’s final play in the rearview mirror and focus on No. 5 Missouri? And don’t forget Missouri is coming off a pretty big game, too. It’s not as though Texas A&M, which only lost to Auburn by four points, was a pushover. ...
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Kansas City women focus on micro-finance
Kansas City women are trying to make an impact in the world by teaming up with micro-finance providers for people living in poverty.
All too often charitable causes and organisations looking for funding focus on symptomatic poverty, responding to the causes of poverty worldwide in a similar manner to a doctor giving a patient painkillers for a cancer tumor instead of removing the tumor. We donate so that children in poverty around the world can get food, education, clothing, medicines and various other basic needs. But it doesn’t solve the problem of why they’re in poverty in the first place. Read more