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&bullBoy Scouts Work To Replace Stolen Gear
15 minutes ago
A local Boy Scout troop works to replace camping gear that was recently stolen.
[From KMBC.com - Local News]
&bullThieves Target License Plate Stickers
19 minutes ago
Metro residents report that thieves have stolen the renewal stickers from their cars' license plates.
[From KMBC.com - Local News]
&bullPolice Probe Possible Parental Abduction
1 hour ago
Police ask the public to be on the lookout for a missing child who may be the victim of a parental kidnapping.
[From KMBC.com - Local News]
&bullMore than half of young mothers give birth out of wedlock
8 hours ago
Think of it as a new “normal” in American family life. After creeping slowly and steadily upward most of the last 50 years, the number of babies born to young unmarried women quietly crossed a troubling threshold in 2006.
[From Kansas City Star: Local News]
&bullFamily wanted for Holly, 15, a 'people person'
9 hours ago
HOLLY, 15, is a self- described “people person” with a great smile. She loves to draw. She also likes to shop. In school, she's been getting good grades lately.
[From Kansas City Star: Local News]
&bullKC Library plans to display maquettes of KC Fed statues
9 hours ago
Mini-versions of the “Spirit of Industry” and the “Spirit of Commerce” soon will alight at the Kansas City Public Library.
[From Kansas City Star: Local News]
&bullKansas Senate candidates face off in first debate
9 hours ago
HUTCHINSON, Kan. | Intelligence used to justify the invasion of Iraq was one of several contentious topics Saturday during the first debate between Republican Sen. Pat Roberts and his Democratic challenger, Jim Slattery.
[From Kansas City Star: Local News]
&bullAnnual Harley-Davidson event benefits group that helps children from troubled...
9 hours ago
A recording of Arlo Guthrie's “Mr. Customs Man” was blaring over loudspeakers just a few feet away from a tent where Budweiser and margaritas were being dispensed.
[From Kansas City Star: Local News]
&bullHulshof's health-care plan scrutinized
9 hours ago
Republican Kenny Hulshof unveiled his health-care plan late last month amid predictions that it would help nearly all 729,000 uninsured Missourians acquire health coverage at modest cost.
[From Kansas City Star: Local News]
&bullMcCain, Palin to appear at Lee's Summit rally on Monday
9 hours ago
Republican presidential nominee John McCain and vice presidential running mate Sarah Palin will appear at a rally in Lee's Summit at 10:30 a.m. Monday, the campaign said.
[From Kansas City Star: Local News]
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From around the world and across the street.
Ike blasts Turks and Caicos, floods Haiti again
by By BEN FOX
7 Sep 2008 at 9:53am
PROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos (AP) -- Ike ripped off roofs, sank boats and blocked the road for aid to reach a flooded Haitian city on Sunday as it roared over the southern Bahamas as a ferocious Category 4 hurricane. The Florida Keys evacuated and Cuba prepared for a direct hit....
[From AP Top Headlines At 10:53 a.m. EDT]
Powerful Hurricane Ike looms as trouble for Gulf
by By BRIAN SKOLOFF
7 Sep 2008 at 9:51am
KEY WEST, Fla. (AP) -- Powerful Hurricane Ike rolled down an uncertain path Sunday that may lead to the U.S. Gulf Coast late this week, forcing emergency officials to pay attention and leaving millions of people from Florida to Mexico to wonder where it will eventually strike....
[From AP Top Headlines At 10:53 a.m. EDT]
Biden: Protect taxpayers in mortgage rescue
by By ALAN ZIBEL
7 Sep 2008 at 9:47am
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Joe Biden says the government's rescue of the big mortgage companies Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae should not mean bailing out shareholders at the expense of taxpayers....
[From AP Top Headlines At 10:53 a.m. EDT]
Iraqi police: Roadside bombs wound 14 in Baghdad
by By SINAN SALAHEDDIN
7 Sep 2008 at 9:36am
BAGHDAD (AP) -- A series of roadside bombs wounded at least 14 people Sunday in eastern Baghdad, police said, in a sign of the ongoing security threats despite a sharp reduction of violence in the Iraqi capital....
[From AP Top Headlines At 10:53 a.m. EDT]
Workers clear path to access Cairo rock fall site
7 Sep 2008 at 9:33am
CAIRO (Reuters) - Egyptian workers cut through a railway embankment on Sunday to bring heavy earth-moving equipment to the site of a rock fall which killed at least 31 people in a Cairo shantytown.
[From Reuters: Top News]
Pakistan suicide blast death toll reaches 35
by By RIAZ KHAN
7 Sep 2008 at 9:31am
PESHAWAR, Pakistan (AP) -- The death toll in a massive suicide blast in Pakistan's militant-plagued northwest reached 35, officials said Sunday, as the country prepared for Benazir Bhutto's widower to take over as president....
[From AP Top Headlines At 10:53 a.m. EDT]
Iran to hold presidential election in June 2009
7 Sep 2008 at 9:28am
TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran will hold its 2009 presidential election on June 12, when conservative Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is widely expected to stand for a second four-year term despite criticism over his economic policies.
[From Reuters: Top News]
South Korea may resume food aid to North
7 Sep 2008 at 9:14am
SEOUL, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- A South Korean official Sunday announced his government is considering resuming food aid to North Korea.
[From Top News - UPI.com]
NYPD officer sues over Segway accident
7 Sep 2008 at 9:10am
NEW YORK, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- As many cities consider putting police on Segway PT scooters, a New York police officer has filed suit, saying the gizmo ended his career.
[From Top News - UPI.com]
Passenger fight causes JetBlue diversion
7 Sep 2008 at 9:08am
BOSTON, Sept. 7 (UPI) -- Federal officials say a JetBlue flight out of Boston had to be diverted when a fight broke out between brothers.
[From Top News - UPI.com]
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