By BILL DRAPER (KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — More than two months after being appointed special prosecutor to re-examine a northwest Missouri teenager’s claims that she was raped by an… Read more »
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KCP&L plans to increase wind power
KCP&L plans to increase wind power, conservation (KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — Kansas City Power & Light Co. says it will expand its use of wind energy and other energy-efficiency… Read more »
Nixon fills 2 seats on Mo. Board of Education
(JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has appointed a former state economic development director and a former public school administrator to seats on the State Board of… Read more »
Reversals in hard-won Iraqi city vex veterans
By ALLEN G. BREED and JULIE WATSON SAN DIEGO, AP — The image of two charred American bodies hanging from a bridge as a jubilant crowd pelted them with shoes seared… Read more »
Polar air blamed for 21 deaths nationwide
By RAY HENRY (ATLANTA, AP) — Fountains froze over, a 200-foot Ferris wheel in Atlanta shut down, and Southerners had to dig out winter coats, hats and gloves they almost… Read more »
Power outage affects more than 7,000
(digitalBURg) — Kansas City Power and Light worked to restore power Tuesday to customers in Johnson, Cass and Jackson counties. A KCPL substation failure resulted in a loss of power… Read more »
Below-zero temps push into Midwest, Northeast
By KERRY LESTER and TAMMY WEBBER (CHICAGO, AP) — Temperatures not seen in years are likely to set records in the coming days across the Midwest, Northeast and South, creating… Read more »
Selling social media clicks becomes big business
By MARTHA MENDOZA (SAN JOSE, Calif., AP) — Celebrities, businesses and even the U.S. State Department have bought bogus Facebook likes, Twitter followers or YouTube viewers from offshore “click farms,”… Read more »
Obama calls for restoring unemployment benefits
(HONOLULU, AP) — President Barack Obama is urging Congress to reinstate jobless benefits for more than a million Americans. In his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama says the unemployment… Read more »
‘Polar vortex’ to blast frigid air over much of US
By CARSON WALKER (SIOUX FALLS, S.D., AP) — Winter is normally cold, but tundra-like temperatures are soon poised to deliver a rare and potentially dangerous sledgehammer blow to much of… Read more »