By JEFF BARNARD and NICHOLAS RICCARDI The fate of a tax credit that advocates say is needed to maintain tens of thousands of wind energy jobs will be decided during… Read more »
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City to review sewer rates, includes scooters in traffic ordinance
By MICHAEL FREEMAN (WARRENSBURG, Mo., digitalBURG) – The City Council on Tuesday agreed to review sewer rates and to include scooters in its code of ordinances covering intoxication-related traffic offenses…. Read more »
Nelson-Atkins lends paintings to Shanghai Museum
(KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — Kansas City’s Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art has loaned several of its Chinese landscape paintings to China’s Shanghai Museum for an exhibition that’s been drawing huge… Read more »
Missouri girl, 4, brings toys to NYC storm victims
(NEW YORK, AP) — A 4-year-old girl from Kansas City has been delivering toys to New York City children affected by Superstorm Sandy. Katherine Schell tells WCBS-TV (http://cbsloc.al/Zyb1r8 ) that… Read more »
St. Louis Co. town to kill 125 deer
(TOWN AND COUNTRY, Mo., AP) — The St. Louis County community of Town and Country will hire a sharpshooting company to kill 125 deer. KTVI-TV (http://bit.ly/UAlHq1 ) reports that the… Read more »
Gawkers head to NY’s storm-ravaged neighborhoods
By CHRISTINA REXRODE, DAVID BAUDER and VERENA DOBNIK (NEW YORK, AP) — Garbage trucks, hulking military vehicles and mud-caked cars move slowly through a Staten Island waterfront neighborhood still reeling… Read more »
Dexter man says fake officer assaulted him
(DEXTER, Mo., AP) — Police in the southeast Missouri town of Dexter are searching for a man who posed as police officer and assaulted a resident. The Dexter Daily Statesman… Read more »
Friend: Petraeus began affair after taking CIA job
By ADAM GOLDMAN, ANNE FLAHERTY and KIMBERLY DOZIER (WASHINGTON, AP) — Retired Gen. David Petraeus began an affair with his biographer in 2011, two months after he became CIA director,… Read more »
Mo. Gov. Nixon faces GOP legislative supermajority
By CHRIS BLANK (JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon had to do some compromising with the state’s GOP-led Legislature during his first term, but now the Democratic… Read more »
Kan. sheriff mulls future after Colo. pot vote
(SHARON SPRINGS, Kan., AP) — If Colorado’s new marijuana law holds up, western Kansas Sheriff Larry Townsend is pretty sure people from all over the region will descend on the… Read more »