KANSAS CITY, Missouri - HNTB, the corporation behind the design of the I-470 ramp that collapsed now faces similar problems in Wisconsin. 60,000 driver use the I-470 ramp every day, so it’s a good...

KANSAS CITY, Missouri - A baby was found inside a stroller Friday morning with a note attached. Kansas City police say the baby was found around 9:20 a.m. near 37th and Elmwood. A note was also found...

so soon after the BP oil spill, has set off a wave of anxiety along the Gulf Coast and prompted calls for the government to extend its six-month ban on deepwater drilling. Just when it seemed the...

KANSAS CITY, Missouri - The 2-year-old victim of what Kansas City police are calling "obvious" child abuse was pronounced dead at Children's Mercy Hospital shortly after noon...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- To prevent planes from overshooting the runway, Kansas City's Downtown Airport is getting a $17 million upgrade.Work is under way to install materials to help slow down an...

The state's anti-gambling founders probably wouldn't have approved, but Kansas unveiled a new lottery game Friday to get a jump on celebrating its 150th...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — All the news coming out of Columbia, Mo., lately has been off the field, and bad. No doubt, Missouri can't wait to hit the...

MANHATTAN, Kan. — In 91 years of varsity football, there aren't many things UCLA has never done. But playing a game in the Flint Hills of Kansas is...

LAWRENCE, Kan. — Turner Gill has seen dozens of season openers, and none has ever given him the goose bumps he's going to feel on Saturday. When Kansas hosts North Dakota State in Memorial...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - After an investigation into a pair of sleeping city Water Department workers found in their truck, Dennis Gagnon with Kansas City Public Works said he cannot comment on what...

Kansas Labor Secretary Jim Garner on Friday declared the state’s job market is “on the road to recovery.” He said the state’s unemployment rate has reached a plateau after...

Epiq Systems Inc. has wrapped up a $29.9 million share repurchase program, buying about 2.3 million shares. The board of the Kansas City, Kan., company (Nasdaq: EPIQ), which provides software and...

Missouri revenue collections picked up in August, although they weren’t able to make up for the prior month’s dive. The state collected $594 million in net general revenue in August, a...

Unemployment would be approaching 16 percent nationally — more than 6 percentage points higher than the current rate — if not for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act and other...

KANSAS CITY, Mo.—Wheat 39,789 bushels: 6 1/4 cents higher to 29 cents higher; No. 2 hard 6.03 1/2-6.61 3/4n; No. 3 5.92 1/2-6.60 3/4n; No. 2 red wheat 6.68 1/2-7.76 3/4; No. 3 red wheat 6.57...

WELLINGTON, New Zealand (AP) -- A powerful 7.4-magnitude earthquake has rocked much of New Zealand's South Island. No immediate tsunami alert has been issued and no injuries have been reported. The...

ST. LOUIS, Missouri - A St. Louis-area man has admitted to methampetamine-related charges, saying he purchased more than 5,000 cold pills in 389 trips to pharmacies to pay child support....

ST. LOUIS, Missouri - A billion-dollar tobacco-related trial is scheduled to open in St. Louis in January, and court officials have begun the process of finding jurors. It isn't easy -- court...

GARDNER, Kansas - The small town of Gardner is now mourning the loss of two children in just two weeks. The school district has had counselors on hand, trying to help their students deal with the...

Bosnian police think they have found a girl shown in a video throwing puppies into a river. The video went viral online, and even before her identity was...

KANSAS CITY, Missouri - How good are Kansas City drivers? A new report from Allstate ranks Kansas City 31st out of the nation’s 200 largest cities. That’s down from a 30th ranking last year....

The Jayhawk football team will make its 2010 debut against North Dakota State.The most obvious change of the season is new head coach, Turner Gill. The former Nebraska quarterback took the job last...

TOPEKA, Kan. -- A California foundation has ranked the Kansas state highway system third-best in the nation based on performance and cost-effectiveness.The ranking by the Reason Foundation in Los...

Mohler had his bout with immaturity as an 18-year-old true freshman, with a couple of highly publicized alcohol-related violations. He promised he would handle life under the Bison microscope better...

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Jason Rabicoff, a 34-year-old loan officer from Overland Park, has admitted that he perpetrated a $3 million mortgage fraud scheme. Rabicoff pleaded guilty to one count of wire fraud in connection...

The Missouri Secretary of State’s office has dropped its appeal of a judge’s ruling Tuesday that an anti-tax initiative can appear on the November ballot. This means Missouri voters will...

first-quarter earnings report Thursday, said the nation’s largest tax preparer (NYSE: HRB) has become too centralized, with marketing, office management and human resources personnel having too...

MIAMI - A scientist has been detained at the Miami International Airport after screeners spotted a metal canister in his luggage that looked like a pipe bomb, prompting an evacuation, a government...

TOPEKA | A California foundation has ranked the Kansas state highway system third-best in the nation based on performance and cost-effectiveness.</p><p>The ranking by the Reason...

A midtown Kansas City apartment manager was not hurt after exchanging shots with two masked men late Thursday night.</p><p>The 45-year-old man told police that when he went to investigate...

TOPEKA | The state's founders probably wouldn't have approved, but Kansas will use a new lottery game to celebrate the state's 150th birthday.</p><p>The Kansas Lottery scheduled a news...

LENEXA, Kan. -- The Animal Haven shelter rescued more than 50 animals Wednesday and is looking for homes for the cats and dogs.Animal Haven officials said they accepted 20 adult cats and 21 kittens...

Kansas Gov. Mark Parkinson has appointed two Kansas City-area representatives to the 16-member board for the Kansas Health Information Exchange Inc. Dr. Helen Connors, executive director of...

University of Missouri System that’s worth an estimated $1 million a year in sales, the company said. Under the agreement, Radnor, Pa.-based Airgas will provide specialty gases, equipment,...

U.S. payrolls shed 54,000 jobs overall in August, even though private businesses added 67,000 workers. Half a million Americans resumed their search for work, pushing the nation’s unemployment...

on Friday to buy a stake in a $760 million portfolio of real estate loans. Mariner Real Estate Management LLC, part of Leawood-based Mariner Holdings, bought a 40 percent managing member interest in...

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates - Worries about spying by the U.S. and Israel spurred plans to sharply limit BlackBerry services in the United Arab Emirates, Dubai's police chief said in comments that...

HELENA, Mont. (AP) -- Two young goats were rescued after spending two days stranded on the six-inch ledge of a railroad bridge 60 feet above a road in southern Montana. Rimrock Humane Society...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Kansas City police are looking for a man who robbed the Plaza Ford - Ideal dry cleaners, located at 7300 Wornall Road early Friday morning.The robbery occurred around 8:30 a.m....

VAN BUREN, Mo. -- Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon is kicking off the fall tourism season with a float trip down the Current River.The governor planned to give a brief speech about the state's outdoor beauty...