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  • Buckner Sibley have low water pressure

    BUCKNER, Mo. - Mayor Dan Hickson says he learned about 5:00 this morning that Buckner had a major water leak. Hickson says the town of just over 3,000 residents suffered some type of major water leak, but they don't yet know what happened. Sibley, a town of more than 300 residents a few miles north, also receives its water from Buckner. Mayor Hickson says there is some water in the tower, ...

  • More storms expected after rash of tornadoes

    And the destructive weather isn't over. Baseball-sized hail, wind gusts and tornadoes could pummel parts of the central Plains and Midwest through ...

  • Powerful Storms Strike Parts of Iowa Oklahoma and Kansas

    (Reuters) - A massive storm front swept north through the central United States on Sunday, hammering the region with fist-sized hail, blinding rain and tornadoes, including a half-mile wide twister that struck near Oklahoma City. News reports said at least one person had ...

  • Missouri session wraps up a post-mortem

    Republicans in the General Assembly passed legislation high on their priority list, but those bills probably wont make it out of Gov. Jay Nixons office without multiple vetoes. That, in a nutshell, seems to be the consensus on the 2013 session, which wrapped at 6 p.m. Friday. The GOP-dominated Legislature passed nullification bills on federal gun control laws, anti-union measures and a massive ...

  • Kansas legislator makes his case against court system

    An Olathe Republican representative wants to reform Kansas appellate court system with three proposals that represent the latest salvo in conservatives attempts to rein in the Kansas Supreme Court, The Topeka Capital-Journal reports. Rep. Lance Kinzer, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, wants to make the appellate courts more accountable to the public, the report says. His proposals ...


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Alien Resurrection

The last anyone saw of Lt. Ellen Ripley (Sigourney Weaver), she was hurling herself off a bridge into a vat of molten metal with an alien bursting from her chest. The was the grand finale of "Alien 3," and it was reasonable to assume that this signaled the end of the "Alien" series. Wrong. ...

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  • Is Kansas City Southern building steam for a sale

    With a booming Mexico-based arm and packing a sales increase of 48 percent through 2016, no railroad may be more poised to be taken over than Kansas City Southern, Bloomberg reports. The railroad (NYSE: KSU) would be an attractive asset to almost any big railroad, one analyst told Bloomberg. Kansas City Southern officials did not respond to a question about whether the company would be open to a ...

  • As High Plains Aquifer goes dry a slow-motion crisis unfolds

    The High Plains Aquifer, stretching from South Dakota to the Texas Panhandle, has begun giving out, leaving vast stretches of once verdant farmland in struggle and leaving little hope for a solution, The New York Times reports. The aquifer has been hammered by intensive farming and, more recently, drought, the report says, and once its gone, its ...

  • States cant wait to spend money they dont have yet

    Congress has yet to pass a sales tax for Internet purchases, but that hasnt stopped states from counting on the money, The Wall Street Journal reports. One estimate says states lost a collective $23 billion in uncollected sales tax revenue last year from online shopping, the report says. Passage of the bill could result in delaying future tax increases or even rollbacks on existing ...

  • Employers find work-around on health reform penalties

    Employers are beginning to figure out that they can skirt some penalties in the health care reform law yet still save money by omitting some key benefits, such as hospital coverage or prenatal care, The Wall Street Journal reports. Even without such apparently vital benefits, federal official concede that those plans would appear to qualify as acceptable minimum coverage, avoiding a penalty of ...

  • Nations poor migrate to unlikely place suburbs

    The Brookings Institution reports a 64 percent increase in the number of impoverished people living in the suburbs in the past decade, growing at twice the rate of the urban poor, The Kansas City Star reports. By 2011, the suburban poor outnumbered the urban poor by almost 3 million, the report says. In Johnson County, for example, 4.5 percent of children younger than 5 lived below the poverty ...

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