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Missouri softball beats Hofstra and reaches final of NCAA regional

Hearts broken over girl killed in Cass County wreck One day after Savannah Nash celebrated her 16th birthday on May 8, she picked up her Missouri driver’s license. One week later, she died in a traffic accident. The Harrisonville High School freshman, an honor roll student and Future Farmers of America competitor, was driving alone on Thursday afternoon, only 100 yards from her ...
Kansas City is set to launch a new tax system

A 1918 work by Edwin Blashfield, The Call of Missouri, was displayed for years at the Kansas City Public Library. It disappeared in 1983. A six-year search found it online on sale for ...
Powerball mania Jackpot hits $600 million

That's all it took for Mammie Hicks to plunk down money at a Riverside, Mo., convenience store for a chance at Saturday's record $600 million multistate Powerball ...
Man dies in crash south of Lawrence

LAWRENCE, Kan. - A 21-year-old Leawood man died Friday night when he ran a stop sign and collided with another SUV at the intersection of U.S. Highway 59 and County Road 458, just south of ...
Todays MLB starting lineups May 18

Below are starting lineups that have been made public by the clubs. A lineup is not official until it is handed to the umpire. Additional lineups will be added as they become available: Arizona Diamondbacks: 1. ...

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Movie Review

The Rage: Carrie 2

"The Rage: Carrie 2" is a sequel-cum-updated remake of "Carrie," Brian De Palma's 1976 high school horror revenge fantasy. There's not much connection between the two films, and one gets the feeling that the producers weren't sure whether "The Rage" should be considered a sequel to "Carrie" or its own beast. After all, it could certainly work on its own, although anyone with any film knowledge wou ... ...

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Canadian Press NewsAlert Oxbow wins the Preakness Stakes

Lisa Scotti, of Baltimore, reads hhere program before the sixth race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore. The 138th Preakness Stakes horse race takes place Saturday. (AP Photo/Mike ...
Kansas City museum plans to fly ‘Connie’

KANSAS CITY -- The National Airline History Museum is trying to raise $3.2 million to restore its Lockheed Constellation propeller-driven aircraft and re-create multimillionaire aviator Howard Hughes' record-setting cross-country flight in the airplane that transformed commercial air ...
John Force tops NHRA Kansas Nationals qualifying

The 64-year-old Force earned the 141st No. 1 qualifying position of his career and his 11th at Heartland Park Topeka with a pass of 4.043 seconds at 313.22 mph in a Ford Mustang. The 15-time NHRA season champion will meet former teammate Tony Pedregon on Sunday in the first round of ...
School celebration injures 10 in Independence

Nancy Lewis, a school district spokeswoman, said the students were hurt during a field-day celebration when an inflatable slide tipped over. The students suffered mostly cuts and bruises, according to Lewis, but two of the students were taken to hospitals as a precaution. Both were treated and released. Parents of the injured students were notified about what happened. Lewis said there will be ...
2 hurt when go-kart collides with SUV

The crash was reported about 2:30 p.m. Police said the go-kart clipped the back end of a passing SUV. Authorities said a 12-year-old was operating the go-kart. A 7-year-old boy, who was a passenger, suffered a broken leg. "It happened so quick that you can't really respond, so I can kind of understand perhaps what the driver was going through because he couldn't possibly have seen ...

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He is the most evil, vile, demonic criminal. He is dead to me. There will be no visits, there will be no phone calls. He can never be Daddy again. I have no sympathy for the man.

Angie Gregg

Gregg was speaking about her father Ariel Castro who allegedly kidnapped, raped and held captive for a decade, three young women in Cleveland, Ohio.

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Beach Rotana Hotel & Towers

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Statins may cut exercise benefits for obese adults

University of Missouri researchers have found that simvastatin, a generic type of statin previously sold under the brand name "Zocor," hindered the positive effects of exercise for obese and overweight adults.

Statins, the most widely prescribed drugs worldwide, are often suggested to lower cholesterol and prevent heart disease in individuals with obesity, diabetes and metabolic syndrome, which is a combination of medical disorders including excess body fat and/or high levels of blood pressure, blood sugar and/or cholesterol.

"Daily physical activity is needed to maintain or improve fitness, and thus improve health outcomes. However, if patients start exercising and taking statins at the same time, it seems that statins block the ability of exercise to improve their fitness levels," said John Thyfault, an associate professor of nutrition and exercise physiology at MU.

Thyfault said that many cardiologists want to prescribe statins to all patients over a certain age regardless of whether they have metabolic syndrome; the drugs also are recommended for people with Type 2 diabetes. He recommends that cardiologists more closely weigh the benefits and risks of statins given this new data about their effect on exercise training. ...