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  • KC charity event breaks world record

    KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Nearly 5,000 participantshelpedbreak aGuiness World Record to make Kansas City the site of the world's largest pub crawl. Crawl for Cancer, a group that organizes the charity events in citiesacross the country, helda pub crawl on June 1 at downtown Kansas City's Power & Light District and intended to break the record. Crawlershad a choice of 21 different ...

  • Lanes closed on SB I-435 at 83rd in Mo.

    Two lanes of southbound Interstate 435 are closed at 83rd Street in Missouri. Drivers are urged to use another route. Kansas City Scout cameras showed a piece of construction equipment across the highway. Drivers were getting by the crash in the far right ...

  • Thousands of tea party activists rip IRS at rally

    Thousands of tea party activists gathered Wednesday outside the Capitol in loud protest of the Internal Revenue Service, seeking to keep the beleaguered agency's scandal afloat nearly six weeks after the news first ...

  • Kan. congressman NSA surveillance program saves lives

    Federal Reserve chief Ben Bernanke on Wednesday laid out his most specific plan yet for when the central bank will start easing up on its controversial stimulus program, which is pumping $85 billion a month into the ...

  • Police seek 2 men in shooting on I-635

    "(I) started hearing the police cars and the fire wagon and the ambulance, and I just walked up on that hill and looked," said a man who lives near the scene who asked to be identified as Robert. "I saw that truck sitting over there, but I didn't go no ...


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Movie Review

Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! (¡Atame!)

Near the middle of Pedro Almodovar's "Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down!," a young man tells the object of his affection, "I'm 23 years old, I have 50,000 pesetas, and I'm alone in the world. I'll try to be a good husband to you, and a good father to your kids." It's lines like this that make this deranged black comedy work despite its shortcomings because you never have any doubt that he means it. It's humo ... ...

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  • Drunken Kansas man takes ax to girlfriends cars house

    Today, no fewer than five transit agencies operate in the Kansas City area: the recently created Kansas City streetcar authority and four bus systems run by Independence, Johnson County and both Kansas Citys. On Wednesday, Area Transportation Authority chairman Robbie Makinen and Johnson County Commissioner Steve Klika will present a plan to make the ATA “the regional transit authority it ...

  • Construction firm improperly got minority status Kansas City auditors say

    Today, no fewer than five transit agencies operate in the Kansas City area: the recently created Kansas City streetcar authority and four bus systems run by Independence, Johnson County and both Kansas Citys. On Wednesday, Area Transportation Authority chairman Robbie Makinen and Johnson County Commissioner Steve Klika will present a plan to make the ATA “the regional transit authority it ...

  • Best Buy recalls 5100 replacement batteries for MacBook Pro due to fire risk

    Best Buy is recalling 5,100 replacement batteries for the MacBook Pro due to a fire risk. The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission said Wednesday that there have been 13 reports that the battery caught fire. One consumer suffered a serious burn on the leg. Best Buy Co. is voluntarily recalling both black and white ATG lithium-ion replacement batteries for the notebook computers. The ...

  • Man stabbed with sword in Overland Park

    OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - A man in his mid-30s suffered life-threatening injuries after being stabbed with a sword early Wednesday morning. Overland Park police were called to the 6400 block of W. 151st Place at 3:30 a.m. According to police, Dustin Evans, 27, and another man were involved in horseplay with the sword. Police said Evans stabbed the other man with the sword. The man was taken to an ...

  • Mo. student transfers have until Aug. 1

    JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) - Missouri's education agency says parents wanting to transfer their children from failing schools should provide notice by Aug. 1. The Department of Elementary and Secondary Education released guidance Wednesday on how to handle student transfers. That comes a week after the state Supreme Court upheld a 1993 law requiring unaccredited school districts to pay for ...

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