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  • Blue Springs daycare shut down by state

    BLUE SPRINGS, Mo. - A Blue Springs, Mo., daycare has been forced to shut down after a toddler was injured at the facility. In documents obtained by 41 Action News, the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services claims a 17-month-old child was slapped and physically held in a timeout while at the daycare operated by Mary Douglas. The documents also show the toddler sustained injuries to ...

  • 58k homes to get second look

    JACKSON COUNTY, Mo. - The Jackson County Assessor's office says it is in the process of sending letters to 58,000 homeowners notifying them that assessors plan to take a second look at their home values. The homes were among the 68,000 targeted for reevaluation this year. Hundreds of those homeowners have contested their home's new values. County leaders initially flagged 18,000 homes ...

  • FBI KC man had ties to NYSE bomb plot

    Kansas City, Mo. - A Kansas City man was involved in a plan to attack the New York Stock Exchange. On Tuesday, the FBI's deputy director Sean Joyce testified that the government's sweeping surveillance programs have foiled about 50 terrorists plots since September 11 worldwide, some plots planned for US ...

  • Liberty man describes close call with intruder

    Surveillance cameras set up outside the house in the 1900 block of Buckingham Drive recorded pictures of the man looking into the house. He had trouble seeing through the tinted windows and even yanked on the back door while the homeowner and two young boys were inside. "It was a little weird knowing he was out there for five or six minutes while I was with the kids in the house," said ...

  • Kansas couple disappear on trip to Illinois

    Vernon Hunt, 91, and his wife Goldie Hunt, 81, left home early Monday morning en route to Dwight, Ill. They've made the 500-mile trip many times but have not yet arrived. Authorities said the couple planned to take Interstate 35 into Kansas City before heading west on Interstate 70 toward St. Louis. They were driving a 2005 Chrysler 300 with Kansas license plate 473FNM. Garnett police said ...


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Life of Pi

Life of Pi

The majority of Ang Lees Life of Pi takes place on a lifeboat in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, but it has the visual grandeur and majesty of a film set in some fantastical afterlife or on a beautiful alien planet. Based on Yann Martels bestselling 2001 novel, the film purports to b ... ...

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  • Kan. police find huge cash stash in drivers trunk

    Junction City Police Chief Tim Brown says a K-9 unit stopped the westbound truck for a traffic violation around 9:30 a.m. Tuesday on Interstate 70. Brown says a search turned up some boxes containing the cash in the bed of the pickup. Police seized the money and the truck, which had Colorado tags. The Tucson man was booked into the Geary County jail on suspicion of speeding and transporting drug ...

  • Missouri adds Mark Phelps as assistant basketball coach

    Jury’s award ‘wonderful’ for Lee’s Summit woman who sued Vatterott College A Jackson County jury found in favor of Jennifer Kerr in her lawsuit against Vatterott and found that the Missouri-based Vatterott Educational Centers Inc. had violated the Missouri Merchandising Practices ...

  • Bethany man convicted in sons death accused in prison slaying

    KQTV reports 29-year-old Tony King, of Bethany, was charged Tuesday with second-degree murder in the death of 25-year-old Michael Bozarth. They shared a cell at the Buchanan County Jail, where Bozarth was found strangled the morning of June 11. King was awaiting sentencing for the January 2012 death of 7-year-old Jeremiah Lamm, whose body was found in their burned-out mobile home in Harrison ...

  • Blue Springs man pleads guilty in counterfeiting case

    The U.S. Attorney's office said Jehad Shalabi, 45, pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy to traffic in counterfeit trademark goods. Shalabi, of Blue Springs, Mo., operated a store called Joe Black in Kansas City, Kan. FBI agents reported making undercover purchases in 2011 of phony Nike shoes, a fake Polo Ralph Lauren shirt and other items. Agents later seized nearly 600 counterfeit items ...

  • Wild boars menace hikers on Missouri trail

    KOMU-TV reports the boars were spotted Monday on the trail in Rocheport. An agent with the Department of Conservation said the animals were charging at people and tore up the yard of a business. The agent, Sean Ernst, said Tuesday he shot and killed the two boars, then searched a few miles of the trail for others but didn't find any. Conservation Department regional supervisor Tom Strother ...

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