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  • Running for Congress keeps 2 Missouri lawmakers from voting

    . oRepublican congressional candidate Jason Smith missed three-fifths of the Missouri House's votes before the final day of this year's legislative session, while his Democratic opponent, Steve Hodges, missed about one-fifth of the votes.Smith and Hodges, who both currently serve in the state House, are facing off in a June 4 special election to succeed U.S. Rep Jo Ann Emerson, who is ...

  • Tornadoes wallop several states 2 killed

    The death toll now stands at two after tornadoes swept through Oklahoma on Sunday, the state medical examiner's office said Monday. Both victims were elderly men from ...

  • Another Missouri legislative session and still no action on early voting

    Forty games in, approximately one-fourth of the way through the season, and the Royals are 20-20 after suffering a weekend sweep in Oakland. Let’s get this out of the way: It was a brutal weekend. Three one-run losses after holding early leads in each game. The Royals open a three-game series tonight in Houston and need to take advantage of the struggling Astros. The quarter point in the season ...

  • The Lede Video of the Damage Caused by Tornadoes in Oklahoma and Kansas

    Raw footage of a tornado that killed one person and damaged more than 85 homes in Oklahoma, via KOCO-TV. More severe weather is expected on Monday in the central United States after a large storm spawned at least two dozen tornadoes across Oklahoma, Kansas, Iowa and Illinois on Sunday, according ...

  • Raytown Walmart proposal has supporters too

    The Raytown Plaza is located across Blue Ridge Boulevard from a proposed Walmart Neighborhood Market that will be debated during the May 21 meeting of the city's board of aldermen. Consideration of rezoning for a Walmart Neighborhood Market proposed for downtown Raytown is expected to attract dozens of opponents to the 7 p.m. meeting of the city's board of aldermen Tuesday at Raytown ...


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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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  • Chiefs WRs Improving under Coach Culley

    The Kansas City Chiefs averaged 13.2 points per game in the 2012 season, while totaling just under 170 passing yards in each contest. Enter the new Kansas City Chiefs regime, including assistant head coach/wide receivers coach David Culley, who was hired by Chiefs head coach Andy Reid to prepare the wideouts for a much bigger and better season in 2013. Since the voluntary workouts, as well as ...

  • CORRECTED-Severe Kansas tornado prompts stark National Weather Service warning

    Mon May 20, 2013 10:06am EDT (Corrects lead of May 19 story to read "tornado," not "hurricane") By Chris Francescani NEW YORK May 19 (Reuters) - A dangerous, half mile-wide tornado struck near Oklahoma City Sunday afternoon, part of an extreme weather system moving through the central U.S. and stretching from north Texas to Minnesota. Earlier, a "large tornado" touched ...

  • 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 ...

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