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  • Radioactive nanoparticles that target cancer cells developed

    Researchers at the University of Missouri have found a way to create radioactive nanoparticles that target lymphoma tumor cells wherever they may be in the body. Cancers of all types become most deadly when they metastasize and spread tumors throughout the body. Once cancer has reached this stage, it becomes very difficult for doctors to locate and treat the numerous tumors that can ...

  • Obama to tour Moore damage on Sunday

    WASHINGTON (AP) - President Barack Obama will travel to tornado-ravaged Moore, Okla., on Sunday. White House spokesman Jay Carney says the president will view the tornado damage first-hand. He also plans to meet with victims and first responders. The monstrous tornado barreled through the Oklahoma City suburb Monday afternoon, demolishing an elementary school and reducing homes to piles of ...

  • Official UK attack may be terror-linked

    LONDON (AP) - Two men attacked another man near a London military barracks Wednesday, in what British authorities were investigating as a possible terror act. One man is dead and two others were injured. While details were scant, Prime Minister David Cameron called the killing "truly shocking" and said he had asked Home Secretary Theresa May to call an urgent meeting of the ...

  • Obama to visit Oklahoma on Sunday

    President Barack Obama will travel to tornado-ravaged Oklahoma on Sunday, the White House announced. At least 24 were killed in the mammoth ...

  • Civil engineers give Kansas infrastructure a C-

    The regional chapters of the American Society of Civil Engineers released the letter grade Wednesday. It's part of a report card that evaluated the state's aviation, bridges, dams, drinking water, energy, levees, railroads, roads and schools. Besides the state's overall grade, each sub-category also received a ...


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Shallow Grave [Blu-Ray]

Shallow Grave [Blu-Ray]

Danny Boyles feature debut Shallow Grave arrived in the midst of a sweeping resurgence of independent cinema in the early to mid-1990s, much of which was extremely violent, darkly comic, and/or despairing. In her 1992 Sight & Sound article Art House Killers, B. Ruby Rich ... ...

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  • 9 Can Help KC residents donate to Oklahoma tornado relief

    President Barack Obama will travel to tornado-ravaged Oklahoma on Sunday, the White House announced. At least 24 were killed in the mammoth ...

  • Lafayette County infants death investigated as homicide

    Burt Bacharach knew writing a memoir would be emotional — not because of his never-heard backstage tales or his tumultuous marriages. The famed pop composer, who was born in Kansas City, knew that being honest would force him to come to terms with the death of his ...

  • Kansasapos economy shows growth in the first quarter 2013

    Kansans taxpayers not only have more money in their pockets from this year’s income tax rate reduction, but the state’s economic growth is offsetting the fiscal year 2013 impact of those cuts. April’s revenue receipt collections, released April 30, showed individual income tax receipts had grown almost 6 percent from the prior fiscal year to date. Overall, the state collected ...

  • Enerjex sells off oil leases in Eastern Kansas

    EnerJex Resources has sold off two non-core oil leases for $450,000. EnerJex Resources Inc., a domestic oil producer, has sold two non-core oil leases in Eastern Kansas for $450,000. The properties are located outside of EnerJexs core operating areas, and their transaction is expected to lower the companys unit-operating expenses, company officials said Wednesday. The company did not identify ...

  • Autopsy in KC Babys death is homicide

    LEXINGTON, Mo. - Authorities in Lafayette County, Mo., say the death of a 10-week-old child has been ruled a homicide. The unidentified infant died May 20 at Children's Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Mo., according to a statement from the Lafayette County Sheriff's Office. Deputies with the sheriff's office were called to an unspecified address on Linn Road in southwestern ...

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