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  • Kansas regents approve tuition hikes

    TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) - The Kansas Board of Regents has approved tuition increases at public universities that will have some students paying nearly 9 percent more this fall. The increases approved Wednesday by the board are expected to raise an additional $34 million during the fiscal year beginning in July. The universities want to boost faculty salaries and pursue other initiatives, but the ...

  • Abuse allegations close metro day care

    BLUE SPRINGS, Mo. - We're learning more about the Blue Springs day care shut down after a mother complained her child was injured there. Neighbors say the 17-month-old has been in and out of the hospital all week after his first day at Mary's Little Lambs Day Care went horribly wrong. This is no new day care, operating for more than 20 years. "Two or three times a day, we would ...

  • RAW VIDEO Leavenworth trench rescue

    LEAVENWORTH, Kan. - Leavenworth authorities rescued a man out of a collapsed trench Wednesday afternoon. Authorities said the trench collapsed at a Leavenworth construction site. The man was stuck up to his waist. He was rescued shortly before 4 p.m. and taken to an area hospital. The extent of injuries to the man is ...

  • Jackson County to send out new property assessment notices

    Jackson County homeowners frustrated by the county's property tax assessments will find a new round of assessment notices in their mailboxes ...

  • Missouri releases guidance for student transfers

    Federal investigators used secret surveillance warrants to identify Khalid Ouazzani, who awaits sentencing in Missouri next month on terrorism-related charges, as part of the scheme, Deputy FBI Director Sean Joyce told the House intelligence ...


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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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  • Tuition rates at Kansas universities go up again

    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 ...

  • 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 ...

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