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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 ...

  • 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 ...

  • KU Law targets smaller classes now and in future

    The University of Kansas School of Law will have a significantly smaller incoming class this fall and in future years for the foreseeable future. Faced with dwindling applications, law schools across the country either are slashing class sizes or admitting students with inferior credentials. Dean Stephen Mazza said KU set a target of 120 students this year and may end up a bit below that. By ...


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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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  • Yahoo will pay $1.1B for Tumblr

    Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer Yahoo Inc.s deal for the blogging site will provide the Internet power with a bigger foothold in the thriving social networking and communications space, as well as tap a much younger demographic, The Wall Street Journal reports. Right now, Tumblr generates only about $13 million in annual revenue, but Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer is expected to move quickly to boost that ...

  • Missouri session wraps up a post-mortem

    Republicans in the General Assembly passed legislation high on their priority list, but those bills probably wont make it out of Gov. Jay Nixons office without multiple vetoes. That, in a nutshell, seems to be the consensus on the 2013 session, which wrapped at 6 p.m. Friday. The GOP-dominated Legislature passed nullification bills on federal gun control laws, anti-union measures and a massive ...

  • Kansas legislator makes his case against court system

    An Olathe Republican representative wants to reform Kansas appellate court system with three proposals that represent the latest salvo in conservatives attempts to rein in the Kansas Supreme Court, The Topeka Capital-Journal reports. Rep. Lance Kinzer, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, wants to make the appellate courts more accountable to the public, the report says. His proposals ...

  • Is Kansas City Southern building steam for a sale

    With a booming Mexico-based arm and packing a sales increase of 48 percent through 2016, no railroad may be more poised to be taken over than Kansas City Southern, Bloomberg reports. The railroad (NYSE: KSU) would be an attractive asset to almost any big railroad, one analyst told Bloomberg. Kansas City Southern officials did not respond to a question about whether the company would be open to a ...

  • As High Plains Aquifer goes dry a slow-motion crisis unfolds

    The High Plains Aquifer, stretching from South Dakota to the Texas Panhandle, has begun giving out, leaving vast stretches of once verdant farmland in struggle and leaving little hope for a solution, The New York Times reports. The aquifer has been hammered by intensive farming and, more recently, drought, the report says, and once its gone, its ...

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