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  • Canadian Press NewsAlert Oxbow wins the Preakness Stakes

    Lisa Scotti, of Baltimore, reads hhere program before the sixth race at Pimlico Race Course, Saturday, May 18, 2013, in Baltimore. The 138th Preakness Stakes horse race takes place Saturday. (AP Photo/Mike ...

  • Kansas City museum plans to fly ‘Connie’

    KANSAS CITY -- The National Airline History Museum is trying to raise $3.2 million to restore its Lockheed Constellation propeller-driven aircraft and re-create multimillionaire aviator Howard Hughes' record-setting cross-country flight in the airplane that transformed commercial air ...

  • John Force tops NHRA Kansas Nationals qualifying

    The 64-year-old Force earned the 141st No. 1 qualifying position of his career and his 11th at Heartland Park Topeka with a pass of 4.043 seconds at 313.22 mph in a Ford Mustang. The 15-time NHRA season champion will meet former teammate Tony Pedregon on Sunday in the first round of ...

  • School celebration injures 10 in Independence

    Nancy Lewis, a school district spokeswoman, said the students were hurt during a field-day celebration when an inflatable slide tipped over. The students suffered mostly cuts and bruises, according to Lewis, but two of the students were taken to hospitals as a precaution. Both were treated and released. Parents of the injured students were notified about what happened. Lewis said there will be ...

  • 2 hurt when go-kart collides with SUV

    The crash was reported about 2:30 p.m. Police said the go-kart clipped the back end of a passing SUV. Authorities said a 12-year-old was operating the go-kart. A 7-year-old boy, who was a passenger, suffered a broken leg. "It happened so quick that you can't really respond, so I can kind of understand perhaps what the driver was going through because he couldn't possibly have seen ...


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Pretty Woman [Blu-Ray]

Pretty Woman [Blu-Ray]

It is a rare thing to get to witness an actress becoming a star in a single movie, but that is exactly what we witness happening with Julia Roberts in Pretty Woman. Playing Vivian Ward, a down-on-her-luck prostitute who works the corners of Hollywood Boulevard back when it was a ... ...

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  • Common Core provision muddies Kansas budget talks

    Outfielder Jarrod Dyson is expected to miss two-to-four weeks after being diagnosed Friday in Kansas City with what trainer Nick Kenney termed “a mild high ankle sprain.” Dyson, 28, suffered the injury in the eighth inning Wednesday when he scaled the center-field wall at Angel Stadium in pursuit of a Mike Trout homer against Kelvin ...

  • Dispatcher 50 injured when car hits parade

    Of those injured, there were at lease five or six "trauma victims," the dispatcher said. The accident occurred during a parade at the annual Trail Days festival in the town near the Virginia-Tennessee border. The town's police chief has scheduled a 6 p.m. ET news conference. The car came from a side street, witness Debra McCown told The Associated Press. She said a thud was heard ...

  • High School State Swimming Championships Kansas 6A Girls

    TOPEKA, Kansas, May 18. FOR the fourth straight year, Shawnee Mission East High School claimed the team title at the Kansas 6A Girls Swimming and Diving Championships May 18-18 in Topeka. The Lancers did so in convincing fashion, scoring 404 points to runner-up Lawrence Free State's 295. Two Blue Valley Schools--Northwest (252) and North (183) took third and fourth places, respectively, and ...

  • Leawood man killed in Douglas County crash

    The Kansas Highway Patrol identified the man as Brian Addison Boyd, 21. Investigators said Boyd's 2001 Ford Explorer failed to stop at a stop sign at the intersection of County Road 458 and Highway 59 and was struck by a car about 10:50 p.m. The Highway Patrol said the force of the collision caused Boyd's SUV to flip over. The driver of the other car, a Shawnee woman, was ...

  • Missouri mom sentenced to prison after fatal car crash

    One day after Savannah Nash celebrated her 16th birthday on May 8, she picked up her Missouri driver’s license. One week later, she died in a traffic accident. The Harrisonville High School freshman, an honor roll student and Future Farmers of America competitor, was driving alone on Thursday afternoon, only 100 yards from her ...

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