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  • How to avoid riptides while on vacation

    LIBERTY, Mo. - Sandi Clark and her family were just hours into their first day of a weeklong vacation to the Gulf Coast of Alabama on June 9 when a small boy became trapped in a riptide. "He couldn't get back in," Clark said. "A group of men, including my son-in-law, who had a life-jacket on -- the other men did not -- went out to help." Her son-in-law was able to bring ...

  • US waiting seeing with Irans new chief

    The U.S. State Department said Monday it wasn't surprised that Iran's newly elected president, Hassan Rouhani, said that Syrian President Bashar al-Assad should stay in power until ...

  • Supreme Court ruling on voter I.D. could affect Kansas law

    Bill Atkinson was found, abandoned, in a Kansas City, Kan., phone booth, less than a day old and covered in nothing but a blanket. Atkinson became interested in finding his biological family after he started one of his own. But a decade-long search has so far led only to dead ...

  • Royals victorious in wild one against Indians

    KC@CLE: Hosmer bloops double to tie game in eighth CLEVELAND -- Round one in the rumble over second place goes to the Royals. The Royals snapped a tie in the ninth inning and beat the Cleveland Indians, 2-1, on Monday night in front of 12,803 fans at Progressive Field. The Royals' one-run ninth promised to be much bigger, although it proved to be just enough. It began with Billy ...

  • Authorities seek Lansing prison escapee

    LANSING, Kan. - Authorities are looking for a 43-year-old convicted burglar who walked away from the minimum-security unit at the state prison today. At about 5 p.m. Monday, prison officials realized Paul D. Cohagen was missing and put out a bulletin alerting law enforcement authorities to be on the lookout for him. He was imprisoned after a 2011 conviction for burglary in Osage County. Anyone ...


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Movie Review

Mondo Cane

Any way you look at it, "Mondo Cane" (which is pronounced "car-nay") is a patently silly piece of cinematic junk masquerading as an important anthropological documentary of strange and exotic parts of the world. The dead give-away to its exploitative nature is the condescending, inflated narration that immediately clues the viewer in to the fact that the filmmakers have no respect for the cultures ... ...

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  • Kobach Investigate rally at house

    KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) - Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach said Monday he has asked state officials to investigate an immigration reform rally that was held outside his Wyandotte County home. Kobach and his family were not at his Piper home during the protest held Saturday by advocates of a federal overhaul of immigration laws that includes a path to citizenship for millions of people who ...

  • Teen remembers brother who drowned in Cass County lake

    Kalan Littlefield fell off a personal watercraft in a Cass County pond Sunday afternoon and didn't resurface until a dive team found his body. Investigators said he wasn't wearing a life jacket. Friends said the 17-year-old was a great friend, brother and someone who was always there for them. "I started screaming, yelling and punching things," said Brandon Thomas, Kalan ...

  • US releases names of Guantanamo indefinite detainees

    The names of dozens of detainees held at the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, were released for the first time on Monday after a newspaper sued the federal government for the ...

  • Inmate escapes from Lansing prison

    Paul Cohagen was serving time after being convicted of burglary two years ago. Authorities said Cohagen left the facility without authorization. He was considered an escapee about 5 p.m. Cohagen is white, 6 feet tall, 163 pounds with hazel eyes and brown hair. Anyone who knows where Cohagen is should call 911 or the Lansing Correctional Facility at ...

  • Independence offers reward for stolen statue

    The 6-foot statue of a pioneer woman clutching her child and a bucket of water stood on a rock pedestal at the National Frontier Trails Center for the past 23 years. "There's a momentary disbelief where you're standing and saying, 'Is it really not there?'" said museum administrator David Aamodt. He said it's not just a physical crime. The statue stood for the ...

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