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  • May 20 2013 -- Dream Factory scholarship winners

    Liz Arnold can't remember exactly how many dreams she has made come true for sick and disabled youngsters in our Kansas City community, but she can tell you exactly when she began as a volunteer for the Dream Factory and why she decided to take on the ...

  • Johnny Gray wins Funny Car finals at NHRA Kansas Nationals

    U.S. suburbs have more poor than the cities do, study finds The number of impoverished people in America’s suburbs surged 64 percent in the past decade, creating for the first time a landscape in which the suburban poor outnumber the urban poor, a new report shows. Around Kansas City, patterns of poverty have been quietly shifting for some ...

  • In Kansas its lawmakers versus the courts

    Now in their senior years of college, more than half of the 125 in the first class have fallen out of college or are not on pace to graduate within five years. From the moment the foundation launched its first class as seventh-graders in 2003, it knew the critical measure of its investment would come now, 10 years ...

  • Guthrie heads to the hill following first loss since 12

    The Astros will host the Royals in a battle of struggling teams at Minute Maid Park on Monday. For Houston, however, manager Bo Porter is encouraged by what he has seen from his team recently. The Astros just narrowly missed a split on their six-game trip through Detroit and Pittsburgh with a 1-0 loss Sunday. "These guys are doing a tremendous job," Porter said. "That's the ...

  • Four-state tornado outbreak kills 1

    One tornado touched down near Wellston, Oklahoma, taking out power lines and damaging several homes, according to video from CNN affiliate KFOR. The affiliate's helicopter pilot estimated the funnel cloud to be about a half-mile ...


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Movie Review

The Warriors: Director's Cut [DVD]

The Warriors: Director's Cut [DVD]

Walter Hill's cult classic The Warriors is a highly stylized gangland fantasy. Although it bore a great deal of criticism and accusation of causing real-life violence when it was first released in 1979, The Warriors has little or no connection to reality. The new direc ... ...

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  • Braille boot camp helps families read succeed together

    Chuck McCartney said words on paper have never proven so challenging. "If I don't learn this, I don't have a clue what it says or anything," he said. He and a room full of other people were getting their first lessons in Braille. "Braille is based on six dots," McCartney said. "Three on each side." McCartney said he's taking steps to learn the ...

  • Oakland As complete sweep of Kansas City Royals

    OAKLAND -- Yoenis Cespedes has been playing in the big leagues for less than a season and a half, but his eight years' worth of experience playing in Cuba helped engineer the A's 4-3 win Sunday over Kansas City, completing a three-game sweep of the Royals.Cespedes, who had a single earlier in the game and scored Oakland's first run, said he feels like it might be time for him to ...

  • High winds hail lash KC as storm moves through

    At least one person was killed Sunday when a string of tornadoes ripped through four states, tearing roofs off homes, downing power lines and tossing trees like matchsticks. The death happened in Pottawatomie County, Oklahoma, said Sheriff Mike ...

  • No injuries reported as twisters hit Kansas homes

    EDMOND, Okla. -- A powerful storm system rumbled through the Plains and upper Midwest on Sunday, spawning tornadoes that damaged homes and buildings near Oklahoma City and put the Tulsa area on high ...

  • KC power outages and damage reports

    KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Metro fire and law enforcement officials are responding to calls related to the storms passing through the area. There are several reports of trees and power lines down across the city. Crews are headed to 99th and Antioch in Overland Park on reports of trees down. Several area agencies are also responding to calls of lightning-related fires. The doors blew in at the Liberty ...

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