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  • Lakeland Raiders Rout Missouri In Regular-Season Finale

    LAKELAND | The Lakeland Raiders raced to a 30-0 lead after one quarter in a 59-6 rout of the Missouri Monsters on Saturday night at the Lakeland ...

  • Sprint buys Kansas City-based social media company Handmark

    Trees and power lines fall as storm blows into Kansas City The feared tornadoes didn’t come Sunday evening. But the heavy winds, which split trees and downed power lines on both sides of the state line, sure did. West of Kansas City, a tornado touched down in rural Lyon County, Kan., causing structural damage to homes ...

  • 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 ...


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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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  • Sprint buys Handmark OneLouder Apps

    Augie Grasis Sprint Nextel Corp.s acquisition march continue, this time moving a Kansas City technology company under its umbrella. Overland Park-based Sprint (NYSE: S) announced Monday that it bought app developer Handmark Inc. and spinoff OneLouder Apps. Inc. for an undisclosed amount. The companies have been negotiating the deal since the summer. It closed on April 4, making Handmark and ...

  • Timeline shows long engagement led up to Sprint-Handmark union

    Sprint Nextel Corp. may have acquired Handmark Inc. this spring, but the companies relationship goes back eight years. Overland Park-based Sprint (NYSE: S) plans to bolster its mobile advertising program, Pinsight Media+, with Handmarks mobile app development and advertising platform through spinoff OneLouder Apps Inc. Heres a timeline of key events that led up to the acquisition: 2000 Handmark ...

  • 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 ...

  • 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 ...

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