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Artists Explore The City As Labyrinth In 'rises Zora'

Steve Walker — Wed, 22 May 2013 20:55:36 +0000

Like any city of its size, Kansas City was designed and developed on an urban grid of streets and boulevards in order to make the city work. The Charlotte Street Foundation is currently presenting a month-long multimedia project that features nearly 40 artists who, in their own way, address how the city's layout is both influential, essential, and an ever-mysterious labyrinth.

Lee's Summit Lawmaker Who Threatened Resignation Changes His Mind

Marshall Griffin — Wed, 22 May 2013 13:29:19 +0000

A Missouri lawmaker who threatened to resign unless one or both of his key bills survived the last day of the 2013 legislative session is staying put, even though both bills failed to make it out by Friday's deadline.

Iola Site Among Nine Added To Superfund List

Bryan Thompson — Wed, 22 May 2013 13:13:37 +0000

The Superfund National Priorities List now includes nine new sites-one of them where a smelter used to operate on the east side of Iola.

The EPA says the soil on hundreds of residential and commercial properties in and around Iola is contaminated with lead, arsenic, cadmium and zinc. EPA Region 7 spokeswoman Dianna Whitaker says the biggest concern is lead.

“Children can get into that lead—especially young children," she says. "They put their hands in their mouths, and then they can be exposed and absorb lead, and lead is very dangerous for young children."

Top Of The Morning News: May 22, 2013

Maria Carter — Wed, 22 May 2013 12:23:20 +0000

A site in Iola, Kansas is added to Superfund list. Heart to Heart International, based in Olathe, helps out in Moore, Oklahoma. A Lee’s Summit legislator will not resign despite two of his bills not making it through the House.

Avoiding A Summer Of Sizzling Sunburns

Beth Lipoff and Steve Kraske — Tue, 21 May 2013 23:00:00 +0000

If you just grab the highest SPF sunscreen when you head out to the lake, you might not be making the best choice.

Metro Kansas Medical Aid Drives To Oklahoma Tornado Scene

Dan Verbeck — Tue, 21 May 2013 20:41:03 +0000

Olathe-based humanitarian relief agency Heart to Heart International intends to stay with its medical volunteers as long as they are needed in Moore, Oklahoma.

A team was heading to the EF- 5 tornado scene within hours of the devastation, according to the chief executive.

Organization founder Doctor Gary Morsch, who has Oklahoma relief agency roots was ahead of them all.

Board Leadership Change For The Kansas City Symphony

Laura Spencer — Tue, 21 May 2013 17:48:33 +0000

After nearly 20 years as the chairwoman of the Kansas City Symphony's board, arts patron Shirley Helzberg is stepping down. Bill Lyons, civic leader and former CEO of American Century Companies, Inc., succeeds Helzberg on July 1.

Top Of The Morning News: May 21, 2013

Maria Carter — Tue, 21 May 2013 14:37:19 +0000

Gas prices jumped last week throughout the Kansas City area. The Director of Missouri’s Department of Social Services resigns abruptly. A bill would expand the role of the physician assistants in Missouri.

Gas Price Leap An Anomaly

Comedian Jim Gaffigan On The Gaffes Of Parenthood

Beth Lipoff and Steve Kraske — Mon, 20 May 2013 23:00:00 +0000

Comedian Jim Gaffigan knows that a four-year-old eating a taco and throwing a taco on the floor is pretty much the same thing, and he can teach you a thing or two about co-opting your kid’s Halloween candy.

Class Of 2013: Preparing The Speech

Suzanne Hogan — Mon, 20 May 2013 21:37:35 +0000

It’s graduation season, and across the metro, high school valedictorians and senior speakers are putting the finishing touches on their commencement addresses. At DeLaSalle Education Center, Sandra Perez is excited, and a little nervous, to give the speech she wrote, which was selected out of the graduating class of 52 to be part of the commencement celebration.

K.C. Gas Price Leap Is Termed An Aberration

Dan Verbeck — Mon, 20 May 2013 21:03:55 +0000

Gasoline prices may have leveled off in Kansas City, following a dramatic one-week leap in the cost of fuel.

Overland Park Mosque Plans Big Expansion

Alex Smith — Mon, 20 May 2013 16:54:29 +0000

Kansas is home to thousands of Muslims, but just a handful of mosques.

Power Outages Diminish As Crews Labor Into Monday

Dan Verbeck and Briana O'Higgins — Mon, 20 May 2013 15:14:01 +0000

Updated 10:15 a.m Storms Aftermath Shows Power Restoration:

Utility troubleshooters from KCP&L have restored a large portion of service to harder hit areas. The utility’s web site indicated the Raytown area had 237 outages just after 10 a.m.

Six hours earlier there were 4500 without electricity. Missouri outages of more than one hundred customers in other area districts and cities include:

Top Of The Morning News: May 20, 2013

Maria Carter — Mon, 20 May 2013 14:54:13 +0000

Utility crews worked through the night and into the morning to restore electricity to some 77,000 customers in the Kansas City area. Most Missourians with Hepatitis C don’t know they have the disease, but health officials and groups are working to change that. After cantaloupe were determined to be responsible for a listeria outbreak, melon growers are making changes to prevent future outbreaks.

Most Infected Missourians Unaware Of Hepatitis C Status

Elana Gordon — Mon, 20 May 2013 11:15:46 +0000

A recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimates that only half of Americans identified as having had Hepatitis C ever follow-up with additional screening and treatment. But that’s only part of the problem, according to Bruce Burkett of the Missouri Hepatitis C Alliance. Nearly three in four people who have the disease don’t even know it.