Trees brought down by Hurricane Michael’s ferocious winds took a heavy toll on life, property and the timber industry in the heavily forested Florida Panhandle, where $3 billion in timber was lost, authorities said Friday. A firefighter became the latest ...
Read More »AP-NORC Poll: Just 1 in 4 thinks Kavanaugh told entire truth
Just 1 in 4 people thinks Brett Kavanaugh was completely honest when as a Supreme Court nominee he gave sworn testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee last month, with Republicans and Democrats holding starkly distinct opinions of his credibility, according ...
Read More »Job growth is found to be no cure for a community’s poverty
A healthy dose of job growth has long been seen as a likely cure for poverty. New research, however, suggests that poor Americans are frequently left behind even when their cities or communities benefit from hiring booms. When such cities ...
Read More »Home sales fell in September to slowest pace in 3 years
U.S. home sales fell for the sixth straight month in September, a sign that housing has increasingly become a weak spot for the economy. The National Association of Realtors said Friday that sales declined 3.4 percent last month, the biggest ...
Read More »Hyperloop study touts I-70 route across Missouri
A new study says the approximately 250-mile trip from Kansas City to St. Louis could be slashed to a half-hour’s time, however, an ultra-high-speed hyperloop system across Missouri wouldn’t come cheap. KMBC-TV reports that Kansas City-based Black and Veatch found ...
Read More »Testimony concludes in trial of workers in waterslide death
Jurors on Thursday began deliberating the case of two Kansas water park maintenance workers accused of impeding the investigation into the death of a 10-year-old boy who was decapitated on a waterslide in August 2016. David Hughes and John Zalsman ...
Read More »Company owners need to step in when staffers can’t get along
When four of Zach Hendrix’s staffers couldn’t get along or even speak to one another, he tried talking, cajoling and negotiating with them. Nothing worked. He couldn’t fire any of the staffers — they’re too critical to the success of ...
Read More »US mortgage rates fall slightly; 30-year at 4.85 percent
Long-term U.S. mortgage rates dipped slightly this week, taking a pause after weeks of steady increases stoked by rising interest rates. Home borrowing rates remain at their highest levels in more than seven years, with the key 30-year rate approaching ...
Read More »Money talks: Campaigns draw millions in ‘outsider’ cash
It’s been eight years since the U.S. Supreme Court declared that political spending is free speech. The decision eased the way for corporations, unions or nonprofits to spend massive amounts to support, or more often, denounce candidates in tight races. ...
Read More »Stricter screening splits anguished refugee families
Death threats drove Hadi Mohammed out of Iraq and to a small apartment in Nebraska, where he and his two young sons managed to settle as refugees. The danger hasn’t been enough to allow his wife to join them, though. ...
Read More »McCaskill-Hawley race turns nasty after sting videos
Missouri Democratic Sen. Claire McCaskill’s campaign manager is calling for her Republican rival Josh Hawley to launch an investigation of footage of her campaign taken by a conservative group known for “sting” videos of liberal organizations. “We have reason to ...
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