Mike Sims is a bit emotional. As he prepares to celebrate 40 years of working with an array of acclaimed artists, the master printer admits it’s overwhelming. “Huge memories, yeah,” Sims said, shaking his head. “The biggest memories are the ...

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Jurors ruled against a teacher who alleged that she was fired from a Catholic school in Kansas City, Missouri, because she was pregnant, unmarried and refused to have an abortion. After eight hours of deliberation, the jurors sided with the ...

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Kansas City-area schools are trying to remedy a critical teacher shortage looming as the new school year begins, including by placing unqualified educators into some classrooms. Some school districts have been rehiring retired teachers, or training counselors and coaches to ...

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A missing woman was found dead in Arkansas hours after police fatally shot her estranged, rifle-toting husband near a popular shopping area in Kansas City, Kansas, authorities said. The body of 49-year-old Sylvia Ussery-Pearson was found this week in northwestern ...

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A Missouri man imprisoned more than 20 years for a double murder is innocent and should either be released or retried, a judge ruled this week. Ricky Kidd, now 44, was convicted of two counts of first-degree murder in the ...

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A federal employees union charged this week that recent comments by acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney confirm the Trump administration’s “grand strategy” to cut the federal workforce by relocating agency offices out of Washington. Mulvaney said last ...

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A museum that celebrates a century of children’s literature with immersive galleries, dozens of exhibits and a lab to encourage young people to read and write is opening in a Kansas City warehouse next year, according to the artist-driven nonprofit ...

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The governors in Kansas and Missouri have moved to end an economic “border war” that has gained their states unwanted national attention for using millions of dollars in incentives to entice companies into shifting jobs close to the Kansas City-area ...

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Missouri state Rep. Rebecca Roeber, who was seriously injured in a vehicle crash earlier this year, died Tuesday while on a vacation that had been intended to celebrate her recovery, her husband said. Roeber died in her sleep while vacationing ...

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India Woods sat in the Kansas City courtroom and stoically listened to the gruesome details of the last moments of her best friend’s life. Lawyers described how 18-year-old Daizsa Bausby was murdered and left cut and bruised, partially clothed and ...

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The Department of Agriculture says fewer than 40 percent of the researchers whose jobs are being transferred from Washington, D.C., to Kansas City will make the move to the Midwest. The Kansas City Star reports that U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny ...

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