MIDWEST HEAT WAVE PROMPTS EARLY SCHOOL DISMISSALS
By GRANT SCHULTE Five year-old Grace Kennedy cools off from the heat in a water fountain in Stinson Park in Omaha, Neb., Monday, Aug. 26, 2013. An unusual, late-summer heat…
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CRITICS: CONSUMERS SHOULD KNOW MORE ABOUT OUTBREAK
By GRANT SCHULTE and MARY CLARE JALONICK In this image provided by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a photomicrograph of a fresh stool sample, which had been prepared…
Brownback’s fight for sales tax plan isn’t over
BY BRAD COOPER The Kansas City Star Eliminating or slashing the income tax is a romantic idea for many politicians.Getting there is much less dreamy. Getting there is much less…
UNION PACIFIC OPTIMISTIC ABOUT 2013 AFTER SOLID 1Q
By JOSH FUNK FILE – In his Friday, Sept. 28, 2012, file photo, Engineer Ed Dickens leans out of the cab Union Pacific’s historic steam Locomotive No.844 as it is…
SNOWSTORM TAKES AIM AT PLAINS, MIDWEST
By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH JC Hobbs directs his wife Sarah as they help to pull a van and U-Haul up a hill outside Calhan, Colo. as a storm continued to bring…