Kansas City Star

Kansas is losing $7.2 million in Title I money, which pays for extra teachers and services in high-poverty schools.

MU halls now house administration and museums. Plan calls for MU to move museums to former cancer center and use one vacated building for classrooms, offices and labs.

Ralph Hile of Merriam has a bone to pick with the city of Mission. He remembers city officials saying they would install traffic signals at the Broadmoor Street intersections with Martway and 61st streets when the old Herff Jones property was redeveloped.

A southwestern Illinois judge already under scrutiny after a colleague died of a cocaine overdose at his family's hunting lodge was charged Friday with possession of heroin and guns.

Schools in Newtown, Conn., will receive $1.3 million in federal aid to recover after the shootings that left 26 students and educators dead last year.

The U.S. military has proved to be a sexually hostile environment for women -- and for a fair number of men as well. By the Pentagon's own measures, women are more likely to become victims of sexual assault while in the military than in civilian life.

About 20 residences and two churches are without water after the main broke about 7:30 a.m.

When President Barack Obama pushed his health care overhaul plan through Congress, he counted labor unions among his strongest supporters.

To jail. From the story: In May 2011, then Judge Pozonsky "began to request, instruct and insist that police bring to his courtroom the controlled substances -- usually cocaine -- that had been confiscated in drug cases," according to the...

The decision is unlikely to end a bitter rift. Conservatives threaten to bolt, and liberals fault ban on gay leaders.