by admin | Aug 21, 2000 | Uncategorized
A fire early Sunday at a childhood foster home in Kansas City has claimed a second life. Aliyah Brown, 6, died Sunday at Children’s Mercy Hospital. Her two-year-old sister, Alexis, was found dead inside the burning structure early Sunday morning. Eleven children...
by admin | Aug 21, 2000 | Politics / Govt
Missourians will vote in November whether to severely limit the money going into state political campaigns, using money from a corporate tax increase to pay for campaigning. Democrat attorney general candidate Jay Nixon favors the concept, if not all of the proposal,...
by admin | Aug 21, 2000 | Politics / Govt, Transportation
Road-building will get a whole new look if Congressman Jim Talent is elected governor. He wants to overhaul the Department of Transportation so the director would make the policy decisions on road construction. Talent wants the Highways and Transportation Commission...
by admin | Aug 19, 2000 | Uncategorized
A dead carnival worker at the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia. The Missouri Highway Patrol says the body was found in a carnival vehicle at the fair. The marketing director for the fair says they’ve been told it looks like the worker died of natural causes. The...
by admin | Aug 19, 2000 | Health / Medicine
The Women in Government Task Force has developed a women’s health platform that it hopes both political parties will support this summer. It calls for women to have the same access to care, treatment, diagnostic tests, and knowledge of health risks that men get....
by admin | Aug 19, 2000 | Politics / Govt
Political conventions aren’t what they used to be. No suspense awaited Missouri delegates who traveled to Los Angeles for the national convention. All knew Al Gore would be the party nominee for president. Parties and scripted evening shows have replaced...
by admin | Aug 19, 2000 | Education
The Kansas City school district has taken one of the needed steps to regain state accreditation. The district has won new funding for its anti-truancy program. It may also help the district hold on to millions in state funding. Because state funding is tied to...
by admin | Aug 19, 2000 | News
The rejection of a union by workers at the Lazy Boy furniture company in southwest Missouri has brought a complaint to the National Labor Relations Board. A September 11th hearing is scheduled in Neosho. The Paper Allied Industrial Chemical and Energy Workers...
by admin | Aug 18, 2000 | Crime / Courts
A jury suggests a Springfield man go to prison for 30 years for setting his girlfriend on fire. The jury deliberated for three hours before convicting Leo McCullum of assault. The girlfriend, Piper O’Neal, suffered 3rd degree burns on 75% of her body. The...
by admin | Aug 18, 2000 | Crime / Courts
A couple of women who embezzled about $1.6 million dollars from a Kansas City bank have been told they have to pay it all back and serve 30 months in federal prison. Evelyn Morgan and Helen Harris worked together for ten years at what is now Bank of America in...
by admin | Aug 18, 2000 | Weather
A major storm that swept through the St. Louis area still has 100,000 electricity customers in the dark today. AmerenUE says crews have already restored power to 75,000 and they have no idea how long it will take to get the remainder of their customers back on-line....
by admin | Aug 18, 2000 | Politics / Govt
Missouri delegates are headed home from the democratic convention and M.U. Political Science professor Rick Hardy says they have a tough job ahead. The one-time republican congressional candidate thinks the booming economy is more likely to slow democratic turnout in...
