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Eric Sill’s family and friends remembered the Olathe student on Sunday, a day after he died in a crash with a wrong-way driver. “He had a lot of friends and they are reaching out to his family,” Jim Little, Sill’s uncle, said Sunday afternoon. Mortgage and Insurance Insurance Blog My Insurance Policy Easy Insurance Guide Insurance Hub Insurance Pages Mr Insurance Find Local Insurance Insurance Article Spot Insurance ins and outs Local Insurance Finder 411 Insurance

SAN FRANCISCO | Researchers delivered a double dose of good news Sunday in the fight against flu: successful tests of what could become the first new flu medicine in a decade, and the strongest evidence yet that such drugs save lives, not just shorten illness. A single intravenous dose of the experimental drug, peramivir, cleared up flu symptoms as well as five days of Tamiflu pills did, a large study in Asia found. An IV treatment is desperately needed because many sick people can’t swallow pills and because illness hinders the body’s ability to absorb oral medicines.

A Kansas City, Kan., girl charged with murder at age 13 faces adult court and many years in prison. A boy who was 13 when he killed a man last year will stay in the juvenile system and could be released when he is 22½, a Wyandotte County judge ruled early this month.

Now a new version of work begins. Work, and also hope. Peter Kinder, Missouri’s lieutenant governor, will send a letter to Gov. Jay Nixon requesting a meeting about continuing the Tour of Missouri next year.

Reversing climate change will create green jobs. Tax cuts spur the economy. Everybody wins when everybody is covered by health insurance. Putting the American military to work in the Middle East could bring democracy to the region and American security in its wake. That’s what we’re told, what we’re sold.

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<strong>Who:</strong> Paul Emil Bosch Jr., 81, of Kansas City, North. <strong>When and how he died:</strong> Aug. 26, of natural causes.

<strong><span class="subhead">The problem</span></strong> Ben Nicks of Shawnee has wondered for years about a sign alerting motorists to a &ldquo;deaf child area&rdquo; near the 5500 block of Inland Drive in Kansas City, Kan. The sign has been there for at least a decade, he says, wondering, &ldquo;Is the deaf child still in the area or is he a deaf adult by now?&rdquo;

ST. LOUIS | Former U.S. Sen. Jim Talent, who has kept active politically since losing his re-election race in 2006, is helping lead a panel that says the country could face another terrorist attack by the end of 2013 &mdash; possibly involving a biological agent. The Republican from Missouri, who was defeated by Claire McCaskill, a Democrat, is working in particular on issues such as national security and military preparedness, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported last week.