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Kansas City, MO – July 15, 2011 – Portfolio Kitchen & Home, recognized throughout the Midwest as the premier kitchen, bath and home design resource, announced today the opening of their Kansas City Flagship Store. The Portfolio Flagship Store is located at 215 W

Kansas City, KS – July 21, 2011- (Wyandotte Homeless Services Coalition), The Kansas City T-Bones, Village West Rotary, Wyandotte Homeless Services Coalition, and the Unified Government are partnering to host an inaugural Great WyCo Family Camp Out July 30, 2010 at Community America Ballpark.

The Transportation Security Administration announced Wednesday that it will begin installing software to allow airport scanners to show objects hidden under the clothes of passengers without creating what appears to be a naked digital image of the travelers.

Lane T. Eitel, 54, of Lee’s Summit, is facing charges that he claimed undeserved overtime pay and wrote dozens of fake traffic warnings to back it up when he served as a sergeant for the Jackson County sheriff’s office.

Lawrence residents might someday be able to put donations into old parking meters rather than handing their money to panhandlers.

The White House said Wednesday it plans to close 373 federal data centers by the end of next year, including two in Kansas City.

Three more Kansas City area residents may have died of heat-related causes, officials said Wednesday as an enormous heat wave continued to bake the Midwest. The new deaths would mean 13 people have died from the heat this summer in Jackson County, already surpassing the previous three years’ totals combined.

The Missouri Department of Transportation is warning motorists about three road closures that could have a big impact on traffic in the coming days in the Raytown area, downtown Kansas City and near the Truman Sports Complex.

Taking the stand at a Topeka hearing held by the disciplinary board for attorneys, former Johnson County District Attorney Phill Kline and a top deputy, Stephen Maxwell, said Wednesday that they didn’t mislead a grand injury investigation of Planned Parenthood.

A national study released today by the Center for Work-Life Policy says that Asian-Americans — 5 percent of the U.S. population and the nation’s fastest-growing minority by percentage — hold less than 2 percent of top corporate jobs.