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Abortion records found in recycling bin

Eric Alder, Judy L. Thomas Kansas City Star

Last updated Tuesday, March 27, 2012 - 7:38am

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — An Overland Park, Kan., woman made a disturbing discovery Saturday as she dumped her recycling inside a yellow and green bin in front of Brookridge Elementary School: More than 1,000 private abortion records sat in plain view, dumped on top of magazines and newspapers in a possibly serious violation of federal privacy law.

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Pettis County Sheriff's Deputy Wes Burton stands guard, Wednesday, May 25, 2011, behind a truck stop in Sedalia, Mo., to prevent people from entering a trailer park that was off-limits to the public because of gas leaks and downed power lines from a tornado strike. (AP Photo/Sedalia Democrat, Sydney Brink)

Tornado hits another Missouri town

Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star

Last updated Thursday, May 26, 2011 - 12:45pm

SEDALIA, Mo. -- A quarter to half-mile wide tornado struck Sedalia early this afternoon, crumpling a trailer park, damaging homes and businesses and injuring 15 to 25 people.

Authorities said initial sweeps through the damaged area indicate that everyone is accounted for.

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Group urges grand-jury inquiry into alleged priest sex

Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star, Michael Mansur

Last updated Thursday, April 28, 2011 - 9:40am

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- An activist group on Wednesday urged the Jackson County, Mo., prosecutor to launch a grand jury investigation into what it called priest sex crimes and cover-ups in the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph in Missouri.

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Bible-study group is focus in probe of abortion doctor's murder

Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star

Last updated Monday, December 27, 2010 - 10:57am

More than 18 months after a Wichita abortion doctor was gunned down in his church, a federal investigation into a possible conspiracy continues in Kansas City.

Federal agents have questioned more people in the past few weeks, while a grand jury convened after the murder of George Tiller is still under way.

The focus, according to those who have been interviewed, still appears to be on a Bible-study group that Tiller's killer attended.

At the same time, abortion-rights advocates are concerned that a recent North Carolina case signals an escalation in the threat of clinic-related violence.

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Missouri church sued in sex-abuse case sues victim's parents

Judy L. Thomas, Kansas City Star

Last updated Thursday, December 2, 2010 - 10:40am

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- First, a youth leader in a western Missouri church pleaded guilty to sexually abusing a minor.

Then the victim sued the church, New Life Bible Church of Easton, and its former youth leader, Michael J. Landy.

And now, in an unusual move, the church is suing the victim's parents, saying they were negligent for placing her in Landy's care. The action contends the parents -- who are missionaries for the church -- "breached their duty to provide for the proper care, custody and control of their daughter."

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