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This undated photo released by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints shows an ordinance room at the new multimillion-dollar Mormon temple in Kansas City, Mo. The temple will largely serve about 25,000 members in the Kansas City area and about 100,000 members in Kansas and Missouri. The only other Mormon temple in Missouri is in St. Louis. (AP Photo/The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints)

LDS Church opens new temple in Kansas City

Last updated Thursday, April 5, 2012 - 5:25pm

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is opening its new, multimillion-dollar Kansas City temple.

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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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Romney hits Obama, ignores GOP rivals in Missouri

Charles Babington The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, March 13, 2012 - 5:46pm

LIBERTY, Mo. — Mitt Romney isn’t waiting to lock down the GOP presidential nomination to begin focusing his campaign chiefly on President Barack Obama.

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Kai Lundstroem Pedersen, convicted sex predator.

Sex predator who terrorized girl on Facebook gets 30-year sentence

Mark Morris Kansas City Star

Last updated Thursday, February 2, 2012 - 6:36pm

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- A relentless Danish sex predator who used Facebook to stalk and threaten an 11-year-old Missouri girl likely will spend the rest of his life in a U.S. prison.

Kai Lundstroem Pedersen, 61, whose own lawyer described his crimes as "horrific" and "unspeakable," was sentenced to 30 years in prison for using multiple aliases and online accounts to extort the Buchanan County girl into making child pornography.

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Impact draft Duke's Wenger with top MLS pick; RSL adds trio

Dave Skretta The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, January 12, 2012 - 6:08pm

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Andrew Wenger looked a bit sheepish the moment he was asked what teams and players he followed growing up. He knew his reply wasn't all that daring.

"Well, Manchester United," he said. "And, of course, David Beckham."

Now, Wenger may have a chance to play against him.

The expansion Montreal Impact selected the Duke forward with the first overall pick in the MLS SuperDraft on Thursday, choosing the most complete player available in the two-round draft.

The Hermann Trophy winner as the top NCAA player, Wenger was the ACC defensive player of the year last season and offensive player of the year this season, finishing with 17 goals and eight assists.

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Ex-Cougar Heaps, ex-Notre Dame QB Crist transferring to Kansas

Dave Skretta The Associated Press

Last updated Thursday, December 22, 2011 - 3:12pm

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Kansas coach Charlie Weis landed a pair of high-profile quarterbacks Thursday.

Former top recruit Dayne Crist announced on Twitter that he would join the Jayhawks for his senior season after a checkered career at Notre Dame, shortly before news broke that BYU quarterback Jake Heaps was also transferring to Kansas.

Crist will reunite with Weis, who recruited him to Notre Dame, and be eligible to play next season because he's already graduated from Notre Dame. Heaps will have to sit out under NCAA transfer rules but will have two seasons of eligibility remaining.

Officials at Kansas could not comment on the quarterbacks until they enroll.

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Debbie Bradley and Jeremy Irwin, parents of missing infant Lisa Irwin, are shown during a news conference with their attorney in Kansas City, Missouri, on October 17, 2011. The baby disappeared on October 4. (Rich Sugg/Kansas City Star/MCT)

From 'mother hen' to media villain: The life of a missing baby's mom

Lee Hill Kavanaugh Kansas City Star

Last updated Wednesday, November 9, 2011 - 12:56pm

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- He can't sleep. He has trouble focusing his thoughts or quieting roiling emotions after each news story about his missing granddaughter.

And baby Lisa Irwin's first birthday looms five days away.

"That's gonna be the oh-my-God moment," said David Netz Jr., weeping. "I can't even imagine what that day will be like. What will we do? How will we get through that? I don't even know how to ask Debbie and Jeremy what we should do or how to help them through that."

Since the mystifying Oct. 4 disappearance of the 10-month-old, much of the nation has been introduced to her parents, Debbie Bradley and Jeremy Irwin, as the latest breathless, blow-by-blow, cable-crime-case sensation.

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FILE - This file photo provided Oct. 4, 2011, by the Kansas City, Missouri Police Department, shows Lisa Irwin. Police and federal authorities have been searching extensively for Irwin who was 10 months old when her parents reported her missing on Oct. 4, 2011. (AP Photo, Kansas City, Missouri Police Department, File)

Mom admits she was drunk on night baby vanished

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Monday, October 17, 2011 - 5:34pm

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The mother of a missing Kansas City baby said Monday that she was drunk when her daughter disappeared, may have blacked out and actually last saw the child hours before the time she originally told police she checked on her.

The revelations came hours before a New York attorney best known for defending Joran Van der Sloot, the Dutch man suspected in the 2005 disappearance of Natalee Holloway in Aruba, said he had been hired to represent parents Deborah Bradley and Jeremy Irwin.

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Well searched as part of missing baby case

Brian Burnes, Glenn E. Rice, Robert A. Cronkleton Kansas City Star

Last updated Tuesday, October 11, 2011 - 4:04pm

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- Kansas City firefighters searched a well behind a vacant home Tuesday in connection with the case of missing baby Lisa Irwin, who was born 11 months ago Tuesday.

After lowering firefighters into the well twice and finding nothing, they requested help draining about 10 feet of water from the well, which authorities described as being 30 to 40 feet deep and about 3 feet wide. Then they lowered a firefighter for the third time, just to make sure no cellphones or other evidence sat at the bottom.

They found nothing, said Capt. Steve Young, a police spokesman.

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Frenzy surrounds missing baby investigation

Eric Alder Kansas City Star

Last updated Friday, October 7, 2011 - 8:17am

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-- In the search for little Lisa Irwin, crime investigators say, every minute counts. Time is passing.

It has been three days since Jeremy Irwin and Deborah Bradley reported that their 10-month-old baby had been snatched from her crib in their Northland home.

About 300 investigators representing local police, sheriff's departments, the FBI and others have been working the scene and beyond, gathering evidence and following leads they hope will reveal Lisa's location.

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Deborah Bradley, front, stands with Jeremy Irwin while in the lobby of a Hampton Inn hotel in Kansas City, Mo., Friday, Oct. 7, 2011. Bradley said in an interview Friday that she took a polygraph earlier this week after her baby, Lisa Irwin, disappeared from their Kansas City home. Bradley says police told her she failed the test. Lisa's father, Jeremy Irwin, said he has offered to take a lie detector test, but police said he did not have to. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)

Police pressure mom of missing baby: 'You did it'

Maria Sudekum Fisher The Associated Press

Last updated Friday, October 7, 2011 - 9:45am

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The mother of a 10-month-old girl who went missing from their Kansas City home said police told her she failed a lie detector test and accused her of being involved in her baby's disappearance.

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The parents of missing 10-month old Lisa Irwin, Jeremy Irwin and Deborah Bradley, speak during a news conference in Kansas City, Mo., Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 5, 2011. The parents made a tearful plea for the child's safe return Wednesday, nearly two days after she disappeared, begging her abductor to drop her off someplace safe. (AP Photo/The Kansas City Star, Mike Ransdell)

Parents plead for infant's return

Brian Burnes, Robert A. Cronkleton Kansas City Star

Last updated Thursday, October 6, 2011 - 9:47am

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-- As authorities continued to pick through wooded areas and rap on doors Wednesday, the parents of missing infant Lisa Irwin made an emotional plea for her safe return.

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How did Big 12 become so dysfunctional?

Blair Kerkhoff McClatchy Newspapers

Last updated Saturday, October 1, 2011 - 4:48pm

KANSAS CITY, MO. -- With each public statement since becoming the Big 12's interim commissioner, Chuck Neinas has talked about improving trust.

Schools have expressed a lack of confidence in the conference, privately pointed fingers at each other, and on a day set aside ostensibly for pledging unity, couldn't get their stories straight.

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Serial rapist gets 18 consecutive life sentences

Mark Morris, Tony Rizzo Kansas City Star

Last updated Friday, September 30, 2011 - 5:12pm

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The pattern of Bernard Jackson's life was set when he was just 19.

Commit rape, go to prison, get out, then do it again.

But on Friday, a Jackson County judge tried to ensure that the 53-year-old Kansas City man also known as the "Waldo rapist" would never hurt another victim.

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Ferret chews off fingers of infant, parents charged

Brian Burnes, Kansas City Star

Last updated Thursday, June 16, 2011 - 9:11am

KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- The parents of a Grain Valley, Mo., infant who lost seven fingers to a pet ferret could not rescue the child because they weren't home at the time, prosecutors alleged Wednesday.

Authorities subpoenaed cellphone records to track the parents the night their 4-month-old baby was injured, court records show. Their findings contradict the parents, who originally told police that their baby's screams awakened them.

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