Sunshine, dry air and light winds made for a bright, warm day today with highs in the lower 60s.

WASHINGTON — Maxi Sopo was having so much fun “living in paradise” in Mexico that he posted about it on Facebook so all his friends could follow his adventures. Others were watching, too: A federal prosecutor in Seattle, where Sopo was wanted...

Airline passengers departing Kansas City International Airport will start being funneled through body scanners next week. Federal authorities announced the start time this morning while running local media through the new security initiative at KCI. A specific day was not announced.

As Obama administration touts new transparency, report finds 17 government agencies refused to release information nearly a half a million times in one year

Colorado Springs, a place that’s been portrayed in the media as a homogenous white bread community, is among four cities in America to win a City Cultural Diversity Award.
Given by the National Black Caucus of Local Elected Officials, a...

Reuters - Communications regulators submitted to Congress a national broadband plan that aims to expand access, increase Internet speeds and shift airwaves to mobile services.

Washington Capitals star Alex Ovechkin on Tuesday said he was disappointed by a two-game suspension issued for a hit on Chicago's Brian Campbell.

WASHINGTON — Attorney General Eric Holder told Congress on Tuesday that Osama bin Laden will never face trial in the United States because he will not be captured alive.

In testy exchanges with House Republicans, the attorney general compared...

The infant who died in a house fire Monday was 10-month-old Deanna Lockhart, Kansas City police said today. This afternoon, the girl’s brother, 4, remained in critical condition at the Shriners Hospitals for Children-Cincinnati burn center, where he was flown shortly after the blaze, a hospital spokeswoman said.

Horns from passing motorists blared as supporters and opponents of sweeping health care legislation chanted and waved signs at a rally this afternoon outside the North Side office of Rep. Mary Jo Kilroy, D-Columbus.

Committing to UNLV was something Grandy Glaze just got around to this week. In truth, he had a feeling a few months ago that playing his college ball in Las Vegas was highly likely. Glaze, a 6-foot-6, 235-pound power forward from Toronto, was taking part in UNLV's annual elite camp last summer, and can recall one play in particular.

AP - A former Massachusetts dentist is accused of placing paper clips instead of stainless steel posts inside the teeth of root canal patients while billing Medicaid for the more expensive parts.

Former world heavyweight champ Mike Tyson will take flight on
Animal Planet with a new sport -- pigeon racing.

An argument between two rival rap groups could have sparked a shooting in a Pine Hills parking lot, deputies say.

AP - The girlfriend of actor Michael Douglas' wayward son was freed Tuesday after spending seven months in jail for becoming embroiled in Cameron Douglas' downward spiral with drugs.

JEFFERSON CITY | Members of the Missouri House have endorsed legislation that lowers the state’s minimum age for carrying a concealed weapon. Missouri currently requires an applicant to be at least 23 years old, clear a background check and pass a firearms training course to get a permit to carry a concealed weapon. The legislation would drop the minimum age to 21. Missouri appears to have the oldest age requirement in the country.

HILTON HEAD, S.C. — A single-engine airplane making an emergency landing near Palmetto Dunes on Hilton Head Island struck and killed a man on the beach Monday, according to an official with the Hilton Head Fire and Rescue Division.
The plane...

A charter bus with about 40 passengers rolls over in Atascosa County.

The wife and daughter of Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid are recovering from a violent crash last week that left them with injuries that could have been much worse, he told reporters Tuesday.

LiveScience.com - The National Broadband Plan, which the Federal Communications
Commission (FCC) unveiled to Congress today, is intended to make the
United States the global leader in broadband connection, offering
Americans affordable access to the fastest and most ubiquitous
connections to the Internet.

Associated Press - March 16, 2010 4:05 PM ET OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - Authorities say seven people sustained minor injuries when a city bus collided with other vehicles in southwest Oklahoma...

LAKE TWP.: The Lake Local Board of Education will continue to leave ''belief in God'' out of the district's mission statement, much to the disappointment of a group of Lake Township residents who crowded into the board's meeting Monday night.

Regrowing amputated limbs, broken backs and even damaged brains could one day be a reality after scientists discovered a gene that is key to the almost magical ability.

Palestinians in the West Bank city of Ramallah on Tuesday named a street after a U.S. activist who was crushed to death by an Israeli army bulldozer in a 2003 protest against house demolitions in Gaza.

Whatcom County's unemployment rate reached 10 percent for the first time in more than 20 years as private sector industries reported job losses across the board.

TOPEKA | House members on Tuesday put off a debate on Kansas tax policy, saying it’s too early to determine how much more money is needed to fund state government next year. Democrats and moderate Republicans pushed for the delay, saying forcing votes on raising sales taxes to pay for schools and social services was little more than “gotcha politics” by House conservatives.

Three Whatcom County residents were injured late Monday, March 15, when their vehicles collided in a Bellingham intersection.

The Tulsa Police Department says the Tulsa County District Attorney's Office has decided that an officer's actions during a fatal shooting incident last month were justified. Assault Victim Describes Attack That Ended In Tulsa Police Shooting

Associated Press - March 16, 2010 3:55 PM ET OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - A Republican state lawmaker says he is responsible for moving a portrait of Democratic President Barack Obama that hangs in the...

Reuters - The new financial reform bill introduced in the Senate will likely be approved at the committee level next week, but its shape could change substantially once it comes before the full Senate and winning Republican support comes into play, analysts said on Tuesday.

Public defender Donna Hargrove said charges that Shaffer raped his estranged wife multiple times and abused her corpse came to light after his previous preliminary hearing on murder charges.

CARSON CITY – A parade of Las Vegas anesthesiologists testified Tuesday that cutting their Medicaid rates would mean less service to poor and severely ill patients. There are an estimated 242,000 people enrolled in Medicaid in Nevada.

The FBI is looking for two men who robbed the Country Club Bank at 4343 Belleview Ave. Tuesday morning.

Prosecutors are focusing on DNA test results to prove a crime scene investigator planted evidence in a 2006 double murder.

Reuters - The HBO cable television channel won dismissal of a $5 million defamation lawsuit by a Brooklyn, New York handwriting expert who accused it and "Real Sports" host Bryant Gumbel of tying him to a forgery ring.

Blame it on the alcohol, but Joe Eggelletion could only spend 18 months behind bars