Giving you the business: Are there no workhouses?

- Attorney General Jay Nixon's office collected a record amount of worker's comp penalty payments. Or, vicodin junkie says "what about my bennies?"

- Shoe the children; meaning put shoes on their feet and not kick them. KC Sheraton manager returns to the area after taking part in the largest donation of shoes in the history of a shoe drive to benefit orphans.

- Missourians and residents of other states received more than $3.4 million in 2005 through mediation by Attorney General Jay Nixon's Consumer Protection Division. Which is so much more than you would have gotten if you'd just pulled out your pistol like you thought about doing in the first place. Stop the violence!

- KC area sets housing permits record. Developers plan to put "greater fool theory" to the test in the upcoming year.

- Bird flu won't suppress your appetite for chicken. Sneezing birds just need more hot sauce to make them all better.