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Today's Burning Sensation
Live burn training at Downtown, KCI Airports
For the next several days the Kansas City Fire Department Aircraft Rescue and Fire Fighting (ARFF) unit is conducting training at both airports for its staff. ARFF regularly conducts these training exercises and other training in order to maintain proficiency in the specialized tactics and equipment required to fight aircraft fires to ensure compliance with Federal Aviation Administration guidelines.
Other Than Bankruptcy
Seg. 1: Where Is Kansas City Streetcar Headed? Seg. 2: Laura Ingalls Wilder's Missouri Life (R)
Segment 1: Streetcar authority chief says, "we're trying everything we can" to fund a lengthening of streetcar corridor. Kansas City, Missouri, officials continue to move forward with plans for expansion of the city's streetcar system. In the weeks to come voters will weigh in on a one percent sales tax to pay for the extension.
Former Home Team Hard Time
Former Chiefs player gets 22 years in prison for fraud
Federal court records show that 46-year-old Monty Grow was sentenced Monday and ordered to pay about $18 million in restitution.
Kansas City Crusade Against Anger
KC mom on a mission after daughter killed in road rage car crash
KANSAS CITY, Mo. -- One year later, a metro mom is using billboards throughout Kansas City to try to prevent road rage from taking another person's life like it did to her daughter. On a bright, sunny afternoon Kay White and more than a dozen family members gathered near East 24th and Bales in Kansas City to remember a dark chapter: the day her daughter was killed.
Old School Tech Consideration
KC Record Store Day festivities to include live performance by Shooter Jennings
The 11th annual Record Store Day will be celebrated Saturday at independent record stores all over the U.S., which will be offering thousands of RSD "exclusives." Among the list of artists releasing 2018 exclusives and rarities: AC/DC, David Bowie, the Cure, Cypress Hill, Miles Davis, Dr. Dre, Duran Duran, Marvin Gaye, Jimi Hendrix, Robyn Hitchcock, Living Colour, Arthur Lee & Love, MC5, Motorhead, the Police, Prince, U2, Taylor Swift and Tom Waits.
Celebrate Kansas Hero Lady
Pilot of Southwest flight with blown engine was Navy fighter with degree from Kansas university
By ALEXANDRA VILLARREAL and TERRY WALLACEAssociated Press A Southwest Airlines pilot who made an emergency landing Tuesday after the jet apparently blew an engine, got hit by shrapnel and lost a window, is being praised for her "nerves of steel" in helping to prevent a far worse tragedy after the catastrophe killed one passenger and left seven others hurt.
Local Good Life Pix
The Pitch's Bacon & Bourbon, in photos
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And this is the OPEN THREAD for right now . . .
@realDonaldTrump - Since taking office I have been very strict on Commercial Aviation. Good news - it was just reported that there were Zero deaths in 2017, the best and safest year on record! 9:13 AM - Jan 2, 2018
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Make it double time on that airport disaster training.
Headline Error: Tammy Stults does not have a degree from KU, her degree is from MidAmerica Nazarene University in Kansas. She would I think want that distinction made and so would they.
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