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John Sleezer/The Kansas City Star kcws070409 Photo Credit: JOHN SLEEZER She may be 91 years old, but Elsie Morgan, of Brookside, is still very much a part of the Fourth of July Popsicle Parade that she started back in 1962.

According to preliminary calculations, the Dow Jones industrial average rose 57.06 points, or .68 percent, and closed at 8,504.06. The Standard & Poora TMs 500 index rose 4.01 points, or .44 percent, and closed at 923.33. The Nasdaq composite index rose 10.68 points, or .58 percent, and closed at 1,845.72. An early reading of the KansasCity.com ...

The utility behind a controversial coal plant project in western Kansas must reapply for a new state permit, the Environmental Protection Agency said Wednesday.The decision means another delay for Sunflower Electric Power Corp.s efforts to build an 895-megawatt, coal-fired generator near Holcomb.The states top regulator initially rejected the ...

Heres a poser for you movie buffs: What do the white dress worn by Marilyn Monroe in The Seven Year Itch and the fur coat, muff and hat worn by Orson Welles in Citizen Kane have in common? Beyond their obvious status as movie artifacts, theyre both part of a lawsuit filed in Johnson County by a 40-year-old Olathe businessman, Gregory J.

Updated at 6 p.m. Great Plains Energy advanced 19 cents Thursday. The utility company tentatively negotiated a $59 million rate increase for its Kansas customers.

Avis Budget raised to Equal Weight at Barclays... Bank of America raised to Outperform, $16.50 target, at KBW... BB&T Corp.

Two competing companies have reached a deal to share the building of high-voltage power lines from Wichita to Dodge City, Kan.Kansas Gov.

Prairie Wind Transmission, LLC today announced an agreement with ITC Great Plains, LLC, Sunflower Electric Power Corporation and Mid-Kansas Electric Company regarding the segments of a proposed 765-kilovolt transmission project each company will construct in Kansas.

Midwestern communities face a problem that could slowly suck the life out of their economies: brain drain.

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. --We're still chasing. Most of us, that is. The majority of the group saw enough hints in the forecast models to continue on back to the north.

Why should the banks have all the fun? Financial institutions from Wells Fargo to Capital One are issuing millions of new shares and raising billions in new capital.

Great Plains Energy Incorporated announced today that the underwriters of its public offerings fully exercised their over-allotment options to purchase an additional 750,000 equity units and an additional 1,500,000 shares of common stock.

Evidently Great Plains Energy and Embarq didn't get the word. They were the only two large regional stocks -- tracked in the list below -- that advanced Wednesday.

KANSAS CITY, Mo.-- --Great Plains Energy Incorporated announced today that it plans to commence a public offering of - SLOUGH, Angleterre-- --Expand Networks www.expand.com, le leader de l'optimisation WAN pour la consolidation et la virtualisation des succursales, a annonce aujourd'hui que Picanol, un - NEW YORK-- --TouchTunes Corporation, the ...

Most of the largest regional stocks fell Tuesday, led by declines in Cerner Corp.

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. & REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-- --Representatives of two Purdue Research Park-based companies launched from research developed at Purdue University will travel to California's Silicon Valley - COVINGTON, Ky.-- --Omnicare, Inc.

A high-voltage power line unlike any seen this side of the Mississippi River soon could be striding across southwestern Kansas.Cable bundles as thick as pickup tires and bearing 765,000 volts would bind the ever-more-productive wind fields of Kansas to outside markets.The project, estimated to be worth up to $800 million, is still up for grabs ...

SPOKANE, Wash.-- --Sterling Savings Bank announced that, effective May 1, 2009, it has changed the name of its financial services division from Harbor Financial Services to Sterling Savings Banc Financial - 05/04/2009 - 04:30 PM HOUSTON-- --Constellation Energy Partners today announced that its Board of Managers has taken several measures to ...

Great Plains Energy today announced that Kansas City Power & Light Company and other parties to KCP&L's pending rate case before the Missouri Public Service Commission informed the MPSC that they had reached an agreement in principle to settle the pending rate case.

Two Kansas City Power Light executives can look forward to more comfortable retirements, thanks to a doubling of their pensions.