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To look at these two men side-by-side, it would be hard to imagine that U.S. Rep Emanuel Cleaver and Jacob Turk http://www.honeywell.com/sites/kcp/ , the Republican who hopes to be Cleaver's congressional ...

Among a flurry of bills designed to rein in credit-card companies is a proposal that would make it harder for college students to qualify.

Missouri’s 5th Congressional District is traditionally Democratic and the incumbent’s profile is so high he has a boulevard named after him.Yet four Republican candidates are on the Aug.

Members of the U.S. House of Representatives will no longer be allowed to lease gas guzzling vehicles on the taxpayers' dime.

Joint Interview with Rep. Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri and Rep. Scott Garrett of New Jersey

The Federal Government gave its final nod to a bus service expansion plan in Kansas City.

When Missouri Democrat Emanuel Cleaver asked Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on Wednesday when the nation's financial woes would end, he was expressing the yearning of many on Main Street and Wall Street ...

Every year, taxpayers spend about $1 million to lease vehicles for 127 members in the House of Representatives, which is more than a quarter of the 435-member body.

Sprint is off the hook.After an often bitter debate, the U.S. Senate on Wednesday passed and sent to the White House a bill that would help immunize Sprint — and other phone companies — from ...

The United States Senate passed a bill to rename the postal facility at 1700 Cleveland avenue in Kansas City the, "Reverend Earl Abel Post Office Building." This legislation was introduced by Senators Claire ...

McClatchy-Tribune Information Services -- Unrestricted Middle The 1997 trial of five Kansas Citians in what became known as the "firefighters case" was one of the most unwieldy and contentious in the region's ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. - Federal investigators, anxious to convict those responsible for a 1988 blast that killed six Kansas City firefighters, used intimidation and other means to pressure several witnesses to lie, ...

Here we go again.One year after conservative Republicans began firing Scud missiles over the way Missouri picks judges, they’ve begun rearming for the same fight this year — just in time to make it ...

I wish Barack and Michelle Obama had a teenage son. If they did, it might just shake up the twisted image so many Americans have of young black men as gang-banging, misogynistic thugs.

When the nuclear weapons plant in south Kansas City moves in 2010, the federal government will be faced with trying to sell a 300-acre site that is severely polluted.

The fact that a black man is a serious contender for the U.S. presidency is a historic achievement that signifies progress in race relations.

The way it’s scripted, one mayor will toss the ball over to the other today.It’s a symbolic gesture to reinforce a continued commitment to using sports to engage Kansas City’s young people in ...

For sale: A nuclear weapons plant in south Kansas City with plentiful space, easy access to transportation and acres of pollution.That’s the deal for any buyer of the Kansas City Plant once it begins ...

EPA Unveils List of Fuel-Efficient Cars for Congressional Leasing Program by Jeremy Elton Jacquot, Los Angeles on 06.

By DAVID GOLDSTEIN A congressman's campaign to force members of Congress to drive 'green' is gassed up and ready to go.At a time when gasoline costs more than $4 a gallon in much of the U.S. and the hole in ...