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About half of all people released from prison in Missouri return within five years. But decades of research has shown prison education programs can help break the cycle.
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Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker talks about Kevin Strickland and the development of the county's new detention center, and a local competition winner whose ideas could protect thousands of children.
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A local young inventor is poised for the global stage with her life-saving invention, for which she won this year's Kansas City Invention Convention.
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Kansas City, Missouri — Time was, a fledgling tech company called CivicPlus had to explain to prospective customers why it was based in Kansas — and not…
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A teenager wakes up, gets ready for school. Slips a smartphone into her pocket on the way out the door.Her day may well include some biology or chemistry,…
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KANSAS CITY — Seventy hours a week got old. Fast. So did working multiple jobs.So Joseph Cowsert wept tears of joy and relief the day he got word while…
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Kansas State University is now officially home to one of the best groups of cyber-defense trainees in the nation.In December, the university's Cyber…
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Segment 1: The local impact of a minimum wage increase.In November, 62% of Missouri voters supported Proposition B, a measure to raise the minimum wage…
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The School of Computing and Engineering at the University of Missouri-Kansas City is getting a high-tech $32 million facility to help students compete in…
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Birds, bees, fish, and all sorts of other animals exponentially expand their intelligence and abilities when they cluster together in swarms. Can humans…
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Are all those April showers making your May flowers feel a little soggy? Today, we get tips for late-spring gardening from the Kansas City Community…
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A recent study from the Brookings Institution suggests that the vast majority of our country's high-tech jobs are clustered in just a handful of cities.…