Saturday: Chance for morning showers then clearing up to mostly sunny skies. High near 81
Saturday Night: Mostly clear with a low near 58.
Sunday: Sunny high around 82.
Sunday Night: Mostly clear low near 58.
Monday: Sunny with a high around 83.
Monday Night: Mostly clear with a low near 60.
Tuesday: Mostly sunny high near 80.
Tuesday Night: 50% chance for thunderstorms and a low near 62.
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — A suburban Kansas City woman has been awarded $250,000 in damages after a metro radio station falsely identified her as a porn star, and there was a chance she could get more.
The Kansas City Star reports Ashley Patton of Olathe, Kansas, sued the owner of 96.5 The Buzz radio station after one of its DJs identified her on an April 2012 morning show as a porn star.
She was added to a list of names the station posted on its website, which also had a link to the podcast of the show.
Both sides agreed that Patton was not and never had been involved in the pornography industry.
The federal jury that awarded her damages was deliberating Friday afternoon on how much to assess in punitive damages.
Joshua Davis was charged July 14 with 2nd degree statutory rape, for an incident in June of this year. Last month, Davis entered a plea of guilty.
The crime is a class-c felony, which can carry up to seven years in prison upon conviction. On Thursday, Circuit Judge Daniel Kellogg imposed a sentence of five years.
OZARK (AP) – Ozark school district officials have suspended a high school assistant football coach after a profane outburst during a 40-14 loss.
The Springfield News-Leader reported the coach won’t be in the press box when the Ozark Tigers visit the Branson Pirates on Friday. The district hasn’t released his name or the length of the suspension.
A district spokesman said the coach made “completely inappropriate remarks” in front of parents, staff and students. He said the comments were made from the press box during the Sept. 19 loss to the Willard Tigers.
Ozark Superintendent Kevin Patterson sent a letter of apology to the Willard Board of Education and others.
The weight restriction on the Nodaway River Bridge on Route A, just east of Maitland, has been lifted, according to the Missouri Department of Transportation. On Monday, Sept. 22, MoDOT inspectors reopened the bridge after flooding, but placed a 20-ton weight restriction on the bridge, until repairs could be made to stabilize one of the bridge pillars. Crews used rock to stabilize and reinforce the footings of the bridge support pillar where flash flooding had caused significant scour.
While the bridge is safe to use, repairs are still necessary to the bank at the eastern bridge end. Travelers should also be alert as the bridge could close immediately if the river levels rise. Any additional water in the river channel could affect the stability of the slope under the bridge end.
“We know it’s harvest season and wanted to lift the weight restriction as quickly as possible for the surrounding community,” said MoDOT District Maintenance and Traffic Engineer Marty Liles. “Our crews worked hard all week to ensure the bridge was safe for the larger farming equipment and trucks.”
The Route A Nodaway River Bridge was built in 1963 and carries approximately 2,300 vehicles per day. All bridges throughout the United States are federally required to be inspected at least every two years. MoDOT’s Northwest District has more than 1,300 bridges among its 20 counties.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Running back Joe McKnight has ruptured his Achilles tendon, becoming the third Chiefs player to sustain the season-ending injury already this season.
McKnight sustained the injury in practice Thursday. Defensive tackle Mike DeVito and linebacker Derrick Johnson sustained the same injury in a Week 1 loss to Tennessee.
Kansas City plays the New England Patriots on Monday night.
McKnight has been plagued by injuries dating to his days at Southern California, and he never could stay healthy with the New York Jets. He spent last season out of the NFL entirely.
He seemed to be making the most of a second chance in Kansas City, though. McKnight caught six passes for 64 yards and a pair of touchdowns in a 34-15 win last Sunday in Miami.
MARY CLARE JALONICK, Associated Press
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Agriculture Department says unregulated genetically modified wheat has popped up in a second location in the U.S., this time in Montana.
No genetically engineered wheat has been approved for U.S. farming. Unapproved genetically modified plants pose a potential threat to U.S. trade with countries that have concerns about genetically modified foods.
USDA said Friday that the Montana wheat covered a much smaller area than a similar discovery in Oregon last year. And the wheat was found in a location where agricultural giant Monsanto legally tested such seeds 11 years ago. The plants in Oregon were found in a field that had never conducted such tests.
USDA has said the wheat would be safe to eat if consumed but that none of it ever entered commerce.
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Gov. Sam Brownback and Secretary of State Kris Kobach have launched a new online Kansas Business Center to help owners of existing firms and people forming new ones.
The two officials had a news conference Friday to publicize the center’s new website.
They said the project took 18 months and required the cooperation of multiple agencies. The secretary of state’s office is where businesses file articles of incorporation and annual reports.
They said the site allows business owners a single point of access to state agencies and information about forming businesses and writing business plans.
Both officials are conservative Republicans locked in tough re-election races ahead of the Nov. 4 election. Brownback’s Democratic challenger is Kansas House Minority Leader Paul Davis, while Kobach faces former state Sen. Jean Schodorf.
KANSAS CITY- One person was injured in an accident just after 10:30 a.m. on Friday in Wyandotte County
The Kansas Highway Patrol reported a 2005 Ford 500 driven by Tia M. Owens-Williams, 30, Kansas City, was northbound on Interstate 635 just north of State Avenue.
Another vehicle changed lanes in front of the Ford and braked hard. The Ford braked hard and swerved to avoid hitting the other vehicle and struck the barrier wall.
Owens-Williams was transported to KU Medical Center. A passenger in the Ford Michael L. Dupree, 30, Kansas City, was not injured.
The KHP reported both were properly restrained at the time of the accident.
Wage garnishments are a growing concern in the Nation and one that’s hitting the hardest here in the Midwest according to statistics from ADP Research Institute. Attorney Doug Tschauder with Legal Aid of Western Missouri, said Buchanan County isn’t left out of that statistic.
“Just in Buchanan County typically there’s about 5-thousand cases every year that are filed for consumer debts and those are ranging from credit card debts, to payday loans, medical bills, sometimes cars that have been repossessed so there’s a variety of those types of cases in our area.”
Wage garnishment allows for the legal recover of debts by taking it straight from your paycheck. Those garnishments have been increasing in the United State. According to ADP Research Institute, in the past eight years cases of wage garnishment have increase 121-percent. Tschauder said Legal Aid is seeing more people calling for help because of that.
“We have had a few more people that are coming in because of the wage garnishments. It’s definitely something we’re seeing more of,” he said.
In Missouri Tschauder said people could have their paychecks garnished by up to 25-percent. Even though their paychecks are being withheld, Tschauder said people still have rights, ones they might not be aware of.
“First thing they should do is talk to their employer because if they let their employer know that they have children or other relatives that they’re supporting then their employer is able to take that step and reduce that garnishment down to 10%,” he said. “Unfortunately, if there’s a garnishment in place it usually would run the length of the garnishment which is sometimes 3 months or more but then what they can do is after that garnishment has run they can get in contact with their creditor and negotiate with them and sometimes that payment amount is less than what they were garnished.”
Tschauder says if someone has problems with wage garnishment in Northwest Missouri to contact Legal Aid for assistance (816) 364-2325.
