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  • Communities along the Mississippi River and other rain-engorged waterways are waging feverish bids to hold back floodwaters that may soon approach record levels.
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  • Volunteers worked into the night to stack sandbags against rising Midwest floodwaters and evacuate people in its path after a powerful spring storm system unleashed downpours from Oklahoma to Michigan.
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  • Storms packing rain, snow and dangerous winds raked the Midwest and spawned a possible tornado outside of St. Louis that prompted an emergency declaration from Missouri's governor.
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  • Police say they are trying to determine how a medical box containing a pair of eyeballs ended up in a trash bin at a gas station in Kansas City.
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  • An early spring snowstorm forced the cancellation of more than 100 flights at Denver International Airport and closed several roads Saturday as it moved eastward, dumping more than a foot of snow in some places.
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  • Six employees of a popular Kansas City restaurant destroyed last month in a natural gas explosion have filed a lawsuit over the blast that killed a server.
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  • An irate man commandeered a microphone from Kansas City Mayor Sly James during a speech Tuesday and ranted for several seconds before being tackled by the mayor's bodyguard.
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  • Suddenly being swallowed up by the earth on a golf course's fairway drove a wedge between Mark Mihal and a stellar round.
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  • A St. Louis-area animal shelter has found a home for a 37-pound cat named Biscuit. It even found him a sympathetic shoulder to meow on.
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  • A homeless man will soon have well over $100,000 after returning an engagement ring to a woman who accidentally dropped it.
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  • Search crews at the site of a massive explosion that destroyed a popular Kansas City, Mo., restaurant have found the remains of one person.
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  • A Kansas City couple charged with child abuse Tuesday told authorities they handcuffed the husband's malnourished teenage son to a basement pole because he was bipolar and they had run out of options in handling him, court documents said.
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  • Authorities found a frail 17-year-old boy handcuffed to a pole in his parents' Kansas City basement, where he said he'd been kept since his father withdrew him from school in September.
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  • Joe Ryan decided to try his luck again.
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  • Chiefs introduce Andy Reid as new head coach
  • Click play to watch Ducis Rodgers' report from Action News at 5:00 p.m.
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  • Chiefs introduce Andy Reid as new head coach
  • Andy Reid has been introduced as the new coach of the Kansas City Chiefs, one week after he was fired from the Eagles.
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  • The Kansas City Chiefs were in shambles after the worst season in franchise history, and chairman Clark Hunt promised their devoted followers that better ways were ahead.
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  • Recordings of a 911 call show Jovan Belcher's mother begging her son's dying girlfriend to stay alive after being shot.
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  • Kansas City Chiefs Jovan Belcher (59) stands on the sidelines during an NFL football game against the Buffalo Bills in Orchard Park, N.Y., Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Bill Wippert)
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  • Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher told officers who found him sleeping in his car outside an apartment complex hours before he committed a murder-suicide that he was there to visit a woman he described as his "girlfriend," but that she wasn't home.
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  • People were coming and going Sunday from a house where a day before Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher shot and killed his girlfriend before committing suicide in front of his coach and general manager.
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  • NBC broadcaster Bob Costas used his halftime segment on "Sunday Night Football" to advocate for gun control following this weekend's murder-suicide involving Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher, causing an immediate debate on social media.
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  • Kansas City Chiefs Jovan Belcher (59) stands on the sidelines during an NFL football game against the Buffalo Bills in Orchard Park, N.Y., Sunday, Sept. 16, 2012. (AP Photo/Bill Wippert)
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  • It began like any other Saturday for the Kansas City Chiefs for the GM and coach. Then they got a call to hurry to the parking lot.
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  • Cindy Hill, a laid-off office manager who lives in a small town in Missouri, called her husband Thursday with urgent news that would change everything: "We won the lottery."
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  • A southwest Missouri man is accused of plotting to open fire inside a movie theater during a screening of the new "Twilight" film.
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  • A University of Missouri panty thief won't be going to jail.
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  • Big Rico is back.
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  • Emmy-winning TV host and "Moon River" crooner Andy Williams has died at age 84.
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  • Is robbing a bank on your bucket list?
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  • Action News
  • An email sent by a mother to her estranged boyfriend indicates she fatally shot her three young daughters before killing herself in rural eastern Missouri, authorities said Thursday.
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  • Rep. Todd Akin is under fire over his comments that women's bodies can prevent pregnancies in cases of "legitimate rape."
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  • Republican Senate candidate Todd Akin talks with a reporter during the Governors Ham Breakfast at the Missouri State Fair in Sedalia, Mo., Thursday, Aug. 16, 2012. Akin said in an interview Sunday, Aug. 19, 2012 with St. Louis television station KTVI that pregnancy from rape is really rare. Akin, who has said he opposes all abortions, said in the interview if a woman is raped, her body has ways to shut that whole thing down. (AP Photo/Orlin Wagner)
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  • Missouri Rep. Todd Akin apologized Monday for his televised comments that women's bodies are able to prevent pregnancies if they are victims of "a legitimate rape."
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  • A suburban St. Louis mother and her two children are dead in what officials suspect was a murder-suicide.
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  • Several Walmart locations were evacuated because of bomb threats
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  • Authorities in Platte County, Mo., say officials have found the bodies of two women in a field after officials interrogated "a suspect.
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  • Authorities continued to search Sunday for two sisters who disappeared from a Missouri home, leaving behind two young children.
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  • Action News
  • A Kansas City woman has been ordered held on $200,000 cash bond after police found her 10-year-old daughter locked in a closet.
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  • A Missouri woman has paid a $100 fine for calling 911 to report her dog had collapsed.
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  • A streaker who ran naked onto the field during a Cardinals game says he did so because he lost a bet.
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  • Midwest Tornadoes
  • Joplin began a day of solemn remembrance Tuesday with a sunrise service to honor the hospital staff, emergency workers and other survivors who sprang into action when one of the deadliest tornados in U.S. history carved through the city exactly one year ago.
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  • Obama speaks on eve of Joplin tornado anniversary
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  • Midwest Tornadoes
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  • Midwest Tornadoes
  • It was a label they sought both to embrace and avoid, a refrain overheard in whispers or uttered bluntly at soccer games, summer camps and national academic competitions: Here come the tornado kids from Joplin.
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