Pendergast was hired as defensive coordinator last year only because Romeo Crennel wasn’t available. Crennel accepted that job earlier this month, putting Pendergast out of the job.
AURORA, Ill. (January 29, 2010) - As the 2010 AMA Arenacross Series enters its fourth round of the season this weekend and makes its return to Kansas City’s Kemper Arena, the headlining story a quarter of the way through remains Babbitt’s Monster Energy/TiLube Kawasaki’s Tyler Bowers. After a total of six races, Bowers has grabbed the win all but one, including the last five in a row.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. - The Airline History Museum in Kansas City has been in a holding pattern for more than a year in receiving the largest piece of its collection: a vintage Lockheed L-1011 airplane.
Transportation Logistics Systems CEO Melody Warren has been appointed as chairwoman of Kansas City SmartPort Inc., a nonprofit that promotes the region as a freight and logistics hub.
What’s more, the recession has cut deeply into donations. After posting its first loss two years ago of about US$30,000, the museum is looking at what one staffer termed “a monster loss” that could approach a quarter of a million dollars when the final accounting for 2009 is complete. For a relatively small museum that has always depended on the kindness of others, $200,000 is seismic.
Much of the revenue loss is traceable to a drop in licensing revenue. No one is predicting the museum’s imminent demise, but everyone agrees the trend must be reversed.
“For museums all over the country, dollars are becoming hard to find,” said Greg Baker, who took over as executive director a little more than a year ago. “We are challenged by that. We’ve got to raise money to keep going and if we don’t, we’ll end up closing our doors.”
During the third quarter, the company’s net income was nearly cut in half and in the second quarter, profits tumbled nearly 90 percent.
In the most recent quarter, revenue dipped 4 percent to $406.8 million. Volume fell just 1 percent from a year ago, but revenue from fuel surcharges fell 43 percent, to $26.8 million from $47.3 million a year earlier.
Kansas City — A 45-year-old Kansas City woman is accused of letting her 3-year-old twin sons have access to prescription drugs, leading to one boy’s death.
Pendergast was hired as defensive coordinator last year only because Romeo Crennel wasn’t available. Crennel accepted that job earlier this month, putting Pendergast out of the job.
The announcement that sticks out is that former defensive coordinator Clancy Pendergast is no longer with the team. He was replaced by Romeo Crennel two weeks ago. At that time, Kansas City head coach Todd Haley said he wanted Pendergast to stay with the team in some form.
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Police Capt. Mike Wood says officers who went to a farmhouse in Henry County on Thursday found more than $100,000 in merchandise, including mini-refrigerators, lamps, toys and smaller items such as socks. Police say the farmhouse was set up like a store.
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GOP activist Rich Kiper of Leavenworth says the statement is so generic that Democrats could have agreed with most of it.
Party chairwoman Amanda Adkins says the document is part of an attempt to show that the GOP is “the party of ideas.”
Critics, including civic leaders, developers and home owners in Iowa, Kansas and Vermont, have complained the newly expanded flood zones in their areas will stifle growth and hurt property values.
Sanders has said that the commission sometimes excludes members appointed by the county, school districts and libraries. That leaves full power with six commissioners appointed by the Kansas City mayor.
Transportation Logistics Systems CEO Melody Warren has been appointed as chairwoman of Kansas City SmartPort Inc., a nonprofit that promotes the region as a freight and logistics hub.
Known as “W.W.,” Baker joined the Star as a reporter in 1947. He rose through the ranks until being named editor in January 1967 and executive vice president in 1971.
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Newt Gingrich’s political group raised nearly $6.4 million in the second half of 2009, easily outpacing the fundraising efforts of potential rivals for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination Sarah Palin, Mitt Romney and Tim Pawlenty.
Obama largely escaped any controversy over terrorism in the 2008 campaign, because voters were so focused on the economic crisis and because many were supportive of Obama’s plans to break from the Bush-era war on terror, by ending the Iraq war and shutting down Guantanamo Bay prison.
But a series of stumbles in recent weeks has given Republicans a chance to renew that line of attack against Obama, at a time when he’s already confronting public criticism of his handling of the economy and health care.
Following its launch in nine days’ time, the US space agency’s Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) will spend five years in orbit trying to discover the causes of extreme solar activity, such as sun spots and solar winds and flares.
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) - The mother of one of three Americans jailed in Iran for six months says even hiring an attorney in Iran has brought no new information about the welfare of her son or his friends.
ONE of Britain’s most dangerous gangsters has been using Facebook to threaten and intimidate his enemies from a maximum security prison.
Colin Gunn, an underworld godfather who ordered the execution of two grandparents, has been able to correspond freely with up to 565 “friends” on the social networking site for the past two months
Arne Duncan is getting a lot of heat for telling the truth.
You heard me. Duncan said, “The best thing that happened to the education system in New Orleans was Hurricane Katrina. That education system was a disaster.” Yep.
Duncan, of course, did not point the finger at teachers’ unions, the bloated bureaucracy, or any of the major causes, but the fact is that yes, without Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans could not have rebuilt its horrible school system on a charter school model.
SurveyUSA New York Poll on 9/11 Terror Trials
Should the September 11 terror trials be held in Lower Manhattan? Or should they be held somewhere else?
Lower Manhattan 23%
Somewhere else 69%
Should the September 11 terror suspects be tried in a civilian court? Or a military court?
Civilian court 26%
Military court 69%
During his first year in office, did President Obama accomplish most of the goals he set out to achieve?
Yes 19%
No 70%
Over the past year, have taxes been cut for 95% of working families in America?
Yes 21%
No 53%
Moran and his family continued to live in Hays, with Moran flying home virtually every weekend.
Tiahrt said he flew out to Kansas most weekends, too.
A Moran spokesman said his candidate was not criticizing Tiahrt’s family, but was questioning his rival.
“I don’t think Moran is attacking his family,” Moran spokeman Dan Lara said
Tiahrt said the Virginia move enabled his to spend far more time with his family than he had been spending with them when the clan resided in Wichita.
In Virginia, he was able to attend ball games and teacher’s conferences again where he hadn’t been able to do that before.
Neither Tiahrt nor Moran mentioned the other by name in their public remarks. But spokesmen for both camps said the two men were speaking of each other.
Polls show the race is close.
As a political matter — for Mayor Mark Funkhouser — the most critical comparison will be with the 2006 survey: The one just before he took office. Funkhouser has often said he wants to be judged by whether those numbers have gone up during his term.
