Strong winds and tornadoes have been reported in Arkansas as storms move through parts of the South and Midwest.

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No Injuries Reported as Tornadoes Reported in Ark.

In northern Arkansas, people whose post offices are on a list of more than 3,600 being considered for closing have mounted campaigns to defend their communities’ lifelines.

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Tiny Arkansas Towns Fight for Post Offices, and Survival

The cover of “ The Gothic Imagination ” depicts a futuristic city threatened by a glowering satanic figure framed against a starry night sky. While John C. Tibbetts may teach film at the University of Kansas and write often about classical music and theater, that painting — and several drawings scattered throughout his book — make clear that he’s also a talented artist. Still, the key to this volume of “Conversations on Fantasy, Horror and Science Fiction in the Media” can actually be found in Tibbetts’s middle initial, C. Read full article > >

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John C. Tibbetts’s ‘The Gothic Imagination,’ reviewed by Michael Dirda

A year ago, Nationals General Manager Mike Rizzo was prepared to trade four young players to the Kansas City Royals for former Cy Young winner Zack Greinke, the deal falling apart only because Greinke, with a full no-trade clause, refused the Nationals’ nine-figure contract offer in exchange for accepting the trade. Read full article > >

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Nationals pull off blockbuster deal for Gio Gonzalez

TOPEKA, Kan. — Holiday travelers were breathing a sigh of relief Wednesday after a snowstorm that closed interstates across the Great Plains moved out of the region, allowing crews to plow away snow drifts and let stranded motorists leave roadside hotels. The storm was blamed for at least two fatal car accidents as it crawled from eastern New Mexico and Colorado through the Texas Panhandle, Oklahoma and Kansas. The fierce winds and heavy snowfall closed several major roadways before weakening Tuesday as the weather moved into Missouri and toward the Great Lakes. Read full article > >

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Interstates closed by storm crawling across Great Plains reopen, relieve holiday travelers

ST. PAUL, Minn. — The University of Kansas is buying up website names such as www.KUgirls.xxx and www.KUnurses.xxx. But not because it’s planning a Hot Babes of Kansas site or an X-rated gallery of the Nude Girls of the Land of Aaahs. Instead, the university and countless other schools and businesses are rushing to prevent their good names from falling into the hands of the pornography industry. Over the past two months, they have snapped up tens of thousands of “.xxx” website names that could be exploited by the adult entertainment business. Read full article > >

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No sex, please: Universities are buying up .xxx website names to head off the porn industry

For Arkansas death-row inmate.

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Juror’s Tweets Lead to New Trial

Mentions Texas during speech in Kansas.

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Obama Forgets What State He’s In

President Obama, in one of his most expansive speeches to date, declared on Tuesday that supply-side economics is a failure and called “gaping inequality” across the country a moral shortcoming that is distorting American democracy. Obama’s speech in Kansas was not just another attack on Congress, or a plea to pass his jobs bill. He did not roll out a new, snappy slogan – such as telling the audience that “we can’t wait” to enact new laws. Read full article > >

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Obama attacks Republican economic theory: ‘It’s never worked’

Little Monsters, rejoice! Pop superstar Lady Gaga will visit the White House Tuesday to discuss anti-bullying initiatives with member of the Obama administration. President Obama was not home to meet the fashion icon—he was in Kansas on Tuesday afternoon to give a major economic speech, so Gaga (real name Stefani Germanotta) met with staffers from the Office of Public Engagement to discuss how to end bullying, which the administration has said affects 13 million U.S. students. Read full article > >

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Lady Gaga visits the White House to discuss bullying prevention

“I never saw the movie before,” said Karolyn Grimes , 71, remembering living near Kansas City, Mo., in December 1979 and catching out of the corner of her eye flickering images on the television of familiar faces and places from long ago. Working full time and raising seven children, the 39-year-old Grimes had no time to spare, much less to sit around watching television. But something tugged at her as she saw snatches of snow-clogged streets of small-town America and people she thought she knew. Read full article > >

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For Zuzu of ‘It’s a Wonderful Life,’ it wasn’t such a wonderful life afterward

Emma Sullivan, you’re lucky you’re not my daughter. (Dangerous sentence, I know: My daughters might agree.) If you were my daughter, you’d be writing that letter apologizing to Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback for the smart­alecky, potty-mouthed tweet you wrote after meeting with him on a school field trip. Read full article > >

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Emma Sullivan’s potty-mouthed tweet has a lesson for all of us

“just made mean comments at gov brownback and told him he sucked, in person #heblowsalot.” Thus ran the tweet shot ‘round the world, from Kansas teenager Emma Sullivan after her class visited Brownback’s office (where she did not, in fact, tell him in person that he sucked.) The tweet, a joke, was not supposed to go beyond her friends. But the Internet being the Internet, that is exactly what it did. Read full article > >

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Teenager Emma Sullivan and Sam Brownback’s insulting interlude

The visually striking Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts is a new locus of culture in Kansas City, Mo.

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Critic’s Notebook: Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City, Mo.

Kurt Budke, the women’s basketball coach, and Miranda Serna, an assistant, were on a recruiting trip when the plane crashed Thursday night in Arkansas.

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Oklahoma State Coaches Die in Plane Crash