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A $12 million expansion has reached completion for St. Joseph, Mo. food manufacturer LifeLine Foods. In the works since July 2019, plans included a new corn – or masa – mill, which opened with a ribbon cutting ceremony last week.…
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Leawood-based NPC International Inc., which filed for bankruptcy in July, has decided to move back the deadline for bids on Pizza Hut assets. The decision arrives following concern from Pizza Hut owner Yum! Brands that a group of credit-focused hedge…
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A study conducted by SmartAsset on how long it takes to become a homeowner in 100 different U.S. cities ranks Kansas City, Mo. within the top 25 of those identified as taking the least amount of time for renters to…
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The opening of a Kansas City office for Moneta Group has been announced following the firm’s expansion from its St. Louis headquarters. Already a major player in the Kansas City market with an established list of clients from the area,…
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A Friday update from the Kansas Department of Health and Environment reports the state now has 56,592 confirmed cases of COVID-19 and 632 deaths since the beginning of the outbreak. The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services reported on…
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AP — A federal judge in California has stopped the 2020 census from finishing at the end of September and suspended a year-end deadline for delivering the numbers needed to decide how many seats each state gets in Congress. On…
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A handful of counties in the Kansas City region have been identified as places with the most favorable cost of living, a recent study by SmartAsset showing the top 10 counties in Missouri that have it the best in this…
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Kansas City-based Operation LeGend gained large momentum over the summer, gaining federal support for its efforts to reduce violent crime, and spreading to eight other cities in the country. As the operation winds down, federal agents brought into the Kansas…
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Kansas City's Northland Park welcomes FedEx Ground to its industrial park, the company set to open operations at the location in October. The new FedEx center plans to open 300 jobs at its 548,500-square-foot distribution center to add to the…
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A report released by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reveals that, despite some concern in COVID-19 death rates across particular areas of the U.S., the average reported COVID-19 death rate in the U.S. is now 2.92 percent,…
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