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Hi,I am relocating from Atlanta, GA to Kansas City. I haven't yet decided if I want to be in Missouri or Kansas, but either will do. I'll preferably be on the south side of Kansas City as that is where most of my business will be.I've been looking hard at Overland Park. I'm going to need a 2 bedroom apartment at around $1000/month or less. I also would like information on local/state taxes, car taxes, and any recommendations on a moving company. I've been looking on the Internet and doing research on moving companies and seeing a lot of horror...

Conservatives want FDR to be replaced with Reagan on dimesWASHINGTON (AP) — Conservative Republicans angry over an unflattering television movie about Ronald Reagan want to put his image on the dime in place of Democratic icon Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Democrats are just as determined to keep FDR's profile in coin purses. Reagan on the Dime poll

An acquaintance of mine online just said that he's hearing lots of booms in Riyadh. He knows it isn't thunderstorms and there shouldn't be construction going on right now (night). Anyone else hear anything?

BROWNWOOD, Texas -- Police say a man was bitten by a rattlesnake while shopping for shoes in a Wal-Mart store in Texas. Douglas Hatchett of Brownwood was examing shoes on a rack when a rattlesnake concealed behind a shoebox bit him yesterday. The snake fell to the floor, where Hatchett stomped it to death. Police, fire and emergency medical crews were called to the scene. The 31-year-old shopper and the dead snake were hustled to Brownwood Regional Medical Center. There, the snake was confirmed as a rattler, and Hatchett was treated and released. Wal-Mart officials say the matter's being investigated...

Well, it was just on the O'Reilly Factor, but I was surprised to watch as Gephardt really didn't directly answer any question except for the one on taking the 10 Commandments out of the Alabama courthouse.

<p>SEATTLE, Washington (AP) -- A couple who purchased an inscribed brick for a state park playground are suing because the words "Thank you Jesus" were not included as they had wished.</p> <p>Residents had organized an effort to build a playground this spring at Saint Edward State Park, located on the northeastern shore of Lake Washington.</p>

Once again, the dispiriting spectacle of the American media in full campaign cry is upon us, as coverage of the 2004 presidential race begins in earnest. But this time around, the usual inanities, inaccuracies and insipidities have a more melancholy flavor, an almost elegiac feel. It's like watching priests of a dead cult, vacantly enacting their rituals in a ruined temple whose gods have been broken, desecrated and cast down. The difference from past campaigns lies in the media mandarins' sad belief that there will actually be a genuine, open, presidential election in November 2004. This childlike faith stems, of...

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) -- Scott Butler could not stand high school. On the days he made it to class, it felt like a waste of time.</p> <p>"It was hard to pay attention," he said. "I really wasn't learning anything -- a lot of distractions."</p>

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) — Home construction jumped in July to the highest level in more than 17 years as the red-hot housing market showed no signs of slowing even as mortgage rates began to rise. The Commerce Department said housing construction totaled 1.87 million units at a seasonally adjusted annual rate last month, an increase of 1.5% over June's 1.85 million level.</p>

Popular do-not-call list bringing industry to its kneesAug. 11 — In the past three months, the hallways at Groesbeck-based Tel-A-Sell Marketing Inc. have become a lot less crowded. CEO Edd O’Connor has been forced to trim his telemarketing staff from 72 to 18. “I WAS RUNNING a full house earlier this year,” said O’Connor, who also serves as president of the American Teleservices Association’s Great Lakes Chapter, which covers Ohio, Indiana, Kentucky and Michigan. One of the big reason for the cuts: the chilling effects of the National Do Not Call Registry and other similar efforts in statehouses across the...

<p>WASHINGTON, Aug. 10 — As obesity-related health costs soar, policymakers nationwide are pursuing legislative solutions modeled after the anti-smoking campaigns of the 1990s to attack what many in the medical community say is one of the gravest threats to the nation’s long-term health.</p> <p>IN THE District of Columbia and half a dozen states, lawmakers are debating bills that would require fast food and chain restaurants to post nutrition information such as caloric, fat and sugar content on menus.</p>

Report: Purported Al Qaeda Tape Warns U.S.

Maynard Jackson, Atlanta's first black mayor, cast a huge shadow Tuesday over his white predecessors as the campaign to rename Atlanta's airport developed into raw racial politics. "This really shouldn't be about what the white business establishment would allow," said state Rep. "Able" Mable Thomas, a former Atlanta City Council member. "It's really what the strength of the African-American community will allow. What will we stand for? The real deal is we stood too long silent. Atlanta is being gentrified every day. So, while you do still have a majority, as Maynard would say, use the power you have today."...

<p>MIAMI — File this one under "Be careful what you wish for, you just might get it."</p> <p>The people of Puerto Rico are facing some unanticipated consequences from a victory they won in 2001.</p> <p>For several years, Puerto Rican protesters demanded that the U.S. Navy leave the island of Vieques (search). Groups staged violent protests outside the main gate of "Camp Garcia," saying they were sick and tired of the live-fire bombing exercises.</p>

Airmen across the continent can now spend their downtime fragging online enemies. Microsoft's Xbox Live online gaming service has just acquired a customer that knows something about strategy and tactics--the US Department of Defense. The US Air Forces in Europe (USAFE) have paid $200,000 to outfit 14 bases around the continent with 17 Xbox Live gaming centers, as a way of giving young airmen in the region something to do in their downtime, according to the official US military publication Stars and Stripes. When off duty, they will be able to hone their military skills with such multiplayer games as...

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<p>WASHINGTON — Border agents will voluntarily move from their southwestern border assignments up to the Canadian border to help prevent terrorist weapons, drugs and illegal immigrants (search) from entering the United States, the Bureau of Customs and Border Protection (search) announced Wednesday.</p>

<p>WASHINGTON (AP) -- Internal Revenue Service employees using thousands of computers accessed prohibited Web sites that included personal e-mail, sexually explicit sites and games. To Treasury investigators, it was a sign that "significant misuse" of the Internet continues after a crackdown a year ago.</p>

OLYMPIA -- Gov. Gary Locke yesterday proposed an estimated $3.2 billion in tax breaks over 20 years for The Boeing Co. and its in-state contractors -- if the state's largest private employer agrees to assemble its next commercial jet in Washington. "If they decide not to do the 7E7 here, we stand to lose much more," Locke said at a news conference. On the eve of legislative adjournment, Locke and other politicians scrambled yesterday to gather political support for the tax breaks and changes to the unemployment insurance and workers compensation systems that would benefit Boeing. But all three proposals...