The three-story brick building is on the National Register of Historic Places.

The purchase is part of efforts by the utility to add capacity for Missouri customers without building a new power plant.

The department store said it wants to be sure that it carries over designs from its newest stores into existing locations.

What began as Kansas Sampler now routinely opens multiple stores each weekend, and now has a presence in 19 states.

The Leawood-based company adds to a catalog of goods already offered in thousands of stores nationwide.

A federal indictment charges the police officer with using hundreds of thousands of dollars raised for an anti-crime charity for his own purposes.