Brexit | U.K. Votes To Leave EU; Prime Minister Cameron Steps Down

The vote was 52 percent to 48 in favor of leaving the EU. Global markets are down in the wake of the news. Prime Minister David Cameron, who advocated remaining in the EU, says he will resign.

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Major Religions in the Metro

Kansas City is home to a wide array of people and faiths. A 2015 survey by the American Values Atlas, a project of the Public Religion Research Institute, interviewed 560 Kansas Citians to create a landscape of the most-practiced religions for the area. Learn about its methodology here. We mapped those responses below. [FLEX-CONTENT] — This story is part of the…

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Order Up | The Peanut’s BLT

Order up is a new regular series that takes a layered look at drinks and eats across Kansas City. Got a dish you think we should feature? Drop us a note below or on Twitter @FlatlandKC. 

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The Weekend Starts Today

This one’s tricky — it has to bridge a gap between the loose-limbed charm of Father’s Day and the balls-to-the-wall blowout known as the Fourth of July. Not to worry. There’s still plenty to do. It might start with a short road trip 40 miles west to Downtown Lawrence. There you can see what the…

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Disabled Veteran Battles the VA and Wins

When Navy veteran Seth Cavin returned to civilian life in 1997, he used the GI Bill to help pay his way through architecture school, and he depended on the Department of Veterans Affairs to help treat a serious service-related back injury. “Military service gave me the confidence and drive to get through school,” he said….

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Take 5 For Your Health

Rural Kansas Hospital Thrives By Keeping Patients Out Of The Hospital Rural hospitals are struggling to stay open as the communities around them shrink and average patient counts drop as well. A study released earlier this year said one in three rural U.S. hospitals is at risk of closing. But one small hospital in southwest Kansas…

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This photo shows Arabella Grayson standing next to her private collection of African American paper dolls.

The Power of Play

To make a paper doll you need paper, utensils used for drawing and/or coloring, an imagination, and illustrated clothing for the doll. Now, go back 150 years and make that paper doll black. To the previous list of materials, add a hidden agenda, hatred and cruelty toward a certain people, and a narrow definition of…

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A Trans-Atlantic Flight Without Fuel: Solar Impulse Leaves New York On Ambitious Trip

The Solar Impulse 2 plane is being flown across the Atlantic Ocean on a four-day trip to Spain. The solar-powered craft took off from New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport early Monday.

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Bistro 913 Brings Mom’s Poke Recipe from Hawaii to Kansas City

First-time restaurant owner Steven Nguyen, who opened Bistro 913 in April, says he learned most of what he knows about Hawaiian cuisine and restaurant operations from his mother. Certainly, she’s one to study. Nguyen, son of a Vietnamese mother and French father, was born in Vietnam and grew up in Hawaii, where his mother, Judy…

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The Prudhomme Farm

Today their names grace our highways, city districts and restaurants. But before Chouteau was a trafficway, it was the name of an immigrant couple who used their honeymoon to discover new land. Before McCoy’s was a good place to get a beer, it was a family of missionaries whose son would use his business savvy…

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