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I MMUni com METROPOLITAN DIGEST THE KANSAS CITY 8TARV- Sunday April 11 2MH wwwkansascitycom MO COMMENTARY PLATTE COUNTY drocodone possession of drug paraphernalia and failure to have a drug tax stampWhite was arrested Friday morning at the house in the 2000 block of West 92nd Street Tony Rizzo KANSAS (T KAN AIRPORT KC pursues tenants for land STEVE KRASKE Teens killed Two teens were killed early Saturday when their car crashed along Barry Road The Missouri Highway Patrol reported that Brandon McPherson 16 of Weatherby Lake and Darrefi Floyd 17 of Kansas City were declared dead at the scene of the 12:30 am crash McPherson was driving a 2001 Ford Mustang east on Barry-near Northwest Forest Drive when the car went off the right side of the road striking a mailbox and the railing of a pedestrian bridge Tony Rizzo Continued from B-l Body identified Police have identified the man found dead in a park Friday morning but have been unable to contact his relatives Police say two women found the body of Bryant Davis 37 near a tree line in Welbom Park on North 55th Street north of Parallel Parkway Police do not know where Davis lived and are awaiting the results of an autopsy Tony Rizzo LOTTERIES OVERLAND PARK Woman children safe A missing 21-year-old woman and her two children have returned home safely police said Saturday Rachel Herrera and her sons Nicholas 3 and Mateo 1 had been last heard from Wednesday when she told her husband she was going to Springfield to visit a relative Tony Rizzo A 0 0 lottery numbers: Missouri Pick 3: 3-1-2 Straight-play winners won $598 box-play winners won $100 Missouri Pick 4: 4-1-7-5 Missouri Slow Me 5: 4-8-29-30-33 No winner of $50000 jackpot Four numbers paid $750 Missouri Lotto: 4-9-26-28-38-40 No winner of an estimated $36 million jackpot Five numbers paid $615 four paid $30 Kansas 2by2: Red 18-21 white 9-15 Kansas Pick 3: 4-7-1 Straight-play winners won $500 box-play winners won $80 Super Kansas Cash: 3-8-17-21-27 Super Cashball 4 for estimated $24 million jackpot Powerball: 2-9-30-47-48 Powerball 40 for an estimated $566 million jackpot SUSAN PFANNMULLERSpecial to The Star Drug charges A Leawood man was charged Saturday with cocaine possession and other drug charges after a warrant was served at his house Michael Edward White 44 was charged in Johnson County District Court with possession of about five grams of cocaine possession of by- South American visitor Some people get queasy around Chilean rose-haired tarantulas but not larrett Kirk 13 Jarrett was lending a hand Saturday at the environmental fair at Shawnee Mission East High School KU: Regnier Hall to alter scope of campus Continued from B-l tiding nidable political candi-i often make a course down by money bags Lut week Republicans got their first peek at a candidate who may prove as formidable as any GOP candidate run in recent years fothe 5th District congressional seat now held by Karen McCarthy Her name: Jeanne Patterson Never heard of her? Well betting that before long you will Patterson who kicked off her campaign last Sunday at Union Station surrounded by a squadron of wtyFconnected Republicans promises to emerge as a player hecnuai che has access to what fomjjSEan Phil Gramm of Texas oncXcaDed the most reliable can have in politics that is ready Gramm said in kicking off his 19 race for president Word on the street is that Patterson wife of Cemer Corp Chief Executive Officer Neal Patterson andtbauuventh person the cor- poriWBh ever hired is ready to durjpa boatload on the race Not six figures my friends Severe On Friday Patterson say how much But one of her rivals for the GOP nomination shy about talking about it told going to write as big a check as she needs said Grandview Councilman Steve Dennis For a while the figure Dennis was hearing was a million or two Now the number on the grapevine is $5 million he said Time will tell whether Patterson digs that deep But those close to the campaign are making it clear that money will not be the reason if she loses Hie 5th District continues to be a strongly Democratic district that elected a Republican since 1946 But entry may well have a profound impact not only on the district but on statewide politics By giving Republicans a legitimate contender she could pose a big enough threat that Democratic turnout in the Kansas City area is elevated In a state dose to 50-50 parity these days that could affect the outcomes of the race and the US Senate contest that features three-term incumbent Kit Bond a Republican never won any of his three Senate races with more than 53 percent of the vote The effect of deep pockets already is showing attended campaign school and learned how to deal with reporters already hired a first-rate campaign team that indudes media consultant Sam Dawson whose firm handles many of the top target races and American Viewpoint the respected polling firm Those factors aside Patterson is going to push issues that have broad appeal and play to her strengths such as reform of health care the industry in which Cemer operates "While the people of health care are my heroes producing mira-des routinely the system they operate in is costly wasteful disjointed dangerous and in severe she said in her kickoff address She pointed out that the distrid would do well to have a Republican member of Congress given the majority in both houses of Congress "What a wonderful opportunity for a representative to have access to that she said Patterson insists that launched a campaign she can win With her reliable buddy Mr Cold Cash by her side not entirely implausible To reach Steve Kraske political correspondent call (816) 234-4312 or send e-mail to skraskekcstarcom few weeks he said "We realize foe airport is a I part of foe whole Kansas McBride said civic leaders market foe area vyij want to provide support and ift- formation about why foe airport Is important to the story of Kansas The city plans to retain foe Any business that locates there' would enter into a lease with 1 airport which in turn would generate more revenue for foe airport Airport officials said they had not determined how much revenue a new business on that site could generate The marketing campaign comes a year after Wayne Cauthen boV came city manager Cauthen who came to Kansas City from Denver and was involved in developing 1 Denver International Airport has made economic development around KQ a priority In November Cauthen dismissed aviation director Russ Widmar because he thought the needed an aviation director with a more entrepreneurial bent At foe time Cauthen said foe area around KQ had not come close to reaching its full economic potential Airport property covers more than 10000 acres in an area roughly bounded by 1-29 state 435 and Tiffany Springs Road The three terminals runways control tower parking areas and businesses along Cookingham Drive make up only about 3000 of those acres The marketing campaign which is being coordinated primarily by foe Kansas City Aviation Depart- ment and Kansas City Area Devel: opment Council was planned be fore Cauthen was hired said Pete Fullerton executive director of foe Platte County Economic Development Council which also has been involved in foe marketing campaign But Fullerton said terest in foe airport helped pushed foe initiative into high gear "ft not a stretch to say that this is moving more quickly because ojf foe city he said Tom Cowden senior vice president of foe development council said KQ had never been aggressively marketed as a site to com- panies outside the traditional realm of air-freight operations The 640 acres is one of the few large one-owner commercially viable on-a-major-airport proper- ties left in foe United States Cow- den said I City needs to exploit 3 this opportunity now let 3 too many years go by he said And foe timing is right Cowderf He said foe recession has caused companies to put off major invest- ments over foe past few years Now economic indicators are 3 proving and companies are look- 3 ing at investments 3 Fullerton praised foe Aviation Department for working in dem with foe economic develop- ment agencies have kicked things up notch rather than be passive and let people find out that foe land 3 Fullerton said 3 Gary Bartek manager of cargo 3 development for foe Aviation partment said some national 3 business publications had listed foe Kansas City area as one of foe 3 best places for corporate reloca- cth dons and expansions Now is foe time to aggressively promote on- airport property development 3 Besides quick airfield access foe 3 location is in a Foreign Trade 3 Zone which offers a variety of tax 3 breaks on goods US Customs is nearby International air cargo can be delivered within 48 hours and 3 overnight service can be provided in foe United States And foe site is adjacent to 1-29 i and other major interstate high- 3 ways "Our goal is to leverage these 3 facts to generate interest among prospective development part-1 he said 3 I To reach Mike Rice call (816) 234-5903 or send e-mail to mricekcstarcom million The rest is funded with revenue bonds which will be paid off by tuition dollars No state tax money is involved The new three-story building will have 82000 square feet foe Regents Center has 55000 square feet It will include a 240-seat auditorium 18 classrooms three computer labs and 30 faculty offices In any given semester 200 faculty members teach on foe Edwards Campus Clark said but only 15 have had offices there The new building will triple foe number of faculty based at foe campus Enrollment is expected to increase from 2400 students to about 4000 within five years KU hopes to eventually add two more buildings on this campus Six months ago KU bought a 20000-square-foot building adjacent to foe Edwards Campus The main floor of this facility will be set up as a food service and bookstore for KU students That building should be operational fairly soon Clark said but it might not be ready to open in time for fall classes To reach Diane Carroll call (816) 234-7704 or send e-mail to daaTollkcstarcom College and complete their junior and senior years at -the Edwards campus "A lot of them want to complete a bachelor's Clark said but "there is no source of public higher education (in Johnson County) that will allow them to do that part of our strategy to start closing that The campus expects to add a third degree-completion program this fall in public administration that program awaits final approval from the Kansas Board of Regenfc The two offered now are in literature language and writing and molecular biosdences On the drawing board are possible programs in social work and developmental psychology Charles Carisen foe president of Johnson County Community College thinks the undergraduate degree-completion programs will catch on think way Carisen said "We have so many nontradi-tional students that have job responsibilities family responsibilities and all sorts of things that they just pick up and go to Lawrence or Manhattan What this allows them RICl I SUGGThe Kansas City Star Regnier Hall Is to open in August at 12600 Quivira Road at the University of Edwards Campus in Overland Park A crew from Kennedy Glass of Lawrence recentiy worked on the building to do is stay in foe area and over a longer time period chip away at their The Edwards Campus opened in January 1993 at its current location with 10 programs Before that KU operated in a facility in a former school building at 99th Street and Mission Road Paving foe way for foe move was a gift of 36 acres from Olathe businessman Clay Blair a former chairman of foe Board of Regents The $158 million building which is scheduled to open this summer has been under construction since fall 2002 The Victor and Helen Regnier Charitable Foundation of Leawood donated $3 million and foe Hall Family Foundation donated $5 FBI joins search for missing Gardner man How to help By TONY RIZZO Kansas City Star concrete evidence of been uncovered foe The Anyone with information about Alonzo Brooks of Gardner should call the TIPS Hotline at (816) 474-TIPS (474-8477) the Linn County Sheriffs Department at (913) 795-2666 or the FBI at (816) 513-8200 A reward of $2000 is being offered foul play had possibility was being investigated Some par-tygoers reported that a fight had broken out although Stites said it was unclear whether Brooks was involved The Kansas City area anti-crime organization Move Up is assisting family in publicizing his disappearance A Move Up representative said foe group had received information that Brooks might have been involved in an argument at foe party To reach Tony Rizzo call (816) 234-7713 or send e-mail to trizzokcstarcom Agents with foe FBI now are assisting linn County Kan authorities in the search for a Johnson County man missing for a week Family members said they had not seen 23-year-old Alonzo Brooks of Gardner since he attended a party near La Cygne Kan on April 3 FBI spokesman Jeff Lanza said Saturday that the bureau had assigned 40 agents to the Brooks investigation Fifteen teams of two agents each are conducting interviews and 10 others are assigned to a command post in Kansas City Lanza said If Brooks who is black was victim of foul play and if it is determined that a crime was racially motivated then foe case could be prosecuted federally as a hate crime Lanza said The Kansas Bureau of Investigation and Gardner officers also are assisting said Linn County Sheriff Marvin Stites Stites said Saturday that foe influx of manpower would be a "great because of foe large number of interviews to be conducted He estimated that at least 80 persons had been or would be interviewed Initial estimates were that as many as 200 persons attended foe party but Stites said foe actual number appeared to be lower The sheriff said that although no BREAK: Annual event serves poor people Continued from B-l a fixed income with six children and a bedridden husband Sometimes there are hard choices to be made about which children get clothes she said Gifts during foe holiday season are virtually out of foe question So an event like allows her to donate clothes that her children have outgrown and pick up some things that she might not be able to afford "On a fixed income everything is already spent by foe time we get foe Fernandez said little things like soap and deodorant and stuff like that comes in For others foe event was simply a chance to replace ruined clothes Virgil Rodriguez lives at City Union Mission and does some part-time roofing work He was looking to replace shoes covered with tar Without an event like Saturday's probably have to wear the same clothes every he said To reach Brad Cooper call (816) 234-7724 or send e-mail to bcooperkcstarcom "This is a blessing from God" said Ruth Hawkins of Kansas City as she picked through some of foe clothes piled on tables For some the event relieved foe stress of having to find ways to stretch a limited income Take Maria Fernandez who is on 4.