The Kansas City Star from Kansas City, Missouri • 1

A r-: KANSAS CITY EDITION WWWKANSASCITYCOM TUESDAY SEPTEMBER 25 2007 In" nf npn mm -i FYI the best new TV series tNs fall? According to it Aaron Barnhart with Ray Wise (left) as Satan and Bret Harrison El STAR BUSINESS SPORTS DAILY Meetings Fundraisers Weddings Although the Chiefs won Sunday their And auto races The events calendar inability to run the football Is testing Is checkered at Kansas Speedway D1 Larry Johnson's patience I Cl $300 MILLION OR MORE Six proposals are submitted STICKING POINTS Job security for members of the UAW and health insurance for the retirees AN END IN SIGHT? Industry analysts think foe job action will be shorts Negotiations resume today LOCALEFFECT NearlylOO hourly union workers at foe Fairfax plant in KCK are off foe job KCK i i-vV oV-- -v IV casino ifc'-' i- Ukw v- Among those Involved In proposing prolocts are Las Vegas Sands Corp -j and Kansas Speedway By RKK ALM and MARK WIEBE Tha Kansas Oty Star -The sixth-rkhest man tops the list of would-be casino operators in Wyandotte County that filed applications by a Monday deadline It: Ts A Five 1 gaming Company teams backing a total of six proposals wheeled vohimi- nousap the INSIDE A map of the proposed casino -v" locations In KCK and details of the applicants At mm rapii1 ttm 'I I Hall in T3 i VI fl fn downtown Kansas City Uni-'1 fied Government i administrators now begin deciding which one or more to endorse for state applmaL ITk Unified Government plans to hold public presentations on each plan Nov 6-8 and Dec 5-7 The deadline for endorsing posals to thestate is Dec 3L Although the Unified Government at one time estimated it might receive as many as 12 SEE CASINO AS PAVIDEUUTTI THE KANSAS erfY STAR A carrier filled with Saturn vehicles made at the General Motors Fairfax plant In Kansas City Kan passed United Auto Workers pickets 1 Monday About 73000 UAW members nationwide are on strike against GM the first national strike against the company since 1970 honking of vehicles passing by the strike won't last long but this is what we have to do for job said Sheila Collins a 23year GM employee who transferred last year to Fairfax from Dora-viile Ga plant which is closing next yean also have to support the retirees Who helped make this union strong RANDOLPH HEASTER Tha Kansas City Star eneral Motors Corp' ground to a hadt Monday as union workers struck the biggest automaker aF ter marathon negotiations failed to achieve a new contract Picketing by United Auto Workers began about 10 axo local time at Fairfax plant and other facilities nationwide tracted walkout The walkout marked the first nationwide strike called by the UAW against GM in decades Negotiations foundered on die twin issues of health care for retirees and job security for the dwindling Tanks of active workers in the United States Dozens of pickets belonging to UAW Local 31 were holding signs along Fairfax Avenue in front of the GM plant Monday -afternoon acknowledging the GM employs nearly 1900 hourly union workers at the Fairfax plant and 73 JOOO na-tionwide Talks resumed a short time later but weary bargainers stopped to rest about 8 pjni The negotiations were to resume this morning Industry analysts speculated that this could be a relatively -Short job action given how much GM and the union stand to lose if it turns into a pro Gofo Kansas Otycomfor video from the Fairfax picketing Other news Slow sales -shut down part of Ford's Claycomo plant for two weeks DX suit at SEE STRIKE A4 $575 SB5I iNSIDETHE 1 A A I A I if 4 Missourians in Myanmar government warns ring Sharahokfors charged that tha company's decision to combine tracking stocks cost them billions ByDANMARGOUES and JASON GERTZEN The Kansas City Star Disgruntled shareholders wdw accused Sprint of fleecing them of billions of dollars when it com- The military Junta threatens to take action against Buddhist monks leading protests A7 million steroid doses federal officials said Monday A spokesman for the federal Drug Enforcement Administration said it was not known whether any prominent professional or Olympic athletes were customers of the illicit labs which marketed steroids human growth hormone md other drugs through Websites bined two tracking stocks will get just $57i million under a proposed settlement with the corn- KCsdmdl' district accused of fraud Local Investment Commission files a -lawsuit claiming officials schemed againstitlBI THECASE Ptantiffs attorneys estimated that shareholder losses ranged from $13 billion to $34 billion The settlement amounts to $575 millioa just 44 -percent of the low end of the estimated damages Federal Investigators know whothor any blg-namo athlatas ware among tha customers By TONY RIZZO The Kansas City Star A Kansas City man and three other Missouri residents- are among more than 120 suspects arrested in a massive international kteroids ring involving performance-enhancing drugs imported from China Described as the largest illegal steroids investigation in US history Raw targeted illicit labs that processed materials from China for sale over the Internet During the1 21-month investi- gation authorities broke up more than SO illegal -labs in 27 states and seized more than 11 LfcUtWtoi John Wood the attorney for the Western District of Missouri declined to discuss information about customers in the Missouri cases but he said the investigation was continuing is getting a Wood said Kansas City resident Bryan Wilson 38 and his former SEE STEROIDS A10 proposed settlement amounts to 44 percent of $13 billion the low end of the range of losses estimated by the plaintiff Terms of the all-cash settlement -call for Sprint Nextel Corp to pay $10 million and its insurance carrier to pay $473 million The company continues to deny that it bilked PCS SEE SPRINT A10 Tbgefoei authors seek STAN HONDA I AFPGETTY IMAGES Ahmadinejad gets a stormyneception Protesters' greeted Iranian President -Mahmoud Ahmadinejad on Monday outside Columbia University In New York where he spoke He also drew harsh criticism from the university's president Storft A2 Read a with an author of The Faith Club born out of three desire to learn about one another's beliefs El Go to KansasCRyxom for Dave video report annINiii BUSWESS D1 CLASSIFIED FI I CONKS E4-S DEATHS M-7 FYI El 1 LOCAL B1 LOTTERIES B2 MOVES E7 OPINION BA-10 PUZZLES ES EX Fl SPORTS DALY Cl I TV ES I Mpufrasi a hlNWIWttriWHitin nWfirttlilirtUrtll tf isTmtoiMMi 1 I 1 I I.