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SportsKANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Kansas City Current are headed east for an NWSL semifinal against Gotham FC next Sunday, setting up a playoff rematch with the club that ended Kansas City's run a year ago. Kansas City earned the trip with a 1-0 home…
SportsKANSAS CITY, Mo. — In Kansas City, Chiefs fans heading to Arrowhead Stadium on Sunday can bring more than tickets. The club is staging its 60th Toys for Tots collection at the home game against the New York Jets, continuing a long partnership with the…
From Merger Monday
Monday’s deal tape had a pattern. Nearly every buyer already owned a piece of what it was buying. Crédit Agricole holds 29.6% of Banco BPM and wants to reach about 45% by folding its Italian bank into the Milan lender, structured so that it never has to make a tender offer…
From Merger Monday
Berkshire Hathaway Inc. has hired Mizuho Securities and BofA Securities to arrange its first yen-denominated bond sale since April, returning to a market where it has borrowed about twice a year to fund its Japanese investments. The planned benchmark offering of senior unsecured notes is expected in the near future, subject…
From Merger Monday
Onodrim Industries, an Amsterdam company that plans to buy and hold European defense and industrial suppliers, raised $300 million in a Series A round led by Lux Capital that values it at $1.3 billion, nine months after its seed financing. General Catalyst, Lakestar, Altimeter, Strike Capital, 137 Ventures, 8090 and Expeditions…
Crime
KANSAS CITY, Kan. — The Kansas Bureau of Investigation is looking into a Friday night shooting in which a Kansas City, Kansas, Police Department officer shot and killed a 36-year-old man who had a gun inside his SUV. The man was identified as Jesse James West. According to the KBI,…
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