By DANICA KIRKA (LONDON, AP) — British police arrested three people Tuesday as part of their investigation into the manipulation of a key benchmark interest rate — the first British… Read more »

(KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — The former head of financial services software maker DST Systems Inc. has been tapped to lead the Kansas City-based Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation. Officials announced… Read more »

By VICKI SMITH (MORGANTOWN, W.Va., AP) — An executive who ran several Massey Energy coal companies and worked closely with former CEO Don Blankenship faces criminal conspiracy charges and is… Read more »

(KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — An international firm based in Portugal plans to open a plastic packaging company in Kansas City. Kansas City officials say the Logoplaste plant will bring… Read more »

(HEMATITE, Mo., AP) — The coordinator of a $200 million cleanup at a shuttered eastern Missouri nuclear fuel plant says the work should be done by this summer. Westinghouse Electric… Read more »

(ST. LOUIS, AP) — Businesses that move products on the Mississippi River continue to seek the government’s help as the river approaches historic lows. The Army Corps of Engineers on… Read more »

By MATTHEW DALY (ARLINGTON, Va., AP) — President Barack Obama made a quick trip to a Virginia bookstore for some Christmas shopping. The president took his daughters, Sasha and Malia,… Read more »

(KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — Union steelworkers will be back on the job at a Kansas City manufacturing plant next week after approving a new contract. Nearly 200 members of… Read more »