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Bettmann Archive/Getty Images It was another summer night in 1981. Hundreds of people gathered for a "tea dance" at the Hyatt Regency Hotel in downtown Kansas City, Mo., on July 17. Among them were Karen Jeter, 37, and her husband, Eugene, 48, who had just gotten married a couple of weeks earlier. "She was a really good dancer. Loved to dance, loved music. She's the one that taught me how to dance," said Karen's son, Brent Wright. "They were really wonderful people." Television crews were also at the Hyatt Regency that night to cover the social event in the hotel's lobby. Years later, Wright ...

Kansas City Hyatt Regency Collapse Remembered First, here's some of the better news links on the topic . . . KANSAS CITY, MO (KCTV/AP) - Kansas City, Missouri, on Saturday marked the 40th anniversary of one of its greatest tragedies with a release of white doves. About 100 people gathered at the Skywalk Memorial Plaza to remember the 114 people killed when disaster struck the Hyatt Regency Hotel on July 17, 1981. Forty years ago, Lynn Driggers was getting ready to go out to dinner with her husband when she got the call. The Hyatt Regency, she was told, had "collapsed." Driggers worked as a...

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God’s gifts to man By Brent Wright - Your pastor speaks This coming Sunday will be Valentine’s Day (Men don’t forget!). We often give gifts to our significant other, whether it may be flowers, candy, or other things that they may enjoy. As I was thinking of that, I thought about the gifts that God has given us! You may have heard it said that the Bible is God’s love letter to man. God loves us and He also has given us some gifts. Here are a few. The Gift of the Holy Spirit Acts 2:38-39 “Then Peter said to them, repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ fo...

Jordan T. Revlett, 23, was arrested by FBI agents in Kentucky on Monday  He is charged with unlawful entry on restricted grounds for breaking into the U.S. Capitol during the pro-Trump riot on January 6 Agents tracked him down after being sent pictures and videos he posted from the Capitol to Snapchat Revlett pleaded not guilty in federal court and told agents he didn't see any signs telling him he shouldn't be in the building The 23-year-old previously placed fourth in a Kentucky 'sexy farmer' contest He received 8,000 of the 64,000 votes cast in the 2019 radio competition