In his Storm Track 5 forecast, KCTV chief meteorologist Chris Suchan says the pleasant weather will continue into the weekend, with the next chance of rain coming late Saturday or early Sunday. After an overnight low of 53, Thursday will be sunny, breezy and a bit warmer with a high of 82.

Edward John Maher, the Ozark, Mo. cable installer suspected in a decades-old British armored van theft, has agreed to be deported to England, according to federal court records filed Friday.

Immediately after the filing, a federal judge in Springfield, Mo., held a brief hearing and ordered Maher handed over to immigration authorities to begin the deportation process.

The note from Edward Bremer to his wife, Patz, asks her not to worry despite the blood in the car.

His kidnappers had struck the banker on the head. But they had dressed the wound and allowed their hostage to write home to assure everyone he was not dead — and therefore worth the ransom money.

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This holiday season, we asked you to join a virtual food drive for Harvesters to help hungry children. Your response was tremendous: $284,592 and counting.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Missouri has released new four-year graduation rates. The state is following an accounting system agreed upon through the National Governors’ Association to get to a uniform graduation rate system across the nation as part of No Child Left Behind. The 2011 rate measures the class of students who entered the ninth grade for the 2007-2008 school year and graduated within four years. Some students may still be in high school and planning to graduate in more than four years.

A father-and-son lawyer team with offices in Springfield and Kansas City tried to sign the late Libyan strongman Moammar Gadhafi’s regime as a client in April.

They had joined forces with an eclectic international collection of people with careers in the law and foreign relations. They approached Gadhafi as the American Action Group. They listed first among their membership Randell K. Wood, an attorney who earned his law degree from the University of Missouri-Kansas City and a long-standing practice in Springfield. He lobbied for the Libyans in the late 1980s for the removal of U.S. sanctions.

Sixty-five years separate Ali Lee and the subject of her book report for advanced English.

Ali is 12. She dots her i’s with circles, likes playing basketball, volleyball and soccer and aspires to learn the piano. Her favorite colors are pink and green.