In what looked like a scene from a Hollywood action movie, an elite team of professionals rappelled down the Washington Monument on Wednesday — not to carry out a covert mission but to inspect the damage done to the 555-foot marble obelisk by last month’s earthquake.

WASHINGTON — In what looked like a scene from a Hollywood action movie, an elite team of professionals rappelled down the Washington Monument on Wednesday — not to carry out a covert mission but to inspect the damage done to the 555-foot marble obelisk by last month’s earthquake. As tourists squinted at the tiny figures, two men and two women climbed from a hatch and observation windows at the …

WASHINGTON — In what looked like a scene from a Hollywood action movie, an elite team of professionals rappelled down the Washington Monument on Wednesday — not to carry out a covert mission but to inspect the damage done to the 555-foot marble obelisk by last month’s earthquake. As tourists squinted at the tiny figures, two men and two women climbed from a hatch and observation windows at the …

Can every film be made better with Tom Selleck’s Moustache? Let’s see…

Can every film be made better with Tom Selleck’s Moustache? Let’s see…

Multiplex operators are now negotiating with Hollywood studios on an individual basis, depending on their movie line-ups.

West Johnston still perfect in GNRC conference matches.

West Johnston still perfect in GNRC conference matches.

A Kansas City man who owned a karate business in Blue Springs is at the center of what investigators are calling the largest false tax claims case ever prosecuted in Missouri.

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