A Missouri lawmaker who drew bipartisan outrage over her brief Facebook comment expressing hope that President Donald Trump would be assassinated apologized publicly Sunday to Trump and his family, calling the online posting “a mistake.” But Sen. Maria Chappelle-Nadal, a ...
Read More »As homicides increase, Kansas City grasps for answers, help
Kansas City already was marching toward its worst homicide year in decades when three men were slain in separate shootings over four hours one day last month. One was gunned down on a porch, another in a vehicle. The third ...
Read More »Frat at Missouri sued over alleged near-fatal hazing case
A former University of Missouri student is suing a fraternity and its parent organization over an alleged hazing incident he says left him with near-fatal alcohol poisoning while the frat already was on probation for alcohol infractions. Brandon Zingale’s lawsuit ...
Read More »Mediator to hear case over Independence traffic stop, stun gun use
Mediation is the next step for a federal lawsuit that alleges a former Missouri police officer nearly killed a teenager with a stun gun during a 2014 traffic stop. Online court records show Bryce Masters’ lawsuit was filed against the ...
Read More »Supreme Court won’t hear Missouri college drug-testing case
The U.S. Supreme Court declined Monday to hear a Missouri technical college’s challenge of a ruling that its mandatory drug testing policy is unconstitutional when applied to all students. The nation’s highest court refused without comment to intervene at the ...
Read More »1st farmer lawsuit on deck in Kansas against Syngenta
The first of tens of thousands of U.S. lawsuits will go to trial on Monday in Kansas City, Kansas, against Swiss agribusiness giant Syngenta over its decision to introduce a genetically engineered corn seed variety to the U.S. market before ...
Read More »Court: Much of ex-inmate’s $200,000 deal to go to victims
A convicted car thief who injured himself while playing basketball in federal prison won $200,000 from the U.S. government — but it appears most of that money will go to his victims. That’s because the Denver-based 10th U.S. Circuit Court ...
Read More »Judge blocks Missouri’s abortion-restricting rules
A federal judge followed through on his promise Wednesday and blocked abortion-restricting rules in Missouri, saying he’s bound by a U.S. Supreme Court ruling and that the state is denying abortion rights “on a daily basis, in irreparable fashion.” Missouri’s ...
Read More »Missouri’s high court asked to resolve execution drug debate
A media advocacy group and the American Civil Liberties Union are asking Missouri’s highest court to settle whether the state’s prison system must reveal the closely guarded source of the drug it uses in executions. The nonprofit Reporters Committee for ...
Read More »Judge plans to block Missouri’s abortion-restricting rules
A federal judge says he plans to issue a preliminary injunction to block abortion-restricting rules in Missouri similar to ones in Texas that the U.S. Supreme Court struck down last year. U.S. District Judge Howard F. Sachs announced his move ...
Read More »Federal judge defers ruling on Missouri abortion rules
Planned Parenthood pressed a federal judge Tuesday to block abortion-restricting Missouri rules similar to Texas ones struck down last year by the U.S. Supreme Court, while an attorney for Missouri countered that undoing the Missouri regulations could endanger women. U.S. ...
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