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A woman who became the first person nationally to bring product-liability claims against two pelvic-mesh manufacturers in one trial — and lost — will have a chance to retry part of her case following a ruling Tuesday in the Missouri ...

Priest sex abuse victims are demanding that Missouri and Kansas officials conduct a comprehensive investigation into clergy misconduct and cover-ups similar to the one that revealed widespread problems in Pennsylvania. Rebecca Randles, who has represented hundreds of victims in priest ...

A school district that garnered national attention when a transgender student was crowned homecoming queen in 2015 has installed gender-neutral restrooms at two new elementary schools and in some existing locations. The individual bathroom stalls at Rising Hill Elementary and ...

Kansas City health and social service groups are testing a new approach for mothers undergoing drug recovery by keeping families together. The number of infants born dependent on opioids in Missouri has more than quadrupled since 2011. The number of ...

A Christian missionary from China who was visiting Kansas City with his wife and four children was shot to death after he crossed paths with an 18-year-old who was shooting at people while high on drugs, police say. The victim, ...

Jackson County’s primary ballot will contain a few extraneous names, following a judge’s ruling on July 31. Circuit Judge David Byrn ruled that county officials exceeded their statutory authority by opening up the Aug. 7 ballot to candidates to become ...

It’s almost as if Letty Stegall is back home in the United States, beside her daughter to wake her for school, fussing about the list when her husband goes shopping, beaming when she sees what her family has managed to ...

The father of an engineering student from India who was fatally shot in Kansas City said Tuesday that he wishes a person of interest in the killing had been arrested rather than shot to death by police, because he wants ...

A program could help hundreds of western Missouri families with a down payment on homes. The NeighborhoodLIFT program will provide homeowner training and $15,000 in down-payment assistant grants. Up to 300 families buying houses in Jackson, Clay and Cass counties ...

A Kansas City immigration attorney said she was dropping off a client for deportation early Tuesday morning when an ICE officer pushed her, fracturing her ankle and causing lacerations to her leg. The attorney, Andrea Martinez of the Martinez Immigration ...

The Jackson County Public Defender’s Office will get the chance to make its case, again, that two of its public defenders are unable to accept new cases and continue to provide effective assistance of counsel to existing clients. One key ...