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A group of atheists has sued Kansas City officials over the planned use of $65,000 in tourism tax dollars to aid an upcoming Baptist convention. American Atheists Inc. and two Kansas City members filed the lawsuit Friday against Kansas City ...

It has been two years since a white police officer fatally shot black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, touching off days of rioting, but the political repercussions from the incident have only intensified, fanned by a governor’s race in which ...

They don’t like to be called white supremacists. The well-dressed men who gathered in Cleveland’s Ritz-Carlton bar after Donald Trump’s speech accepting the Republican nomination for president prefer the term “Europeanists,” ”alt-right,” or even “white nationalists.” They are also die-hard ...

And then the skies cleared and the sun shone. Or so it may seem this week, as Democrats stage a convention aimed squarely at countering the dark-and-stormy vision presented by Republicans. Where GOP nominee Donald Trump described “death, destruction, terrorism ...

Lantz Welch, a larger-than-life Kansas City trial attorney, died Thursday. He was 83. Welch’s death was announced in an online obituary that he wrote himself and that proclaimed the lawyer sometimes known as “Sir Lantzlot” as “large and very much ...

At age 17, Rachel Gonzalez isn’t quite old enough yet to participate in elections. Yet Gonzalez will be voting as a delegate to the Democratic National Convention this week to nominate Hillary Clinton for president. Gonzalez, who will be a ...

A federal judge has tossed out a woman’s lawsuit against Home Depot over the deaths of her husband and two children who had sought refuge inside the big-box store destroyed during the devastating 2011 tornado in Joplin, Missouri. U.S. District ...

A Minnesota police officer and the black motorist he shot to death during a traffic stop had interacted in a previous stop more than four years earlier, newly released records show. Philando Castile, 32, died July 6 after he was ...

The mother of the Iraq war veteran who shot and killed three law enforcement officers in Baton Rouge said Thursday that she believes her son suffered from post-traumatic stress disorder and that he once said he thought the CIA was ...

A real estate developer and a minister have been ordered to pay more than $122,000 in restitution in connection to a home flipping venture that targeted low-income Jackson County residents. A civil lawsuit was filed by the Missouri attorney general’s ...

When the Democrats come to the City of Brotherly Love to nominate Hillary Clinton for president and the talk turns to income inequality and the 1 percent, Exhibit A will be right outside their windows: Philadelphia itself. The nation’s fifth-largest ...