Healing a campus riven by student protests over race relations and recent online terror threats isn’t just a mandate for interim University of Missouri system president Mike Middleton. It’s also deeply embedded in his history. The former law professor, whose ...
Read More »A twist for Paris climate talks: Al Gore the optimist
After decades of raising alarms about global warming, former Vice President Al Gore is now raising hopes. As a top-level international climate summit starts later this month in Paris, Gore — who helped negotiate the 1997 climate treaty that didn’t ...
Read More »Clerical error led to Costa Rica’s first legal gay marriage
When Jazmin Elizondo Arias was born in 1991, someone goofed and noted on her birth certificate that she was male. As the years passed and Elizondo grew up, the mix-up never caused any problems. So she never bothered to try ...
Read More »Memorial to Skywalk collapse unveiled, dedicated
In the shadow of Kansas City’s former Hyatt Regency Hotel, a new sculpture rises from the earth at Hospital Hill Park. The 24-foot tall structure stands in memory of the victims, survivors and emergency personnel who responded to one of ...
Read More »Black administrator named Missouri System’s interim head
The University of Missouri’s governing board on Thursday appointed a recently-retired senior administrator from its flagship campus to be the university system’s interim president. Michael Middleton, 68, takes over for Tim Wolfe, who resigned abruptly on Monday amid student-led protests ...
Read More »Justices skeptical of Tyson Foods in class action case
The Supreme Court appeared likely Tuesday to sustain a multimillion dollar judgment against Tyson Foods Inc. in a pay dispute with more than 3,000 workers at a pork-processing plant in Iowa. The justices indicated during arguments that they would not embrace ...
Read More »High court sides with state trooper over fatal shooting
The Supreme Court on Monday sided with a Texas state trooper who was sued after he fatally shot a man fleeing from officers during a 2010 high-speed chase outside Amarillo. The court ruled that Trooper Chadrin Mullenix cannot be held liable ...
Read More »Scalia asks if Supreme Court expresses nation’s principles
The presence of three women on the U.S. Supreme Court isn’t enough to convince Justice Antonin Scalia that the court has become a diverse body. In remarks Wednesday night in Philadelphia, Scalia noted that four of the high court’s members ...
Read More »Obesity still rising among US adults, women overtake men
Obesity is still rising among American adults, despite more than a decade of public-awareness campaigns and other efforts to get people to watch their weight, and women have now overtaken men in the obese category, new government research shows. For ...
Read More »Yik Yak social media service can reveal user data to police
Internet users of the Yik Yak social media app popular among college students aren’t nearly as anonymous as they believe: Missouri police within hours arrested a student accused of threatening violence, the latest in a string of such arrests at ...
Read More »High court struggles over gov’t freeze on assets
The Supreme Court struggled on Tuesday over whether the government can freeze the financial assets of people accused of crimes if the money is not directly tied to criminal activity and is needed to pay a defense lawyer. Several of the ...
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