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Kansas City police arrested four people during a protest on the first anniversary of the police shooting that killed Michael Brown in Ferguson. The Kansas City Star reports dozens of protesters gathered near a shopping center Sunday evening. Police arrested ...

A suspect who authorities say opened fire on officers in Ferguson, Missouri, on the anniversary of Michael Brown’s death was critically wounded when the officers shot back, St. Louis County’s police chief said Monday. But the father of the suspect, ...

A spate of recent computer-system breaches has spread into the travel industry, hitting a company that provides technology used for airline and hotel reservations. Sabre Corp. said Friday that it is investigating a “cybersecurity incident” but isn’t sure yet what ...

Water seeping through a pond’s clay liner likely led to the massive sinkhole that developed in May at a Branson area golf course, according to a state report. The report by the Missouri Department of Natural Resources said Bass Pro ...

Cooler-than-normal temperatures during the first half of summer hurt revenue and profits for the company that owns Kansas City Power & Light Co. The Kansas City Star reports Great Plains Energy on Thursday reported second-quarter operating revenue of $609 million, ...

Justice Department lawyers are asking a federal judge to reconsider her July ruling ordering the release of children and mothers detained after they entered the U.S. illegally across the Mexican border. The lawyers filed the request late Thursday asking U.S. ...

A Missouri man has been arrested in the slaying of his employer in Kansas City, Kansas, after a standoff with police. According to authorities, the FBI and police took the man into custody around 5:30 p.m. Thursday for the killing ...

St. Louis’ mayor has nominated seven candidates for an eventual civilian oversight board that will review complaints against the city’s police. Mayor Francis Slay’s office says the candidates were chosen from a pool of nearly 50 hopefuls for the board. ...

A man who prosecutors say admitted while applying for a Missouri State Highway Patrol job that he had had sexual contact with several underage girls was sentenced Thursday to 20 years in prison. Cedric Lovejoy, 29, of Plato, was undergoing ...

Public health agencies and drug treatment centers nationwide are scrambling to battle an explosive increase in cases of hepatitis C, a scourge they believe stems at least in part from a surge in intravenous heroin use. In response, authorities are ...

A woman claims in a lawsuit against the Archdiocese of St. Louis that she was sexually abused by a former coach at her Roman Catholic high school. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/1J14cJ7) reports the woman filed the suit last week ...