U.S. factory production was unchanged for a second straight month in June as a sharp drop in auto manufacturing was offset by greater output of furniture and chemicals. The cutback in auto production comes after three months of healthy gains ...
Read More »Selling that sofa online? Think about going to the cop shop
Michele Velleman needed to sell a Zumba dance fitness kit, a cellphone and a table through Facebook. So she found buyers on Facebook and made the trades at — where else? — the police station. “It is always a little ...
Read More »Ex-St. Louis officer sentenced for giving gun to drug dealer
A former St. Louis police officer has been sentenced to two years in federal prison for providing a shotgun to drug dealers. Don McGhee was sentenced Tuesday. The 28-year-old had pleaded guilty in April to conspiracy to possess a firearm ...
Read More »Execution set for man who raped, killed Kansas City girl, 15
A September execution date has been set for a man convicted of raping and killing a 15-year-old Kansas City girl in 1989. The Missouri Supreme Court set the execution date for Roderick Nunley for the 24-hour period beginning at 6 ...
Read More »ACLU asks appeals court to halt NSA phone record collection
Civil liberties groups asked a federal appeals court Tuesday to again strike down as unconstitutional a portion of a law used by the government to justify the collection and storage of Americans’ phone records. The American Civil Liberties Union and ...
Read More »Construction to start on memorial to Kansas City disaster
A groundbreaking ceremony is scheduled for a memorial to victims, rescuers and survivors of Kansas City’s 1981 skywalk disaster. The Skywalk Memorial Foundation breaks ground on the memorial Friday in Hospital Hill Park, across the street from the former Hyatt ...
Read More »New Missouri measure will change license office bid practice
A new Missouri policy will stop a Department of Revenue practice of awarding certain contracts partially based on how much money is promised to come back to the state. Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon on Tuesday announced he will let the ...
Read More »Springfield sues to get jail to accept municipal inmates
The city of Springfield has filed a lawsuit in an effort to force Greene County Sheriff Jim Arnott to once again accept municipal inmates into the county jail. The suit claims Arnott is not complying with an intergovernmental agreement signed ...
Read More »Obama to announce high-speed Internet help for homes
President Barack Obama set a goal of bringing high-speed Internet to most schools by 2017, and now he’s promoting a new program to help close the digital divide even further by bringing that faster Internet to more people. During a ...
Read More »Missouri school bullying lawsuit settled for $300,000
A federal lawsuit filed by the parents of a 14-year-old southwest Missouri boy who killed himself after being bullied at school has been settled for $300,000. The Joplin Globe reports the Carl Junction School District and its insurance company settled ...
Read More »Second company probed for air bag inflator malfunctions
The problem of exploding air bags could be widening beyond Japanese manufacturer Takata Corp. U.S. safety regulators are investigating inflators made by ARC Automotive Inc. that went into about 420,000 older Fiat Chrysler Town and Country minivans and another 70,000 ...
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