A prosecutor said Thursday he’ll seek the death penalty against a suburban St. Louis woman accused of killing a disabled man to shift attention away from her in another slaying. St. Charles County Prosecutor Tim Lohmar’s announcement that he’ll pursue ...
Read More »GPS device-maker Garmin reeling after Kansas worker killed
GPS device-maker Garmin long has revered diversity in its workforce, even when the locale of its ever-sprawling operational headquarters — a largely white Kansas City suburb — didn’t reflect it. It’s the place 32-year-old Srinivas Kuchibhotla came to work a ...
Read More »Abandoned homes in Kansas City to go on sale for $999
A program in Kansas City that sold off dozens of eyesore houses for just a dollar last year hopes buyers are willing to pay a bit more for another batch of fixer-uppers. The Land Bank of Kansas City’s latest promotion, ...
Read More »Trucker faces terrorist threat charge in Missouri standoff
An armed trucker whose hours-long standoff at a Missouri rest stop snarled a freeway’s traffic for miles heading into the holiday weekend has been charged with making a terrorist threat with what turned out to be a pellet gun. Platte ...
Read More »Missouri family court, DOJ reach deal over racial inequities
St. Louis County’s family court and the U.S. government have reached a deal meant to resolve allegations that black youth are treated more harshly than whites and that juveniles often are deprived of constitutional rights. Wednesday’s announcement came after more ...
Read More »Police report gives new details on racial dustup at Missouri
Witnesses told police a racial slur that rekindled unrest at the University of Missouri came from a white woman walking with a group of seemingly intoxicated students toppling trash cans, according a campus police report released Thursday. That account offers ...
Read More »Man sues police, Taser over stun gun-induced heart attack
A Missouri man is suing an imprisoned police officer convicted of violating his civil rights two years ago, when the officer repeatedly shot him with a stun gun during a traffic stop and gave him a heart attack that he ...
Read More »Records: Missouri man has history of violence toward women
A man considered a person of interest in his ex-girlfriend’s 2007 disappearance and now charged with burning another missing Missouri woman’s car spent time in jail for assaulting his pregnant then-girlfriend in 2011, police and court records show. The 18-year-old ...
Read More »Gonzaga hires Missouri educator fired over protest conduct
A University of Missouri assistant communications professor fired after interfering with journalists and police during student protests nearly a year ago has a new job with a university in Washington state. Melissa Click, whose profile now appears on Gonzaga University’s ...
Read More »SEC: Former Monsanto exec to get $22.5M as whistleblower
A former Monsanto Co. financial executive who tipped off regulators about the agribusiness giant’s accounting practices involving rebates for its Roundup weed-killer will get nearly $22.5 million as a whistleblower, federal securities regulators announced Tuesday. The Securities and Exchange Commission ...
Read More »Prosecutor: Kansas prison smuggling plot’s scope ‘alarming’
A prison drug-smuggling scheme in which seven people are charged may involve more than 90 inmates, perhaps five dozen outsiders and a “significant number” of the lockup’s employees, according to a federal prosecutor in Kansas. Assistant U.S. Attorney Erin Tomasic ...
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