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Federal data indicates drug overdose deaths in Kansas and Missouri are on the rise even as national drug-related fatalities are in decline. Provisional data released this month by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows drug-related deaths in the ...

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Toyota reported a nearly 4 percent increase in fiscal first quarter profit on improved sales, while rival Honda reported a 29 percent decline in fiscal first quarter profit. Both Japanese automakers on Friday lowered their profit forecasts for the fiscal ...

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The U.S. trade deficit shrunk slightly in June, as did the politically sensitive trade deficit with China, the principal target of President Donald Trump’s tariffs. The gap between the goods and services the U.S. buys and what it sells abroad ...

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Atlanta will soon add some vivid lessons about the South’s racist history on markers placed next to four historic monuments amid the ongoing national debate over Confederate statues. In Atlanta’s Piedmont Park, the 1911 Peace Monument commemorating post-Civil War reconciliation ...

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They were the suburban vehicle of choice in the 1990s and early 2000s, but ever since, minivans appeared to be riding the slow lane to extinction. The soccer moms who once made the boxy people-haulers ubiquitous have shunned them for ...

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The mother of a Missouri farmer charged with tampering with a truck used by two missing Wisconsin brothers said they came to the farm to look at cattle but that she can’t see her son being involved in their deaths. ...

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The former head football coach at a Kansas community college where a defensive lineman died of exertional heatstroke after the first day of practice says the death was an act of God. The comment by former head coach Jeff Sims ...

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Like many elderly, frail people, Lyndall Fraker’s parents spent their final days on a morphine drip, drugged into incoherence. Fraker, appointed in December to lead Missouri’s medical marijuana program, wonders now what the family missed out on in those days ...

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Ron Williams and his two dogs, Bella and Sadie, will soon hop into their camper and tear out of the Jefferson City campground they have called home for the past four months, joining a growing number of recreational vehicle dwellers ...

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Democratic presidential candidates are split over eliminating employer-provided health insurance under “Medicare for All.” The risk is that history has shown voters are wary of disruptions to job-based insurance, the mainstay of coverage for Americans over three generations. Those divisions ...

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U.S. employers slowed their hiring in July but still added a solid 164,000 jobs to an economy that appears poised to extend its decade-long expansion. The unemployment rate remained at 3.7 percent for a second straight month, the government said ...

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