Chair Janet Yellen said Thursday she is committed to increasing diversity throughout the Federal Reserve system, including the ranks of senior leadership. Yellen said that the Fed will benefit from greater diversity, and commercial banks will be better off with ...
Read More »Koster’s income declined during term as Missouri AG
Missouri Democratic gubernatorial candidate Chris Koster released four years of tax returns Thursday, showing that his income from private investments has declined substantially during his current term as attorney general. Koster released his tax information a day before the first ...
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 »New poll shows strong support for paid family leave programs
Time off from work to care for a child or relative is codified in federal law. Now, an overwhelming majority of Americans 40 and older want that time away from the job to be paid. An Associated Press-NORC Center for ...
Read More »Frozen food recall covers hundreds of items from many stores
Amid a massive frozen foods recall involving millions of packages of fruits and vegetables that were shipped to all 50 U.S. states, Canada and Mexico, authorities who want to stem the listeria-linked illnesses and deaths worry it’ll be difficult to ...
Read More »Federal attorneys’ conduct criticized in immigration case
Using a mix of scathing language and movie quotes, a federal judge in Texas who had blocked President Barack Obama’s immigration executive action ordered Thursday that Justice Department attorneys attend an ethics course, saying they misled him about whether the ...
Read More »KC firm donates unclaimed settlement funds to innocence project
The Midwest Innocence Project announced the largest gift in the organization’s 16-year history Wednesday. The organization announced Wednesday in Kansas City that it will receive a $658,980 in unclaimed settlement funds through a cy pres doctrine award through a consumer ...
Read More »Supreme Court considers would-be candidate’s case
The Missouri Supreme Court on Thursday weighed the allegedly “heavy burden” that candidates for some state offices face because they must be registered to vote for at least two years. In an expedited case that likely marked its last oral ...
Read More »Missouri man draws 7 life terms for sexual abuse
A 36-year-old southwest Missouri man has been sentenced to seven life terms for child abuse that authorities said began more than 20 years ago. Lawrence County Circuit Judge Jack Goodman sentenced Marcus G. Yoder to the concurrent life terms at ...
Read More »Missouri education officials approve new English, math goals
Missouri became the latest state to adopt a new set of education benchmarks to replace the national Common Core standards, ditching the benchmarks Tuesday following conservative backlash. The State Board of Education approved new goals for what children from kindergarten ...
Read More »Ferguson reform may be swift with federal agreement approval
Reforms are expected to begin quickly in Ferguson now that a federal judge has approved a settlement between the U.S. Department of Justice and the city where 18-year-old Michael Brown was fatally shot by a police officer. Federal Judge Catherine ...
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