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 »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 ...
Read More »Missouri executes man for killing 19-year-old
A Missouri inmate who sexually attacked a 19-year-old woman before tying her to a cemetery tree and killing her was executed Tuesday after the U.S. Supreme Court and the governor declined to intervene.
Read More »US judge narrows Michael Brown family suit against Ferguson
A federal judge has narrowed a wrongful-death lawsuit filed by the family of Michael Brown Jr. against Ferguson, its former police chief and the white ex-police officer who fatally shot the unarmed, black 18-year-old. U.S. District Judge E. Richard Webber ...
Read More »VA says it may shut down hospitals to close $2.5B budget gap
The Department of Veterans Affairs may have to shut down some hospitals next month if Congress does not address a $2.5 billion shortfall for the current budget year, VA officials warned Monday. The VA told Congress that it needs to ...
Read More »St. Louis chief: Gunman ‘tried to assassinate’ officer
A gunman wearing a bandanna over his face opened fire on a uniformed St. Louis police sergeant before dawn Tuesday, peppering his windshield with at least a dozen rounds, and the police chief credited the officer’s body armor with saving ...
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