Tag: Missouri
BRANSON, Mo. (AP) One year after 17 people died when a boat sank on a Missouri lake near the tourist town of Branson, the question of whether the boats should return to the lake…
Floodwaters have tormented much of Missouri in recent months. But its the toxic streams of social media and small-town politics that have converged to put the city of Lexington in the national spotlight and leave…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. A 30-year-old woman admitted to punching, biting and kicking a child she accused of stealing her drugs, according the Leavenworth County District Attorneys office. Amber Nicole Bass pleaded guilty Monday to…
OLATHE, Kan. (AP) A man who was found at a Kansas storage unit with his dismembered wifes remains and two of their children was sentenced Friday to nearly nine years in prison for charges…
The way Westar Energy runs its coal plants in Kansas unnecessarily costs consumers millions of dollars a year through an obscure, if common, practice known as self-committing generation. The company essentially runs its coal plants…
In the same breath, Sonny Perdue, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, recently promised to award one contract to Kansas as well as to Missouri. And then he told us hed decide the winner depending on…
In early June, Diane Mueller fled her flooded home near St. Louis, for the second time in two years. She hopes it wont happen again. When Mueller saw the water bubbling up through grates in…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Thursday that it will relocate two research agencies headquarters to the Kansas City area, delighting Kansas and Missouri officials but intensifying critics fears that research…
Driving while black in Missouri is becoming an even more perilous proposition. Two years after the NAACP issued a travel advisory warning black motorists of the potential problems with traveling through Missouri, a new report…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has signed a bill aimed at stopping an economic border war with Kansas. Whether the bill signed Tuesday has any impact depends on Kansas officials. Both…
