As most people were winding down last Friday night, Andrea Howell’s work was just getting started. As a direct support professional, Howell provides care for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. She spends her Fridays…

TOPEKA — U.S. Sens. Jerry Moran of Kansas and Roy Blunt of Missouri expressed outrage at evidence of bias in the United Network for Organ Sharing’s policy of distributing livers from states with high donor…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Kansas and Missouri residents may be drinking unsafe amounts of arsenic, nitrates and other chemicals — even if their provider is meeting federal drinking water requirements, according to data published Wednesday…

WICHITA, Kan. (AP) — A cash management company has asked a federal court to return nearly $166,000 in proceeds seized in Kansas from sales at Missouri medical marijuana stores. Dickinson County sheriff’s deputies seized the…

A suspect in an Ashland, Mo., homicide was taken into custody after law enforcement raided a house in Iola Wednesday evening. Iola Police Chief Jared Warner, in a joint press release with the Ashland Police…

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri is preparing to install electric vehicle charging stations at some of its state parks. A budget measure approved by the Legislature and signed by Gov. Mike Parson provided $1…

EUREKA, Mo. (AP) — The arrival of hot weather and the easing of the COVID-19 pandemic means bigger crowds at Missouri waterways, but too often this year the trend has taken a deadly turn. The…

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Missouri has the highest rate of new COVID-19 infections in the country, according to a New York Times analysis. Over the past 14 days, most states have seen the number of…

MARSTON, Mo. — An Iola was arrested earlier this week on suspicion of shooting and killing another man in Missouri. Shawn Luke Sinclair, age 29, was arrested Tuesday at an RV park in Marston, Mo.,…

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson dropped plans Thursday to expand the state’s Medicaid health care program to thousands of low-income adults after the Republican-led Legislature refused to provide funding for the…