Longhorned Ticks Discovered In Boone County For First Time, MU Researchers Find Discovery alerts cattle ranchers to potential economic impacts for livestock industry. Zenger · Jul 31, 2023
Chiefs practicing in rain as Andy Reid elects to keep team outdoors Andy Reid elected to keep the #Chiefs' Monday practice session outdoors as rain crept in over the campus of Missouri Western State University. USA Today Sports Media Group · Jul 31, 2023
Appellate court rules that Missouri man with schizophrenia can be executed after all The planned execution of a 45-year-old Missouri man with schizophrenia is back on after an appellate court reversed course Saturday The Independent UK · Jul 29, 2023
Ex-Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon joins push for third-party presidential bid as Democrats try to stop it Former Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon of Missouri is joining No Labels’ effort to lay the groundwork for a centrist third-party presidential ticket in 2024 The Independent UK · Jul 29, 2023
Public sector staff shortages in ‘hard jobs’ are sparking a wage war as taxpayers feel the consequences of empty positions At the entrance to Missouri prisons, large signs plead for help: “NOW HIRING” … “GREAT PAY & BENEFITS.” No experience is necessary. Anyone 18 and older can apply. Long hours are guaranteed. Though the assertion of “great pay” for prison guards would have seemed dubious in the past, a series… Fortune · Jul 28, 2023
Federal appeals court halts planned execution in Missouri A federal appeals court panel has halted next month’s planned execution of a 45-year-old Missouri man convicted of killing a 6-year-old girl, though the state is appealing The Independent UK · Jul 26, 2023
Missouri school board that voted to drop anti-racism resolution might consider a revised version The president of the Missouri school board that voted to revoke its anti-racism resolution now says the resolution could be kept, but revised The Independent UK · Jul 26, 2023
Federal appeals court halts Missouri execution, leading state to appeal A federal appeals court panel has halted next month’s planned execution of a 45-year-old Missouri man convicted of killing a 6-year-old girl, though the state is appealing The Independent UK · Jul 26, 2023
Eight people injured after boat crashes into home near Lake of the Ozarks ‘Boat ran aground and struck a home, causing it to overturn, ejecting all eight passengers,’ highway patrol says The Independent UK · Jul 24, 2023
School board in Missouri, now controlled by conservatives, revokes anti-racism resolution In the national reckoning that followed the police killing of George Floyd three years ago, about 2,000 protesters took to the streets in a St. Louis suburb The Independent UK · Jul 23, 2023
MSU Football offers 2026 Missouri OT Jackson Cantwell MSU has extended a scholarship offer to an intriguing offensive tackle prospect from Missouri in the 2026 class USA Today Sports Media Group · Jul 22, 2023
Missouri S. Ct. Requires State AG to Certify Reproductive Rights Initiative Ballot Language Prof. Howard Friedman (Religion Clause) reports (some punctuation revised): In State of Missouri ex rel. Dr. Anna Fitz-James v. Bailey (MO Sup. Ct., July 20, 2023), the Missouri Supreme Court affirmed a trial court's issuance of a writ of mandamus requiring the state Attorney General to approve the State Auditor's… Reason · Jul 21, 2023
Georgia football has 16 preseason All-SEC selections Georgia had 9 selections last year, 6 on the first team... USA Today Sports Media Group · Jul 21, 2023
Missouri man, 19, called in hoax bomb threat to Ford assembly plant ‘so his friend didn’t have to go to work’ Zachariah Peterson has been charged with making terroristic threats, according to the Clay County Sheriff’s Office The Independent UK · Jul 20, 2023
Salon · Jul 20, 2023 Families fleeing anti-trans states Draconian laws banning trans care are forcing some families to flee to more progressive states
Tribune News Service · Jul 20, 2023 Move out of Missouri is painful, but necessary, says KC family with transgender child KANSAS CITY, Mo. — On a recent weekday morning, Tom Jackson wrapped up a clay hand print made in preschool by his youngest child, Avery, locked it in a portable safe and placed it into a large cardboard box.
Tribune News Service · Jul 20, 2023 New Missouri laws could limit access to police records, public college investments COLUMBIA, Mo. -- Government transparency advocates are concerned that a pair of Missouri laws could severely limit the public’s ability to access records from law enforcement agencies and public colleges.
Tribune News Service · Jul 19, 2023 Here’s why this Kansas City Democrat thinks people should have sympathy for Donald Trump WASHINGTON -- Rep. Emanuel Cleaver, a Kansas City Democrat, thinks in most cases any elected official or member of Congress who can’t have sympathy for someone in a situation like former President Donald Trump is pathetic.
Tribune News Service · Jul 19, 2023 Missouri man in KU sweatshirt carried pitchfork, assaulted cops in Capitol riot: Feds A Raytown, Missouri, man who federal prosecutors say assaulted police and carried a pitchfork on the Capitol grounds during the Jan. 6 riot is facing nine charges, including multiple felonies.
The Independent UK · Jul 18, 2023 Missouri Supreme Court weighs fate of amendment to restore abortion rights Whether Missouri voters get a chance to weigh in on legalizing abortion is now up to state Supreme Court judges
USA Today Sports Media Group · Jul 18, 2023 LOOK: Chiefs rookies, QBs arrive in St. Joseph for training camp A quick look at rookies, QBs and coaches arriving in St. Joseph, Missouri for #Chiefs training camp:
USA Today Sports Media Group · Jul 18, 2023 Chiefs rookies, quarterbacks report to training camp today #Chiefs rookies, quarterbacks and select injured players report to #ChiefsCamp at Missouri Western State University in St. Joseph on Tuesday.
Tribune News Service · Jul 17, 2023 Federal judge strikes down request to halt execution of Missouri man in August A federal judge has struck down a request to halt the upcoming execution of Johnny Johnson in Missouri.
Tribune News Service · Jul 17, 2023 County prosecutor fights Missouri abortion ban’s criminal penalties in court Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker is seeking to strike down Missouri’s criminal penalties for abortion, adding to an already intense legal confrontation playing out in St. Louis that could result in a judge overturning the state’s near-total ban.
Reason · Jul 17, 2023 Federal Officials Can Keep Pressing Tech Platforms To Remove Content for Now, Court Says Plus: GOP candidate defends “limited role of government” in parental decisions for transgender kids, some common sense about Diet Coke and cancer, and more…