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Hawley’s departure from Armed Services draws speculation

WASHINGTON — Missouri Republican Sen. Josh Hawley was booted from his perch on the powerful Armed Services Committee last month as retribution for delaying the confirmation of numerous Defense Department nominees last year, and for his role in challenging Mitch McConnell’s hold as the chamber’s top Republican, sources tell CQ…

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Opening weekend saw pot sales soar to nearly $13 million across Missouri

Marijuana sales boomed across Missouri in the first weekend it was legal for recreational use in the state.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Leonard Taylor’s lawyers say Missouri executed him before appeals ended, call for probe

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Attorneys for Leonard Taylor, who was executed Tuesday, are calling for an investigation after they say Missouri put him to death while a final appeal was pending.

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Hawley’s departure from Armed Services draws speculation - Roll Call

Was it retribution or magnanimity? Accounts differ on Missouri Republican Josh Hawley's departure from the desirable Armed Services panel.

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These 24 celebrities are Chiefs fans

An updated gallery of the most notable celebrity #Chiefs fans.

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Missouri man convicted of killing girlfriend and her three children is executed despite alleged alibi

Raheem Taylor, 58, was the third Missouri inmate put to death since November

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FedEx truck driver dies after train smashes into vehicle and shreds it to pieces

Patrick Metz, 34, died instantly after the FedEx semi-truck he was driving went onto the tracks and was torn apart by a passing Amtrak passenger train in Pleasant Hill, Missouri, US

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Missouri executes Leonard Taylor, convicted of 2004 murders, despite innocence claim

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Leonard “Raheem” Taylor, who was convicted in a 2004 quadruple murder but maintained his innocence, died by lethal injection Tuesday night at a prison in eastern Missouri.

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Raheem Taylor executed for killing girlfriend and her three kids in horror shooting

Raheem Taylor, 58, was convicted of the 2004 killings but has always claimed his innocence with his lawyers claiming there's enough evidence to at least postpone the execution

Daily Mirror

‘Most disrespectful bill’ — Missouri lawmakers push to ban teachers from discussing LGBTQ identity

In front of a packed Missouri Senate hearing room on Tuesday, Michael Lundgren told Missouri lawmakers that when he came out as gay, he turned to his teachers.

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Missouri prisoner Leonard Taylor appeals to the Supreme Court, seeking to halt his execution

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Attorneys for Missouri prisoner Leonard “Raheem” Taylor, who is scheduled to be executed Tuesday amid mounting calls for his innocence claims to be vetted, have appealed to the U.S. Supreme Court.

Tribune News Service

Death row murderer who killed girlfriend and her three children to be executed today

Leonard 'Raheem' Taylor has always claimed his innocence, saying he was in California at the time his live-in girlfriend and her three children were shot to death in their Missouri home

Daily Mirror

Missouri House approves 60% vote requirement for constitutional amendments

On Feb. 2, 2023, the Missouri House of Representatives voted 108-50 for a constitutional amendment to require a 60% vote requirement for referred and citizen-initiated constitutional amendments. The amendment is titled House Joint Resolution 43 (HJR 43). Of the 108 members who voted for HJR 43, 107 were Republicans and…

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Two states still let you text and drive

Missouri and Montana are the only two states that do not prohibit all drivers from text messaging while driving

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Attorneys, advocates seek stay of execution for Missouri man

An attorney for Raheem Taylor is urging the Missouri Supreme Court to halt a “constitutionally intolerable event” — the potential execution of an innocent man

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Eagles’ Darius Slay angered all of Missouri by stating Kansas City is in Kansas, even though he’s right

Kansas City, Kansas is — in fact — an actual city!

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‘You will not break my spirit’: Leonard Taylor speaks out day before execution in Missouri

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Leonard “Raheem” Taylor answered the phone exuberantly on Monday from a prison in eastern Missouri.

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3 teens killed when their car goes airborne, slams into tree, Missouri cops say

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Three teenagers were killed in a crash when a vehicle they were in went airborne and struck a tree, Missouri police say.

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch

'Is it actual weed?' First weekend of recreational pot sales open in Missouri to joy and exuberance

ST. LOUIS — Steve Campbell was ready with a joke.

The Independent UK

Civil rights groups seek halt to Missouri execution

The president of the national NAACP is urging Missouri Gov. Mike Parson to halt the execution of Raheem Taylor, who is scheduled to die by injection Tuesday for the deaths of his girlfriend and her three children

The Independent UK

Spiritual advisers offering final comfort in execution rooms

For decades, Missouri executions played out in similar fashion: An inmate was strapped to a gurney in a drab room, alone except for the eyes of witnesses staring through thick glass as unidentified executioners administered the lethal chemical from behind a cinderblock wall

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2 abducted Missouri children are found in Florida after being missing nearly a year

Two abducted children who had been missing from Missouri for almost a year were found in a Florida grocery store with their non-custodial mother, who was taken into police custody, authorities said.

Chicago Sun-Times

Chinese balloon soars across US; Blinken scraps Beijing trip

Aside from the government response, fuzzy videos dotted social media as people with binoculars and telephoto lenses tried to find the “spy balloon” in the sky as it headed southeastward over Kansas and Missouri at 60,000 feet.

The Independent UK

Legal recreational pot sales begin for Missouri adults

Adults ages 21 and older now can legally buy marijuana for recreational use in Missouri

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Missouri Republicans derail plan to keep kids from carrying guns in public

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri Republicans have killed a proposal to restrict unsupervised minors from carrying firearms in public.

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