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Missouri Senate overcomes dress code dilemma, approves $4.5 billion spending plan

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A fight over one senator's bib overalls was shunted aside Wednesday so the Missouri Legislature's fractured upper chamber could finally approve a midyear budget adjustment that boosts state worker pay and bans funds for Planned Parenthood.

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Vahe Gregorian: On plight of Kansas City's Monarch Plaza and how the Negro Leagues Museum is spearheading its revival

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Standing at the corner of 22nd and Brooklyn today, you overlook a site where the Sultan of Swat, Babe Ruth, played (exhibitions in 1927 and 1931) and the Sultan of Sod, George Toma, made his name.

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Omicron is on its way out of Kansas City with COVID hospitalization, death numbers dropping

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Hospitalization rates are continuing to decline around the Kansas City area as case rates and death numbers drop. It's unclear if or when the next COVID-19 variant will emerge, but omicron appears to be on its way out. Here's the latest data.

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Mizzou no match for No. 17 Tennessee in latest mismatch

COLUMBIA, Mo. — The last time Missouri’s basketball team played Tennessee, Tigers coach Cuonzo Martin savored the road victory with a primal scream as he walked off the court and through the bowels of his former arena in Knoxville.

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Missouri Republicans trade jabs as race for US Senate kicks off

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Nearly four years after he resigned from office and retreated from the capital city, former Gov. Eric Greitens returned Tuesday to officially launch his bid for U.S. Senate.

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Police probe shows Missouri data weakness existed a decade before Post-Dispatch exposed it

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A police investigation released Monday shows that a flaw in a Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education webpage had been in place since 2011 and that no one had noticed the flaw until a St. Louis Post-Dispatch journalist pointed out the weakness.

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Vahe Gregorian: Why aren't more past Chiefs stars enshrined in the Hall of Fame?

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The majestic Otis Taylor retired from the Chiefs in 1975, and, alas, has been bedridden and on a feeding tube for well over a decade now. But even out of public view, a half-century after his heyday, he remains ever-visible in Kansas City when it comes…

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Chiefs’ Chris Lammons, wanted in battery case, turns himself in to Las Vegas police

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Chiefs cornerback Chris Lammons, who was wanted by Las Vegas police in connection with a battery case that left a man unconscious, has turned himself in to authorities.

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Why Mizzou isn't having same success with transfers as other college basketball programs

COLUMBIA, Mo. — Take a look up and down the men's college basketball AP Top 25 or the latest NCAA Tournament projections and you'll find plenty of teams filled with transfers.

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Kris Kobach, running for Kansas AG, still working for scandal-tainted border wall group

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Before Kris Kobach lost the Kansas Republican primary for U.S. Senate in August 2020, his pitch to voters included his work for We Build the Wall, the nonprofit funding the construction of strips of wall along the southern border.

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Missouri police ask Republican legislators to amend act blocking federal gun laws

COLUMBIA, Mo. — Missouri law enforcement officials are asking the General Assembly to revise the state’s new Second Amendment act that prohibits them from helping enforce certain federal gun laws, telling lawmakers that it is hindering their ability to conduct criminal investigations.

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Biden administration sues Missouri to overturn act that declares federal gun laws ‘invalid’

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The U.S. Department of Justice has sued Missouri in federal court, seeking to overturn the state’s Second Amendment law that prohibits local police from helping enforce certain federal gun restrictions.

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Passenger who forced emergency landing wanted to ‘bring down the plane,’ FBI says

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A California man allegedly tried to force his way into the cockpit of an American Airlines plane and open an emergency hatch during a cross-country flight on Sunday afternoon, prompting airline staff and passengers to restrain him until the plane made an unscheduled landing at Kansas…

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Kansas residents sue over GOP-drawn map, alleging ‘extreme and intentional’ gerrymander

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Sixteen Kansas residents are suing to block the state’s new congressional map, alleging that its redrawn district boundaries are a racial and partisan gerrymander.

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4 of GOP's top contenders for Missouri's open US Senate seat square off in St. Charles

ST. CHARLES, Mo. — The annual Lincoln Days gathering, held here over the weekend to celebrate the Republican Party, had a much different feel than when U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., started making a statewide name for himself.

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3 people broke into 40 vehicles in St. Peters, prosecutors say

ST. CHARLES COUNTY, Mo. — A man from St. Charles County is in custody and facing charges after he and two others broke into about 40 vehicles at an Amazon facility in St. Peters and more at the Hollywood Casino, prosecutors said.

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'Definition of insanity': Missouri Senate ends week of filibuster with no redistricting deal

COLUMBIA, Mo. — The Missouri Senate, stalemated for nearly a week in search of a deal on a new congressional map, is moving on for the moment.

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Prosecutor declines to charge Post-Dispatch reporter targeted by Parson

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A St. Louis Post-Dispatch journalist will not be charged after pointing out a weakness in a state computer database, the prosecuting attorney for Cole County said Friday.

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Measure derided as the ‘Make Murder Legal Act’ killed in Missouri Senate committee

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A Missouri Senate panel on Thursday terminated a proposal one county prosecutor called the “Make Murder Legal Act.”

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‘Nuclear option’ possible to force vote in Missouri Senate on stalled congressional map

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Debate over Missouri’s next congressional map stretched into its third day on Wednesday, and hard-line GOP Sen. Bob Onder wondered whether GOP leaders were planning to cut off debate and force a vote.

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Vahe Gregorian: Why lateral step may be best for Chiefs offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Stop us if you've heard this one: For at least the 15th time in the last four years, Chiefs offensive coordinator Eric Bieniemy on Sunday interviewed for an NFL head coaching job.

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Missouri Senate candidate Mark McCloskey disciplined by state Supreme Court after gun-waving incident

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday disciplined Republican U.S. Senate candidate Mark McCloskey, the lawyer who pleaded guilty to misdemeanor assault in a widely publicized gun-waving incident during a police brutality protest in June 2020.

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Missouri Supreme Court tosses signature rules that derailed challenge to abortion law

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday tossed two laws that it said stymied efforts by abortion rights activists to put the state's strict new abortion law to a public vote in 2019.

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Missouri senators still debating after bipartisan coalition rejects '7-1' congressional plan

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Two differing visions for Missouri's next congressional map collided Monday when conservative hard-liners attempted to block a status quo-style plan that GOP leaders had brought up for debate.

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Kansas Senate overrides Kelly veto of GOP-drawn map after Republicans switch votes

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The Republican-controlled Kansas Senate voted Tuesday to override Democratic Gov. Laura Kelly’s veto of a congressional map that would divide Wyandotte County and dilute the voting strength of its minority residents.

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