(CONCORDIA, Mo., AP) — Missouri authorities say an elderly man has died in a two-car crash after driving the wrong way on the interstate. The Missouri Highway Patrol reports 79-year-old… Read more »
Category: Missouri News
Electric bills increasing for KCP&L customers
(JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — Customers of Kansas City Power & Light Co. will be paying a little more each month for their electricity. The Missouri Public Service Commission says… Read more »
Missouri seeks to get more local food into schools
(JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — Missouri is offering grants to help get more locally produced food into school meals and snacks. The Missouri Department of Agriculture announced in a news… Read more »
UCM aviation, GoJet sign new partnership
(WARRENSBURG, Mo.)- The University of Central Missouri and GoJet Airlines signed a memorandum of understanding Wednesday on a professional pilot program. Under the terms of the agreement between GoJet and… Read more »
UCM airplane makes emergency landing
By LEAH WANKUM (WARRENSBURG, Mo., digitalBURG) – A UCM student pilot and his instructor made a safe emergency landing Friday morning at Max B. Swisher Skyhaven Airport. The emergency landing… Read more »
2nd cop loses job over Ferguson protest threats
(GLENDALE, Mo., AP) — Another St. Louis area police officer is out of a job over threats to Ferguson shooting protesters found online. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (bit.ly/1zS9Va0) reports that Glendale… Read more »
Lawyer criticizes Missouri child abuse proposal
By DAVID A. LIEB (JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — A Missouri ballot measure that would allow allegations of past actions to be used against people facing child sexual abuse charges… Read more »
Man escapes with Kansas City police cruiser
By BILL DRAPER (KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — A manhunt continued Wednesday morning for a northwest Missouri man suspected of overpowering a Kansas City police officer and stealing his patrol… Read more »
Recount requested on Missouri right to farm
By DAVID A. LIEB (JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — Election officials across Missouri will conduct a recount of the narrow passage of a constitutional amendment creating a right to farm,… Read more »
Can Ferguson change the ‘ritual’ of black deaths?
By JESSE WASHINGTON (FERGUSON, Mo., AP) — The choir sang, the preachers shouted and the casket stayed closed. The body was taken to the cemetery, and Michael Brown was laid… Read more »