(KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — Two artist-created billboards showing a rifleman pointing at an iconic Kansas City sculpture of an American Indian on horseback have been taken down. The Kansas… Read more »

(OMAHA, Neb., AP) — A new survey of business leaders in nine Midwest and Plains states suggests that manufacturing growth will help fuel the regional economy through the end of… Read more »

(KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — The superintendent of the Kansas City school district says the school system has grown stronger after losing its accreditation. During his annual State of the… Read more »

(COLUMBIA, Mo., AP) — A University of Missouri-Columbia crisis center received nearly 100 reports of campus sex assaults in 2012, but only two students were punished for such offenses, a… Read more »

(SPRINGFIELD, Mo., AP) — Smokers shouldn’t bother applying to Springfield-based hospital chain CoxHealth. CoxHealth President and CEO Steve Edwards announced Friday that potential employees will soon have to pass a… Read more »

The Associated Press People can begin enrolling Tuesday for health coverage through a new online insurance marketplace created under the 2010 federal Affordable Care Act signed by President Barack Obama…. Read more »

By CHRIS BLANK   (JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — A physician credited as the father of osteopathic medicine, a U.S. senator who helped end slavery and a suffragist who took… Read more »

By ALAN SCHER ZAGIER (ST. CHARLES, Mo., AP) — Texas Gov. Rick Perry visited Missouri Friday for the second time in a month, this time broadening his previous efforts to… Read more »

By CHRIS BLANK (COLUMBIA, Mo., AP) — A Missouri lawmaker pleaded guilty to possessing marijuana and drug paraphernalia Friday during a brief hearing in a central Missouri courtroom. Democratic Rep…. Read more »

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH (KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — Missouri’s top education official announced Thursday that she won’t recommend that the Kansas City school district regain partial accreditation, a change that… Read more »