By ROXANNA HEGEMAN Associated Press (CIMARRON, Kan., AP) — At least 29 people were injured when an Amtrak passenger train derailed in rural southwest Kansas early Monday, authorities said. The train was… Read more »
Category: Missouri News
3 charged with robbing Kansas bank with tot in getaway SUV
(KANSAS CITY, Kan., AP) — Three people have been charged with robbing a suburban Kansas City bank with a toddler in the getaway vehicle. Eighteen-year-old Jacob Smith, 39-year-old Gary Jordan… Read more »
Police seek mistakenly released Missouri homicide suspect
(KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — Authorities are searching for a man charged in a Kansas City-area homicide after he was mistakenly released from jail. The Kansas City Star (http://bit.ly/1XhLpvy )… Read more »
Care Connection to present Medicare workshop in Warrensburg
Care Connection for Aging Services will conduct a “Medicare 101” presentation at 5:30 p.m. Monday, March 14, at the Warrensburg Senior Center, located at 445 E. Gay St., in Warrensburg. The 30-minute… Read more »
University of Missouri announces budget cuts, hiring freeze
(COLUMBIA, Mo., AP) — An anticipated enrollment decline of 1,500 students following protests that roiled the University of Missouri has forced the college to cut general revenue budgets by 5 percent and… Read more »
Questions about the Missouri religious objections proposal
By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press (JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — The Missouri Senate has given initial approval to a measure to amend the state Constitution to provide further religious protections for those… Read more »
Slaying suspect managed to elude US immigration authorities
By JIM SUHR Associated Press (KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — Immigration authorities last year sought to detain a Mexican national charged with killing five men in Kansas and Missouri this week, but… Read more »
Great Harvest Bread sues Panera over trademark
By JIM SALTER Associated Press (ST. LOUIS, AP) — One restaurant chain that made its name off fresh bakery products is suing another, alleging federal trademark infringement for use of what it… Read more »
UCM campus notified of date rape drug incidents off campus
By LEAH WANKUM Managing Editor (WARRENSBURG, Mo., digitalBURG) — The University of Central Missouri sent out a campuswide alert Tuesday evening to students, faculty and staff concerning the possibility of drug-facilitated sexual assaults… Read more »
ICE says subject of manhunt was in US illegally
(KANSAS CITY, Kan., AP) — The Latest on the manhunt for a man suspected in five fatal shootings in Kansas and Missouri (all times local): 10:45 p.m. U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement… Read more »