By ROB GILLIES and KEVIN FREKING Associated Press (WASHINGTON, AP) — President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau are promising to make it easier for their respective countries to trade… Read more »
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Grassley: Efforts to sway him on Supreme Court won’t work
By MARY CLARE JALONICK Associated Press (WASHINGTON, AP) — Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Charles Grassley is digging in on Republicans’ decision to block all action on an eventual Supreme Court nominee this… Read more »
Senate approves bipartisan bill bolstering anti-drug efforts
By ALAN FRAM Associated Press (WASHINGTON, AP) — The Senate paused Thursday from its nasty partisan clash over the Supreme Court vacancy and easily approved election-year legislation reinforcing government efforts against heroin… 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 »
War journalism film depicts Afghan life
By JIEUN HONG Reporter (WARRENSBURG, Mo., digitalBURG) — The final film in the digital media production’s three-part series on war journalism follows the lives of journalists in war-torn Afghanistan. “Frame by Frame,”… 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 »
Missouri religious exemption measure advances
By DAVID A. LIEB and SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press (JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — Missouri’s Republican-led Senate on Wednesday advanced a proposal to add greater religious protections to the state Constitution for… Read more »
Police ID victims of Kansas quadruple homicide
(KANSAS CITY, Kan., AP) — The Latest on the man suspected of killing four men in Kansas City, Kansas, and a fifth man in central Missouri. (all times local): 9:30 a.m. Authorities… Read more »
Early data suggests pedestrian deaths surged in 2015
By JOAN LOWY Associated Press (WASHINGTON, AP) — Pedestrian deaths surged by an estimated 10 percent last year as the economy improved, the price of gas plunged and motorists put more miles… Read more »
Medicare to test new payment model for some outpatient drugs
By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR Associated Press (WASHINGTON, AP) — Medicare proposed a nationwide experiment Tuesday on revamping how the government pays for drugs administered in a doctor’s office, including many cancer treatments. Chief… Read more »