(ST. LOUIS, AP) — U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill of Missouri will be spending the next few days on a St. Louis County jury hearing a civil case. McCaskill, a Democrat, posted several… Read more »
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Tally no: House postpones coming votes, cites snow storm
(WASHINGTON, AP) — The House has postponed votes this coming week — including one on overriding President Barack Obama’s health care veto — because of the snowstorm that has socked in the… Read more »
AP FACT CHECK: GOP candidates misstate military spending
By RICHARD LARDNER Associated Press (WASHINGTON, AP) — Republican presidential candidate Jeb Bush says the Obama administration has “gutted” every weapons system in the U.S. military’s inventory. GOP rival Donald Trump says… Read more »
Obama contrasts Clinton’s pragmatism with Sanders’ idealism
By JOSH LEDERMAN Associated Press (WASHINGTON, AP) — President Barack Obama is casting the Democratic primary to replace him as a contest between Hillary Clinton’s pragmatism and experience versus Bernie Sanders’ idealism… Read more »
Publisher of National Catholic Reporter retires
(KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — Tom Fox, publisher of the National Catholic Reporter, has announced his retirement after a long career with the independent newsweekly that covered the clergy sex abuse scandal… Read more »
Kansas City area church group heads home after snowstorm
(KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — About 150 people from the Kansas City area who were stranded for 22 hours because of the East Coast snowstorm are back on the road again. The… Read more »
Clinton’s response to Sanders has some Democrats worried
By LISA LERER and KEN THOMAS Associated Press (WASHINGTON, AP) — Hillary Clinton has questioned Bernie Sanders’ electability. She’s criticized his plans for health care, foreign policy and Wall Street. And she’s… Read more »
Blizzard dumping snow in South; DC major says ‘hunker down’
By BEN NUCKOLS and SETH BORENSTEIN Associated Press (WASHINGTON, AP) — Shoppers raided grocery and hardware stores, bishops excused Catholics from Sunday Mass and the nation’s capital was shutting down Friday, just… Read more »
New director named for Kansas City’s American Jazz Museum
(KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — A new executive director has been named for the American Jazz Museum in Kansas City. The museum said in a release Thursday that Cheptoo Kositany-Buckner has been… Read more »
Man, 20, accused in kidnapping, rape of woman in Kansas City
(KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — A man has been accused of kidnapping a woman at gunpoint in Kansas City and sexually assaulting her with another man. The Kansas City Star reports (http://bit.ly/1Pmt1Cz… Read more »