By MARIA SUDEKUM (KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — Facing limited funding and a cross-state highway in need of vast improvement, officials from the Missouri Department of Transportation announced a crowdsourcing… Read more »
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Missouri library to provide home Internet access to students
(KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — The Kansas City Public Library in Missouri is set to give out 25 free mobile hot spots to Kansas City Public Schools students for the… Read more »
Nixon to take action on Missouri right-to-work measure
(JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — A contentious measure that would make Missouri the 26th right-to-work state will soon be up for an expected veto. Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon on Thursday… Read more »
Marine sanctuary researchers gain access to more shipwrecks
By JEFF KAROUB (DETROIT, AP) — Thunder Bay National Marine Sanctuary in Michigan is rolling out the buoys and starting another season of work on Lake Huron — the highlight… Read more »
Questions and answers about newly approved USA Freedom Act
By KEN DILANIAN (WASHINGTON, AP) — President Barack Obama has signed into law the USA Freedom Act, which extends three expiring surveillance provisions of the 9/11-era USA Patriot Act. It… Read more »
Missouri panel questions adding multistate wind energy line
By SUMMER BALLENTINE (JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — A company’s request to build a power line for a multistate wind energy project that would run through Missouri appears unlikely to… Read more »
With Medal of Honor award, family learns WWI hero wasn’t kin
By GEORGE M. WALSH (ALBANY, N.Y., AP) — Two days before President Barack Obama announced a posthumous Medal of Honor for black World War I soldier Henry Johnson, a family… Read more »
Proposed initiative petitions would up Missouri minimum wage
(JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — Three initiative petitions to increase Missouri’s minimum wage have been approved for circulation. Secretary of State Jason Kander on Tuesday announced supporters of all three… Read more »
Man charged in deputy’s death has case moved to Springfield
(SPRINGFIELD, Mo., AP) — The trial of a man charged with killing a southwest Missouri sheriff’s deputy will be moved to Greene County. Joshua Brown, of El Dorado Springs, is… Read more »
Warrensburg mail carrier pleads guilty to tossing mail
(KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — A former northwest Missouri mail carrier faces up to five years in federal prison after admitting he threw away thousands of pieces of mail rather… Read more »