(COLUMBIA, Mo., AP) — Boone County authorities are looking for two stolen camels. The double-hump male camels were stolen along with two steers from a farm in Columbia. They were… Read more »
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Ex-prosecutor of exonerated death row inmate pens apology
By KEVIN McGILL (NEW ORLEANS, AP) — It was a long journey of conscience for a former Louisiana prosecutor. He went from celebrating a death sentence with rounds of drinks… Read more »
Picasso valued at $140M heading to NYC auction
(NEW YORK, AP) — Christie’s auction house has announced it will offer a 1955 masterpiece by Pablo Picasso for an estimated $140 million. “Women of Algiers (Version O)” will hit… Read more »
NY marks 25th anniversary of social club fire that killed 87
By VERENA DOBNIK (NEW YORK, AP) — Twenty-five years ago, what was then the biggest mass murder in U.S. history turned a New York City dance club into a smoky,… Read more »
2 camels, 2 cows stolen from mid-Missouri
(COLUMBIA, Mo., AP) — Boone County authorities are looking for two stolen camels. The double-hump male camels were stolen along with two steers from a farm in Columbia. They were… Read more »
State bills would limit access to officer body camera videos
By RYAN J. FOLEY (IOWA CITY, Iowa, AP) — State legislators are pushing to make it much harder to release police officer body camera videos, undermining their promise as a… Read more »
Schools nationwide struggle with substitute teacher shortage
By TOM COYNE (SOUTH BEND, Ind., AP) — Carrie Swing wasn’t alarmed when her fifth-grade daughter, Ivy, spent a day in a first-grade classroom at her San Francisco school, filling… Read more »
Missouri Senate committee passes student transfer bill
By SUMMER BALLENTINE (JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — A House bill aimed at helping students switch to better-performing schools without sending struggling districts to financial ruin under Missouri’s student transfer… Read more »
Mid-Missouri Artists accept entries to Spring Fine Arts Show
The Mid-Missouri Artists group is accepting photography and other artwork for entry into the Mid-Missouri Artists 35th Spring Fine Arts Show. The show is scheduled for 1-4 p.m. Saturday, May 2,… Read more »
Liberty school principal resigns after bullying case
(LIBERTY, Mo., AP) — The principal of a suburban Kansas City middle school has resigned nearly a month after a student with Asperger’s syndrome was seriously hurt in a bullying… Read more »