By ERIC TALMADGE (PYONGYANG, North Korea, AP) — Warnings are appearing on Instagram accounts in North Korea that say access to the popular photo-sharing app is being denied and that… Read more »

By PHILIP MARCELO (SPRINGFIELD, Mass., AP) — A federal judge is set to hear arguments on comedian Bill Cosby’s request to have dismissed a defamation lawsuit filed by three women… Read more »

(LAWRENCE, Mo., AP) — The Kansas Board of Regents has approved construction of a greenhouse on the University of Kansas campus. The Lawrence Journal-World reports (http://bit.ly/1L5w25N) the greenhouse will be… Read more »

(ST. LOUIS, AP) — A St. Louis company’s former accountant has been ordered to spend two and a half years in federal prison for stealing $825,000 from his partners. Fifty-year-old… Read more »

By BILL DRAPER (KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — Neither the Kansas City Royals nor a man who was struck in the eye with a foil-wrapped hot dog in 2009 were… Read more »

(KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — The owner of a Kansas City scrap metal business has been sentenced to 18 months in federal prison without parole for tax evasion. Federal prosecutors… Read more »

(KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — Jurors are hearing testimony in a lawsuit against the Kansas City Royals by a Kansas man who was struck in the eye by a foil-wrapped… Read more »

By RICARDO ALONSO-ZALDIVAR (WASHINGTON, AP) — A government data warehouse that stores personal information on millions of HealthCare.gov customers is raising privacy concerns at a time when major breaches have… Read more »

By KEN DILANIAN (WASHINGTON, AP) — An Office of Personnel Management investigative official is conceding the agency entrusted with millions of personnel records has a history of failing to meet… Read more »

(NEOSHO, Mo., AP) — City officials say an explosive device caused a blast at a recycling facility in southwest Missouri city that killed one person and injured another in what’s… Read more »