(LENEXA, Kan., AP) — Two Kansas City nonprofits are getting a total of about $120,000 in federal funds to improve areas around the Middle Blue River. The regional office of… Read more »
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Program provides apartments for homeless vets
(ST. LOUIS, AP) — A new program in St. Louis places homeless veterans into furnished apartments, an effort to both get them off the street and help them turn their… Read more »
Obama prods Congress to fix corporate loopholes
By NEDRA PICKLER (KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — President Barack Obama is prodding Congress to close corporate tax loopholes and take other action before going on summer break this week… Read more »
Sen. Blunt touts renewal of child advocacy law
(JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt says the passage of federal legislation should provide assistance to Missouri centers that aid child victims of violent crimes. The legislation… Read more »
Shelling of UN school kills 15 as Gaza war rages
By KARIN LAUB and PETER ENAV (JEBALIYA REFUGEE CAMP, Gaza Strip, AP) — Israeli tank shells slammed into a crowded U.N. school sheltering Gazans displaced by fighting on Wednesday, killing 15… Read more »
US: Russia violated 1987 nuclear missile treaty
By JIM KUHNHENN (WASHINGTON, AP) — In an escalation of tensions, the Obama administration accused Russia on Monday of conducting tests in violation of a 1987 nuclear missile treaty, calling… Read more »
Sandbars ground barges in upper Mississippi River
(WABASHA, Minn., AP) — Mississippi River workers say roughly a dozen barges and their tugboats have been grounded by sandbars in Minnesota. KTTC-TV reports (http://bit.ly/1nVNGgI) at least nine tugboats are… Read more »
Missouri congressional hopefuls run on low budgets
By DAVID A. LIEB (JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — Together, Missouri’s eight Congress members were sitting on nearly $5 million in campaign cash heading into the final few weeks before… Read more »
Blunt touts passage of religious envoy legislation
(JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt is touting passage of legislation that authorizes the appointment of a special ambassador to the Middle East focused on religious freedom…. Read more »
Trial opening over video of Oklahoma City bombing
By TIM TALLEY and BRADY McCOMBS (OKLAHOMA CITY, AP) — A Salt Lake City attorney is arguing in a lawsuit that the FBI has video of the Oklahoma City bombing that… Read more »