(JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) – The Missouri State Highway Patrol is using some of its mobile fingerprint scanners to identify suspicious people and help in death investigations, although the devices… Read more »
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New York’s assault weapon registration begins
By MICHAEL VIRTANEN (ALBANY, N.Y., AP) – Key measures of New York’s tough new gun law have kicked in, meaning owners of firearms now reclassified as assault weapons are required… Read more »
Judge nullifies former student’s bond
Story by Andy Lyons, News Editor— Rumors circulated last week that Ziyad T. Abid was going to bond out of Johnson County… Read more »
Mo. patrol gave feds list of concealed gun holders
By DAVID A. LIEB (JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) – The Missouri State Highway Patrol twice provided a list of 163,000 Missouri residents with concealed gun permits to a federal investigator… Read more »
2 killed, dozens injured in bus crash near Dallas
By JOHN L. MONE and DAVID WARREN (IRVING, Texas, AP) – At least two people were killed and more than 40 were hospitalized after a charter bus careened off a… Read more »
Mo. Senate endorses welfare restriction bill
(JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) – The Missouri Senate has advanced a bill outlawing use of electronic welfare benefit cards at casinos, liquor stores or adult-entertainment establishments. The bill would also… Read more »
Gunman holding firefighters killed; 4 hostages safe
By JOHNNY CLARK and PHILLIP LUCAS (SUWANEE, Ga., AP) – Authorities say a gunman holding four firefighters in suburban Atlanta was shot dead when SWAT members stormed the home and… Read more »

Quick Stop manager arrested following search
(WARRENSBURG, Mo., digitalBURG) – Police arrested Mizanul Islam, manager of the Quick Stop convenience store at 312 N. Maguire St. following a search Tuesday, April 9 according to a Warrensburg… Read more »
NTSB: Pilot’s texting contributed to copter crash
By JOAN LOWY (WASHINGTON, AP) – Federal accident investigators said Tuesday that texting by the pilot of a medical helicopter contributed to a crash that killed four people, and they… Read more »
Circus elephant shot during drive-by in Miss.
(TUPELO, Miss., AP) – Authorities say a Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus elephant was hit by a bullet in a drive-by shooting in Tupelo, Miss. Circus spokeswoman Melinda… Read more »