By ALAN SCHER ZAGIER (COLUMBIA, Mo., AP) – Officials unveiled a public health campaign Wednesday aimed at helping get aging Missouri men and women off the roads when it’s no… Read more »
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Ind. police: Child safe, bus slaying suspect dead
(FORT WAYNE, Ind., AP) – A man pulled a woman off a city bus in northern Indiana on Wednesday, fatally shot her and then took a 3-year-old boy hostage before… Read more »
Sheriff says missing Mo. mom staged disappearance
By BILL DRAPER (KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) – A sheriff says a woman who disappeared for four days with her 4-year-old daughter spent that time smoking synthetic pot with her ex-husband… Read more »
Mortar explosion in Nev. kills 7 NC unit Marines
By SCOTT SONNER and TED BRIDIS (HAWTHORNE, Nev., AP) – A mortar shell explosion killed seven Marines and injured a half-dozen more during a training exercise in Nevada’s high desert,… Read more »
Sheriff says missing Mo. mom, daughter in danger
(KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) – A 28-year-old central Missouri woman who’s been missing with her young daughter since Thursday called authorities from a Blue Springs motel but was not there… Read more »
Explosives safely removed from UCF dorm
By KYLE HIGHTOWER (ORLANDO, Fla., AP) – A college student killed himself in a dorm at the University of Central Florida and authorities found explosives and guns in the room… Read more »
Missouri man buys massive yacht, puts it on a pond
(SIKESTON, Mo., AP) – George Morris of Sikeston bought a yacht, but he’s not setting sail on the high seas. Instead, he’s keeping it on a small pond near his… Read more »
Man, boy die as race car careens off Calif. track
(MARYSVILLE, Calif., AP) – A teenage race car driver taking warm-up laps at a California raceway careened off the track and into pit row, killing a 14-year-old boy and 68-year-old… Read more »
Lawmakers seek to renew Mo. Sunshine Law exemption
By CHRIS BLANK (JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) – Legislative efforts to exempt security-related documents from public disclosure also could aid attempts to strengthen Missouri’s open-records law on the 40th anniversary… Read more »
Early wildfire chars up to 1,000 acres in Colo.
By NICHOLAS RICCARDI (FORT COLLINS, Colo., AP) – The wildfire season that Coloradans have been nervously awaiting arrived in a wind-whipped frenzy in the foothills near Fort Collins. The year’s… Read more »