Rep. Diane Franklin on Monday filed a bill to split Missouri’s water patrol division from the Highway Patrol, undoing a 2011 merger championed by Gov. Jay Nixon as a way to save money. If not for the merger, Trooper Anthony Piercy, a Highway Patrol veteran, would not have been working on the Lake of the Ozarks in 2014 when Brandon Ellingson drowned in his custody.
As activists continued an armed occupation of a federal wildlife refuge, the Oregon rancher and his son who helped inspire the protest quietly surrendered to prison authorities Monday in Southern California.
The Fair and Impartial Policing Act will be unveiled Tuesday. It seeks to expand the reporting requirements to include pedestrian stops, but to effectively deal with bias, police must deal with how to handle the moments of interaction.
Kansas City Chiefs head football coach Andy Reid talked during a press conference on Monday about the win over the Oakland Raiders and about the upcoming playoff game against the Houston Texans.
One Struggle KC and the Metro Organization for Racial and Economic Equity gathered Monday afternoon at the Leon M. Jordan Campus, which houses the Kansas City Police Department's East Patrol Division and Crime Lab, to protest fatal shootings by Kansas City police over the last decade. (Jan. 4, 2016) (Video by Robert Cronkleton | The Star)
Greg Graves, who led the engineering firm during more than a decade of robust growth, will leave at the end of 2016. He and his wife plan to step up their already substantial civic involvement.
Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump posted his first television commercial for his campaign to his website on Jan. 4. It was titled "GREAT AGAIN TV SPOT."
