Opponents of a new terminal at KCI Airport are launching an initiative petition drive to press their cause. They hope to place a measure on a city ballot saying that the city can’t build a new airport terminal without a public vote.
The computers were taken from the office of St. Ann Parish at 10113 E. Lexington Ave. on March 26 after detectives alerted parish officials that they had detected two downloads of child pornography from peer-to-peer websites by an Internet address associated with the parish office, said Jack Smith, a diocesan spokesman.
It's only about 200 miles along curvy highways and country roads from Lebanon, Mo., to Ottawa, Kan., where in a few hours, visitation services would begin for Shawn Patrick Bailey's 18-month-old daughter and estranged wife, victims of a quadruple homicide discovered last week in Ottawa.
The terrier-schnauzer mix flew to New York this week to tape the segment. “She does steal the show,” said Tori Fugate, manager of marketing and development for the Kansas City Pet Project, who accompanied Kia on the show. The show airs locally at 9 a.m. on KMBC Channel 9.
A University of Missouri journalism researcher says that social-media saturated teenagers aren't necessarily savvier consumers of news.
The child was found wandering the streets on Kansas City’s East Side.
The woman, who represented herself, is an adherent of a widely discredited theory that claims those with knowledge of the proper procedures can tap into hundreds of millions of dollars held in trust in their names by the U.S. government.
Tweets containing homophobic, racist or demeaning words are coming in larger proportions from people living in the eastern half of the United States, according to a new map that tracked hate speech on Twitter.
Tony L. Putman also punched the woman’s 93-year-old husband in the face during the incident last summer.
White House releases dozens of emails regarding the 2012 attacks in Libya.
The bill is one Senate roll call away from the November 2014 ballot. But with only two days left before the end of the legislative session, a filibuster has put its chances in doubt. If supporters of the bill — primarily construction companies and organized labor — truly want to raise the sales tax, Republican Sen. John Lamping said, they can put the question on the ballot themselves.
A simmering standoff between the Kansas House and Senate over taxes cooled Wednesday amid a compromise extending part of a controversial addition to the state’s sales tax. House negotiators offered to extend three-tenths of a penny sales tax that was approved in 2010 to help the state limp through a recession-driven dip in revenues.
Scott Roeder, who fatally shot abortion provider George Tiller in 2009, is accused of intimidating the woman who reopened his clinic.
The Missouri Senate voted 32-1 in support of a bill allowing the State Board of Education to immediately intervene in an unaccredited school district. Current law mandates that the state wait two years before taking action. Kansas City Public Schools has been unaccredited since Jan. 1, 2012.
Republicans contend that new driver’s license procedures, initiated after a fraud case in St. Joseph, invade the privacy of Missourians. They send Gov. Jay Nixon a measure to stop the scanning of birth certificates and other documents.
The lawsuit, filed in U.S. District Court against the diocese, Bishop Robert Finn and the Rev. Shawn Ratigan by the parents of a young northern Missouri girl, was settled for $600,000, attorneys for the girl’s family said. It is the diocese’s largest settlement in a single priest sex abuse case, they said.
Police arrested Abigail C. Millican, 20, in connection with warrants filed by prosecutors last week. She remained in jail Wednesday in lieu of a $100,000 bond.
The City Council’s Finance and Ethics Committee supports new rules that require more frequent disclosure of gifts and that call for an ethics compliance officer. The full council votes May 23 on the new ethics code.
Jackson County prosecutors charged Timothy A. Phillips, 30, and Lacey A. Chaney, 27, each with first-degree child endangerment, abuse or neglect of a child and felonious restraint. The 9-year-old girl told authorities that she had been locked in the basement, with little food or water, as punishment for a school suspension. She had been denied use of the bathroom because she had allegedly infected her father’s girlfriend with a rash.
A former state senator from St. Louis has been fined more than $270,000 by the Missouri Ethics Commission for violating numerous campaign finance laws.
