Fred Arbanas will fill in as Jackson County executive while the county Legislature decides who will replace Mike Sanders through the end of 2016. Former Royals players Frank White, now a county legislator, wants the job.
Jeb Bush has told crowds several times in the past year about receiving the National Rifle Association’s Statesman of the Year Award from Charlton Heston. But the NRA doesn’t give out a statesman award, and Bush didn’t receive a rifle from Heston, his campaign said Monday. Instead, he was given a rifle for being the keynote speaker at the NRA’s 2003 annual convention in Orlando.
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.
President Barack Obama said Monday that he has come up with a number of unilateral moves to promote gun safety that are constitutionally sound and "well within my legal authority," opening his final year in office with explicit plans to make bold use of his executive powers.
Former President Bill Clinton made his debut solo appearance on behalf of his wife's 2016 presidential campaign in New Hampshire Monday — a lot grayer, a bit trimmer and far more subdued than nearly a quarter-century ago, when he rescued his flagging 1992 campaign in this key early voting state.
Leading business groups, often at odds with President Barack Obama, are looking to give momentum to one of his top priorities before he leaves office: approval of a trade pact linking 12 nations along the Pacific Rim that make up 40 percent of the world economy.
There were more airline deaths worldwide due to deliberate acts in 2015 than from accidental air crashes, for the second year in a row, according to an industry tally.
President Barack Obama's do-it-himself plan for keeping guns away from those who shouldn't have them falls far short of what he'd hoped to accomplish through legislation after a massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School shook the country to attention in 2012.
President Barack Obama moved Monday to expand background checks to cover more firearms sold at gun shows, online and anywhere else, aiming to curb a scourge of gun violence despite unyielding opposition to new laws in Congress.
Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump is giving some of the most divisive proposals of his campaign a starring role in his first television ad — although the billionaire developer faced questions about the footage he chose to illustrate his arguments.
