Tag: Missouri
OLATHE, Kan. (AP) A man who was found at a Kansas storage unit with his dismembered wifes remains and two of their children was sentenced Friday to nearly nine years in prison for charges…
The way Westar Energy runs its coal plants in Kansas unnecessarily costs consumers millions of dollars a year through an obscure, if common, practice known as self-committing generation. The company essentially runs its coal plants…
In the same breath, Sonny Perdue, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, recently promised to award one contract to Kansas as well as to Missouri. And then he told us hed decide the winner depending on…
In early June, Diane Mueller fled her flooded home near St. Louis, for the second time in two years. She hopes it wont happen again. When Mueller saw the water bubbling up through grates in…
TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Thursday that it will relocate two research agencies headquarters to the Kansas City area, delighting Kansas and Missouri officials but intensifying critics fears that research…
Driving while black in Missouri is becoming an even more perilous proposition. Two years after the NAACP issued a travel advisory warning black motorists of the potential problems with traveling through Missouri, a new report…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has signed a bill aimed at stopping an economic border war with Kansas. Whether the bill signed Tuesday has any impact depends on Kansas officials. Both…
Cleanup efforts after a May 22 tornado in Carl Junction, Mo., are being hampered by swarms of mosquitoes, volunteers say. In addition to damage from the EF-3 winds, the area has been inundated with rain.…
It didnt take long for volunteers working in Carl Junction to notice the mosquitoes. Bug repellent quickly became a standard-issue supply. We noticed them getting worse after the tornado, as people cut down trees, said…
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) Eight years to the day after a devastating tornado killed 161 people and injured more than 1,100 in Joplin, another big twister ripped through another Missouri community, Jefferson City, but…
