(COLUMBIA, Mo., AP) — The University of Missouri System is considering changes to its rules on intellectual property in an effort to boost entrepreneurial research. The Columbia Daily Tribune (is.gd/v5pT6Z)… Read more »

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH (KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — Gov. Jay Nixon announced Friday that the Kansas City school district and two nonprofits will receive nearly $1.5 million to build and… Read more »

By TOBY STERLING (AMSTERDAM, AP) — A painting that sat for six decades in a Norwegian industrialist’s attic after he was told it was a fake Van Gogh was pronounced… Read more »

Editor’s note: This story has been updated to clarify that three of the four pieces were taken from the hallways outside the gallery.   By ELYN HIRNI (WARRENSBURG, Mo., The… Read more »

By MARTHA MENDOZA (SAN JOSE, Calif., AP) — Attorneys suing Google say the firm violates privacy and takes personal property by electronically scanning the contents of people’s Gmailaccounts and then targeting… Read more »

(KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — Kansas City International Airport will be one of 60 U.S. airports to install a screening program designed to allow some passengers to pass through security… Read more »

By ANDREW MIGA and SUZANNE GAMBOA (WASHINGTON, AP) — For many among the tens of thousands of Americans who thronged to the National Mall to mark the 50th anniversary of the… Read more »

(BOONVILLE, Mo., AP) — A Missouri school official has been cleared of wrongdoing in a State Fair rodeo act that mocked President Barack Obama. Albert Watkins, an attorney for Boonville… Read more »

By DAVID A. LIEB (JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — Millions of dollars spent broadcasting ads. Alarming fliers and phone calls targeting homes. Politicians barnstorming from one press conference to the next…. Read more »