By JIM SALTER and DAVID A. LIEB (FERGUSON, Mo., AP) — Chaos returned to the streets of Ferguson after a grand jury declined to indict a white police officer in the… Read more »

(KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — Royals’ left-fielder Alex Gordon will flip the switch that lights up Kansas City’s Country Club Plaza on Thanksgiving night. Gordon will be accompanied by Kansas… Read more »

By MICHAEL HILL (ITHACA, N.Y., AP) — Richard Johnson can see right through the masterpieces of Rembrandt and Van Gogh. The Cornell University electrical and computer engineering professor is a… Read more »

(WARRENSBURG, Mo.) – PBS television stations across the country are now looking at a program initiated by the University of Central Missouri’s public television station, KMOS-TV, as an example of… Read more »

By JOHN ROGERS (BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., AP) — It’s no secret Joe DiMaggio loved Marilyn Monroe. The baseball great cried at her funeral and for 20 years had flowers placed… Read more »

by JAMES NORD (PIERRE, S.D., AP) — Heavy snow blanketed parts of the Upper Midwest with more than a foot of snow on Tuesday, leaving residents there and in the… Read more »

By DAVE SKRETTA (KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — Every time that Stanford coach Johnny Dawkins heads north of the border and the subject of Canadian basketball players is broached, one… Read more »

By ALAN SCHERZAGIER (ST. LOUIS, AP) — A state judge overturned Missouri’s constitutional ban on gay marriage Wednesday in a ruling that immediately set off a rush among some same-sex… Read more »