U.S. Army veteran Jeremy Miller is on a Walk Across America to raise awareness about veteran suicide and will be stopping at UCM at 9:30 a.m. Thursday at the Military… Read more »
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Student mobilization efforts leading up to midterm elections
Political rallies throughout the Kansas City metropolitan area in the final days leading to the midterm election have helped energize and mobilize political candidates on both sides of the political… Read more »
Sexual assault act under revision
Title IX is under review, but what is it? The Department of Education is reviewing Title IX, an equal opportunity act, and Education Secretary Betsy DeVos announced Thursday, Aug. 7… Read more »
VA: Ex-Marine who killed 3 in Baton Rouge did not have PTSD
By ROXANA HEGEMAN Associated Press (WICHITA, Kan., AP) — A former Marine who ambushed and killed three Baton Rouge law enforcement officers last month never saw combat in Iraq, but told… Read more »
The Latest: Milwaukee chief says man was shot in the neck
(MILWAUKEE, AP) — The Latest on violence in Milwaukee following the shooting of a man by police (all times local): 12:40 p.m. Milwaukee’s police chief says an 18-year-old man suffered… Read more »
One person shot in Milwaukee during 2nd night of skirmishes
By TODD RICHMOND Associated Press (MILWAUKEE, AP) — Police said one person was shot at a Milwaukee protest on Sunday and officers used an armored vehicle to retrieve the injured victim… Read more »
Scathing report on Baltimore cops vindicates black residents
By JULIET LINDERMAN and ERIC TUCKER Associated Press (BALTIMORE, AP) — With startling statistics, a federal investigation of the Baltimore Police Department documents in 164 single-spaced pages what black residents have been… Read more »
US government won’t reclassify marijuana, allows research
By ALICIA A. CALDWELL Associated Press (WASHINGTON, AP) — The Obama administration will keep marijuana on the list of the most dangerous drugs, despite growing popular support for legalization, but… Read more »
Schools receive request for after-school ‘Satan Club’
By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press (KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — After-school religious clubs appear to be the next venture of a national group that sought to install a statue of… Read more »
Groups affiliated with Black Lives Matter release agenda
By ERRIN HAINES WHACK (Associated Press) – Ahead of the second anniversary of the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black teenager in Ferguson, Missouri, that touched off a wave of protests… Read more »