(JOPLIN, Mo., AP) — The nearly 600 federal trailers that housed Joplin residents since the May 2011 tornado are slowly emptying, with only about 80 of the trailers still occupied…. Read more »
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Redesign lowers costs of KC collapse memorial
(KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — Promoters of a memorial for the victims and rescuers of the 1981 skywalks collapse at a Kansas City hotel say design changes will lower the… Read more »
Soccer player drowns in university swimming pool
(MARQUETTE, Mich., AP) — An 18-year-old freshman on Northern Michigan University’s varsity women’s soccer team drowned during a team workout in a school swimming pool. Arianna Alioto of Columbia, Mo.,… Read more »
Police: Chiefs’ Belcher kills girlfriend, self
By DAVE SKRETTA (KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher fatally shot his girlfriend Saturday, then drove to Arrowhead Stadium and committed suicide in front of… Read more »
Mo. judge says expert can tell jurors about BDSM
(KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — A federal judge has ruled that lawyers for a Missouri couple accused of sexual slavery may call an expert to explain bondage, dominance, sadism and… Read more »
Missouri lottery winners want to live normally
By MARIA SUDEKUM (DEARBORN, Mo., AP) — To announce one of the biggest events of their lives together, Cindy and Mark Hill returned to the place where it all began… Read more »
Vampire on the loose in Serbia?
By DUSAN STOJANOVIC (ZAROZJE, Serbia, AP) — Get your garlic, crosses and stakes ready: a bloodsucking vampire is on the loose. Or so say villagers in the tiny western Serbian… Read more »
Bond set for Saudi student in homicide case
(WARRENSBURG, Mo., digitalBURG) – The international student charged in the homicide of a local bar owner can now bond out of jail. Bond was set at $2 million Friday for… Read more »
Prosecutors questioning Manning in WikiLeaks case
By BEN NUCKOLS and DAVID DISHNEAU (FORT MEADE, Md., AP) — For the first time, military prosecutors are going face-to-face with an Army private charged with sending hundreds of thousands… Read more »
Two seats opening up on Warrensburg City Council
Two three-year positions on the Warrensburg City Council will be up for grabs in the upcoming municipal election. Filing for the council positions begins Tuesday, Dec. 11 and closes Tuesday,… Read more »