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The new ordinance notes that a mask requirement is the best way to protect Kansas City children as the majority of them remain unvaccinated against COVID-19.
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Carlos Moreno/KCUR 89.3In Missouri, very few inmates released after years of wrongful incarceration qualify for compensation.
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The Seaboard plant in Guymon, Oklahoma, failed to record injuries that required more than basic first aid and place protections to prevent injuries from repetitive motions and lifting. -
Jurisdictions with mask mandates averaged 15.8 COVID cases per day for every 100,000 residents, compared to 21.7 in unmasked communities.
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Police commissioners were mum Wednesday after a video surfaced in which Smith could be heard saying the "bad guy's dead" following the fatal shooting of Cameron Lamb, a Black man killed by KCPD Detective Erik DeValkenaere, who was convicted last month of involuntary manslaughter and armed criminal action.
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Mark Rebegila from St. Marys is the third Kansan to plead guilty to charges stemming from the riot.
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The Kansas Department of Corrections has been losing staff throughout 2021. Now, it doesn't have enough people to have in-person visitation at one of its prisons. Visits were also shutdown earlier in the pandemic.
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The fate of abortion in the U.S. appears to be on shaky ground as a divided Supreme Court weighs a Mississippi law. A decision in the case is expected by summer.
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About a dozen residents showed up in person Tuesday for a final Johnson County meeting gathering public input for the upcoming process to redraw state legislative and Congressional district boundaries.
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At issue is whether to reverse the court's nearly half-century-old decision, Roe v. Wade, and subsequent decisions declaring that women have a constitutional right to terminate a pregnancy.
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COVID-19 cases have risen 20% and hospitalizations 30% since the end of October. But so far, the new omicron variant has yet to be detected in Missouri.
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