By Maria Carter
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KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Kansas is shutting down most beds at Rainbow Mental Health, a local psychiatric hospital. Law enforcement and mental health leaders worry the state might one day shut down the facility.
Authorities say a Johnson County deputy fatally shot a man who was running away as he was being arrested.
Kansas Governor Sam Brownback's office wants to overhaul the way schools are funded in the state.
Numerous proposals to redraw Missouri's State House and Senate district maps were delivered to a six-judge panel in Jefferson City.
Missouri Secretary of State Robin Carnahan is criticizing a bill in the Missouri Senate that would scrap the state's presidential primary in favor of party caucuses.