-
Elle Moxley/KCUR 89.3As Eric Schmitt prepares to leave the Missouri Attorney General's Office for the U.S. Senate, the Lee's Summit School District still wants a judge to rule about whether he had authority to demand that schools rescind public health orders. -
Savannah Hawley-Bates/KCUR 89.3Litter cleanup has stalled since the onset of the pandemic, and citizens upset about the state of the metro’s roadways have taken matters into their own hands. According to government officials, volunteers will need to keep their trash bags handy for the foreseeable future.
-
Missouri Sen. Bill Eigel, who is considering running for governor in 2024, said the state's $6 billion cash balance should go to ‘big infrastructure projects.’ No one is sure how much it would cost to widen I-70. -
Bobcat hunting and trapping is commonplace throughout much of the United States, with the exception of a handful of holdout states. Despite the abundance of the wildcat nationwide, some conservationists are pushing back on the open season.
-
The speedy senior from Lawrence High School, who was born in West Africa, is an unlikely Wildcat. He's playing the best football of his young career.
-
The establishment of the new department comes after nearly 50 years of the Missouri National Guard being part of the Department of Public Safety.
-
The Good Faith Network, an interfaith community organization combating homelessness in Johnson County, held a rally Thursday morning calling on county officials to build a comprehensive plan to reduce homelessness.
-
On the first day of prefiling, both state Democrat and Republican legislators proposed measures to increase school security.
-
Community health centers around the country paid $410 million from 2018 to 2021 in 485 settlements or judgments over malpractice suits. The centers and their employees have immunity from medical malpractice lawsuits, meaning the federal government pays any settlements or court judgments.
-
The audit estimates there are more than 1,800 short-term rentals in Kansas City — the equivalent of two downtown convention hotels — that aren't feeding into the local tax base
-
Prosecutor Bob McCulloch was in Bonne Terre to witness the execution.
-
The cooperative faces threats of foreclosure and the displacement of residents from the affordable housing complex.
-
Kate E. Brubacher was part of a team that fought for the exoneration of Kevin Strickland, who spent 43 years in prison for a triple murder he didn't commit. Strickland was exonerated in late 2021.
-
Bobby Bostic walked out of a Missouri prison in November. His freedom is roughly two centuries ahead of schedule — at just 18 years old, Bostic was sentenced to multiple life sentences in prison for his role in an armed robbery.
