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While the COVID-19 pandemic has been an unsettling time, suicides have declined substantially to below 45,000 per year here in the United States.

Suicides Dropped Nearly 6% During The Pandemic

A decline in suicides was also experienced during the influenza epidemic that started in 1918.

Missouri's Top Public Defender Doubles Down On Jay Nixon's Assignment

Any hopes Gov. Jay Nixon may have about patching things up with Missouri’s top public defender will have to be put on hold for a while longer.Budget…

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Police said a Kansas City gunshot detection system is reducing crime. And the veto of a Missouri “states' rights” gun bill appeared to be headed for an…

Top 10 Top 40 Of 2012

Ann Powers picks her favorite chart-topping, radio-dominating songs of 2012.

The Italian-built Lamborghini Aventador costs nearly $400,000. The money spent on election 2012 — for TV ads and other things — could theoretically get you more than 15,000 of these V12 cars. But that's a lot more than <a href="http://www.autoguide.com/auto-news/2012/07/lamborghini-aventador-reaches-production-milestone.html#more-145476">have been built</a>.

What Else Could $6 Billion Buy?

The cost of the 2012 election will top a record $6 billion, according to the Center for Responsive Politics. If you find it difficult to visualize that figure, here are a few other ways to think about what $6 billion could buy.

A woman inside a radio studio talks at a microphone.

The nation's top archivist wants to make federal records in Kansas City and beyond more accessible

Seven hundred seventy million of the National Archives' 13.5 billion pages of records are currently stored around the Kansas City metro. Dr. Colleen Shogan, recently named Archivist of the United States, wants to make them more accessible, both online and in-person.

Two side-by-side pictures, the one on the left of a man, Dan Tarwater, in a light blue KC Royals polo, wearing Sony over-ear headphones and speaking into a microphone in a radio studio. On the right, another man, Johnathan Duncan, wears a light blue long-sleeve button-down chambray shirt while wearing the same headphones and also speaking into a microphone in the same radio studio, but from a different angle.

A former county legislator and a KC Tenants organizer are vying for Kansas City's 6th District seat

Voters in the 6th District, which includes the Country Club Plaza, Brookside and Waldo, will choose between Dan Tarwater and Johnathan Duncan to fill the open seat during the June 20 general election.

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