Nation Apr 19 Kansas City homeowner accused of shooting Ralph Yarl pleads not guilty Andrew Lester, the 84-year-old white man accused of shooting Ralph Yarl, a Black teenager, pleaded not guilty in his first court appearance.
Nation Apr 18 Shot Black teenager crying ‘buckets of tears,’ 84-year-old in custody As 16-year-old Ralph Yarl struggled to come to grips with being shot for going to the wrong house to pick up his younger brothers, the white Kansas City, Missouri, homeowner who shot the Black teenager turned himself in on Tuesday.
Nation Apr 17 Missouri man charged in shooting of Black teenager at his front door The 85-year-old white man who shot a Black teen at his front door in Kansas City, Missouri, last week has been charged charged with armed assault, the Clay County prosecutor said Monday.
Nation Apr 17 Kansas City police investigating shooting of Black teen who went to wrong house Authorities in Kansas City, Missouri, say the investigation into the shooting by a homeowner of a Black teenager who went to the wrong house to pick up his younger brothers includes questions about whether it was racially motivated.
Arts Oct 21 Chess star Hans Niemann files lawsuit over cheating allegations Chess grandmaster Hans Niemann alleges in a federal lawsuit that chess world champion Magnus Carlsen and others destroyed his career by accusing him of cheating.
Politics Aug 03 Kansas voters resoundingly defend their access to abortion Kansas voters have sent a resounding message about their desire to protect abortion rights by rejecting a measure that would have allowed the Republican-controlled Legislature to tighten abortion restrictions or ban the procedure outright.
Politics Aug 02 Kansas voters protect abortion rights, blocking Republican push for ban Kansas voters have protected abortion rights by rejecting a measure that would have allowed the Republican-controlled Legislature to tighten abortion restrictions or ban it outright.
Nation Feb 09 Missouri Supreme Court places gun-waving couple on probation as practicing attorneys The Missouri Supreme Court has put a St. Louis couple who gained national attention for waving guns at racial injustice protesters on probation as attorneys.
Nation Nov 08 Missouri captain indicted for negligence in deadly duck boat accident KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Charges have been filed against the captain of a tourist boat that sank and killed 17 people, including nine people from an Indiana family, in a southwest Missouri lake over the summer, federal prosecutors said…
Nation Jul 21 Officials release names of those killed in boat accident More than half of the 17 people killed when a tourist boat sank on a Branson lake were members of the same Indiana family.