Major League Soccer is about to resume its season — in a state that has seen a huge spike in coronavirus infections, with one team absent because of a COVID-19 outbreak, and with plenty of worry about what will happen…
The U.S. Marine Corps says it is investigating reports of an active shooter at the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms, California. Spokeswoman Capt. Nicole Plymale says shots were reported fired on the base around 6:30 a.m. Tuesday and military police cordoned off the area but it's unclear if a suspect was taken into custody.
A Brazilian man infected with the AIDS virus has shown no sign of it for more than a year since he stopped HIV medicines after an intense experimental drug therapy aimed at purging hidden, dormant virus from his body, doctors…
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson is signing a bill to ramp up penalties for gun crimes, second-degree murder and gang crimes.
Kansas has set a new record for its worst two-week spike in reported coronavirus cases since the pandemic began. That prompted the state's Democratic governor to issue a stern public warning Monday in hopes of pushing the public and local officials into accepting masks in public as necessary.
Country music firebrand and fiddler Charlie Daniels, who had a hit with “Devil Went Down to Georgia,” has died at age 83.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court ruled unanimously Monday that states can require presidential electors to back their states’ popular vote winner in the Electoral College. The ruling, just under four months before the 2020 election, leaves in place laws…
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Authorities said an 11-year-old girl and 38-year-old woman died and three other people were injured in a weekend shooting in Columbia, Missouri. Columbia Police Chief Geoff Jones said the shooting happened around 12:15 a.m. Sunday in…
The NHL and NHL Players' Association agreed Sunday on protocols to resume the season, a major step toward the return of hockey this summer. Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly told The Associated Press there was an agreement on protocols for training…
ROME (AP) — Ennio Morricone, the Oscar-winning Italian composer who created the coyote-howl theme for the iconic Spaghetti Western “The Good, the Bad and the Ugly” and often haunting soundtracks for such classic Hollywood gangster movies as “The Untouchables” and…
A 13-year-old was killed and five others were injured early Sunday after a utility terrain vehicle ran off a rural roadway and crashed in northeast Kansas, the Jackson County Sheriff's Office said in a news release.
The Supreme Court has ruled that states can’t cut religious schools out of programs that send public money to private education.
The Missouri Supreme Court says lawmakers violated the state constitution when they tried to end all government funding of Planned Parenthood.
Oklahoma voters narrowly decided on Tuesday to expand Medicaid health insurance to tens of thousands low-income residents, becoming the first state to amend their Constitution to do so.
Wall Street closed out its best quarter since 1998 with more gains Tuesday but still well below the record high it reached in February, before devastating lockdowns were put in place to fight the coronavirus.
The police chief in Tulsa, Oklahoma, says one of the two officers who were shot during a traffic stop has died. Police Chief Wendell Franklin says Sgt. Craig Johnson died Tuesday.
OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) — Two key leaders in Oklahoma's response to the coronavirus pandemic are stepping down. Gov. Kevin Stitt’s office announced Monday that Secretary of Health and Mental Health Jerome Loughridge and Secretary of Science and Innovation Dr. Kayse…
NEW YORK (AP) — Carl Reiner, the ingenious and versatile writer, actor and director who broke through as a “second banana” to Sid Caesar and rose to comedy’s front ranks as creator of “The Dick Van Dyke Show” and straight…
Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly says she will issue an executive order mandating the use of masks in public starting Friday to stop the spread of COVID-19.
TULSA, Okla. (AP) - Two police officers in Tulsa, Oklahoma, were shot and wounded on the city's east side Monday morning and police were searching for a suspect who is described as armed and dangerous, authorities said. “I can…
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Kansas City, Missouri is making masks mandatory inside businesses and other places that are open to the public amid a growing number of confirmed coronavirus cases. Mayor Quinton Lucas said Friday that starting Monday, visitors…
State wildlife and parks staff are collecting and testing samples from fish carcasses to determine whether a koi herpes virus is behind fish kills in at least two Kansas lakes.
A jump in coronavirus cases after many businesses in the Branson area reopened to tourists has health officials concerned.
The Unified Government of Wyandotte County and Kansas City, Kansas, announced Saturday in a tweet that a requirement that masks be worn in public will go into effect at 5 p.m. Tuesday
