As Democrats shake their heads at Gov. Kelly's recent moves, her actions signaled her efforts to appeal to moderate Republican and GOP-leaning independent voters. She'll need that support to win a tough reelection race in a heavily Republican state next year.
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A federal appeals court panel has ruled that President Joe Biden’s vaccine mandate for larger private employers can take effect. Friday’s 2-1 ruling from a panel of judges on the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reverses a lower-court ruling that had paused the requirement. Republican-led states are challenging the rule, which would apply to companies with at least 100 workers. It was originally planned to take effect Jan. 4, but it’s not clear now when it might.
The Kansas City Chiefs won last night 34-26. Today, KOAM's Dowe Quick couldn't resist bringing back up his prediction about the game. Check out that and more as the Chiefs move forward.
Missouri's treasurer no longer will help schools refinance bond debt unless they promise not to require face masks.
The official’s warning about service cuts comes as Amtrak tries to recover from a steep drop in passenger traffic that started last year.
Since Thursday, more than a half-dozen mostly rural departments have said they will stop such services as investigating virus cases or issuing quarantine orders.
The defense department in August announced that it would begin requiring all members of the military - including National Guard and Reserves - to get the COVID-19 vaccine.
States from Washington to Pennsylvania, including Montana and Wyoming in the Rocky Mountains, are having trouble finding enough people willing to take the comparatively low-paying jobs.
More than 40 cases of the omicron variant have been reported in the U.S. so far, with most of them people who were vaccinated and nearly all of them suffering only mild illness, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday.
The person was working as a “float nurse” hired through an outside agency.
Federal agents investigated and found seven reported thefts of guns from luggage checked on Southwest over a five-month period in 2020.
The reporter discovered a flaw on a DESE website that left more than 100,000 Social Security numbers of educators vulnerable to disclosure.
“We cannot function as a society where we have told people over and over again that there is no consequence for stealing other people’s property."
“It was just getting worse every day."
A prosecutor has dismissed a murder charge against a southwestern Missouri man in a woman's 1988 killing.
The fire happened just west of Grain Valley.
The woman died after apparently suffering a medical emergency while cooking on Thanksgiving morning.
The crash happened in Miami County, south of the Kansas City area.
The 2021 bill would have barred the sale of kratom to minors and required sellers to ensure that their kratom products don’t contain dangerous substances.
Members of the Kansas Corporation Commission sent a strong signal Tuesday that they won’t tolerate efforts to increase shareholder profits at the expense of unreasonably high rates for Evergy’s 1 million Kansas customers.
The FBI’s confirmation last week that it was looking at a spot near a New Jersey landfill as the possible burial site of former Teamsters boss Jimmy Hoffa is the latest development in a search that began when he disappeared in 1975.
The open-pit gold mine in Idaho is west of Yellowstone National Park.
The girl was seriously injured when a vehicle she was in was struck by a car driven by former assistant coach Britt Reid.
