For more than 100 years Kansas law put a limit on the time a train could block an intersection. However, that law was repealed last fall.Today, Cherokee County Sheriff David Groves took to Facebook expressing his concerns about railroad crossings and trains that block them for extended periods.
A Springfield man who admitted to a fatal shooting on social media is expected to be sentenced to 20 years in prison under a plea deal.
A new State Department of Education report shows about 30,000 Oklahoma teachers, or 10 percent of the teaching workforce, have left the profession in the last six years. The national rate was 7.7 percent.
A Wichita girl has died just days after going home following a 457-day hospital stay. Uwadia was hospitalized after her lungs failed without explanation. During the hospital stay, she became the first patient to walk on an invasive form of life support at the hospital.
A new study says Missouri could save up to $1 billion a year within the next four years if it overhauls the state's Medicaid health insurance program.
A Missouri senator is seeking to tweak a voter-approved redistricting measure by allowing the public to submit suggestions to a state demographer responsible for drawing new districts.
A man charged with trying to detonate what he thought was a 1,000-pound (450-kilogram) bomb outside an Oklahoma City bank is standing trial in federal court.
A person went into an abandoned home to smoke marijuana and discovered a tiger in a cage.
Authorities investigate a suspicious fire at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Missouri that is seeking to regain its ability to offer abortions.
Missouri lawmakers are expected to consider legislation to restrict the use of drones near state prisons.
A Missouri jail nurse, who wanted to marry the convicted killer of $1.7 million lottery winner, poisoned her husband before setting fire to the couple's home, according to court documents.
Kansas has trouble keeping road equipment operators from leaving for other, better-paying jobs - so much so that supervisors worry about being able to cobble together crews to clear snow after blizzards and to fill potholes quickly.
Springfield Public Schools spokesman Stephen Hall described the comments as "disturbing."
The survivor escaped by crawling out of a window and running to a neighbor's home for help.
State lawmakers passed something similar last year, but it was vetoed by Gov. Mike Parson.
One failed amendment would have required the program to track medical marijuana as well.
Video shows two workers watching, one jumping up and down in apparent excitement.
Some council members were hesitant about the agreement.
The state would join Illinois, Kansas, Louisiana, Maryland, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, Virginia and Washington with laws.
Her relatives determined the issue should "be handled within the family."
At least 30 officers searched before finding the vehicle abandoned a short distance away.
Placed on two years of unsupervised probation, ordered to complete a treatment program and to serve two-day shock sentence in the jail.
A jury has awarded about $123 million to the victims and families of a 2015 duck boat crash that killed five college students and injured more than 60 others in Seattle.
Still, students now provide much more funding for Kansas universities than the state does. It's a situation that's unlikely to change anytime soon.
