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A look at the health care law in all 50 states
With the U.S. Supreme Court expected to rule Thursday on the President Barack Obama's federal health care overhaul, here is a look at where each of ...
McCaskill to skip Democratic National Convention
Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill, one of the most vulnerable Democrats up for re-election in 2012, plans to skip the Democratic National Convention in ...
Missouri farmers look to boost US elderberry crop
Missouri farmer Terry Durham is among those willing to bet the next hot food crop will be a berry now more commonly found in roadside ditches than ...
Experts say 32-pound Mo. girl faces long recovery
A severely malnourished 10-year-old Kansas City girl who was found locked in a closet remained hospitalized Monday and likely faces an extended ...
Neighbors: Sisters of girl in closet clean, happy
Two little girls in a Kansas City apartment complex had perfectly braided hair, neighbors said Sunday, and were clean, happy and, if anything, ...
32-pound, 10-year-old found locked in Mo. closet
A Kansas City woman was charged Saturday with abusing her 10-year-old daughter who weighed just 32 pounds when she was found locked in a closet that ...
Missouri town remembers '62 Continental jet crash
Maureen Riordan's family barely spoke about the plane crash that killed her father when she was just 11. Same for Ronnie Cook, a Missouri soybean ...
Berry's hit gives Tigers 2-1 win over Cards in 10
Quintin Berry slapped a base hit through the drawn-in infield, then took off for first base. He raised both hands in the air in celebration, rounded ...
Incoming Big 12 commish against paying athletes
Bob Bowlsby will have his hands full the next couple of months. The incoming Big 12 commissioner is finishing up his tenure as athletic director at ...
Shanghai's latest cachet: a fictional cop
To climb into Qiu Xiaolong's childhood home, down a narrow alley where women chop and fry lunch in shared kitchens, is to step on creaking floorboards ...
In many statehouses, GOP confronts dissension
Republicans set out a bold conservative agenda after taking control of state capitols across the Midwest and South in the last general election.
Study: Cougars again spreading across Midwest
Cougars are again spreading across the Midwest a century after the generally reclusive predators were hunted to near extinction in much of the region, ...
Teen driver in Kansas crash has restricted license
A 17-year-old boy with a provisional driver's license was behind the wheel when a converted semitrailer crashed on a Kansas highway, killing five ...