Colleges large and small in the U.S. are cutting programs and eliminating majors to make ends meet
August 11, 2024
Police in Ferguson, Missouri, say an officer was critically injured outside the city's police station during protests on the 10th anniversary of the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, a pivotal moment in the national Black Lives Matter movement
August 10, 2024
A bus that was transporting a professional baseball team from Iowa to a game in Illinois caught fire
August 02, 2024
A woman denied an abortion at a Kansas hospital after suffering a pregnancy complication that her attorneys say put her at risk of sepsis has filed a federal lawsuit
July 31, 2024Experts say a massive wildfire in northern California and scores of smaller ones across the western U.S. and Canada are the legacy of the nation’s fire-suppression experts and climate change
July 27, 2024
The Missouri Supreme Court has cleared the way for a Missouri woman whose murder conviction was overturned to be freed after 43 years in prison
July 18, 2024
Gypsy Rose Blanchard is pregnant
July 09, 2024
An appellate court has ordered the release of a Missouri woman whose murder conviction was overturned after 43 years in prison
July 09, 2024
Indigenous activist Leonard Peltier has been denied parole after spending most of his life in prison since his conviction in the 1975 killings of two FBI agents in South Dakota
July 02, 2024
William Woods was homeless and living in Los Angeles when he learned that someone was wracking up debt using his name
April 05, 2024Authorities in Kansas say an actor who appeared in a spinoff of the popular television western “Yellowstone” has been found dead after he went missing amid a domestic violence investigation
April 05, 2024Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey is seeking to put the brakes on releasing a woman from prison in a 1980 killing that her attorneys allege was committed by a now-discredited police officer
June 18, 2024
A Missouri judge has rejected the argument that lawmakers intended to “impose their religious beliefs on everyone” in the state when they passed a restrictive abortion ban
June 15, 2024
A judge has overturned the conviction of a Missouri woman who was a psychiatric patient when she incriminated herself in a 1980 killing
June 15, 2024
Attorneys general across the U.S. have a new fight on their hands: protecting Americans from unproven and expensive stem cell treatments that salespeople claim can cure almost anything
June 15, 2024
The school system in Topeka, Kansas, was at the center of the landmark Brown v
May 16, 2024
Two young brothers and their cousin were wandering through a fossil-rich stretch of the North Dakota badlands when they stumbled across a T
June 03, 2024
Student journalists on the Columbia University campus knew what was coming long before police with riots shields arrived to begin arresting the pro-Palestinian protesters who had occupied a building
May 01, 2024
Attorneys for two brothers who were sentenced to die in a quadruple killing known as the “Wichita massacre” will argue for a formal resentencing hearing in the latest in a long series of appeals
April 22, 2024
Dusty Farr used to be someone else
April 11, 2024
An escaped mountain goat that somehow got stuck under a Kansas City bridge has survived a rocky rescue effort and now may be reunited with the owners who suspect he was stolen from their farm two months ago
April 09, 2024
Student journalists across the United States have done their bit to cover small town news for years, but a college paper in Iowa is taking a bigger swing at it
April 02, 2024
Small towns and rural enclaves along the path of April’s total solar eclipse are steeling for huge crowds of sun chasers who plan to catch a glimpse of day turning into dusk in North America
March 23, 2024
A Missouri Girl Scout troop that made bracelets to raise funds for children in Gaza was ordered to stop and threatened with legal action by regional scout leaders
March 04, 2024
Prosecutors said that police have charged a man with two counts of first-degree murder for the killing of a court employee who tried to serve an eviction notice at a home in Independence, Missouri and an officer who responded, prosecutors said Friday
March 01, 2024
Multiple people shot along I-75 south of Lexington, Kentucky, authorities say
Police say active shooter in Kentucky left numerous people shot
Musk says SpaceX to launch first uncrewed Starships to Mars in two years
Pope to bring in a ton of humanitarian aid to remote Papua New Guinea as he celebrates periphery
North Korean leader emphasises importance of strengthening naval power
Former director of Los Alamos National Laboratory dead after car crash in New Mexico
Tennis-Sabalenka survives Pegula storm to win U.S. Open women's title
Anderson .Paak's 'K-Pops' draws on an identity rooted in two cultures