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By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes plans to be ready for training camp with no limitations from the high ankle sprain that occurred during the playoffs and was such the focal point of their run to a Super Bowl victory in February. The Chiefs began their

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press Frustrated by college diversity initiatives he says are “fomenting radical and toxic divisions,” Texas state Rep. Carl Tepper set out to put an end to diversity, equity and inclusion offices in higher education. The freshman Republican lawmaker filed a bill to ban such offices. Three months later, he filed

By MARGARET STAFFORD and JIM SALTER Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A 16-year-old boy was supposed to pick up his two younger brothers last week when he rang the doorbell of the wrong Kansas City, Missouri, house. A man came to the door and shot Ralph Yarl in the head — then shot

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City police are working to quickly prepare evidence for the Clay County prosecutor in the shooting of a Black teenager while trying to pick up his younger brothers from a friend’s house Thursday. “I want everyone to know that I am listening,” Police Chief Stacey Graves said Sunday at

By WILL WEISSERT and SARA BURNETT Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — For many progressives, the past decade has been littered with disappointments. But recent down-ballot victories are providing hope of reshaping the Democratic Party from the bottom up, rather than from Washington. In Chicago earlier this month, a former teacher’s union organizer unexpectedly won the

BY CODY FRIESEN Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Vaughn Grissom hit a tiebreaking single in the ninth inning, Ozzie Albies homered and the Atlanta Braves beat the Kansas City Royals 5-4. Albies’ 376-foot solo homer to right field in the fourth was his fifth RBI of the series. Zack Greinke gave up four

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Jared Stroud scored three minutes into the match and St. Louis City never let up in a 5-1 victory over FC Cincinnati after tornado warnings forced a lengthy delay at the start of the match. Stroud used assists from João Klauss and Eduard Löwen to give St. Louis City (6-2-0) the

By AVERY OSEN Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Sean Murphy homered among his three hits and drove in four runs, Ozzie Albies also had four RBIs and the Atlanta Braves beat the Kansas City Royals 9-3. Murphy had RBI doubles in the first and third innings, a solo homer in the fifth and

By DAVID SOLOMON Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Andrew McCutchen homered in the 10th inning to lead the Pittsburgh Pirates to a 6-3 win over the St. Louis Cardinals Saturday. McCutchen hit a 3-2 pitch from Jordan Hicks (0-1) over the left field wall for his third home run of the season to leadoff

By DAVID SOLOMON Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — The St. Louis Cardinals have activated outfielder Lars Nootbaar from the 10-day injured list. Nootbaar had jammed his left thumb sliding into third base in the Cardinals’ season opener on March 30. Nootbar is in Saturday’s lineup against the Pirates at home batting seventh and playing

By HANNAH SCHOENBAUM and DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press Ellie Bridgman spent her Thursday night shift at a local gas station in Union, Missouri, planning for the day she’ll lose access to gender-affirming treatments the transgender and nonbinary 23-year-old credits with making “life worth living.” A first-of-its-kind emergency rule introduced this week by Missouri’s Republican

By ANDREW DeMILLO ASSOCIATED PRESS LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — The push to restrict health care for transgender people has expanded beyond children, with Missouri’s new limits on gender-affirming care. The rules highlight how rapidly efforts targeting the rights of transgender people have grown this year. Those efforts have expanded even as they face new