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OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says companies in Nebraska, Iowa and Missouri will pay fines for tampering with emission controls in vehicles. The EPA on Tuesday named the companies as Banghart Diesel Performance of Wahoo, Nebraska, and Black Widow Diesel of Center Point, Iowa, both diesel repair shops; and Voodoo Diesel,

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Investigators say Harris-Stowe State University in St. Louis is closed Tuesday after the historically Black school received a bomb threat. Harris-Stowe officials said the university was closed until further notice “out of an abundance of caution.” Law enforcement agencies are checking all the campus facilities. Several other historically Black universities across

SARCOXIE, Mo. (AP) — A former teacher in southwest Missouri who was charged with having sex with a student no longer faces prosecution because she and the student have married. Twenty-six-year-old Baylee Turner was charged in 2019 with having sexual relations with one of her male students. At the time, Turner was in her first

By JIM SALTER Associated Press A Missouri man whose death sentence was overturned three times before being reinstated is now scheduled to die in May for killing a small-town couple nearly 26 years ago. The Missouri Supreme Court on Monday set a May 3 execution date for Carman Deck. Executions in Missouri are carried out

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A winter storm set to move across the country this week could drop more than a foot of snow in parts of Missouri and Kansas and could coat trees and power lines with freezing rain. The National Weather Service has issued a winter storm warning for most of Missouri and

By COLLEEN LONG Associated Press WASHINGTON (AP) — The Justice Department says it will not reopen the federal investigation into the 2014 death of 12-year-old Tamir Rice, who was shot to death by Cleveland police. It notified Tamir’s mother after she had participated in a federal training event for state prosecutors on investigating police misconduct

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) — A southeastern Missouri prosecutor says he plans to seek the death penalty for a man charged with killing another man last year by ramming him with his truck. Television station KFVS reports that Stoddard County Attorney Russ Oliver on Monday filed his intent to seek death for Boyd Lippoldt. Lippoldt

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City police say one of its officers shot a man in the hand during a confrontation near Troost Lake. Police say the shooting happened around 6 p.m. Monday at 29th Street and The Paseo after several people reported a man walking near the lake and threatening people with a

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Police in St. Louis say a man who was shot inside a home over the weekend has died of his injuries. Police say officers and medics found 60-year-old Jeffrey Cook on Saturday afternoon inside a Mount Pleasant neighborhood home with gunshot wounds. Cook was rushed to a hospital, where he died

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A major winter storm was expected to affect a huge swath of the United States, with heavy snow starting in the Rockies and freezing rain as far south as Texas before it drops snow and ice on the Midwest. The forecast comes nearly a year

MACOMB, Ill. — Evan Gilyard II had a career-high 33 points as Kansas City beat Western Illinois 83-75. Will Carius led the Leathernecks on Monday night with 18 points.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt is seeking temporary restraining orders to halt mask mandates in three of the 45 mask-requiring school districts he has sued, and his office said additional requests will follow. The motions announced Monday ask judges to halt mask mandates at Columbia Public Schools, St. Charles School

CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — St. Louis County prosecutors have dropped murder charges against a teenager who was accused of fatally shooting a man at the Galleria shopping mall in 2020. Jaron Lemmitt had been charged with second-degree murder and armed criminal action in the shooting death of 21-year-old Jaquan Steed. Prosecuting Attorney Wesley Bell said

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Tyrann Mathieu walked off the field in stunned disappointment, his hopes of playing in a third straight Super Bowl dashed by Joe Burrow and the Cincinnati Bengals, and spent a moment dressing in a somber Kansas City Chiefs locker room. The time spent composing

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A plaque honoring baseball legend Jackie Robinson that was vandalized in Georgia is coming to Kansas City’s Negro Leagues Baseball Museum to be put on display. The sign was erected in 2001 outside the birthplace of Robinson near Cairo, Georgia. Community members there discovered last year that someone had shot

By JACK HAND AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Green Bay’s proven old pros carried the National Football League to a 35-10 victory over the Kansas City Chiefs of the American League on Sunday in the first Super Bowl under the brilliant direction of Bart Starr. Starr connected with 34-year-old Max McGee for two

By GREG BEACHAM AP Sports Writer LOS ANGELES (AP) — Pete Rozelle never liked the name that was half-jokingly suggested by Kansas City Chiefs owner Lamar Hunt for the first annual game between the champions of the NFL and the AFL. Hunt agreed, telling the NFL commissioner they could surely think of something better to

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City police have identified a man killed in a weekend shooting a block south of Cypress Park in the eastern part of the city. Police say 22-year-old Dillion Simmons died from his injuries. Officers called to a home in the area around 4:15 a.m. Sunday found Simmons inside with

By BARRY WILNER AP Pro Football Writer The Cincinnati Bengals were the NFL’s worst team two years ago. Now they’re headed to the Super Bowl to play the Los Angeles Rams in the Rams’ home stadium. Matching the biggest comeback in an AFC championship game, the Bengals rallied from an 18-point hole to stun Kansas