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ST. LOUIS (AP) — David Green, an outfielder on the St. Louis Cardinals’ 1982 World Series champions, has died. Green had been hospitalized in suburban St. Louis after choking at his home about a week ago and died Saturday of respiratory failure, his family told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. The Cardinals confirmed the death Tuesday

By JEFF MARTIN and MICHAEL BALSAMO Associated Press WOODSTOCK, Ga. (AP) — A police chief says a caller who threatened to blow up a historically Black university in Florida described an elaborate plot involving seven bombs hidden in duffel bags and backpacks around the campus perimeter. The call to Bethune-Cookman University was among numerous threats

WAYNESVILLE, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Attorney General’s office says a residential treatment center will pay a $5 million settlement for defrauding Medicaid. Attorney General Eric Schmitt announced Wednesday that Piney Ridge Center in Waynesville agreed in December to pay $504,250. Center officials admitted they submitted Medicaid claims between September 2019 and August 2020 that

PARK HILLS, Mo. (AP) — More than 200 people will lose their jobs when a glass factory in Park Hills closes next month. Piramal Glass officials announced Tuesday that the factory’s last day of production will be March 31. Company spokesman Scott Winder said the factory’s furnaces are worn out and Piramal decided to close

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Kansas City man has been charged with second-degree murder in the shooting death of another man on an Amtrak train near Lee’s Summit last month. The Kansas City Star reports that 21-year-old Marquise Webb was arrested Monday following an armed standoff with police at a Kansas City apartment complex.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A winter storm has dropped snow over much of Kansas and parts of Missouri, with weather forecasters saying the snow could continue in some areas through the day. The National Weather Service says Columbia received about 5 inches of snow and Jefferson City had 6 inches before snow tapered off.

By KATHLEEN FOODY and JILL BLEED Associated Press CHICAGO (AP) — A winter storm is bringing a mix of rain, freezing rain and snow to the central U.S. Airlines canceled thousands of flights, officials are urging people to stay off roads and schools are closed. Oklahoma, Kansas, Missouri, Illinois, Indiana and Michigan are seeing freezing

By PAUL J. WEBER Associated Press AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A major winter storm with millions of Americans in its path brought a mix of rain, freezing rain and snow to the middle section of the United States as airlines canceled hundreds of flights, governors urged residents to stay off roads and schools closed campuses.

By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer Double-digit leads in the second half with a berth in the Super Bowl at stake are typically pretty safe in the NFL. That wasn’t the case on conference championship Sunday, when the Kansas City Chiefs and San Francisco 49ers both blew leads in the latest in chapter for

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

KEOSAUQUA, Iowa (AP) — A 24-year-old Iowa woman has been sentenced to five years in jail for a crash that killed a Missouri man. KTVO-TV reports Paris Wahl Bickham, of Birmingham, Iowa, was accused of driving drunk during the Jan. 4, 2019, crash that killed 22-year-old Gavin Hannah, of Memphis, Missouri. Police say Hannah was

By SUMMER BALLENTINE and DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri will soon be without a state health director following conservative outcry. State senators on Tuesday adjourned for the week without taking up Director Don Kauerauf’s nomination. The deadline to confirm him is Friday, and he’ll be barred from serving after

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A new monthly report shows that a loss of manufacturing jobs combined with other factors to slow growth in the regional economy of nine Midwest and Plains states. The overall index in January for Creighton University’s Mid-America Business Conditions survey released Tuesday fell to 56.2 from December’s 64.6. Any score above

By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri senators are considering a bill that one local prosecutor has dubbed the “Make Murder Legal Act.” The proposal debated Tuesday in a Senate committee aims to strengthen the state’s self-defense laws. It would give shooters the benefit of the doubt that they acted in self-defense.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Harris-Stowe State University in St. Louis closed for several hours Tuesday after the historically Black school received a bomb threat. The university said in a news release that the campus reopened Tuesday afternoon after an investigation by St. Louis police and the FBI. A search of the campus turned up nothing

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — Police in Springfield are investigating the deaths of two men whose bodies were found in a cemetery. Officers were called to the National Cemetery Monday afternoon and found two men dead with gunshot wounds. They were identified as 38-year-old Mark D. Young and 46-year-old Justin S. Baker. Detectives determined the two

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