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CEDAR FALLS, Iowa — AJ Green had 21 points as Northern Iowa rolled past Missouri State 95-75. Gaige Prim led the Bears on Sunday with 24 points.

UNIVERSITY CITY, Mo. (AP) — Police are investigating a shooting in a St. Louis suburb that left one man dead and another man injured. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that University City police said officers found two men who had been shot in the 7800 block of Birchmont Drive after the shooting was reported around

By CAROLYN THOMPSON and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press Educators say they are feeling the impacts of deep ideological divides around issues of diversity and equity in schools. After George Floyd’s killing at the hands of police in 2020, many school districts stepped up efforts to make schools more comfortable, inclusive places for students and staff

NEW YORK (AP) — Emile “The Cat” Francis, the diminutive goalie who became a Hall of Fame coach and general manager with the New York Rangers has died. He was 95. The Rangers announced the death Saturday night. Francis was general manager of the Rangers from October 1964 to January 1976, also serving as coach

TORONTO (AP) — Brandon Saad, Ryan O’Reilly and Pavel Buchnevich each scored in St. Louis’ three-goal third period that broke open a tie game and gave the Blues a 6-3 victory over the Toronto Maple Leafs. Buchnevich finished with two goals, and Klim Kostin and Brayden Schenn also scored for St. Louis. Ville Husso made

MOREHEAD, Ky. — Eric Reed Jr. had 28 points as Southeast Missouri defeated Morehead State 92-84. Jaylon Hall led Morehead State with a season-high 21 points.

DAVIDSON, N.C. (AP) — Hyunjung Lee had 29 points as Davidson romped past Saint Louis 79-58. Yuri Collins led the Billikens on Saturday with 10 points.

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Columbia police say a teenager died and two other people were injured in a shooting early Saturday. Police say in a news release they were called to a home about 12:40 a.m. Saturday and found a female juvenile injured inside. She died later at a hospital. Police say a male juvenile

FARGO, N.D. — Evan Gilyard II tied his career high with 33 points as Kansas City topped North Dakota State 85-71. Sam Griesel led the Bison on Saturday with 21 points.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Jackson County prosecutors say a man is facing felony charges after a patient at a Kansas City hospital reported that he tried to rape her. Elisha Beraiah, 31, was charged Saturday with first-degree attempted rape and first-degree sodomy. Prosecutors say officers responded to a call Thursday at University Health Medical

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A 35-year-old Kansas City woman charged with decapitating her 6-year-old son will undergo a mental health evaluation. KSHB-TV reports that the prosecution of Tasha Haefs was suspended Thursday after a mental health evaluation was ordered. Authorities say officers who were called to a home in eastern Kansas City on Tuesday

CHARLESTON, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say two people were killed and several people were injured in a shooting in southeast Missouri. Robert Hearnes, director of the Charleston Department of Public Safety, said the shooting occurred about 1 a.m. Saturday at a building that a group had rented for a party in Charleston. He says people

STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) — Tolu Smith scored 16 points, Iverson Molinar added 13 points and Mississippi State beat Missouri 68-49 in a game delayed 2 hours, 30 minutes due to travel issues for the Tigers. Mississippi State took its first lead of the game during a 10-0 run in the opening 10 minutes and led

WEST MEMPHIS, Ark. (AP) — Federal inspectors say they found more than 1,000 rodents inside a Family Dollar distribution facility in Arkansas. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration says consumer complaint prompted officials to inspect the West Memphis, Arkansas, facility last month. Inside the building, inspectors said they found live rodents, dead rodents, rodent feces

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Two Columbia police officers who shot and killed a man in May will not face charges. Miller County Prosecutor Ben Winfrey, who was a special prosecutor in the case, said he believed a jury would find that Lt. Lance Bolinger and Sgt. Roger Schlude were acting in defense of themselves and

By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A crime-fighting partnership between Missouri and the Justice Department is caught in the middle of a dispute over a new Missouri law banning local police from enforcing federal gun laws. The Department of Justice teamed up with the Missouri attorney general’s office to fight violent crime

CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — A 33-year-old University City man was sentenced to life in prison without parole after shooting an unarmed neighbor who came home drunk from a party. Thomas Clement was sentenced Friday for first-degree murder and armed criminal action in the death of 31-year-old Larry “Peanut” Neal Jr. in July 2019. Prosecutors said

BLOOMFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A southeast Missouri man has been sentenced to life in prison plus 15 years for the stabbing death of a man in Dexter. Joshua Koonce, of Dexter, was sentenced Thursday for second-degree murder and armed criminal action in the June 2018 death of Jimmy Casey. Prosecutors said a home health care

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A police group that advocates for minority officers is suing St. Louis over its police promotion procedures. The Ethical Society of Police alleges in a lawsuit filed Wednesday that the city has maintained the same rank promotion list for more than four years. The lawsuit contends using the old promotion lists