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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

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