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ST. LOUIS (AP) — Police say one person was killed and another injured in a shooting early Wednesday outside a St. Louis bar. Television station KMÖV reports that the shooting happened around 1 a.m. outside Royal Palace just blocks west of Fairground Park in the north part of the city. Officers called to the scene

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Police in Kansas City are investigating the shooting death of a woman at an apartment complex on the south end of the city. Police say the shooting happened around 10 p.m. Tuesday in the Loma Vista neighborhood. Officers called to the scene said they heard screaming and calls for help

By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer The San Francisco 49ers are hoping their recent regular-season dominance over the Los Angeles Rams extends to the playoffs. The Niners have swept the season series against the Rams the past three seasons and take a six-game winning streak in the series into the NFC title game. It’s

By JOE WALLJASPER Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — No. 1 Auburn survived a scare from Missouri, winning 55-54 in the program’s first-ever game as the nation’s top-ranked team. K.D. Johnson scored 17 points, including five straight within the final 90 seconds. He converted a three-point play with 1:29 remaining to put Auburn ahead 53-51,

TERRE HAUTE, Ind. (AP) — Cameron Henry had 16 points and eight rebounds as Indiana State edged past Missouri State 76-72. Isiaih Mosley led the Bears with 25 points and 12 rebounds.

CHICAGO (AP) — Ryan Poles has been hired as Chicago’s general manager almost 15 years after the former offensive tackle signed with the team as an undrafted free agent and then failed to make the final roster. Poles spent the previous 13 seasons in the Chiefs’ front office, the past year as executive director of

By DAVID BAUDER AP Media Writer NEW YORK (AP) — The NFL’s epic playoff game between the Buffalo Bills and Kansas City Chiefs was the most-watched event on television since the last Super Bowl. Nielsen said it reached nearly 43 million television viewers on Sunday night. During the fourth quarter in Kansas City, the game’s

By DAVID A. LIEB Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A proposal to redraw Missouri’s eight U.S. House districts is speeding toward the Senate floor for debate. A Senate committee on Tuesday advanced a redistricting plan passed just last week by the state House. The plan redraws the boundaries of congressional districts to account

CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — St. Louis County has promoted its interim police chief to permanently lead the department. Seventy-year-old Kenneth Gregory was named chief on Tuesday. He becomes the first Black police chief in the department’s 66-year-history. Police board chair Brian Ashworth said police commissioners believe the department has stabilized and grown since Gregory became

By JIM SALTER Associated Press Forty-five mask-requiring school districts in Missouri are facing lawsuits filed by Attorney General Eric Schmitt. Some school leaders and elected officials are questioning if he really has the best interest of the state at heart. Schmitt on Friday sued seeking to halt 36 districts from requiring masks amid a record

By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Republicans and businesses are divided over how to handle vaccine mandates. A state House committee on Tuesday heard more than a dozen bills aimed at stopping coronavirus vaccination requirements imposed by businesses. But the proposals are splitting Republicans and the business community. The two groups

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Prosecutors will not file charges against Grandview police officers who shot and killed an apparently suicidal teenager who pointed a BB gun at them. Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker said in a letter earlier this month that officers who shot 17-year-old Lantz Stephenson Jr. on May 16 at a

ST. LOUS (AP) — The Missouri Court of Appeals has rejected St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner’s appeal of a ruling that her office violated the state’s open records law. The appeals court in St. Louis on Tuesday upheld a lower court’s ruling that Gardner’s office did not respond in a timely manner to a

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — State health officials are investigating four cases of Legionnaires’ disease among people who were hospitalized last year at Phelps Health in Rolla. The four patients were hospitalized between May and December of last year. The state health department announced Tuesday that investigators are trying to determine how the individuals acquired

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Police have identified a man shot to death in Kansas City, Kansas, near the Missouri border over the weekend. Police say 24-year-old Alec Byers, of Kansas City, Missouri, died in the shooting that happened after 11 p.m. Sunday near State Line Road. Officials say emergency dispatchers received calls about a

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man convicted of killing his wife and burying her body will face a second trial on charges that he abused the couple’s young daughter. During a hearing Monday, a Boone County judge rejected a defense request that the trial for Joseph Elledge be moved to another county because of

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Police in Kansas City are investigating the city’s latest shooting death after officers found a woman fatally wounded on a sidewalk. Police say the shooting happened around 12:30 a.m. Tuesday in the northeastern section of the city. Officers called to the scene found the woman unresponsive on a sidewalk with

MARSHFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man who pleaded guilty to stuffing his wife’s body in a freezer more than six years ago has been sentenced to 25 years in prison. Television station KYTV reports that 59-year-old Larry Dinwiddie of Marshfield was sentenced Monday after he pleaded guilty in November to second-degree murder in the

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Authorities say two police officers were among a group of six people hit by a vehicle that barreled into them along Interstate 64 in St. Louis. Officials said the crash happened around 7 p.m. Monday in the westbound lanes near the Newstead overpass. Police Chief John Hayden told reporters that the

CENTERTOWN, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri State Highway Patrol says two people have been killed in a crash along U.S. Highway 50 in central Missouri. The Jefferson City News Tribune reports that the crash occurred just after 12 a.m. Tuesday in Moniteau County just southwest of Centertown. Investigators say a vehicle carrying two people went