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Draft report says Missouri’s House speaker stymied ethics investigation into his spending

By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri ethics panel is at an impasse over reported misconduct by the powerful state House speaker, who allegedly used his office to stymie the investigation. A draft Ethics Committee report would have recommended that the House formally denounce Republican Speaker Dean Plocher for hurting

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Imprisoned drug-diluting pharmacist to be moved to halfway house soon, victims’ lawyer says

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — An attorney says a former Kansas City-area pharmacist who has been incarcerated for more than two decades over a profit-boosting scheme to dilute tens of thousands of prescriptions for seriously ill patients will be moved to a halfway house this summer. Mike Ketchmark, an attorney

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NASA says it expected space station garbage to burn up. The debris smashed into a Florida home instead

By Jackie Wattles, CNN (CNN) — A piece of garbage jettisoned from the International Space Station unexpectedly survived a fiery reentry from orbit last month and pierced the roof of a home in Florida, according to NASA. When the federal agency disposed of a slab of spaceborne refuse weighing about 5,800 pounds (2,630 kilograms), it expected the

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Ukraine ‘ran out of missiles’ to thwart Russian strike on power plant, Zelensky says

By Sebastian Shukla, Olga Voitovych, Andy Carey and Christian Edwards, CNN (CNN) — A lack of air defenses meant Ukraine was powerless to prevent a Russian airstrike last week that destroyed the biggest power plant in Kyiv region, President Volodomyr Zelensky said. Russia fired 11 missiles towards the Trypilska power plant, Zelensky said. Ukrainian air

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A Boston police officer’s body was found two years ago in a snowy yard. Now his girlfriend goes on trial for murder

By Faith Karimi, CNN (CNN) — After many months of courtroom showdowns, conspiracy theories and accusations of a cover-up, the trial in the killing of Boston Police Officer John O’Keefe starts in earnest today. O’Keefe’s body was found in the snow on January 29, 2022, outside the home of a fellow Boston police officer in

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