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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri panel found that fentanyl deaths among Missouri babies, toddlers and teens spiked as child welfare officials struggled to adequately investigate the cases. Forty-three youth died — 20 of them under the age of 4 — in 2022 alone from the infamously powerful drug. That reflected an overall doubling

By The Associated Press Ally Schlegel scored the go-ahead goal in the second half to give the Chicago Red Stars a 2-1 victory over Bay FC on Sunday night in the National Women’s Soccer League. Penelope Hocking also scored for the Red Stars (4-3-1), who snapped a two-game losing streak at PayPal Park in San

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Kyle Larson beat Chris Buescher to the line at Kansas Speedway on Sunday in the closest finish in NASCAR history. The official winning margin for the Cup Series race Sunday was a thousandth of a second. A caution flag forced a green-white-checkered finish, and

By CODY FRIESEN Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Jonah Heim hit a tying solo home run in the ninth inning and Nathaniel Lowe had a go-ahead RBI single in the 10th, leading the Texas Rangers to a 3-2 victory over the Kansas City Royals. With one out in the 10th, Corey Seager singled

BY STEVE OVERBEY Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Eloy Jimenez homered and Garrett Crochet tossed six effective innings to help the Chicago White Sox to a 5-1 win over the St. Louis Cardinals on Sunday. Chicago had lost 14 of its first 16 road games this season, Paul DeJong added a run-scoring double for

HOUSTON (AP) — Roman Bürki had a season-high 10 saves to help St. Louis City to a 0-0 tie with the Houston Dynamo. St. Louis (2-1-7) has just one win since it beat New York City FC 2-0 on March 2. Steve Clark had three saves for the Dynamo. The 38-year-old has three shutouts this

By CODY FRIESEN Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Nathaniel Lowe had four hits and two RBIs, and the Texas Rangers beat the Kansas City Royals 15-4. Lowe went 4 for 6 one night after going hitless in four at bats in Texas’ 7-1 loss on Friday. It was his first four-hit game since

By DAVID SOLOMON Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Tanner Banks came on after a three-hour rain delay to strike out pinch-hitter Iván Herrera in the bottom of the 10th inning, and the Chicago White Sox beat the St. Louis Cardinals 6-5 on Saturday night to snap a four-game losing streak. Tommy Pham drove in

By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Kyle Larson’s busy month of May is getting going at Kansas Speedway. He will be driving his No. 5 for Hendrick Motorsports in the NASCAR Cup Series race on Sunday. That comes after two nights driving his sprint car at nearby Lakeside Speedway. But

JOE HARRIS Associated Press ST. LOUIS (AP) — Nolan Arenado drove in three runs, Sonny Gray gave up three hits in seven innings and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Chicago White Sox 3-0 on Friday night. Gray (4-1) walked one and struck out five in his longest outing of the season as the Cardinals

By AVERY OSEN Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Salvador Perez hit a three-run homer, Brady Singer pitched six dominant innings and the Kansas City Royals beat the Texas Rangers 7-1. Perez hit his eighth home run of the season in Kansas City’s six-run seventh inning to break open what was a pitcher’s duel.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A former Boy Scout volunteer has been sentenced to 22 years in prison for hiding cameras in a bathroom at a Missouri camp. A federal judge on Thursday also ordered 41-year-old David Lee Nelson to pay more than $60,000, with some of the money going toward counseling for the victims. Some

By JOE REEDY AP Sports Writer The Birmingham Stallions are playing in a new spring football league, and they’re continuing their winning ways. The Stallions are unbeaten as the United Football League reached its midway point last week. The UFL came about after the mergers of the USFL and XFL last September. Birmingham, the two-time

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Comcast has blacked out 15 regional sports networks offered by Bally Sports, escalating a contract dispute with their distributor. The cutoff that began Wednesday affects games played by a dozen Major League Baseball teams based in nine states. Diamond Sports Group, which distributes the networks under the Bally name, called the

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A man charged with killing a St. Louis police officer in 2020 has been found guilty of murder. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that a jury convicted 46-year-old Thomas Kinworthy of murder and eight other charges in the fatal shooting of 29-year-old Officer Tamarris Bohannon. The officer had responded to a

By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s professional sports teams are one step closer to putting a proposal to legalize sports betting before voters this year. Cardinals mascot Fredbird, the Royals’ Sluggerrr and St. Louis Blues mascot Louie on Thursday hauled boxes of voter signatures in support of the initiative to

By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A dayslong filibuster in the Missouri Senate has ended. Senators gave initial approval in a voice vote Thursday to a $4 billion Medicaid program that Freedom Caucus members had been holding hostage. The members say they want the Legislature to first pass a proposed constitutional

KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — Ricky Stenhouse Jr. has signed a multiyear extension with JTG Daugherty Racing to drive the No. 47 in the NASCAR Cup Series. The team announced the deal on Thursday. Stenhouse won the Daytona 500 for the team last year, and he has a pair of top-10 finishes this season, including