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From flickering fireflies to lowly dung beetles, insects are vanishing

As a boy in the 1960s, David Wagner would run around his family’s Missouri farm with a glass jar clutched in his hand, scooping flickering fireflies out of the sky.

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Updated Chiefs 53-man roster by jersey number for Week 13

Be sure you know all of the players on the #Chiefs' roster ahead of their Week 13 game with the #Bengals.

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Girl, 19, banned from watching her dad be executed says ‘justice system failed me’

Khorry Ramey, from Missouri, saw her father Kevin Johnson, 37, for the last time on Tuesday before he was executed by lethal injection for killing a Missouri police officer in 2005

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Man cashed his dead mum's social security cheques for 26 yrs in US

A Missouri man pleaded guilty this week to stealing his dead mother’s Social Security payments for more than a quarter century, accumulating nearly US$200,000 in the process, federal prosecutors said.

Bangkok Post

Medicaid in South Dakota sees resistance

South Dakota's Medicaid expansion faces a difficult rollout due to political pushback and outdated technology

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Missouri Secretary of State Ashcroft, expected to run for governor, opposes same-sex marriage measure

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Missouri Secretary of State Ashcroft, expected to run for governor, opposes same-sex marriage measure

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — One of the leading candidates for governor in the 2024 election is making same-sex marriage an early issue in his campaign.

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Missouri ignores daughter’s pleas and executes man over 2005 murder of police officer

On Tuesday evening, the conservative-heavy US Supreme Court denied Kevin Johnson’s request for a stay of execution, based on arguments that racial bias played a part in his sentence

The Independent UK

Kevin Johnson makes no final words and refuses last meal before execution

A convicted murderer refused to give a final statement and turned down the offer of a last meal in the hours before his execution on Tuesday as protests continued against his sentence

Daily Mirror

Kevin Johnson executed in Missouri for 2005 killing of police officer

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The state of Missouri carried out the execution of Kevin Johnson on Tuesday evening, The Associated Press reported.

Tribune News Service

Missouri to execute Kevin Johnson despite daughter’s pleas and findings of racist conviction

Local official argues prosecutor had biased intent seeking death penalty

The Independent UK

Missouri prepares to execute man for killing officer in 2005

A Missouri inmate convicted of ambushing and killing a St. Louis area police officer he blamed in the death of his younger brother is scheduled to be executed Tuesday, though his lawyers are seeking to have the lethal injection halted

The Independent UK

The teen desperate to attend her father’s execution — and the court that won’t allow it

Kevin Johnson shot a police officer in 2005 and was sentenced to death when his daughter was just two years old. Now, she is having to fight for the unthinkable. Josh Marcus reports

The Independent UK

Missouri Supreme Court weighs fate of death row inmate

Attorneys for a Black man on Missouri's death row say he might not be facing execution if he were white

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Court to Girl: You Have To Wait 2 Years To Comfort Your Father as He Dies. And We're Killing Him Next Week.

Missouri law bans those under 21 from witnessing executions. Despite attempts to challenge the law, 19-year-old Khorry Ramey will be barred from attending her father's execution on Tuesday.

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Updated Chiefs 53-man roster by jersey number for Week 12

Be sure you know all of the players on the #Chiefs' roster ahead of their Week 12 game with the #Rams.

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Arkansas vs Missouri Prediction Game Preview

Arkansas vs Missouri game preview, prediction, and breakdown for the Week 13 game on Friday, November 25

Tribune News Service

Fauci to be deposed in lawsuit claiming free speech violations

WASHINGTON — Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt will depose Dr. Anthony Fauci, President Joe Biden’s chief medical adviser, on Wednesday, as part of an ongoing lawsuit that accuses the Biden administration of coordinating with social media companies to stifle free speech.

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Afghan teen survived Taliban but not US

“To survive war then come to America to be buried?”

The Independent UK

19-year-old asks court to let her watch father's execution

A 19-year-old woman is asking a federal court to allow her to watch her father’s death by injection, despite a Missouri law barring anyone under 21 from witnessing an execution

Daily Mirror

Man robs bank with a demand note written on the back of his own birth certificate

Michael Conley Loyd, 30, from Missouri, stormed into a Bank of America branch in Springfield in July, 2021, stole $754 and quickly escaped in a stolen black pickup truck

USA Today Sports Media Group

Updated Chiefs 53-man roster by jersey number for Week 11

Be sure you know all of the players on the #Chiefs' roster ahead of their Week 11 game with the #Chargers.

The Independent UK

Despite dangerous pregnancy complications, abortions denied

Increasing numbers of physicians and families nationwide say a post-Roe fear has come to pass: Pregnant women with dangerous medical conditions are showing up in hospitals and doctors’ offices and being denied the abortions that could help treat them

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Helping the hellbenders: St. Louis experts work to breed struggling species

ST. LOUIS — For spending their 160 million years of existence mostly hiding in rivers and streams under rocks, Eastern and Ozark hellbenders had done pretty well for themselves.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Missouri abortion rights supporters, opponents weigh ballot questions for 2024

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Lifted by election results in five states, Missouri abortion rights supporters are weighing whether to pursue a ballot measure for 2024 to overturn the state’s near-total ban on abortion.

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