The Latest Breaking News from Mo.

Missouri Senate overcomes dress code dilemma, approves $4.5 billion spending plan

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A fight over one senator's bib overalls was shunted aside Wednesday so the Missouri Legislature's fractured upper chamber could finally approve a midyear budget adjustment that boosts state worker pay and bans funds for Planned Parenthood.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch · Feb 24, 2022

Vahe Gregorian: On plight of Kansas City's Monarch Plaza and how the Negro Leagues Museum is spearheading its revival

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Standing at the corner of 22nd and Brooklyn today, you overlook a site where the Sultan of Swat, Babe Ruth, played (exhibitions in 1927 and 1931) and the Sultan of Sod, George Toma, made his name.

Tribune News Service · Feb 24, 2022

Omicron is on its way out of Kansas City with COVID hospitalization, death numbers dropping

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Hospitalization rates are continuing to decline around the Kansas City area as case rates and death numbers drop. It's unclear if or when the next COVID-19 variant will emerge, but omicron appears to be on its way out. Here's the latest data.

Tribune News Service · Feb 23, 2022

Chiefs’ Chris Lammons, wanted in battery case, turns himself in to Las Vegas police

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Chiefs cornerback Chris Lammons, who was wanted by Las Vegas police in connection with a battery case that left a man unconscious, has turned himself in to authorities.

Tribune News Service · Feb 18, 2022

Why Mizzou isn't having same success with transfers as other college basketball programs

COLUMBIA, Mo. — Take a look up and down the men's college basketball AP Top 25 or the latest NCAA Tournament projections and you'll find plenty of teams filled with transfers.

Tribune News Service · Feb 17, 2022

Kris Kobach, running for Kansas AG, still working for scandal-tainted border wall group

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Before Kris Kobach lost the Kansas Republican primary for U.S. Senate in August 2020, his pitch to voters included his work for We Build the Wall, the nonprofit funding the construction of strips of wall along the southern border.

Tribune News Service · Feb 17, 2022

Missouri police ask Republican legislators to amend act blocking federal gun laws

COLUMBIA, Mo. — Missouri law enforcement officials are asking the General Assembly to revise the state’s new Second Amendment act that prohibits them from helping enforce certain federal gun laws, telling lawmakers that it is hindering their ability to conduct criminal investigations.

Tribune News Service · Feb 17, 2022

Biden administration sues Missouri to overturn act that declares federal gun laws ‘invalid’

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The U.S. Department of Justice has sued Missouri in federal court, seeking to overturn the state’s Second Amendment law that prohibits local police from helping enforce certain federal gun restrictions.

Tribune News Service · Feb 17, 2022

Passenger who forced emergency landing wanted to ‘bring down the plane,’ FBI says

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — A California man allegedly tried to force his way into the cockpit of an American Airlines plane and open an emergency hatch during a cross-country flight on Sunday afternoon, prompting airline staff and passengers to restrain him until the plane made an unscheduled landing at Kansas…

Tribune News Service · Feb 15, 2022

Kansas residents sue over GOP-drawn map, alleging ‘extreme and intentional’ gerrymander

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Sixteen Kansas residents are suing to block the state’s new congressional map, alleging that its redrawn district boundaries are a racial and partisan gerrymander.

Tribune News Service · Feb 14, 2022