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FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Leading black members of Congress are vowing to lead a legislative fight for criminal justice reform after recent fatal police shootings around the U.S. Eight members of the Congressional Black Caucus joined U

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CREVE COEUR, Mo. (AP) — Police in the St. Louis area say a man is dead after a shooting outside a movie theater. Creve Coeur (kreev koor) police spokesman Lieutenant Jon Romas says the shooting happened last night around 11:45 p

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ST. LOUIS (AP) — Drury Hotels is offering a $25,000 reward for information about the shooting death of a hotel night manager in St. Louis. CrimeStoppers had already offered $2,000 for information in the death yesterday of Scott Knopfel at a Drury Inn & Suites near Interstate 44. Kn

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Kansas City man has been charged after his 4-year-old son found a gun and shot his 3-year-old sister. Jackson County prosecutors charged 26-year-old Jessie Ross III with second-degree child endangerment and unlawful possession of a firearm

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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri lawmakers say standards for State Highway Patrol swimming training are necessary after a handcuffed man drowned while in custody. A House panel released a report yesterday, noting swim training decreased when the highway and water patrols merged in 2011

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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Republican Catherine Hanaway says her campaign for the 2016 Missouri governor's race raised an additional $71,354 in the fourth quarter of 2014. She ended the year with $1

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ST. LOUIS (AP) — Lawyers for a female minister who sued her St. Louis church for sexual harassment say the woman has settled part of the case. Brenda Jones sued Wayman African Methodist Episcopal Church and church officials last year, alleging another minister made sexually explicit remarks and inappropriately touched her on several occasions

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ST. LOUIS (AP) — Agriculture business giant Monsanto said Thursday it received approval from the Department of Agriculture for new cotton and soybean seeds designed to be used with a new herbicide formula

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WHITEMAN AIR FORCE BASE, Mo. — Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel on Tuesday vigorously endorsed an Air Force plan to build a next-generation strategic bomber, arguing that it would help deter nuclear war and preserve America's global pre-eminence

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COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A new judge will hear the case against a mid-Missouri county prosecutor charged with drunken driving in an accident that injured four people. Boone County Judge Gary Oxenhandler was assigned to the case against Moniteau County Prosecuting Attorney Shayne Healea

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