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University of Missouri grad students threaten walkout if demands are not met
A group of University of Missouri-Columbia graduate students has threatened to walk out of class next week if the university doesn’t meet its demands for improved benefits for student workers. The demands come in response to the university’s announcement that graduate assistants would no longer receive subsidies to pay for health insurance.
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Foo Fighters 'rickroll' Westboro Baptist Church
KANSAS CITY -- What the Foo Fighters did before a concert has gone viral on the internet. The group turned the tables on Westboro Baptist Church members protesting outside the Sprint Center in Kansas City.
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Favored son’s decade-long sexual abuse of girl divides small Missouri town
Residents of Dearborn in Platte County have taken sides after a respected father is accused of decade-long abuse of girl. The split continued even after Darren Paden admitted molesting the girl. On Friday, a Platte County judge sentenced Darren Paden to 50 years in prison for repeatedly sexually abusing the girl. By Glenn E. Rice and Eric Adler.
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University of Missouri protests: 'Just a beginning'
On Tuesday, students went to classes as they usually do. Football players intended to take the field in preparation for their game against Brigham Young University on Saturday. But something was very different at the University of Missouri campus. Students on Tuesday woke up to what protesters call a small but important victory: a weeks-long protest movement that ousted both the university president and the school's chancellor.
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How One Missouri Town Generates Revenue By Treating Its Residents Like Criminals
One March day in 2013, Valarie Whitner received a rude welcome when she came home to Pagedale, Missouri: A police officer spotted Valarie, arrested her and threw her in the back of a squad car, before driving her to city hall. Only after Pagedale’s chief of police became involved was Valarie free to go. Incredibly, an unspecified “building code violation” caused Valarie to get handcuffed. For over seven years, Valarie and her partner, Vincent Blount, have been...
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Who Gets a Public Defender?
In St. Louis, Missouri, an effort to manage enormous caseloads left hundreds of the city's poorest without a lawyer. By Steven Hsieh.
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Feds Won't Accept Missouri Driver's Licenses
A letter from the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to Missouri, obtained on Wednesday by The Associated Press, informs the state that its exemption from federal Real ID requirements will come to an end Jan. 10.
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Midwest Braces for More Flooding as Rain-Swollen Rivers Rise
Missouri, Illinois, Arkansas and eastern Oklahoma braced for more flooding on Thursday as rain-swollen rivers, some at record heights, overflowed their banks, washing out hundreds of structures, closing major highways and leaving thousands of people displaced from their homes.
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Flooding in Missouri Raises Vexing Questions
Can greater defenses be erected? Should homes be vaulted on stilts? Or is it time for some communities to pack up and leave? By John Eligon.
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Missouri Paid Executioners $250,000 In Cash, Possibly Violating Tax Law
The state pays its small team of executioners in cash to limit the paper trail. The state isn’t sending proper paperwork to the IRS — experts told BuzzFeed News that it could be contributing to tax evasion.
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High Winds Spark Fire Tornadoes in Missouri
High winds caused fires to spread across thousands of acres in Missouri on Thursday, turning into flaming whirls of fire tornadoes.
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Death and Politics: Did a Vicious Campaign Drive a Candidate to Suicide?
A Republican kingmaker, Ted Cruz's campaign manager and questions of faith hounded an "anti-corruption" crusader until his tragic end. By Andy Kroll.
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Lawsuits and sex slaves — so much for post-primary unity in Missouri
The two governor candidates bickered throughout the campaign. By Kevin McDermott.
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Disunion: The First Emancipation Proclamation
On Aug. 30, 1861, Maj. Gen. John C. Frémont, commander of the Union Western Department in St. Louis, issued a proclamation of martial law.
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Disunion: Exploding Kansas
By late summer 1861, most Americans, North and South, were just coming to grips with the prospect of a long and bloody civil war. Not so the people of western Missouri and eastern Kansas — they had already been fighting over slavery for over five years.
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Disunion: Freedom Through Bondage
[T]hough not citizenship papers, free negro bonds nevertheless provided security. If they functioned correctly, they could save a free African American from kidnapping or imprisonment.
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New Missouri gun law changes the rules, but some restrictions remain
The new law will allow gun owners beginning Jan. 1 to carry a concealed weapon without a state-issued permit, but not as far — or as many places — as
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Whirl
For almost sixty years, the weekly St. Louis Evening Whirl brazenly attacked criminals, exposed the sexual peccadilloes of the black bourgeoisie, and racked up millions in libel claims— most of the time in iambic, rhyming couplets. By Scott Eden.
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When Librarians Are Silenced
A librarian in Kansas City, Missouri, was recently arrested simply for standing up for a library patron’s free speech rights at a public event featuring a former US diplomat. Both the librarian and the patron face criminal charges. One hopes that the case—only the most recent of many attacks on our libraries' defense of free speech and privacy—will be resolved without further cost, trouble and damage. By Francine Prose.
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Missouri police officer 'fighting for his life' after ambush shooting
A suburban St. Louis police officer was in critical condition late Friday after he was shot in the neck in what investigators described as an "ambush" following a traffic stop. Ballwin Police Chief Kevin Scott said the unidentified officer was walking to his car after the initial conversation with the motorist he stopped for speeding Friday morning when that driver "advanced quickly" on him from behind, firing at least three shots. The officer "had no chance at all" to pull his handgun and "was completely helpless," Scott said, noting the encounter was recorded by the police car's dashcam.
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