A bald eagle initially thought to be injured because it couldn’t fly was found to be healthy after wildlife officials determined the bird was just “too fat” after feasting on roadkill. The bald eagle was found along the boundary of Wilson’s Creek National Battlefield, said officials at the park, which is part of the U.S....
A team of experts was unable to determine why a Missouri nun who died in 2019 had not decomposed, the bishop of the Diocese of Kansas City-St. Joseph announced on Thursday. “Within the limits of what has been observed during this time, the body of Sister Wilhelmina Lancaster does not appear to have experienced the...
Most of the Kansas delegates at the Democratic National Convention were seen wearing Kansas City Chiefs gear on the convention floor this week. The decision defies the fact that blue is the primary color of the DNC, and the fact that the Chiefs are located in Kansas City, Missouri. However, Kansas Democratic chair Jeanna Repass...
On Oct. 19, 2021, Daniel “Danny” Santulli was blindfolded and shirtless when he was forced to drink a bottle of vodka taped to his hand at a fraternity pledge event. The incident left the University of Missouri freshman unable to see, walk or speak. The case of the then-19-year-old, who suffered brain damage from severe...
A Utah woman is accused of kidnapping her then-4-year-old daughter in January 2023 and evading law enforcement for 18 months, with help from her adult sons, before she was finally caught. At the time when Kimberly Dell Davidson-Drolet, 53, allegedly kidnapped her daughter, she and her now-estranged husband, Laurence Drolet, were in the process of...
Calls are being made for a St. Louis alternate delegate to the Democratic National Convention (DNC) to resign his position on a police oversight board after he was arrested in Ferguson, Missouri, on Friday during a protest in which a police officer was knocked to the pavement and is now fighting for his life. Keith...
Riley Strain, the University of Missouri student who disappeared from a night out in Nashville in March before his body was found along the Cumberland River, was served 12 to 15 drinks prior to his death, according to a police investigation. A medical examiner determined that Strain, 22, had a blood alcohol level of .228%...
A police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, is “fighting for his life” after being critically injured in an assault outside the city’s police station during protests on the 10thanniversaryof the fatal shooting of Michael Brown, the city’s police chief said Saturday. Protesters were peaceful for most of Friday night, and police allowed them to block streets...
Cori Bush’s concession speech rant was “kind of Trumpian” and made her the “sorest loser,” according to one Democratic strategist Wednesday. On CNN’s “The Lead with Jake Tapper,” former Obama campaign adviser Ameshia Cross reacted to footage of Bush attacking the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) after the Missouri representative’s loss to St. Louis...
Incumbent Andrew Bailey won the Republican primary for Missouri attorney general, setting the stage for the general election match-up against Democrat Elad Gross. Republican Trump attorney Will Scharf conceded to incumbent Republican Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey in the state’s Aug. 6 primary election. Bailey led the race by a whopping 63% to 37% early...
