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Pursuit in Riverview leads to injuries for Kansas Trooper, Pennsylvania woman
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (KCTV) - An afternoon chase left a Kansas State Trooper and Pennsylvania woman with injuries after a collision in Kansas City’s Riverview neighborhood. The Kansas Highway Patrol indicates that just after 12:40 p.m. on Wednesday, July 24, Trooper Isaiah J. A. Cortes, 23, of Olathe, attempted to stop a vehicle with an unknown driver for a traffic violation. However, the driver refused to pull over and attempted to speed away.
North Korean charged in ransomware attacks on American hospitals, including 1 in Kansas
A man who officials say worked for one of North Korea’s military intelligence agencies has been indicted for his alleged involvement in a conspiracy to hack American health care providers, federal prosecutors announced Thursday.
Missouri school district hopes new education leadership focuses on funding for rural teacher pay
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (KCTV) - As students prepare to return to classrooms in a month, small Missouri districts are struggling to keep up with new requirements. Small, rural districts like Tipton R-6, just west of Jefferson City, only have a couple hundred students. The Tipton Superintendent fears that they will not be able to pay their teachers the new required base salary of $40,000 for teachers unless the state renews the Teacher Baseline Salary Grant every year.
Mike Kehoe says he’s the only Missouri GOP gubernatorial candidate interested in governing
CUBA, Mo. — Mike Kehoe wanted to make one thing perfectly clear to the several dozen supporters of his campaign for governor who gathered earlier this month at Cowtown USA. “I don’t scream and holler about politics,” said Kehoe, Missouri’s lieutenant governor. “I’m running against people who are of the ‘burn it down’ variety. I’m just not a burn it down guy.”
Missouri’s Population Suddenly Forecast to Explode by 2040
If a new forecast is accurate, you can expect to see a lot more moving trucks crossing over into Missouri over the next 20 years or so as a population explosion is now being predicted. There are several takeaways from this new ranking by 24/7 Wall St over the states...
What Missouri’s vulnerable children need — and what they don’t
Two recent news stories aptly illustrate what Missouri children “at risk” of maltreatment need — and what they don’t. What they need is concrete help for their families, so their family poverty is not confused with “neglect” and they are not torn from everyone they know and love and consigned to the chaos of foster […]
Pam Hedgpeth, former Republic and SBU leader, receives statewide honor
An educator with deep ties in the Ozarks and more than four decades of experience will be among those honored this month as one of Missouri's Pioneers in Education. Pam Hedgpeth, Clever, has been superintendent in Republic, a professor at Southwest Baptist University, and the executive director of the Greater Ozarks Cooperating School...
Magic Dude Todd Lamanske wows Best of the Northland winners at reception
Magic Dude Todd Lamanske wows Best of the Northland winners at the reception July 24, in Liberty, showing no matter how the folks from Ameristar Roofing make him cut the deck of cards, their chosen card always appears.
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