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September is National Chicken Month, who has the best fried chicken?

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Director Nate Parker, left, and actor Shane Paul McGhie pose for photographers at the photo call for the film 'American Skin' at the 76th edition of the Venice Film Festival in Venice, Italy, Sunday, Sept. 1, 2019. (Photo by Joel C Ryan/Invision/AP)
September 01, 2019 - 11:04 am

Filmmaker Nate Parker apologizes for being 'tone deaf'

VENICE, Italy (AP) — Three years ago, filmmaker Nate Parker came under scrutiny for a rape allegation from his college days that essentially derailed the release of his Nat Turner film "The Birth of a Nation." Now, with a new film about police brutality debuting at the Venice Film International...
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August 30, 2019 - 6:06 pm

Kansas City Royals being sold in deal expected to fetch $1B

David Glass and his family on Friday announced the sale of the Kansas City Royals to an ownership group led by local entrepreneur John Sherman in a deal expected to be worth about $1 billion. The Royals announced the sale just days after word began to leak that the Sherman group was closing in on...
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August 29, 2019 - 6:18 pm

Missouri-Kansas City U settles lawsuits with professor

A University of Missouri-Kansas City associate professor whose complaints led to the eventual ouster of a top pharmacy professor has agreed to the settlement of two lawsuits. Mirdul Murkherji, of Lenexa, Kansas, will receive a $360,000 settlement. Murkherji claimed the university retaliated against...
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August 28, 2019 - 6:15 pm

Federal death row inmate from Kansas wants execution delayed

A federal death row inmate from Kansas who raped, killed and dismembered a girl, and beat a woman to death wants the chance to present claims that his trial lawyer was ineffective. Attorneys for Wesley Ira Purkey want his execution stayed. It currently is scheduled for Dec. 13. The defense argues...
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August 27, 2019 - 9:46 pm

Federal judge blocks Missouri's 8-week abortion ban

A new Missouri ban on abortions at or after eight weeks of pregnancy won't take effect Wednesday after a federal judge temporarily blocked it from being implemented. U.S. District Judge Howard Sachs put a pause on the law as a legal challenge against it plays out in court, which could take months...
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August 27, 2019 - 7:24 pm

Midwest states seek to fix Missouri River flood bottlenecks

Several Midwestern states are joining together to try to identify bottlenecks along the Missouri River that can cause waters to back up and worsen flooding in certain areas. Dru Buntin, the deputy director of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, says the state is joining with Iowa, Kansas...
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August 13, 2019 - 2:41 pm

Kansas City officials pledge to help keep 'border war' truce

Local officials are helping Kansas and Missouri preserve a truce in an economic "border war" that had seen the states use incentives to lure jobs across their border in the Kansas City area. The cooperation came ahead of a summit Tuesday in Kansas City, Kansas, between Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly and...
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FILE - In this Aug. 18, 2014, file photo, pathologist Dr. Michael Baden speaks during a news conference to share preliminary results of a second autopsy done on Michael Brown in St. Louis County, Mo. Baden, who also testified for O.J. Simpson's defense in the "trial of the century" and helped investigate the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. is now enmeshed in another high-stakes case. Baden is the private pathologist who observed Jeffrey Epstein's autopsy on his lawyers' behalf. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)
August 12, 2019 - 6:22 pm

Epstein death puts renowned pathologist back in spotlight

NEW YORK (AP) — He testified for O.J. Simpson's defense, helped investigate the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr., hosted an HBO show and brought his pathology expertise to bear on celebrity deaths and police killings. Now Dr. Michael Baden is enmeshed in...
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August 12, 2019 - 5:31 pm

Nebraska bidder wins auction for iconic Kansas City house

A bidder from Nebraska has paid $920,000 for a house designed and built by iconic architect Frank Lloyd Wright in Kansas City, Missouri. The Kansas City Star reports that Heritage Auctions says new owner wanted to remain anonymous for now, but the bidder plans to honor the integrity of the Sondern-...
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Michael Brown Sr. speaks to the media on Friday, Aug. 9, 2019, the fifth anniversary of the death of his son, Michael Brown, in front of the justice center in Clayton, Mo. Brown asked St. Louis County Prosecutor Wesley Bell to re-examine the evidence in his son's death in hopes of reopening the case. (Hillary Levin/St. Louis Post-Dispatch via AP)
August 09, 2019 - 12:30 pm

Michael Brown's father seeks new investigation into killing

CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — On the fifth anniversary of Michael Brown's death in Ferguson, his father is urging the top St. Louis County prosecutor to reopen the investigation into the white police officer who fatally shot the black and unarmed 18-year-old. Michael Brown Sr. spoke Friday outside the St...
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