Associated Press Missouri headlines

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A Kansas City, Missouri, police officer shot and wounded a man Saturday afternoon after pursuing him from a home where police had gone in response to a call about a violent incident that involved a gun, the Missouri State Highway Patrol said.

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- Colleges across the country are struggling to salvage the fall semester amid skyrocketing coronavirus cases, entire dorm complexes and frat houses under quarantine, and flaring tensions with local community leaders over the spread of the disease.

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) -- The University of Missouri has disciplined an additional 20 current or former students with suspensions, probation or other sanctions for what it called "egregious violations" of policies meant to slow the spread of COVID-19 on campus.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A year after a divisive debate that ended with Kansas City residents voting to remove the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s name from a prominent boulevard, the city is trying again to find a way to honor the civil rights icon.

MISSION, Kan. (AP) -- It began with devastation in the New York City area, followed by a summertime crisis in the Sun Belt. Now the coronavirus outbreak is heating up fast in smaller cities in the heartland, often in conservative corners of America where anti-mask sentiment runs high.

CONCORD, N.H (AP) -- A federal jury began deliberating Friday in the case of a self-proclaimed white nationalist accused of threatening to rape the wife of a man who was part of a racist group he felt was harassing him.

A Kansas City, Missouri, man who told an off-duty police officer that something had happened and someone was dead has been charged in the killing of his girlfriend, prosecutors said Friday.

O'FALLON, Mo. (AP) -- A federal appeals court panel is weighing the fate of a sweeping Missouri abortion law, including a provision that prohibits a woman from having an abortion because the fetus has Down syndrome.

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. (AP) -- President Donald Trump’s remarks at a campaign event in Ohio this week reverberated all the way to a sparkling waterfront in Florida, where senior citizens parsed his assessment of the coronavirus pandemic.

MOUNT VERNON, Mo. (AP) -- Nine people have been indicted by a grand jury in connection with the kidnapping and shooting death of a southwestern Missouri woman in August.

CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) -- Authorities in St. Louis County say a man found dead in a burning apartment unit in August was the victim of a homicide.

CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) -- A man is now facing charges of first-degree murder in the shooting death of an acquaintance in north St. Louis County.

EVERTON, Mo. (AP) -- The former city clerk of a small southwestern Missouri town has been sentenced to 10 years in prison for her role in a money-laundering conspiracy related to a methamphetamine ring.

ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) -- Lawsuits filed by two attorneys with the St. Charles County Counselor's office accuse the county's former police chief of sexual harassment, and they say county leaders failed to take action to stop it.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Gov. Mike Parson activated the Missouri National Guard on Thursday to help local law enforcement if needed during civil unrest and demonstrations.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Federal agents are investigating the shooting death of an Overland Park teenager by a police officer for possible civil rights violations, an FBI spokeswoman said Thursday.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Rosemary Lowe, a longtime civil rights leader in Kansas City, has died. She was 94.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) -- Hospitals in Missouri’s third-largest city are approaching capacity due to a surge in coronavirus cases.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Police in central Missouri have announced the arrests of two men suspected in the 2017 shooting death of a Jefferson City man.

IOWA CITY, Iowa (AP) -- Iowa regulators have issued their first citation to a meatpacking plant with a large coronavirus outbreak that sickened its workforce -- a $957 fine for a minor record-keeping violation.