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ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A St. Louis woman is jailed after she shot a worker at McDonald's after a dispute over a discount for french fries, St. Louis County authorities said Friday.

BUFFALO (11-6) at KANSAS CITY (12-5)

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) -- Fourth-generation corn and soybean farmer Jeff Frank doesn't feel rich, but simply based on the skyrocketing value of his land in northwest Iowa, it's an apt way to describe him, even if he laughs at the idea.

RAYTOWN, Mo. (AP) -- Two people have been killed in an apparent murder-suicide in suburban Kansas City, police there said.

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. (AP) -- Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Willie Gay was charged with misdemeanor criminal damage to property after he broke a vacuum and other items during an argument, putting his status for Sunday's divisional round playoff game against the Buffalo Bills in question.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- So far in January, 62 Missouri school districts have closed for one or more days, largely because of a lack of staff caused by a surge in COVID-19 cases, education officials said Thursday.

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A southeast Missouri woman has been sentenced to three years in prison and ordered to pay $7.5 million in restitution in a Medicaid and Medicare fraud case.

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A domestic assault suspect was freed from jail after testing positive for COVID-19, despite being deemed dangerous enough that prosecutors wanted him held without a chance of bail, the attorney for the St. Louis Police Officers Association said.

FENTON, Mo. (AP) -- A man accused of shooting to death another man and his dog in suburban St. Louis has been arrested, police said.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Democratic U.S. Rep. Emanuel Cleaver II of Missouri has tested positive for COVID-19, the congressman revealed in a statement.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Missouri's Republican Gov. Mike Parson in his State of the State address Wednesday proposed spending hundreds of millions of dollars to boost child care services and teacher wages as the state battles the latest COVID-19 surge.

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- The U.S. Army Corps said it will spend $732 million to expand a lock and dam system to help barges more efficiently transport millions of tons of corn, soybeans and other goods along the Mississippi River.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- The Missouri House gave lukewarm approval Wednesday to a plan for redrawing the state's eight congressional districts that left both Democrats and some conservative Republicans unhappy and could upend the state's calendar for holding its primary election.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A Kansas City man who participated in last year's riot at the U.S. Capitol was sentenced Wednesday to home detention and probation.

PHOENIX (AP) -- The Arizona Supreme Court on Wednesday upheld the convictions and sentences of a death row inmate who himself was killed in his prison cell last month.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A member of a U.S. Marshal's task force shot and injured a man in east Kansas City on Wednesday, authorities said.

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A notary from St. Louis has admitted ordering 989 fake COVID-19 vaccination record cards from China.

A doctor charged with 11 counts of child sexual abuse involving students at a Missouri boarding school has been given bond in one county but is still awaiting word on whether he will be released from jail.

HASTINGS, Neb. (AP) -- Following a day of unseasonably warm conditions, an arctic cold front has sent temperatures plummeting in Plains and Midwest states -- including the south-central Nebraska city of Hastings, which saw a more than 50-degree temperature drop from Tuesday to Wednesday.

BOSTON (AP) -- A federal appeals court is considering whether to vacate the murder convictions of a man who died in prison while appealing his death sentence for brutally killing three men in New England more than 20 years ago.

SOUTH KINGSTOWN, R.I. (AP) -- The University of Rhode Island is revoking honorary degrees bestowed upon two once-prominent advisers to former President Donald Trump: retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn and former New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani.

LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Louie Anderson, whose four-decade career as a comedian and actor included his unlikely, Emmy-winning performance as mom to twin adult sons in the TV series "Baskets," died Friday. He was 68.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Rep. Henry Cuellar is an increasingly rare politician in the Democratic Party, a conservative-leaning lawmaker whose unapologetic defense of gun rights and the energy industry during his 17 years in Congress long delighted his Texas constituents.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Arriving by the busloads, thousands of anti-abortion protesters rallied in the nation's capital Friday with a growing sense of optimism that their goal was finally in reach: a sweeping rollback of abortion rights.

BAMAKO, Mali (AP) -- Mali's military government paid a final tribute Friday to former President Ibrahim Boubacar Keita, who died less than 18 months after being overthrown in a coup and as the junta that ousted him faces growing international isolation over election delays.

Three weeks alone in a hotel room is hardly an ideal setting for a snowboarder preparing for the Olympics.

CHICAGO (AP) -- A Black woman who settled with the city of Chicago for nearly $3 million after she was handcuffed while naked by police officers during a botched raid of her home says "there's no amount of money that will right this wrong" and that changes are needed to the Chicago Police Department.

NEW YORK (AP) -- New York City's fire commissioner said Friday that he will retire next month after more than seven years in the job and a career that spanned more than five decades and included stints in every rank in the department.

SANAA, Yemen (AP) -- A Saudi-led airstrike targeting a prison run by Yemen's Houthi rebels killed at least 70 detainees and wounded dozens Friday, a rebel minister said. The strike was part of a pounding aerial offensive that hours earlier took the Arab world's poorest country off the internet.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) -- A once-prominent South Carolina lawyer now faces 71 charges that he stole nearly $8.5 million in wrongful death and wreck settlements from more than a dozen people after another round of indictments against Alex Murdaugh were handed up Friday.

PARIS (AP) -- Dior took over Paris' iconic Place de la Concorde for a menswear show Friday whose theme was none other than the city of Paris itself.

COLLEYVILLE, Texas (AP) -- The gunman who held four people captive at a Texas synagogue in a 10-hour standoff that ended with the hostages escaping and an FBI tactical team rushing in was killed by multiple gunshot wounds, according to a medical examiner, who ruled the death a homicide.

NEW YORK (AP) -- A Florida businessman who helped Rudy Giuliani seek damaging information against Joe Biden in Ukraine faced sentencing Friday in an unrelated campaign finance case.

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) -- The U.S. Justice Department said Friday that a Texas man has been arrested on charges of posting threatening messages on Craigslist about killing government officials in Georgia following the 2020 election.

NEWARK, N.J. (AP) -- The operator of a failed multi-state nursing home chain failed to pay $29.5 million in payroll and unemployment taxes for his employees at 95 facilities he operated in 11 states, federal prosecutors said.

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- California's unemployment rate dipped a half-percentage point in December as the most populous state added 50,700 nonfarm jobs, accounting for more than a quarter of the nation's 199,000 job growth for the month, according to new data released Friday.

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) -- In a decision that made a withering comparison to Communist China, a federal judge on Friday temporarily prohibited the University of Florida from enforcing a policy that restricted faculty members from providing expert testimony in cases that conflict with positions taken by the state of Florida.

ANKENY, Iowa (AP) -- An Iowa man accused of making and placing several homemade bombs in suburban Des Moines -- including one that was found by an 8-year-old girl -- pleaded guilty to federal weapons charges.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Three studies released Friday offered more evidence that COVID-19 vaccines are standing up to the omicron variant, at least among people who received booster shots.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- A U.S. judge in Texas issued a nationwide injunction on Friday barring the federal government from enforcing President Joe Biden's requirement that federal workers without qualifying medical or religious exemptions be vaccinated for COVID-19.