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WOODSON TERRACE, Mo. (AP) -- The FBI has opened an investigation into the arrest of a Black man in Missouri during which cellphone video shows three white officers allowing a police dog to repeatedly bite him.

LIBERTY, Mo. (AP) -- Supporters of a man who has been in prison for more than 30 years for killing his wife are upset that the Jackson County prosecutor hasn't been willing to use a new law to give him another chance to prove his innocence, but her office says there is no new evidence to consider in the case.

CHICAGO (AP) -- Harrison Bader and the St. Louis Cardinals clearly recognize their record is impressive. Now they also want to win their next game -- and many more after that.

STOCKTON, Mo. (AP) -- The attorney general in a letter to the governor wrote that a southwestern Missouri prosecutor is ignoring his advice and going easy on a Christian boarding school accused of abuse.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A Kansas City shooting Friday night killed one victim, The Kansas City Star reported.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -- Reported sexual assaults have sparked large protests on college campuses in at least seven states just weeks into the new school year, which advocates say reflects both a greater vulnerability among students who spent last school year learning remotelyand a greater ability among young people to make themselves heard on the issue.

WOODSON TERRACE, Mo. (AP) -- St. Louis-area racial injustice activists on Friday called for the firing and prosecution of three white police officers after cellphone video showed them allowing a police dog to repeatedly bite a Black man during an arrest.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Missouri lawmakers who want to halt all public funds to Planned Parenthood are recommending that the Legislature give Republican Gov. Mike Parson's administration authority to cancel abortion providers' Medicaid contracts based on behavior in other states deemed illegal or unethical.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- The driver of an all-terrain vehicle is dead after it reportedly popped a wheelie and crashed into the side of a Jeep.

CHESTERFIELD, Mo. (AP) -- Several hundred students at a suburban St. Louis high school staged a walkout after racist graffiti was found in two separate Parkway Schools high schools.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A man has been charged in the fatal shooting of another man on a Kansas City street -- a shooting investigators say stemmed from a dispute over a $10 debt.

BLUE SPRINGS, Mo. (AP) -- A Jackson County judge has ordered a suburban Kansas City restaurant to shut down in the wake of its owner's continued defiance of a mask mandate intended to fight the spread of COVID-19.

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) -- Vegetation found on the boots of a Columbia man place him at the site where his Chinese wife's body was found in March, Boone County Prosecutor Dan Knight said during a court hearing Thursday.

JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) -- A Joplin man was convicted Thursday of killing a woman and seriously injuring his estranged wife in a shooting six years ago.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A Missouri appeals court on Thursday denied the state attorney general's request to recuse all Jackson County judges from presiding over an upcoming evidentiary hearing for a man who the county prosecutor says was wrongfully convicted in a triple murder more than 40 years ago.

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- The Missouri Supreme Court has refused to block an order that required Los Angeles Rams owner Stan Kroenke and other NFL officials to release their financial records if they lose a lawsuit filed after the Rams moved out of St. Louis.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Charles Blow recalls being in the audience at the premiere of the opera based on his memoir, "Fire Shut Up in My Bones," and watching the scene that depicts his sexual abuse as a child by an older cousin.

KEARNEY, Mo. (AP) -- A suburban Kansas City math teacher and assistant coach has been charged with sexual misconduct months after he was placed on paid administrative leave when the allegations were first reported.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Police have identified a man killed in an overnight shooting this week on a Kansas City street.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- The Missouri Attorney General's Office on Wednesday asked a state appeals court to intervene in the case of a Kansas City man who Jackson County prosecutors have said was wrongfully convicted of a triple murder more than 40 years ago.

WASHINGTON -- Pfizer's CEO says "it's a question of days, not weeks" before the company and German partner BioNTech submit data to U.S. regulators for federal authorization of a COVID-19 vaccine for children age 5 to 11.

PIERRE, S.D. (AP) -- The South Dakota Legislature will consider whether to try to impeach Attorney General Jason Ravnsborg for a car crash last year that killed a pedestrian, a House leader said.

BERLIN (AP) -- Exit polls show the center-left Social Democrats in a very close race with outgoing Chancellor Angela Merkel's bloc in Germany's parliamentary election, which will determine who succeeds the long-time leader after 16 years in power.

LA PALMA, Canary Islands (AP) -- A massive cloud of ash prevented flights in and out of the Spanish island of La Palma on Sunday as molten rock continued to be flung high into the air from an erupting volcano.

BERLIN (AP) -- German vote: With Merkel leaving, exit poll shows chancellor's Union bloc, center-left Social Democrats neck-and-neck.

The Latest on Germany's general election on Sunday:

WOODSON TERRACE, Mo. (AP) -- The FBI has opened an investigation into the arrest of a Black man in Missouri during which cellphone video shows three white officers allowing a police dog to repeatedly bite him.

"Dear Evan Hansen" may have been a hit on Broadway, but the filmed adaptation of the Tony-winning show is off to a slow start at the box office in its first weekend in theaters. The Universal musical that's playing exclusively in theaters grossed an estimated $7.5 million from 3,364 locations, according to studio estimates on Sunday.

HOLBROOK, N.Y. (AP) -- Crowds are expected on Long Island on Sunday as the family of Gabby Petito holds a funeral home viewing for their daughter, whose death on a cross-country trip has sparked a manhunt for her boyfriend.

KIGALI, Rwanda (AP) -- Theoneste Bagosora, a former Rwandan army colonel regarded as the architect of the 1994 genocide in which more than 800,000 ethnic Tutsi and Hutus who tried to protect them were killed, died in a hospital in Mali on Saturday.

REYKJAVIK, Iceland (AP) -- Iceland has elected a female-majority parliament, a landmark for gender equality in the North Atlantic island nation, in a vote that saw centrist parties make the biggest gains.

CIUDAD ACUÑA, México (AP) -- Some of the thousands of Haitian migrants who briefly formed a camp in the Texas border town of Del Rio have found a helping hand across the river in Mexico's Ciudad Acuña.

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- When Deborah Gonzalez took office in January as the district attorney for the Western Judicial District of Georgia, she noticed that too few defendants, especially Black defendants, qualified for a program that promised treatment for addiction or mental health and not jail.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) --

MILAN (AP) -- Five days of womenswear presentations dissolved into more online presentations as Milan Fashion Week began to tail off Sunday, and the fashion crowd prepared to decamp for Paris.

HELSINKI (AP) -- Police in Norway on Sunday reported dozens of disturbances and violent clashes including mass brawls in the Nordic country's big cities after streets, bars, restaurants and nightclubs were filled with people celebrating the end of COVID-19 restrictions that lasted for more than a year.

JOPLIN, Mont. (AP) -- At least three people were killed Saturday afternoon when an Amtrak train that runs between Seattle and Chicago derailed in north-central Montana, toppling several cars onto their sides, authorities said.

GENEVA (AP) -- Switzerland voted by a wide margin to allow same-sex couples to marry in a referendum on Sunday, bringing the Alpine nation into line with many others in western Europe.

LONDON (AP) -- British police said Sunday they have arrested a man on suspicion of murdering Sabina Nessa, a primary school teacher killed as she walked in a London park.

LAGOS, Nigeria (AP) -- Emmanuel Benson was planning to get his diploma in horticulture and landscaping from Nigeria's Federal College of Forestry Mechanization next year. Now, he's not willing to risk the return to school, after he was kidnapped by bandits with dozens of others earlier this year.