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KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) -- Kyle Larson has only heard stories about the late Ricky Hendrick, the son of his team owner who was killed 17 years ago in a plane crash on the way to a NASCAR race.

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Missouri's largest utility has set up a data center at the site of one of its coal-fired power plants that it is using to mine the Internet for bitcoins.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Attorney General Eric Schmitt's office now says his campaign paid for a trip to Texas last week to announce a lawsuit seeking to force the restart of construction of a southern border wall, and taxpayers paid only for his spokesman to make the trip.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A woman in a wheelchair was struck by a vehicle and killed as she tried to cross a highway in Kansas City, Missouri, Saturday night.

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A $10,000 reward is being offered for information that leads to an arrest in connection with a shooting during a St. Louis vigil last month that killed one man and injured three others.

PEVELY, Mo. (AP) -- A 54-year-old Missouri man was killed Friday evening after he was knocked off his scooter and struck by a tractor-trailer on Interstate 55 near Pevely, Missouri.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A 28-year-old man was stabbed to death Friday following an altercation with another man in the yard of a home in Kansas City, Missouri, police said.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A driver who crashed Friday evening into a tree in Kansas City, Missouri, was later found to have been shot, police said.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Earlier this year, an insistent cry arose from business leaders and Republican governors: Cut off a $300-a-week federal supplement for unemployed Americans. Many people, they argued, would then come off the sidelines and take the millions of jobs that employers were desperate to fill.

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Earlier this year, an insistent cry arose from business leaders and Republican governors: Cut off a $300-a-week federal supplement for unemployed Americans. Many people, they argued, would then come off the sidelines and take the millions of jobs that employers were desperate to fill.

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A former pastor accused of sexually assaulting two women inside a suburban St. Louis Catholic supply store, then killing a third when she refused his sexual demands pleaded guilty Friday to first-degree murder and other charges.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has appointed a top aide to Republican Attorney General Eric Schmitt to the state appeals court.

BATES CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A small town Missouri mayor has resigned ahead of a scheduled impeachment hearing called after the mayor was allegedly recorded uttering a racial slur.

KNASAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A former Clay County sheriff's deputy has pleaded not guilty to sexually assaulting a jail inmate after he was indicted on the charge earlier in the week.

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) -- The University of Missouri-Columbia has suspended all fraternity activities after an alcohol-filled party ended with a freshman being taken to a hospital.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) -- Strong economic growth continues in rural parts of 10 Plains and Western states, according to a new monthly survey of bankers in the region.

GOWER, Mo. (AP) -- Workers began digging holes this week to erect an 8-foot wall outside a northeast Missouri abbey after shots were fired into the abbey's walls at least four times in the last two years.

SEATTLE (AP) -- Isaiah Obet was behaving erratically and in mental distress in 2017 when Auburn police officer Jeff Nelson ordered his police dog to attack and then shot Obet in the torso. Obet fell to the ground and Nelson fired again, fatally shooting Obet in the head. Police said the officer's life was in danger because Obet was high on drugs and had a knife. The city later reached a settlement of $1.25 million with Obet's family.

SEATTLE (AP) -- Isaiah Obet was behaving erratically and in mental distress in 2017 when Auburn police officer Jeff Nelson ordered his police dog to attack and then shot Obet in the torso. Obet fell to the ground and Nelson fired again, fatally shooting Obet in the head. Police said the officer's life was in danger because Obet was high on drugs and had a knife. The city later reached a settlement of $1.25 million with Obet's family.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Jurors were unable to reach a verdict in a federal civil rights lawsuit brought by a Black man who was wrongly arrested when he was 15 and held for three weeks without charge.

SANTA FE, N.M. (AP) -- A camera operator told authorities that Alec Baldwin had been careful with weapons on the set of the film "Rust" before the actor shot and killed a cinematographer with a gun he'd been told was safe to use, court records released Sunday show.

CAIRO (AP) -- Military forces detained a number of senior Sudanese government figures on Monday, the country's information ministry said, as the country's main pro-democracy group called on people to take to the streets to counter an apparent military coup.

BEIJING (AP) -- Two people were killed and at least nine others were injured in a laboratory explosion at a university in eastern China, state media said Monday.

CAIRO (AP) -- Sudan's information ministry says military arrests government figures, ministers, their whereabouts remain unknown.

SEOUL, South Korea (AP) -- South Korea's president said Monday he'll keep striving to promote peace with North Korea through dialogue until the end of his term next May, after Pyongyang raised animosities with a resumption of provocative weapons tests.

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- Australian telco Telstra has partnered with the Australian government in a $1.6 billion deal to buy the South Pacific operations of Digicel in a deal that would prevent a key part of the region's telecommunications infrastructure falling into Chinese hands.

BEIJING (AP) -- A northwestern Chinese province heavily dependent on tourism closed all tourist sites Monday after finding new COVID-19 cases.

TOKYO (AP) -- Toyota said Monday it is testing hydrogen combustion engines in race cars as it works toward using the technology in commercial products.

ASHLAND, Va. (AP) -- Glenn Youngkin wants voters in Virginia to hear an urgent message: Your children are in danger.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Pivotal Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin appears to be on board with White House proposals for new taxes on billionaires and certain corporations to help pay for President Joe Biden's scaled-back social services and climate change package.

Today in History

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- A slightly strengthened and compact Hurricane Rick closed in on Mexico's southern Pacific coast, heading toward a predicted landfall late Monday morning amid warnings of potential flash floods in the coastal mountains.

BEIJING (AP) -- Asian stock markets were mixed Monday after Wall Street slipped and China tightened travel controls in some areas in response to coronavirus infections.

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) --

MADISON, Wis. (AP) -- A judge may decide at a hearing Monday whether use-of-force experts can testify at Kyle Rittenhouse's trial for shooting three people during a protest against police brutality in Wisconsin last year.

CAIRO (AP) -- Group says 'significant disruption' consistent with an internet shutdown hits Sudan as senior officials arrested.

CAIRO (AP) -- Sudanese officials say military forces have detained at least five senior government officials.

MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Hurricane Rick strengthened a bit Sunday night while heading for Mexico's southern Pacific coast, where it was expected to make landfall Monday.

NEW YORK (AP) -- James Michael Tyler, the actor known widely for his recurring role as Gunther on "Friends," has died. He was 59.

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) -- A crew member says she has raised safety concerns in the past about the assistant director who authorities say unwittingly handed actor Alec Baldwin the prop gun that killed a cinematographer on a film set.