The work of the 6888th Central Directory Postal Battalion in Europe during World War II, Col. Eries Mentzer says, help pave the path toward President Harry Truman’s Executive Order 9981, which desegregated the military.
The Southern Jackson County Fire Protection District will ask voters on the April 8 ballot to approve a sales tax that, in turn, would lower property taxes.
Two identical bills to give state backing for a new sports and convention center in Clay County are not an attempt to poach the Kansas City Chiefs or Royals from Jackson County, legislators were told Monday during a Senate committee hearing.
A revamped constitutional amendment moving forward in the Missouri House would ban nearly all abortions in Missouri. But most voters likely wouldn’t know that just by reading the drafted ballot language.
Legislation that would bar Missouri universities from penalizing student groups for their beliefs faced pointed criticism during a Monday evening House committee hearing from Democrats who say it would open the door for discrimination and hate speech.
The Missouri House on Monday advanced legislation that would reinstate state-run presidential preference primaries and extend the no-excuse absentee voting period from two to six weeks.
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Three decades ago, the 1879 Chicago & Alton depot on South Street just west of Crysler in Independence was dilapidated. The railroad was about to tear it down.
A Grain Valley man faces felony charges after he allegedly exchanged gunfire with another driver on Interstate 470, while his 2-year-old child was in his vehicle.
An Independence man with a reported mental illness has been charged with allegedly stabbing another resident of a group home during a disturbance.