The Supreme Court is declining to reinstate a civil rights lawsuit filed by the brother of an Oklahoma man whose botched execution in 2014 lasted nearly three-quarters of an hour.
Roughly 200 law enforcers including the FBI have searched the county jail in Kansas City, Missouri, as part of what the FBI calls an ongoing investigation.
Police say a weekend fight among teenagers in Missouri’s North Kansas City resulted in a 17-year-old boy found dead on a driveway and and a car crashed into a garage.
Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback has signed a state budget for the next two years that will use a $1.2 billion income tax increase to fund government and schools, but he complained about “excessive spending.”