A dozen Joplin area residents attended a town hall meeting held by U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill on Friday, then stopped by the offices of two other federal lawmakers to urge them to hold public forums.
Kansas officials are moving to see that assets of a financially troubled nonprofit Catholic hospital in Topeka remain in the state if its out-of-state owner sells it.
Two Arkansas men remained in critical but stable condition at a Joplin hospital Friday, two days after having been shot by a third member of their hunting party on the opening day of turkey season in Kansas.
The Kansas Bureau of Investigation says preliminary information about the shooting deaths Thursday night of three people in Coffeyville indicates gunshots were exchanged between two of them.
Federal investigators say they have determined that the fatal explosion at an ammunition plant in Missouri is non-criminal in nature while their probe continues to pinpoint the exact cause of the blast.
The U.S. Supreme Court is asking the state of Missouri and a church that is suing because it was denied a state grant to make a case for whether the case should proceed.