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The lead industry characterized lead poisoning as a problem of poor people and minorities to protect its sales during the 20th century.

The church’s report names pastors and youth ministers who have been convicted of child pornography, sodomy, solicitation and other crimes.

State legislatures around the country have been trying to prevent transgender girls and women from competing with their peers. How that's playing out in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska depends on politics and people.

Port Authority of Kansas City commissioners did not move forward with plans to award Lux Living tax incentives on a $55 million deal to develop apartments on the Berkley Riverfront after news stories detailed the developer’s past in St. Louis.

The former respiratory therapist’s lawyer had said she would turn herself in on for the murder charge from a patient death that occurred 20 years ago at a Missouri hospital. Police in Overland Park, Kansas, arrested her for identity theft on Thursday.

Lawmakers in both parties overwhelmingly supported requiring Missouri schools to test and filter children’s drinking water.

As details emerge about Lux Living’s legal battles and complaints from its St. Louis property residents, Port Authority members gave a nod to the embattled developer. But one council member isn’t convinced.

Over the course of a few months in 2002, nine patients at a hospital in Chillicothe, Missouri, died under unexplained circumstances. Now, a prosecutor has charged a former hospital employee with murdering one of them.

When a Port Authority of Kansas City committee meets Monday afternoon to discuss a major proposed apartment project at Berkley Riverfront, its members may have to consider whether the project’s developer was forthcoming in disclosures about its past.

A provision that would limit the amount of lead allowed in school drinking water to five parts per billion has been tacked onto an education bill.