Kansas City, Missouri, is home to the reigning Super Bowl champion Kansas City Chiefs — who open their season Thursday night against the Baltimore Ravens. Outside Arrowhead Stadium, Chiefs fans are sure to be serving barbecue at the tailgates. But not just any barbecue. Specifically, Kansas City barbecue. “For Kansas City, ‘barbecue’ is a noun.It’s not a verb,” Rod Gray, …
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Condemned Missouri inmate is 'accepting his fate,' his spiritual adviser says
With his execution drawing near, Missouri inmate David Hosier is “accepting his fate,” his spiritual adviser said Tuesday. Hosier, 69, is scheduled to be put to death at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the state prison in Bonne Terre for the 2009 deaths of Angela Gilpin, a woman he had an affair with, and her husband, Rodney Gilpin. MISSOURI SETS EXECUTION …
Read More »MSNBC's Joy Reid calls Missouri a 'slave state' with women the property of their husbands and the government
MSNBC host Joy Reid declared the state of Missouri a “slave state” for women on Wednesday. Reid made the claim during a segment about the debate around contraception bills that has raged in the U.S. Senate as well as several states. “Let me tell you how crazy it’s gotten in Missouri,” MSNBC analyst and former Missouri Democratic senator Claire McCaskill …
Read More »Texas AG Ken Paxton endorses Trump attorney in Missouri AG race: 'The right person'
FIRST ON FOX: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is throwing his support behind one of former President Trump’s attorneys in the GOP primary race to serve as Missouri’s chief legal officer. Paxton said he is “confident” that Will Scharf, who’s working alongside the former president to appeal his conviction on 34 felony counts in New York, is the best person …
Read More »Small businesses accuse Missouri city of forcing them out with baseless blight label to score lucrative deal
Three small businesses are suing a St. Louis suburb, accusing the local government of sneakily steamrolling them to make a hefty profit through a deal that could financially cripple longtime mom-and-pop shops. “All the politicians say every day on the news how great we are, but when we’re in their way, we’re not so great,” Feather-Craft Fly Fishing President Bob …
Read More »Kansas City police funding amendment to make August appearance on Missouri ballot
Missouri voters in August will weigh in on a constitutional amendment requiring Kansas City to spend more money on police, the state Supreme Court ordered Tuesday. CITY OF KANSAS CITY HAS ‘SEPARATED’ FROM EMPLOYEE WHO DOXXED HARRISON BUTKER FOLLOWING SPEECH, MAYOR SAYS The high court changed the date when the ballot measure will appear from November to Aug. 6, the …
Read More »Rare snake-like fish that breathes air caught in Missouri for fourth time: 'Aggressive predators'
Is it a fish? Is it a snake? No, it’s a snakehead fish. For only the fourth time in the state of Missouri, an angler caught a northern snakehead fish that is not native to the U.S. Fisheries biologists with the Missouri Department of Conservation (MDC) confirmed the catch occurred on May 25 in Wayne County, according to a recent …
Read More »Brentwood blight: How a Supreme Court case allowed governments to seize property on behalf of developers
As fireworks burst in the sky on Independence Day 2018, Roxanne and Carter Maier were putting in yet another grueling 14-hour day of remodeling a former doctor’s office into a dance studio in Brentwood, a small suburb of St. Louis, Missouri. “This is the last time we’re doing this,” the husband and wife team told each other multiple times throughout …
Read More »Missouri mother turns self in at police station after killing children, ages 9 and 2, sheriff says
A Missouri mother walked into a police station on Tuesday morning and said that she had killed her two young children, authorities said. Ashley Parmeley, 36, entered the Festus Police Department at around 10:30 a.m. looking disheveled and with wet clothes when she told officers that she shot her 9-year-old daughter and drowned her 2-year-old son, Jefferson County Sheriff Dave …
Read More »Missouri officials respond to reports of fireworks warehouse in flames
A warehouse containing an unknown quantity of fireworks caught fire on Memorial Day, according to officials in Missouri. The fire at the Spirit of ’76 Fireworks warehouse in Boonville, Missouri, began on Monday afternoon. The Cooper County Sheriff’s Office confirmed the incident to Fox News Digital. The Boonville Police Department and Fire Department are responding to the scene. In a …
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