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(AP) Missouri’s Republican Treasurer Scott Fitzpatrick is running for state auditor. The Cassvile graduate announced his candidacy Thursday. Current Auditor Nicole Galloway has said she won’t run for another term in 2022. The state auditor checks for government waste, fraud, and abuse. The office conducts regular auditors of many state and local agencies. Galloway is …

(AP) More than a dozen vaccinated southwest Missouri patients with other health conditions have died of COVID-19 amid a surge of cases. The increase has led the University of Missouri to reinstate a mask mandate and some St. Louis restaurants to permit only the immunized to eat indoors. Six of the deaths of vaccinated patients …

The Kansas Bureau of Investigation has issued a statewide Silver Alert for a missing man from Leroy. Authorities are trying to find 70-year-old Rickie Allen Sluder, a white male, height 6 foot 2 inches, weighing 300 pounds. He has dark hair with some gray, and brown eyes, according to a news release from the KBI. …

Former Missouri Governor Jay Nixon has announced that he will not be running for Missouri’s soon-to-be open US Senate seat. Read his full statement below: I have truly enjoyed the positive changes in my life and fitness since completing 30 consecutive years of public service. I am not running for U.S. Senate. I choose a …

(AP) – The Oklahoma City Thunder have announced an exclusive 15-year naming rights partnership to rename the city’s downtown arena after Paycom, a local company that offers online payroll and human resources services to employers. The Oklahoman reports the name change announced Tuesday took effect immediately. Terms of the deal were not released. The Thunder …

(AP) – Republicans are responding with hostility to new masking guidance from public health officials. It’s opening a new front in the cultural war over COVID-19 restrictions just as efforts to try to persuade large swaths of unvaccinated Americans to get the shots appeared to be making headway. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention …

(AP) – Police say a man involved in a fatal crash in Topeka over the weekend has been charged with involuntary manslaughter and driving under the influence. The Capital-Journal reports that 39-year-old Cesar Carreto Orozco was charged Tuesday in the early Saturday crash that killed a passenger, 37-year-old Erasmo Ramirez Soto of Topeka. Police say …

(AP) – Police in Kansas City are investigating the death of man whose body was found inside an apartment as a homicide. Kansas City police say in a news release that the officers were called around 3:45 a.m. Thursday to an apartment in the Roanoke neighborhood and found an unresponsive man there. Medics declared the …

Mizzou Athletic Director Jim Sterk will be paid the nearly $1.5 million remaining on his contract as leaves his post as Missouri athletic director.     The Kansas City Star has obtained records from the university outlining the terms of Sterk’s “Transition Agreement and Release,” which he finalized with MU president Mun Choi on Monday,  Sterk will …

A St. Louis Boy Scout chaperone will appear in court Thursday in Farmington, after being charged with 15 felonies for allegedly installing cameras in the bathroom and shower rooms at a southeast Missouri camp.  The St. Francois County authorities are asking anyone who attended the camp to call them. The suspect’s bond has been set …