Associated Press Missouri headlines

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A 15-year-old who was among those charged with opening fire during the Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl rally has been sentenced to a state facility for youths.

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Sixty people allege in new lawsuits filed in Missouri that they were abused as children by dozens of Catholic priests, nuns and others, and the man who now leads the Archdiocese of Omaha, Nebraska, is among the accused.

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A man who was on the verge of walking out of prison this week after a judge found evidence of "actual innocence" and overturned his murder conviction now faces a fresh legal hurdle.

The union representing workers a Lear Corp. plant in Missouri that makes seats for General Motors vehicles said Thursday it reached a tentative agreement with the company, ending a strike that was in its fourth day.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) -- New federal court rulings are narrowing the Biden administration's enforcement of a rule for protecting LGBTQ+ students from discrimination and allowing critics to limit it even further school by school.

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Four detainees at a downtown St. Louis jail were injured when they were stabbed during a fight -- the latest of several instances of violence at the jail.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- As state treasurer, Vivek Malek pushed Missouri's main retirement system to pull its investments from Chinese companies, making Missouri among the first nationally to do so. Now Malek is touting the Chinese divestment as he seeks reelection in an Aug. 6 Republican primary against challengers who also are denouncing financial connections to China.

ST. LOUIS, Mo. (AP) -- The Missouri Supreme Court halted the immediate release Wednesday of a man whose murder conviction was overturned -- just as the man was about to walk free.

LICKING, Mo. (AP) -- Missouri Supreme Court puts release of man whose murder conviction was reversed on hold, just as he was about to go free.

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A Missouri judge has ordered the release of a man whose murder conviction was overturned after he served 30 years.

Production has halted at a Missouri General Motors plant that manufactures trucks and vans, the result of a strike at the company that supplies seats for the vehicles.

MINNEAPOLIS (AP) -- State election directors from across the country voiced serious concerns to a top U.S. Postal Service official Tuesday that the system won't be able to handle an expected crush of mail-in ballots in the November election.

Major freight railroads are rushing railcar inspections, reinforcing known safety concerns raised by unions for years, but at a House hearing Tuesday they'll present new evidence from federal inspectors that railcar checks are routinely less than two minutes per car.

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- For the second time in weeks, a Missouri prison has ignored a court order to release an inmate whose murder conviction was overturned. Just as in the case of Sandra Hemme, actions by the state's attorney general are keeping Christopher Dunn locked up.

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A Missouri judge on Monday overturned the conviction of Christopher Dunn, who has spent more than 30 years in prison for a killing he has long contended he didn't commit.

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A Missouri judge has overturned the murder conviction of a man imprisoned for more than 30 years.