Missouri News
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Cash strapped Kansas City to close nearly half of its schools
8:48 AM on 03/11/2010
VIDEO - Facing potential bankruptcy, the Kansas City school district is taking the unusual and contentious step of shuttering almost half its schools...
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Black customer furious over 'racist' Pizza Hut receipt
5:10 PM on 02/17/2010
VIDEO - A St. Louis man will take action after finding what he calls a racist remark on his receipt from Pizza Hut...
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Obama invites Kansas City green activist to State of the Union
9:38 AM on 01/27/2010
Anita Maltbia's local green activism has won her the coveted seat next to the first lady at Obama's State of the Union. It's no surprise why she was invited...
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Caught on tape: Angry customer goes on McAttack at McDonald's
9:13 AM on 01/06/2010
When employees at a McDonald's in Kansas City, Missouri reportedly messed up this woman's order, she wasn't going to take it anymore...
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Setting the record straight with Heather Ellis
8:30 AM on 11/23/2009
OPINION - This week, for the first time, I had the chance to speak with Heather Ellis...
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Jury selection for Heather Ellis continues
10:50 AM on 11/19/2009
VIDEO - Trial for the woman at the center of a controversy that started when she allegedly cut in line at a Missouri Walmart began with jury selection Wednesday...
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Heather Ellis case one in a long line of Missouri's racial injustices
8:07 AM on 11/18/2009
OPINION - The Heather Ellis case snaps into focus broad, systemic and longstanding problems with discriminatory policing and prosecutions across the state of Missouri...
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Wal-Mart arrest leads to charges of racism
8:53 AM on 11/16/2009
Nearly three years after Heather Ellis switched checkout lines at a southeast Missouri store, the schoolteacher faces a trial that could send her to prison for 15 years...
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Where is the outrage and action for Heather Ellis?
8:04 AM on 11/16/2009
OPINION - In the lead up to the rally for Heather Ellis today in Kennett, Missouri, I've heard shocking stories about legal dealings behind the scenes...
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Why we will march for Heather Ellis
8:54 AM on 10/26/2009
OPINION - The greater concern is that Heather's dilemma is not the root of the problem - it is merely a symptom...
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Heather Ellis' story tells us why the justice system is broken
8:00 AM on 10/20/2009
OPINION - Heather Ellis' case is only a symptom of a larger, equally problematic issue.
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Rumors of Maya Angelou's death greatly exaggerated
12:35 PM on 10/05/2009
VIDEO -- Maya Angelou says rumors of her illness or death is greatly exaggerated. She is alive and well...
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School to be named after the nation's first black priest
9:02 AM on 10/05/2009
Columbia's first Catholic high school will be named after the nation's first known black priest. The Rev. Augustine Tolton was born into slavery in Ralls County in 1854...
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Extreme flooding across the southeast
1:00 PM on 09/22/2009
VIDEO - Driving rains continue to fall across the south. Storms over the last several days have created dangerous, and deadly conditions.
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Health care reform protesters shout N-word at black lawmakers
WASHINGTON (AP) - Rep. Andre Carson told a reporter that as he walked with Rep. John Lewis, a leader of the civil rights era, some chanted "the N-word, 15 times."...
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