Jonathan Butler—the University of Missouri grad student who became the public face of the #ConcernedStudent1950 protests that forced the resignation of both the school’s president and chancellor—claimed several times that he was hit by a car carrying the president in early October during the school’s homecoming parade.
There is no evidence that a Nazi symbol made of human feces was left on campus at Missouri, less still that it was a racially-charged statement.
Melissa Click doesn’t like journalists. The Assistant Professor at the University of Missouri generated headlines when she called for “muscle” to help eject journalists who were trying to cover the ongoing protests on campus.
The “Ferguson effect” appears to be spreading from the University of Missouri to other campuses. On Tuesday, USC’s student body will vote on a controversial campus resolution urging $100 million be spent on mandatory diversity classes to create an “inclusion climate” on campus.
Representative Emanuel Cleaver (D-MO) stated that race issues bubble up on the University of Missouri’s campus from time to time “maybe for a variety of reasons, some of them uniquely midwestern” on Monday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “MTP Daily.” Cleaver said
Over the weekend, 32 African-American members of the University of Missouri-Columbia football team joined a group of students staging a hunger strike to protest purported acts of racism on campus.
An FBI undercover operation—stretching back to the jihadi attack on the Mohammed Art Exhibit and Contest in Garland, Texas—has resulted in charges against 20-year-old Joshua Ryne Goldberg of Orange Park, Florida, for a plot to use a pressure-cooker bomb against a 9/11 memorial in Kansas City, Missouri.
Two young women have been apprehended and charged with spray-painting about a dozen graffiti images around Poplar Bluff, Missouri, of a gun pointing at the head of a police officer, authorities said Friday.
Students at a Missouri high school staged a walk out in support of a boy who has insisted that as a transgender student he should be allowed to use the girl’s locker room and bathrooms.
A woman from Wildwood, Missouri claims that she sees GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump’s face in her tub of butter.
A Missouri patio and staircase comprised of military gravestones has prompted an investigation by the Federal Department of Veterans Affairs Office Inspector General.
The states of Michigan, Kansas, and Missouri are considering new sanctions against the Iranian regime and companies doing business with it–whatever the fate of the Iran deal in Congress.
Police arrested Marvin Castellanos, whom they confirmed is an illegal alien, on Monday, after he allegedly dragged a Missouri woman into an alley and tried to rape her at knifepoint.
The rallies, titled #WomenBetrayed, were launched by national pro-life group Students for Life of America (SFLA) and its partner organization Pro-Life Future in response to the gruesome undercover investigative videos released by the Center for Medical Progress over the past several weeks. Participants are urging their state and federal lawmakers to investigate, prosecute, and defund Planned Parenthood.
Cereal maker General Mills, Inc. has announced that it is closing two more plants over the next four years, causing a loss of over 600 jobs.
The Thomas More Law Center (TMLC) announced Monday that it has joined in filing a lawsuit against the governor of North Dakota and other officials that claims the state’s participation in one of the federally funded interstate Common Core test consortia and the implementation of the Common Core standards is unconstitutional and violates federal laws that ban federal control of public schools and curriculum.
Despite the intervention of the powerful LGBT Human Rights Campaign and donations from at least one billionaire, an LGBT nondiscrimination ordinance passed in October by the City Council of Springfield, MO, has fallen at the hands of Springfield voters.
Recent suicides by two Missouri state politicians have raised questions on state ethics, according to an NPR report Thursday.
Below is an excerpt from the new book, Resilience: Hard-Won Wisdom for Living a Better Life, by Navy SEAL and New York Times bestselling author Eric Greitens. Greitens, who is presently considering running for Missouri Governor, is a Rhodes scholar,
Republican Sen. Roy Blunt of Missouri is taking heat from Democrats for hiring his lobbyist son to run his 2016 re-election campaign.
When the Republican-controlled Congress promoted welfare reform as one of its top priorities in 1995, opponents accused them of being unsympathetic to the plight of impoverished Americans and insisted the proposed policies would end up harming true reforms.
Twenty-year-old suspect, Jeffrey Williams, who was arrested for shooting two police officers outside of the Ferguson, Missouri, police station during a recent protest, is crying foul, and has said through his attorney that he did not intentionally shoot the police officers, according to Fox News.
After an unknown assailant shot two police officers in Ferguson, Missouri, early on Thursday, U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder rushed to dismiss the shooter as merely a “damn punk.”
On the heels of a negative report from the Department of Justice on the Ferguson, Missouri police force, the town’s council announced on Wednesday that police chief Thomas Jackson would resign.
On Monday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit ruled against Missouri’s House of Worship Protection Act on First Amendment grounds, as reported by Eugene Volokh at the The Washington Post.
A county judge has ruled that Missouri’s membership fees to the federally funded Smarter Balanced Assessment Consortium (SBAC) is unconstitutional under the Compact Clause of the U.S. Constitution as well as under “state and federal law.”
Republican congress members from Missouri are joining those from West Virginia and Indiana in calling on their state’s Democratic senators to allow a House-passed DHS funding bill to come to the floor of the Senate for a vote.
After an hour of testimony by citizens speaking on the need for a civilian-led board to oversee St. Louis police, a hearing held at City Hall devolved into chaos and had to be canceled when protesters refused to allow police officers to testify.
St. Louis County Police released surveillance video from Tuesday night of the officer-involved fatal shooting in Berkeley, Missouri. Police say while an officer was responding to a shoplifting call he approached two African-American males standing outside the building when one
