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Drunk baggage handler at KCI falls asleep in hold, flies to Chicago

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CHICAGO (AP) – Police say a baggage handler told them he was drunk when he fell asleep in a cargo hold and flew from Kansas City to Chicago.

Photo courtesy Kansas City International Airport

American Airlines says the Piedmont Airlines employee was working American Flight 363 on Saturday when the Boeing 737 left Kansas City International Airport with the handler in a heated and pressurized cargo hold.

Chicago Police spokesman Anthony Guglielmi says he was found when the flight landed about an hour later at Chicago’s O’Hare airport. The spokesman says the handler told police he was intoxicated and had fallen asleep.

No charges were filed, and he was sent back to Kansas City.

American says it is grateful the handler wasn’t injured and it’s reviewing what happened.

The handler’s name wasn’t released.

Missouri voter turnout projected at nearly 55 percent

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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri election officials are expecting voter turnout in Tuesday’s midterm election to be the highest in more than two decades.

Estimates submitted to the state by local election officials project that nearly 2.3 million people will cast ballots. That would equal almost 55 percent of registered voters.

The last presidential midterm election to exceed that mark was in 1994, when 59 percent of registered voters cast ballots.

Missouri’s top race features Democratic U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill against her Republican challenger, Attorney General Josh Hawley.

The ballot also includes elections for Congress, state auditor, the state Legislature and numerous ballot measures. Those include thee competing proposals to legalize medical marijuana and ones to raise the minimum wage, increase the gas tax and overhaul Missouri’s legislative redistricting process.

UPDATE: KBI releases name of Atchison homeowner shot in gunfight with officer

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ATCHISON, Kan. – The Kansas Bureau of Investigation (KBI) is investigating an officer involved shooting which occurred in Atchison on Wednesday, Oct. 31.

According to a KBI media release, the Atchison Police Department contacted the KBI at approximately 10:35 a.m. to request assistance investigating an officer involved shooting. KBI agents and the crime scene response team (CSRT) responded to conduct the investigation.

Preliminary information indicates that an officer from the Atchison Police Department was dispatched to a theft of services call at a residence at N. Fourth St. and L St. in Atchison. When the officer arrived on scene at approximately 10:20 a.m., a male subject on the property approached the officer while carrying a rifle. The officer gave verbal commands to drop the gun, and the subject complied by putting down the rifle.

Then, the verbal conflict with the resident escalated, and the officer deployed a Taser toward the subject. The subject produced a handgun he had in his possession, and fired at the officer. The officer was not hit by gunfire, and returned fire at the subject. The subject was struck during the exchange.

The subject was taken into custody, and EMS was called. He was transported to the hospital with non-life threatening injuries.

The subject was later identified as Bryan C. Boldridge, 44, of Atchison.

The KBI will conduct a thorough and independent investigation into this shooting. Once the investigation is complete, the findings will be turned over to the Atchison County Attorney for review.

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ATCHISON, Kan. (AP) — An Atchison homeowner was wounded when he was involved in a gunfight with a police officer.

Atchison Police Chief Mike Wilson said the officer was not injured during the confrontation Wednesday.

Wilson says police responded to a call to help utility crews and a homeowner confronted the officer.

Wilson says the man shot at the officer, who returned fire. The man’s condition was not immediately available.

Details about what prompted the police call and the confrontation have not been released.

The Kansas Bureau of Investigation is investigating the shooting.

Northwest’s president elected to join AASCU Board of Directors

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Northwest Missouri State University President Dr. John Jasinski. Photo courtesy Northwest.

MARYVILLE, Mo. – Dr. John Jasinski, president of Northwest Missouri State University in Maryville, has been elected by his peers to serve as a member of the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) Board of Directors.

AASCU is a Washington, D.C.-based higher education association of nearly 400 public colleges, universities and systems whose members share a learning and teaching-centered culture, a historic commitment to underserved student populations and a dedication to research and creativity that advances their regions’ economic progress and cultural development. In addition, the organization advocates for effective public policy at the federal level and provides both federal and state policy analysis to advance member institutions and the students they serve.

The Board of Directors, which consists of member presidents and chancellors who are actively engaged with the association, supports AASCU’s work and provides mission-based leadership and strategic governance. While day-to-day operations are led by AASCU’s president and chief executive officer, Board members provide broad leadership and oversight. Board members serve three-year terms and meet three times a year.

“AASCU institutions are engines of economic mobility and beacons of hope for our future – the workhorse of American higher education,” Jasinski said. “AASCU presidents and AASCU institutions work tirelessly to deliver America’s promise. Northwest Missouri State University is a proud AASCU member and it is an honor to be at the table as we address issues of state, national and international significance.”

Earlier this year, Jasinski also was elected to a one-year term as vice chair of the Council on Public Higher Education, which is composed of the presidents and chancellors of public higher education institutions in Missouri. He also accepted an appointment to the advisory team of the commissioner for the Missouri Department of Higher Education.

Jasinski is the 10th president of Northwest and has served the University since 2009.

 

– Northwest News Release –

Veggie food maker seeks injunction against Missouri meat law

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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A vegetarian food-maker has asked a federal judge to issue a preliminary injunction against a Missouri law making it a misdemeanor crime to promote products as “meat” that aren’t made from livestock or poultry.

The Oregon-based Tofurky Co. claims the Missouri law infringes on its constitutional free speech rights to use product labels such as “veggie burgers,” ”vegetarian ham roast” and “chorizo style sausage.”

The request for a preliminary injunction was filed late Tuesday as part of a federal lawsuit that originally was filed in August.

The other plaintiff in the case is The Good Food Institute, a Washington, D.C.-based nonprofit that advocates for alternatives to meat.

The Missouri law was passed earlier this year with support from the Missouri Farm Bureau and state pork and cattle associations.

Former Vice President Biden to attend voter rally in Missouri

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BRIDGETON, MO – Former Vice President Joe Biden is making a trip to Missouri to rally for Democrat candidate, especially Senator Claire McCaskill.

On twitter, Biden said, “We can’t leave a single vote on the table, and we’ve got to do everything in our power to re-elect fantastic public servants.

McCaskill is in a very tight senate reelection campaign with GOP Senate candidate and Missouri Attorney General Josh Hawley.

The rally is scheduled to begin at 6p.m. Thursday at the Machinists District 9, 12365 St Charles Rock Road in Bridgeton, Missouri.

Doors open at 5:30 pm.

Caregiver arrested in death of Missouri boy, 4, she reported missing

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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A caregiver has been arrested in the death of a 4-year-old Missouri boy whose body was found almost a week after she reported him missing.

Photo courtesy Jefferson City Police
Quatavia Givens-photo Cole County

Jefferson City police said in a news release Wednesday that 26-year-old Quatavia Givens has been booked into jail on suspicion of first-degree child abuse resulting in the death of Darnell Gray. No charges have been filed.

Asked whether Givens had an attorney, a police spokesman said he couldn’t comment on her legal status.

Police say Givens had been caring for Darnell while his father worked. She reported him missing on Oct. 24.

Darnell’s body was found Tuesday in Jefferson City after authorities went door-to-door and drained a retention pond looking for him.

Police haven’t released the cause of death or specifically where he was found.

The Latest: Trump says birthright citizenship will be ended

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WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump’s stance on immigration issues (all times local):

President Donald Trump says the right to citizenship for babies born to non-U.S. citizens on American soil “will be ended one way or the other.”

As Trump considers an executive action to curtail what he terms “so-called Birthright Citizenship,” he tweets that “It is not covered by the 14th Amendment.”

He added Wednesday: “Many legal scholars agree” with his interpretation.

In fact, House Speaker Paul Ryan and scholars widely pan the idea that Trump could unilaterally change the rules on who is a citizen. And it’s highly questionable whether an act of Congress could do it, either.

Trump has discussed the issue before and reinjected it into the political conversation just days before the 2018 midterms as he looks to energize his base.

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President Donald Trump is rushing out hardline immigration declarations, promises and actions as he tries to mobilize supporters to retain Republican control of Congress in the midterm elections.

Trump says he’s sending thousands of U.S. troops to stop an “invasion” of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border even though the migrants are on foot hundreds of miles away. Trump says tent cities could be set up for asylum seekers even though that would not resolve the massive U.S. backlog of asylum seekers. And Trump says he’d like to end the Constitution’s guarantee of birthright citizenship even though most legal scholars say that would require a new constitutional amendment.

Trump says this “has nothing to do with elections,” but his timing is striking.

Trump’s presidential campaign in 2016 concentrated on border fears, and that’s his final-week focus in the midterm fight.

Traffic stop leads to drug seizure in Andrew County

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A traffic stop lead to a drug seizure in Andrew County Oct 25, 2018. Photo courtesy the Missouri State Highway Patrol.

A traffic stop led to a drug seizure in Andrew County last week.

According to the Missouri State Highway Patrol, shortly before 5 p.m. on October 25, a state trooper initiated a traffic stop of a Chevrolet Suburban and trailer on Interstate 29. The vehicle was northbound near the 53-mile marker in Andrew County.

After contacting the driver, circumstances led the trooper to request for consent to search, which was denied. The state trooper requested a Buchanan County deputy and his K-9 respond to the scene. The K-9 alerted on the vehicle and a probable cause search revealed 514 pounds of marijuana.

The driver, Ricky Allan Martin, 61, of Sunset Hills, Missouri, was arrested for trafficking drugs — 1st degree (over statutory amount) and possession of controlled substance. Martin was transported to the Andrew County Sheriff’s Department in Savannah.

 

– MSHP News Release –

Kansas water park co-owner now faces drug, sex charges

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KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) — The co-owner of a Kansas water park who is accused in the decapitation death of a 10-year-old boy has been charged with drug possession and hiring someone for sex.

Henry -photo Johnson County

Schlitterbahn co-owner Jeff Henry surrendered to authorities in Kansas on Monday and was released on $100,000 bond. Henry’s defense attorney, Carl Cornwell, hasn’t returned a phone call from The Associated Press seeking comment.

Henry is already facing second-degree murder and other charges in the August 2016 death of Caleb Schwab.

Henry is accused of rushing into service the 17-story Verruckt waterslide — which was billed as the world’s largest — that Caleb was riding when he was killed.

Henry is among several peoplecharged in the tragedy .

Deconstruction of the slide began Tuesday.

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