GLADSTONE, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say a man has been killed in a hit-and-run crash in suburban Kansas City.
Gladstone, Missouri, police say a pedestrian was struck and killed Tuesday night. The victim’s name wasn’t immediately released.
Police blocked off traffic for more than two hours to investigate.
Police suspect the driver was behind the wheel of a white pickup truck. Anyone with information is asked to call police.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has announced guidelines regarding grain that has come into contact with flood waters. Affected grain is considered adulterated and must be destroyed or receive diversion approval by FDA due to the potential for contaminants from flood waters.
While there are few, if any, crops growing right now, previously harvested crops or siloed feed materials may be contaminated and no longer suitable for feeding.
For more information, please contact the FDA’s Kansas City District Office at (913) 495-5110.
Guidance on flooded grain disposal can be found here: https://www.extension.iastate.edu/…/management_of_flooded_g…
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(Missourinet) – This is National Work Zone Awareness Week and the Missouri Transportation Department is gearing up for its busy road construction season by rolling out a new safety tool.
The automated flagger aims to protect its workers from potential traffic crashes in work zones.
At a press conference this week in Jefferson City, MoDOT officials say many of their workers have had close calls with oncoming traffic, many times as a result of distracted driving.
MoDOT engineer David Silvester says the automated flagger device keeps the worker off the roadway and in the trucks.
“They have the ability with a joystick to change the STOP and SLOW pattern. In addition, there’s a very large sign that says STOP or SLOW – a flashing red light if it’s in STOP and a yellow light if you’re good to go,” says Silvester.
If vehicles do not comply with the flagger signals, Silvester says a loud horn blares and bright lights flash to warn the drivers.
Silvester says the innovation is a result of MoDOT workers putting their heads together to make their jobs safer.
From 2014 to 2018, 54 people were killed and more than 3,200 were injured in Missouri work zone crashes. Since 2000, 19 Missouri Department of Transportation workers have been killed in the line of duty.
“One is too many,” says Silvester.
CASS COUNTY— Authorities are investigating a threat that has closed a south of Kansas City.
The Archie R-V school district said in a Facebook post that the written threat was discovered in a building Wednesday and bus riders would be taken back home.
If an adult is present they’ll be dropped off. But if an adult isn’t home, they will be taken to an off-site location until arrangements can be made to have them safely picked up.
The small Cass County town of Archie is located 45 miles south of Kansas City. The Cass County Sheriff’s Office didn’t immediately return a phone messages.
March flooding throughout the Midwest caused shortages of ethanol as production was reduced, with threats of more flooding on the way. The decreased ethanol production is also fueling the increase seen in gas prices, according to Reuters, as ethanol prices on the coasts spiked due to shortages. Midwest producers have been unable to take advantage of the price increase because of washed-out rail lines.
In Southern California, including Los Angeles, the ethanol shortages are one of the factors that are pushing gas prices towards $4 a gallon, a level not seen since 2014. The multi-billion dollar damages in March impacted farms, homes and infrastructure, as well as cutting ethanol production by 13 percent.
The biggest problem facing the industry, getting ethanol to market, will continue as repairs are made to railways and U.S. ethanol inventories rise to near record levels. Additionally, storms across the Midwest and Great Plains threaten further flooding, further impacting plants and the transportation systems they rely on.
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the Attorney General William Barr’s testimony to Congress and the Russia probe (all times local):
Attorney General William Barr says he plans to review the origins of the FBI’s investigation between Russia and the Trump campaign.
Barr told senators on Wednesday that he believed the Trump campaign had been spied on, but “the question is whether it was adequately predicated.”
He says he believes that “spying on a political campaign is a big deal.
The Justice Department’s inspector general has already been investigating the early days of the FBI’s Russia probe.
Barr says he wants to pull together the different reviews underway within the Justice Department and see if there are remaining questions that need to be addressed.
A person familiar with the process said Barr is forming a team to review the origins of the FBI investigation.
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Attorney General William Barr says a redacted version of special counsel Robert Mueller’s Russia report is coming “hopefully next week.”
The timeline mentioned by Barr at a Senate hearing on his department’s budget is a tweak from comments he made a day earlier. Barr said at a House hearing Tuesday that the report was coming “within a week.”
Barr made the comments as senators questioned him on the specifics of the report and what he would be redacting. Democrats have said they won’t accept redactions and will fight to get the full report.
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President Donald Trump is declaring that he wants an investigation into the origins of the federal probe into ties between his campaign and Russia.
Trump, speaking to reporters Wednesday at the White House, decreed it an “illegal investigation” conducted by “dirty cops.” The president did not name them but has previously blamed Justice Department officials and former FBI Director James Comey.
Attorney General William Barr has a team reviewing the origins of the FBI’s counterintelligence investigation into the Trump campaign and Russia, according to a person familiar with the situation who insisted on anonymity to discuss internal discussions..
Trump also stated that “I don’t care” about the report from special counsel Robert Mueller that Barr says he will release in the coming days in redacted form. Despite that declaration, the president has repeatedly tweeted about the report in recent days.
Mueller didn’t find a criminal conspiracy between Russia and Trump. He did not rule on obstruction of justice, though Barr and Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein ruled Trump did not.
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Attorney General William Barr is returning to Capitol Hill for a second time this week as lawmakers, the White House and the American public anxiously await his release of special counsel Robert Mueller’s report on potential ties between Russia and the Trump campaign.
Barr will speak to a Senate appropriations subcommittee Wednesday about his department’s budget. But like members of the House on Tuesday, senators are expected to be more interested in the nearly 400-page Mueller report than budget details.
Barr told the House lawmakers that he expects to release a redacted version “within a week.”
Justice Department officials are scouring the report to remove grand jury information and details relating to pending investigations, among other materials.
Democrats say they will not accept redactions and want the full report’s release.
Canada is refreshing a list of tariffs on the U.S. as section 232 steel and aluminum tariffs remain against Canada. Politico reports the effort is part of Canada pressuring President Donald Trump to remove the tariffs he imposed last year.
Removing the tariffs, though separate, were thought to be part of reaching an agreement on the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement that will replace the North American Free Trade Agreement. But Trump has yet to remove the tariffs and Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue had previously said would negate any benefits on the updated trade agreement.
Canada has also stated it would not implement the agreement if the tariffs are not removed. David MacNaughton, Canada’s ambassador to the United States, said this week the refreshed list of tariffs is not yet complete, and he expects “a significant number” of agricultural products to be on the new list. While it’s too early to name specific products, he noted some in Canada have called for including apples, pork and ethanol.
OGALLALA, Neb. (AP) — The Nebraska trial of a Kansas man charged with the traffic deaths of four Iowa motorcyclists has been delayed until August.
Keith County District Court records say the trial was scheduled to begin Tuesday for 23-year-old Jeser Cisneros-Hernandez, of Liberal, Kansas. He’s pleaded not guilty to four counts of vehicular homicide, one of reckless driving and one of failing to drive in his lane.
The records say the judge last week granted the delay because the attorneys have not completed the pretrial discovery process. The new starting date is Aug. 6.
Prosecutors say Cisneros-Hernandez’s vehicle hit two motorcycles carrying two people each on July 1, 2017, near Ogallala.
Authorities say 54-year-old Sheila Matheny and 61-year-old James Matheny, from Bedford, Iowa, were on one motorcycle. The other motorcyclists were 58-year-old Michal Weese and 59-year-old Jerolyn Weese, who lived in Council Bluffs, Iowa.
KANSAS CITY (AP) — A citation has been issued against a man accused of flashing a laser at New England quarterback Tom Brady during the Patriots’ AFC championship game victory over the Kansas City Chiefs.
Prosecutors said Tuesday that 64-year-old Dwyan Morgan, of Lee’s Summit, Missouri, faces a single count of disturbing the peace, a municipal violation.
Television stations posted footage after the game that showed a green light flashing on Brady late in the Patriots’ 37-31 overtime victory on Jan. 20. Prosecutors say Brady was unaware of the laser.
Laser pointers are banned at most sporting events because of the potential for distraction and safety reasons. The light can damage the retina after even a short period of time.
Morgan doesn’t have a publicly listed phone number and couldn’t be reached by the Associated Press for comment.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A bill advancing in the Missouri House would require out-of-state retailers to collect taxes on online sales to Missourians.
Lawmakers voted 78-72 on Tuesday to give the measure initial approval.
The bill follows a U.S. Supreme Court ruling last year that gave states the ability to collect sales taxes from out-of-state retailers who sell items to their residents.
The proposal by Republican Rep. J. Eggleston would only apply to online retailers that sell at least $100,000 in products to Missouri residents or make at least 200 separate sales over a year.
Legislative researchers have estimated the tax could bring in as much as $100 million in tax revenue to the state once it’s fully implemented, but that figure is based on a previous version of Eggleston’s bill.
