Missouri

It started off as a routine traffic stop on a high school student in a residential neighborhood in Missouri with the cop getting angry that the teen was asking questions, so he tasered him for 20 seconds, sending the 17-year-old into cardiac arrest.
Independence police officer Timothy Runnels then yanked the boy out of the car, handcuffing him before picking him up and slamming him face first into a sidewalk, leaving the boy in a coma.
Runnels later claimed he had smelled marijuana in the car.

A Missouri prosecutor filed a quo warranto lawsuit against the City Marshal-elect from the town of Dixon, to keep him out of office, as county police step in to keep order after a near-riot.
It’s not often that prosecutors sue police.
According to local news outlet KY3, ‘Pulaski County Sheriff Ron Long called the protest at city hall on the night after the election a ‘near riot,'” and:

A small town Missouri Marshal got re-elected top cop in the town of Dixon, Missouri, even though he’s indicted on 15 charges, along with his wife, another indicted former city of Dixon employee.
The pictured man wearing Under Armour gear on the job?
He’s Michael Plummer, the current ex-City Marshal of Dixon, Missouri.
Who lost the job last year, when he lost his peace officer’s license last year already.
After being accused of selling police lights, amongst other felony charges.

North Carolina Senator Richard Burr isn't all that popular back home and he'll have to face the voters in November in a race against former state Rep. and former North Carolina head of the ACLU, Deborah Ross. Last week, each won their respective primaries, Burr with 437,136 votes (61.9%) and Ross with 445,772 votes (63.3%). As of the February 24 FEC deadline Burr had spent $2,693,982 on his race and Ross had spent $635,999 on hers.

Former professor Melissa Click has had her termination formally confirmed by the University of Missouri as the state school’s finances wobble in the wake of her request for “muscle” to enforce a school “safe zone” in defiance of the First Amendment of the Constitution.
Enrollment is already down 23 percent painting a “grim picture for fall,” according to local reports.

-by Tracy B AnnFor Missouri state Senator Maria Chappelle-Nadal, who is running for Congress in Missouri’s 1st congressional district, education is a top priority. In this district, the high poverty areas have the worst school systems, the worst outcomes for students, and the largest number of unaccredited schools. This is an issue near and dear to the senator; it’s personal.

With funding from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and support from selected journalists and industry-supported academics, Cornell University is allegedly propping up GM industry myths for biotech and agribusiness companies.
Cornell is an Ivy League school known throughout the world as one of the most impressive academic institutions, but it seems to have abandoned scientific objectivity for the promise of a paycheck.

We've mentioned that Republican obstructionism over the Supreme Court vacancy could hurt some of the Republican Senate incumbents, particularly Chuck Grassley in Iowa, who the DSCC had originally declared invulnerable.

Missouri's first congressional district-- the entire city of St. Louis and the mostly black northern suburbs-- Ferguson, Florissant, Black Jack, Spanish Lake-- is the 385th poorest congressional district of 435 nationally and the poorest in the state. It borders the second congressional district which is one of the richest in the country. MO-01 is a minority majority district (42.9% white) and MO-02 is 88.1% white.

When an unstoppable underground fire collides with radioactive waste — nobody really knows what happens next.
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