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Two Missouri brothers and another from Florida are stranded but safe after a deadly weekend earthquake rocked portions of Nepal during the siblings' "bucket list" quest to scale Mount Everest,Click to Continue »

Columbia College, which has seen a growth in online enrollment in Columbia and 36 satellite campuses across the country, is changing its structure to streamline its administration.Click to Continue »

Bishop Robert Finn, who resigned last week as leader of the Kansas City-St. Joseph Diocese, will preside over the ordinations of seven deacons next month.Click to Continue »

A report from a national professors group says the University of Illinois wrongly rescinded a job offer for a professor after he made critical and profane comments about Israel on…Click to Continue »

Kansas City police are searching for a 9-year-old boy who ran away, reportedly to find his biological mother.Click to Continue »

Officials at University of Chicago Medical Center say the hospital has reached a tentative agreement with a union representing registered nurses.Click to Continue »

The Kansas City Star, April 25…Click to Continue »

The Ferguson Commission has endorsed reforms for training police officers that seek to reduce racial bias and the use of force while enhancing what commissioners call a "climate of care…Click to Continue »

Officials say an Iowa man has died after falling while painting a water tower with a work crew in the southern Illinois town of Damiansville.Click to Continue »

An Alton woman has been sentenced to 21 months in prison and must pay more than $100,000 in restitution in a bank fraud case authorities say targeted senior citizens.Click to Continue »