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This December, 2020, shows Agape Boarding School in Stockton, Mo. The speaker of the Missouri House is urging the U.S. attorney in Kansas City to shut down Agape Boarding School, accusing the Christian school of “what amounts to organized crime against children.” (Jill Toyoshiba/The Kansas City Star via AP)

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Rules sought for 'gooning,' taking troubled kids to care
By JIM SALTER - Associated Press
Tue,09/27/22-5:15AM , 356 Reads
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Within what's known as the secure transport industry, it's called “gooning.” Brawny men show up under the cover of darkness and force a teenager into a vehicle, taking them against their will to a boarding school, foster home or treatment center.
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Former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens gestures while speaking to reporters in Jefferson City Feb. 22, 2022. Greitens resigned as Missouri governor amid criminal charges and legislative investigations, is accused of abuse and bullying by his ex-wife and ran a widely condemned ad suggesting he was hunting members of his own party with a gun. And the Republican is still a leading contender for election to the U.S. Senate. (AP Photo/David A. Lieb File)

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Greitens fans shrug off scandals threatening GOP Senate seat
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Sun,07/10/22-6:46AM , 276 Reads
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This undated photo provided by the Johnson County (Kan.) Sheriff's Department shows Jennifer Hall. The former respiratory therapist who is charged with first-degree murder in the death of a patient in Missouri 20 years ago has been arrested in northeastern Kansas, authorities said. Hall, was arrested in Johnson County, Kan., on Thursday, May 12, 2022, under the name Jennifer Semaboye, of Overland Park, Kan., the Livingston County Sheriff's Office said. (Johnson County Sheriff's Department via AP File)

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20 years after spate of hospital deaths, ex-worker accused
By JIM SALTER - Associated Press
Thu,05/19/22-11:04AM , 256 Reads
In the five months that Jennifer Anne Hall was a respiratory therapist at Hedrick Medical Center, the rural Missouri hospital experienced 18 “code blue” incidents — an alarming increase in sudden cardiac arrest events for a hospital that historically averaged one of them a year, according to a police investigator.
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Inamullah Niazai speaks during an interview Tuesday, April 26, 2022, in St. Louis. Niazai is one of about 600 people who have fled Afganistan and made it to St. Louis in the nearly nine months since the Afghan capital of Kabul was ceded to the Taliban, with another 750 expected by later this year. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson)

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St. Louis seeking to boost population with Afghan refugees
By JIM SALTER - Associated Press
Sat,05/07/22-7:36AM , 279 Reads
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Inamullah Niazai sits on the front porch step of his red-brick St. Louis home and smiles at the bustle of activity around him — his mother and father chatting in the front yard, his two young daughters munching chocolate ice cream bars.
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