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This photo provided by Linda Mitchelle shows Orville Allen of Poplar Bluff, Mo., hugging his great-grandson in March 2024. Allen died Wednesday, May 29, 2024, and his liver was successfully donated and transplanted to a 72-year-old woman. Transplant organizations say Allen is the oldest American ever to donate an organ upon death. (Linda Mitchelle via AP)

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A 98-year-old man's liver was donated. He is believed to be the oldest American organ donor ever
By JIM SALTER - Associated Press
Wed,06/12/24-11:41AM , 141 Reads
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Orville Allen lived a lifetime of service, and when he died at age 98 he had one last thing to give: his liver.
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Missouri fifth grade student Daken Kramer, 11, holds an award at Blue Springs High School in Blue Springs, Kansas. Kramer was concerned about children who owed money for meals at his school. So the enterprising fifth-grader decided to do something about it. Daken posted a video challenging friends, family, even strangers and businesses to pay off the meal debt at the school. The 11-year-old was apparently pretty convincing: He raised more than double the original $3,500 goal — all told, $7,370 — enough money to also cut into the debt. (Vanessa Kramer via AP)

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A fifth grader's fundraiser cleared his school of meal debt. It named an award for him
By JIM SALTER - Associated Press
Wed,05/29/24-1:15PM , 168 Reads
As the school year drew to a close, Daken Kramer worried about children who owed money for meals at his school. So the enterprising fifth grader decided to do something about it.
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A photo released by the Federal Public Defender, shows inmate Brian Dorsey at the Potosi Correctional Center, Washington County, Missouri. Dorsey is scheduled to be executed Tuesday, April 9, 2024, for killing two people in 2006. (Jeremy Weis, Federal Public Defender via AP)

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Condemned inmate could face 'surgery without anesthesia' if good vein is elusive, lawyers say
By JIM SALTER - Associated Press
Fri,04/05/24-10:29AM , 116 Reads
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Missouri's execution protocol allows for “surgery without anesthesia” if the typical process of finding a suitable vein to inject the lethal drug doesn't work, lawyers for a death row inmate say in an appeal aimed at sparing his life.
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Police clear the area following a shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs NFL football Super Bowl celebration in Kansas City, Mo., Wednesday, Feb. 14, 2024. Three men from Kansas City, Mo.,, face firearms charges, including gun trafficking, after an investigation into the mass shooting during the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade and rally, federal prosecutors said Wednesday, March 13, 2024. (AP Photo/Reed Hoffmann, File)

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3 men charged with federal firearms counts after Kansas City Chiefs Super Bowl parade shooting
By JIM SALTER - Associated Press
Wed,03/13/24-2:06PM , 93 Reads
Three Missouri men have been charged with federal counts related to the illegal purchase of high-powered rifles and guns with extended magazines after last month's shooting at the Kansas City Chiefs’ Super Bowl parade and rally
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