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The body of missing University of Missouri student Riley Strain has been found in a Nashville river after he went missing leaving a country bar earlier this month, authorities said. “The body of Riley Strain was recovered from the Cumberland River in West Nashville this morning, approximately 8 miles from downtown,” the Metropolitan Nashville Police wrote on X. His body was found in the Cumberland River near 61st Avenue North around 7:30 a.m. Friday, news station WKRN reported. No foul play is suspected, but an autopsy has been scheduled, police said. Strain was visiting the Music City with his Delta...

The family of the teenage girl charged with violently assaulting Kaylee Gain says that she is the real victim who was 'harassed and bullied' before the viral incident – and are raising $150k for her legal defense, DailyMail.com can reveal. Kaylee, 16, from St Louis, Missouri has been left in a life-threatening condition by the student who repeatedly smashed her head into concrete. She suffered a skull fracture and frontal lobe damage during the violent March 8 brawl which was caught on camera near her high school. But her alleged attacker's family have hit back at calls to charge the...

Fears are growing for the health of a schoolgirl left comatose by a bully who smashed her head into concrete - after her grandma said she was 'devastated' and that a statement is 'imminent.' Thompson - whose 15 year-old granddaughter was attacked in Spanish Lake, Missouri, on March 8 - said: 'The family will give a statement very soon. That's all I can say right now.' John O'Sullivan, Director of Communications with St. Louis County Courts, told KSDK it is too soon to determine if the suspect will be tried as an adult.

A House Oversight and Accountability subcommittee hearing Tuesday examined threats to the security and reliability of the U.S. electricity grid, which can lead to more blackouts. While reliability assessments regularly find that increased reliance on wind and solar, increased demand from electrification, an underbuilt electrical delivery network, and rapid retirements of on-demand generators are creating an increased risk of blackouts, Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., ranking member of the subcommittee, instead blamed other sources of the problem, namely, white supremacy. She also threw in "climate change" for good measure.

Twenty-three Democrat run states and the District of Columbia, the home of our nation’s capital, filed amicus briefs in support of government censorship and banning of free speech in the United States. These 23 states and the District of Columbia filed amicus briefs in support of the Biden administration in the SCOTUS case is Murthy, et al v. Missouri, et al, 23-411 (Missouri v. Biden) case. The states essentially argue that they have an interest in collaborating with tech companies to “encourage” the public to behave themselves and “discourage” the public from believing alleged “disinformation” or engaging in online predatory...

Missouri teen in shocking high school beatdown pictured, ‘fighting hard to stay alive’ after attack: family friend The Missouri teen who was left in critical condition after another teenage girl slammed her head into the ground during a caught-on-camera brawl has been identified as a 15-year-old named Kaylee. The young teen was pictured smiling away from the camera in a photo on a GoFundMe fundraiser shared by a family friend. “Kaylee is fighting hard to stay alive and heal but this is only the beginning of a very uphill battle,” the description said of Kaylee’s condition. Kaylee She is currently...

The white Missouri teen who was beaten unconscious near Hazelwood High School last week, identified as “Kaylee” is fighting for her life with severe brain damage.“She has major brain bleeding and swelling and is in critical condition,” the victim’s family said. “Kaylee is fighting hard to stay alive and heal but this is only the beginning of a very uphill battle for Kaylee and her family. We will not know the extent of the brain damage that has occurred until she wakes up but the path to recovery will be extremely hard on the family, not only mentally but financially.”...

The family of a Missouri 15-year-old girl who was brutally beaten by another teen has spoken out, sharing her picture and saying she has suffered severe brain damage. The victim, identified only as Kaylee, is fighting for life in critical condition - with a skull fracture and frontal lobe damage - after her head was repeatedly smashed into the ground during a brawl near Hazelwood East High School on Friday. The family wrote in a GoFundMe: 'In minutes, this family's life shattered when their only daughter was assaulted outside of a North County high school. She was left alone on...

Missouri’s attorney general wants the teenage girl seen slamming another high schooler’s head into the concrete to be charged as an adult — and hit with homicide charges if the critically injured victim dies. “This evil and complete disregard for human life has no place in Missouri, or anywhere. I am praying for the victim,” state AG Andrew Bailey wrote of the disturbing video. “The criminal should be charged and tried as an adult. If the victim dies, that offense should rise to a homicide,” he stated of the unidentified 15-year-old whose case is being held in juvenile court. “I...

A woman — whom Hazelwood, Missouri, police described as “here illegally from Venezuela” — is now charged with killing 12-year-old Travis Wolfe in a crash that left him and his parents fighting for their lives. Wolfe died on March 6. Endrina Bracho of Venezuela was charged in March with one count of first-degree involuntary manslaughter, two counts of second-degree assault, two counts of child endangerment, and one count of driving without a license after allegedly causing a crash that left Wolfe dead and his parents, Timothy and Stephanie Wolfe, seriously injured. According to court records that FOX 2 Now reviewed,...

Rumors claim that Kailee has died after being beaten by Maurnice DeClue in the viral Hazelwood East High School fight video, know if she’s really dead or alive ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ A physical altercation between two students at a Missouri school resulted in severe consequences, with one female student left critically injured and the other now facing criminal felony charges. The alleged perpetrator, Maurnice DeClue, a 15-year-old Black female student at Hazelwood East High School, was identified on social media. In a video circulating online, DeClue is seen violently banging the head of Kailee, a white girl, onto the concrete surface between...

A Missouri teenager is fighting for her life after her skull was repeatedly smashed into a concrete roadway during an after school fight. Video shows a black teenage girl pummeling the child until her body went lifeless. Fox 2 reports the victim was discovered unconscious in the street near Hazlewood East High School suffering from a “severe head injury.” Watch video of the attack below. The St. Louis television station also reports that a 15-year-old girl has been taken into custody and is facing assault charges. There is no information on the condition of the victim. “That video was crazy....

The Chinese parent company of Cnano USA Inc. (Cnano USA) — which intends to build a facility in Kansas approximately 70 miles from Missouri’s Whiteman Air Force Base — employs dozens of CCP members and sold products to a Chinese university for its use in a Chinese military program. The president of a firm building a manufacturing facility near several Midwest military bases confirmed that his firm’s China-based parent company employs Chinese Communist Party (CCP) members and was previously involved in a military program during a state committee hearing on Monday. The Chinese parent company of Cnano USA Inc. (Cnano...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Some of the people who attended the near-record cold Kansas City Chiefs playoff game in January had to undergo amputations after suffering frostbite, a Missouri hospital said Friday.Research Medical Center didn't provide exact numbers but said in a statement that it treated dozens of people who had experienced frostbite during an 11-day cold snap in January. Twelve of those people — including some who were at the Jan. 13 game — had to undergo amputations involving mostly fingers and toes. And the hospital said more surgeries are expected over the next two to four weeks...

One week after he commuted the drunken driving sentence of former Kansas City Chiefs assistant coach Britt Reid, Missouri Gov. Mike Parson declined to offer specifics about his decision. In a statement to ESPN, the governor's office said, "No request, official or otherwise, was made on behalf of Mr. Reid for this commutation." A spokesperson for the office declined to comment beyond the statement. Reid, the son of Chiefs coach Andy Reid, served 16 months of a three-year sentence after pleading guilty to felony driving while intoxicated resulting in serious physical injury. According to prosecutors, Reid was driving about 84...

A new bill introduced in the Missouri legislature would classify assistance to transgender students under 18 in their "social transition" as a felony, making the legislation the first of its kind in a slew of culture war bills introduced by state Republicans. The bill defines a social transition as "the process by which an individual adopts the name, pronouns, and gender expression, such as clothing or haircuts, that match the individual's gender identity and not the gender assumed by the individual's sex at birth." The Missouri bill, introduced by Republican state Rep. Jamie Gragg, would also require the educators to...

Police are searching for a group of suspects accused of targeting a man in a violent incident outside a gas station on February 22 in Kansas City, Missouri. Surveillance video shows a man exit the gas station, located on the 4500 block of Cleveland Ave., just before 11:00 p.m. when three suspects approach him, KMBC reported Friday. Law enforcement said the suspects asked the man for a dollar and the man gave it to them. However, as the man appeared to try and get back into his vehicle, the suspects closed in and one of them allegedly shot the man,...

CBS News: Trump sweeps Republican caucuses today in Michigan, Missouri, and Idaho, winning all the delegates at stake.

KANSAS CITY, Mo.—President Donald Trump won the Missouri Republican presidential primary on March 2, the latest triumph in his undefeated nominating contest streak. The Associated Press called the race for President Trump at 12:40 p.m. ET with just 5 percent of the votes counted. The first voting results out of Missouri’s GOP caucus indicated a likely significant win for former President Donald Trump. Ben Watson caucused for former President Donald Trump because “he gave us a lot better prosperity when he was in office.” “Almost everything (President Trump) did helped America prosper,” Mr. Watson said. “Whereas the current president, everything...

Missouri’s Republican party is trying to boot one of its members from running for governor after finding out he was an honorary member of the Ku Klux Klan — and even pictured throwing Nazi salutes in front of a burning cross. “The Missouri Republican Party has been made aware that Darrell Leon McClanahan III filed for governor as a Republican despite his affiliation with the Ku Klux Klan, which fundamentally contradicts our party’s values and platform,” the state party posted on X Thursday. “We have begun the process of having McClanahan removed from the ballot as a Republican candidate. “We...