(KTRS) – On the heels of protests over the racial conditions on the University of Missouri-Columbia campus, the campus police have released new guidelines for reporting “Hateful or Hurtful Speech”. Students who witness hateful statements should call police immediately and provide information about the incident. But officers are also asking students to take pictures of…
(KTRS) – The dean of the University of Missouri School of Journalism is weighing in on the controversy after a professor blocked a photographer from covering yesterday’s protests on the school’s campus. A video shows assistant communications professor Melissa Click asking for muscle to help remove freelance photographer Tim Tai from the protester’s encampment on…
WASHINGTON (AP) – Starbucks is pushing back against accusations from GOP presidential front-runner Donald Trump and others that its minimalist holiday cup design is a slap at Christmas. In a statement Tuesday touting its 2015 Christmas coffee, Starbucks said it’s introducing this year’s exclusive blend on behalf of its 300,000 employees “from diverse ethnic backgrounds.”…
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) – Maine’s attorney general is suing a protester who she says yelled so loudly outside a Planned Parenthood facility that he disrupted health care services there. Attorney General Janet Mills filed a complaint under the state’s civil rights act against 26-year-old Brian Ingalls, of Lisbon. She says he violated the rights of…
OLATHE, Kan. (AP) – A Missouri white supremacist who killed three people at two Kansas Jewish sites last year is about to find out if he will be sentenced to death. Frazier Glenn Miller Jr. was convicted in August of capital murder, attempted murder and other charges. The same jury that convicted him after a…
