Heather Hollingsworth

October 26, 2023 | Daily Report Online

The disruption has left attorneys unable to search online records and forced them to file motions the old fashioned way — on paper. Courts are limping along, although the growing piles of paper are a mess that will have to be sorted and scanned eventually.

By Heather Hollingsworth and John Hanna | The Associated Press

5 minute read

April 20, 2022 | Daily Business Review

The federal judge's ruling did away with the last major vestige of federal pandemic rules and led to a mishmash of new locally created rules that reflected the nation's ongoing divisions over how to battle the virus.

By Heather Hollingsworth and Teresa Crawford

5 minute read

December 31, 2009 | Daily Report Online

KANSAS CITY, Mo. AP - A trucker and his son told investigators they tortured and killed a 20-year-old Ohio man in the trucker's basement with the help of several other people, prosecutors said in a court filing Wednesday seeking first-degree murder and other charges against the men.Authorities have been holding 38-year-old Chester Harvey Jr.

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH

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March 11, 2010 | Daily Report Online

KANSAS CITY, Mo. AP - Kansas City's school superintendent said Thursday the plan to shutter nearly half the district's schools, while "painful," will move forward quickly so that all the closures will be complete by fall.The school board narrowly approved the plan Wednesday night to close 29 of the district's 61 schools to try to stave off bankruptcy.

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH

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March 11, 2010 | Daily Report Online

KANSAS CITY, Mo. AP - Facing potential bankruptcy, the board that governs the once flush-with-cash Kansas City school district is taking the unusual and contentious step of shuttering almost half its schools.Administrators say the closures are necessary to keep the district from plowing through what little is left of the $2 billion it received as part of a groundbreaking desegregation case.

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH

3 minute read

August 17, 2011 | Legaltech News

The American Civil Liberties Union has filed a lawsuit against a Missouri school district as part of a national campaign to stop schools' internet filtering software from blocking educational sites that address gay, lesbian, and transgender issues. The ACLU said the suit was filed in federal court on behalf of organizations whose websites the filter blocked.

By Heather Hollingsworth

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August 18, 2009 | Daily Report Online

KANSAS CITY, Mo. AP - It appeared to be a clear-cut case of child abuse: An infant hospitalized with bleeding in his brain, his father behind bars suspected of shaking the baby.Only after the boy died without his father at his bedside did doctors realize the bleeding was brought on by a vitamin K deficiency - not abuse.

By HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH

5 minute read

November 12, 2009 | Daily Report Online

LEXINGTON, Mo. AP - An excavation was scheduled to resume Thursday at a rural western Missouri property where authorities believe they may find bodies and buried glass jars with notes written by children who may have documented sexual abuse.The property, about 30 miles east of Kansas City, was once owned by two of five family members arrested Tuesday.

By BILL DRAPER and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH

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