Missouri's new congressional map carves up Kansas City into three separate districts, fulfilling the wishes of President Donald Trump. The ACLU filed a lawsuit Friday, and Kansas City Council recently passed a resolution authorizing legal action of its own.

Eight people, including six children, were injured in a crash on Friday afternoon involving a small school bus.

The drivers of two trucks were transported to a hospital with minor injuries, the fire department said. Cleanup is underway.

The Kansas City Fire Department (KCFD) responded to the fire around 1:40 p.m. in the area of East Missouri Avenue and Walnut Street.

Missouri Democrats see turning to the public as the best way to stop a new GOP-friendly congressional map from taking effect despite their minority status in the state legislature. Gov. Mike Kehoe

The suit derides the “bizarre giraffe-neck appendage” of a new district that splits Kansas City along its historic racial dividing line.

Kansas City Fire responded to the collision of two commercial trucks early Friday morning that led to the shutdown of a major thoroughfare.