Missouri Congresswoman Jo Ann Emerson says she’ll retire in February. Who are the leading candidates to succeed her? John Hancock tells us.

Bob Costas sparks a firestorm by quoting Kansas City-based writer Jason Whitlock on the murder/suicide case of Kansas City Chiefs linebacker Jovan Belcher. Whitlock says if we didn’t have handguns, those two victims would still be alive. St. Louis Circuit Attorney Jennifer Joyce says Costas got it wrong.

Keep the State Off My Plate. That’s what Julie Gunlock writes in the Los Angeles Times. She’s the Director of the Women for Food Freedom Project at the Independent Women’s Forum.