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(WSIL) -- Most of us have heard of helicopter parents, or those who hover of their child's every move. But is that style of parenting beneficial? News 3 spoke to local experts who weigh in and give advice.听

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) 鈥� A suburban Kansas City man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for killing his wife last year. The Kansas City Star reports that 64-year-old Larnell McDonald was sentenced Tuesday in Jackson County Circuit Court after being found guilty of involuntary manslaughter and armed criminal action in the killing of

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) 鈥� A group of about two dozen people gathered Saturday to pay their respects to the 22-year-old Independence police officer killed in a shooting earlier in the week. The small crowd gathered outside Centerpoint Medical Center as a motorcade escorted Officer Blaize Madrid-Evans鈥檚 body from the hospital to the Jackson County Medical

ALGIERS, Algeria (AP) 鈥� Algeria鈥檚 leader has declared a three-day period of mourning for former President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, whose 20-year-long rule ended in disgrace as he was pushed from power amid huge street protests when he decided to seek a new term. Bouteflika, who had been ailing since a stroke in 2013, died Friday at