Topics – Thousands of people gathered at a joint funeral Thursday at Children’s Mercy Park in Kansas City, Kansas for two Wyandotte County sheriff’s deputies killed in the line of duty. An eastern Kansas nonprofit that shelters troubled children wasn’t providing details Thursday about immigrant children staying at its group homes. Three years after a high-profile dispute over school-paid health insurance subsidies, a judge has ruled the coalition of graduate workers at the University of Missouri System’s flagship campus in Columbia have won a key legal victory in their fight to unionize.