Officials say the achievement, for schools with significant research activity, will boost UMKC’s profile and attract businesses to KC.

Joshua Kezer walks out of the Jefferson City Correctional Center as a free man on Feb. 18, 2009. Kezer was wrongfully convicted for the murder of Angela Mischelle Lawless and spent 16 years in prison.

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