Top Stories: The Missouri Highway Patrol responded to hundreds of accident calls Sunday, including one on Interstate 44 involving dozens of vehicles and a fatality. One person was killed in a chain reaction crash in which the Highway Patrol reports 50-to-100 vehicles slammed into each other. Missourinet media partner KOLR-TV reports at least 20 people were transported to area hospitals from the accident on I-44 in Marshfield northeast of Springfield. And Kansas City Public Schools administrators canceled school Monday. Sending a message from its Twitter account at 5 a.m., the district said: “Due to inclement weather and icy road conditions, all Kansas City Public Schools will be closed”. Springfield schools are also closed.
