Author: Luke Nozicka
Luke Nozicka
has 7.3% among authors.
BS Score: 1.4%.
Articles analyzed: 8.
Words analyzed: 34,003.
Analyzed articles
STLPR
- By Luke Nozicka
- 6/3/2026, 9:00 AM
Negativity Bias 27.9% - Anecdotal 17.7% - Self-Serving Bias 14.4%
When Taylor Kiesel arrived at Change Academy at Lake of the Ozarks, a youth residential treatment center in Missouri, another student cautioned her. “Welcome to hell,” the kid said. Kiesel, then 16, soon learned why. She and other former students said staff at the center, known as Calo, neglected and assaulted the children and teenagers... more
STLPR
- By Luke Nozicka
- 5/12/2026, 9:00 AM
Negativity Bias 22.1% - Unattributed Quote 17.6% - Quote-first Misdirection 16.3%
The CEO of Kanakuk Kamps, a Christian summer camp in southwest Missouri plagued by a history of sexual abuse, is said to be retiring later this year. In a letter to camp families, Joe White, 77, reportedly said he would retire Aug. 31 after decades of overseeing the camp that has brought thousands of children to Branson. He cited medical... more
STLPR
- By Luke Nozicka
- 5/8/2026, 6:48 PM
Negativity Bias 55.2% - Framing Effect 25.7% - Appeal to Authority 22.4%
A California woman will spend three years in federal prison for plotting to have her estranged son kidnapped and taken to the now-shuttered Agape Boarding School in southwest Missouri. Despite her son’s restraining order against her, Shana Gaviola arranged in 2021 for her son to be taken against his will from a Fresno, California,... more
KCUR - Kansas City news and NPR
- By Luke Nozicka
- 5/8/2026, 8:00 AM
Negativity Bias 15.4% - Appeal to Emotion 9.7%
A California woman will spend three years in federal prison for plotting to have her estranged son kidnapped and taken to the now-shuttered Agape Boarding School in southwest Missouri. Despite her son’s restraining order against her, Shana Gaviola arranged in 2021 for her son to be taken against his will from a Fresno, California,... more
St. Louis Public Radio
- By Luke Nozicka
- 4/24/2026, 7:25 PM
Negativity Bias 9.4% - Ambiguity (Equivocation) 9.4% - Optimism Bias 9.2%
The approval of a controversial $3 billion data center project planned near the Armory site has left some St. Louis residents wondering: What is the Board of Public Service? The board has been under a microscope this week as it unanimously signed off Tuesday on a conditional use permit allowing developers to build a data center as part... more
STLPR
- By Luke Nozicka
- 4/17/2026, 8:04 PM
Unattributed Quote 29.8% - Negativity Bias 27% - Availability Heuristic 20.9%
A St. Louis man who says he was unarmed when an officer shot him in the back last year is suing the city, which already has to pay out millions in shooting judgments. Vincent Simmons filed a federal lawsuit last week against the police board and the St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department officer who shot him. The officer shot Simmons... more
KCUR - Kansas City news and NPR
- By Luke Nozicka
- 4/14/2026, 9:00 AM
Ambiguity (Equivocation) 35.3% - Negativity Bias 26.2% - Anecdotal 22.7%
On a recent afternoon, Robert Perry, a retired pastor, was driving to visit an immigrant at a southwest Missouri jail when he learned the man was no longer there. Since November, Perry, 81, has visited 22 people suspected of being in the U.S. illegally at the Greene County jail, after he connected with a chapter of Abide in Love, a group... more
STLPR
- By Luke Nozicka
- 4/13/2026, 9:00 AM
Appeal to Emotion 19.6% - Politically Left Leaning Bias 6.4% - Negativity Bias 5.3%
On a recent afternoon, Robert Perry, a retired pastor, was driving to visit an immigrant at a southwest Missouri jail when he learned the man was no longer there. Since November, Perry, 81, has visited 22 people suspected of being in the U.S. illegally at the Greene County jail, after he connected with a chapter of Abide in Love, a group... more