SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A southwestern Missouri man who spent eight years behind bars for his wife’s death before being exonerated is suing the detective who helped convict him.

Lisa Jennings’ Christmas Day death in 2006 was initially ruled a suicide. She had been shot at her Buffalo home. ...

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say a Missouri man who was free on bond while awaiting trial in a deadly 2017 shooting has been charged with killing a key witness in the case.

Twenty-seven-year-old Michael Dumas, of Pleasant Hill, was charged Sunday with first-degree murder and three ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — Freshman Drury University wrestler Donovan Benetti has been shot in the abdomen in a hunting accident.

University athletics spokesman Ed Beach says Benetti was flown to a Columbia hospital after he was wounded Saturday morning in Phelps County. Drury wrestling said ...

ROLLA, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say four people have been killed in a head-on crash in central Missouri.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol says the crash happened Sunday morning when a car drove into the path of a pickup truck on a rural highway about 4 miles (about 6 kilometers) south of ...

LAMPE, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say three people whose bodies were found in a parked vehicle in southwest Missouri died of apparent drug overdoses.

The Stone County Sheriff’s Office says in a Facebook

ST. THOMAS, U.S. Virgin Islands (AP) — The Paradise Jam tournament concludes Monday, highlighted by the championship game between Missouri and No. 12 Kansas State.

Four games are on Monday’s schedule at the University of the Virgin Islands’ Sports and Fitness Center.

The final day of ...

ST. THOMAS, U.S. Virgin Islands (AP) — Kansas State coach Bruce Weber didn’t panic when his 12th-ranked Wildcats struggled to score Sunday against Penn.

Instead, Weber counted on Kansas State’s defense to settle things down in the Wildcats’ 64-48 victory over the Quakers in the semifinals ...

ST. THOMAS, U.S. Virgin Islands (AP) — The Latest on the Paradise Jam (all times local):

11:30 p.m.

Dean Wade scored 17 points, and No. 12 Kansas State overcame an early deficit to beat Penn 64-48 Sunday night in the second semifinal at the Paradise Jam tournament.

Kamau Stokes ...

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Kansas State University officials estimate that half of the Manhattan campus will be powered by wind by 2020.

University officials announced on Tuesday a new agreement with Missouri-based Westar Energy, the

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Federal Reserve says farm income continued to decline across the Plains and western states this fall because crop prices remain weak.

The Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, Missouri, says more than half the bankers in the region say that farm income is lower than ...

CEDAR FALLS, Iowa (AP) — Eli Dunne passed for 227 yards and a pair of touchdowns, and Korby Sander had two takeaways as Northern Iowa ended its season with a 37-0 shutout of Missouri State on Saturday.

Sander, who led with 13 tackles, headed a defense that held Missouri State to nine first ...

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — Skyler Hogan finished with 15 points and six rebounds to lead Southeast Missouri State to a 63-42 thumping of Chattanooga in the South Alabama Tournament on Saturday.

The Redhawks opened the tournament by slipping past Jacksonville 77-71 on Friday night. They’ll play ...

ARNOLD, Mo. (AP) — Officials in northeastern Missouri have confirmed the shooting death of a man in a hunting accident.

Television station KSDK reports that ...

SAVANNAH, Mo. (AP) — A cat owner in northwestern Missouri is crafting makeshift shelters to help keep stray cats warm during the winter months.

Savannah resident Lindy Anderson built the temporary shelters out of Styrofoam coolers, which she stuffed with straw and fitted with a cat-sized ...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A report by the St. Louis Federal Reserve Bank says farm income is continuing to decline within its district.

The Fed says the third-quarter report released this week was the 19th straight survey in which most bankers indicated that farm income was on the decline. Bankers ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Frankie Wurtz hit three 3-pointers and finished with 16 points to help Green Bay beat No. 16 Missouri 56-49 on Friday night.

It was the highest ranked opponent Green Bay has ever beaten on the road. The Phoenix, who lost to No. 15 DePaul in Chicago last Friday, beat ...

MOBILE, Ala. (AP) — Alex Caldwell scored 17 points and Ledarrius Brewer added 16 to lead Southeast Missouri State to a 77-71 victory over Jacksonville on Friday night in the South Alabama tournament.

The game was tied 62-62 with six minutes remaining. Southeast Missouri State pulled away ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A Wisconsin man was convicted Friday in the stabbing death of a Missouri woman who forced her daughter for years to pretend to be disabled as part of a fraud scheme.

Nicholas Godejohn, 29, of Big Bend, Wisconsin, faces life in prison without the possibility of ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — Prosecutors say a Texas man has admitted stealing 654 firearms from United Parcel Service trailers in Missouri while en route to Bass Pro Shops.

The U.S. attorney’s office says in a news release that 34-year-old Frank McChriston of Ponder, Texas, pleaded guilty on ...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Missouri doctor has been sentenced to probation for obstructing an FBI investigation into the overbilling of Medicare.

The U.S. Attorney’s Office says in a news release that 49-year-old Vidal Sheen of St. Louis County was also ordered Friday to pay $45,000 in fines and ...

MANCHESTER, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri substitute teacher is seeking answers after claiming he was banned because he thanked students for saying the Pledge of Allegiance.

Jim Furkin has worked as a sub for about a decade in St. Louis County’s Parkway School District, mostly at Parkway South ...

KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — Tennessee has an opportunity Saturday to show how far it has come in the last year.

One year after setting a school record for losses and failing to win a single Southeastern Conference game, the ...

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — A Kansas man is charged with first-degree murder and child abuse in the death of a 2-month-old boy.

The Topeka Capital-Journal reports that 23-year-old ...

HANNIBAL, Mo. (AP) — City leaders in the historic northeast Missouri hometown of Mark Twain have been talking about renovating the area along Twain’s beloved Mississippi River for three decades, and now, that work is about to begin.

JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) — A Joplin man has been convicted of first-degree murder in the death of a woman who jilted him.

The Joplin Globe ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A statue of the Roman goddess of agriculture that topped Missouri’s Capitol building has been removed for the first time in nearly a century for maintenance.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A Springfield man pleaded not guilty plea in a crash that killed a 10-year-old outside an elementary school.

Police say Lonnie Yeager had a seizure when he hit and killed Riddick Tudor in September 2017 outside Campbell Elementary School. Four other people were ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A nurse’s decision to donate a kidney to a patient triggered a series of events that led to three people getting new organs at two Kansas City-area hospitals.

Christa Jordan, a nurse at Children’s Mercy Hospital in Kansas City, Missouri, wanted to donate to her ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A long-awaited state audit of Jackson County has begun.

The Kansas City Star reports that Missouri Auditor Nicole Galloway announced Thursday that her audit of the county’s ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — The Latest on the trial of a Wisconsin man charged with killing the abusive mother of his Missouri girlfriend (all times local):

1:25 p.m.

A Missouri woman whose mother forced her to use a wheelchair and pretend to be ill testified that she asked her ...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s unemployment rate has hit a tied record low.

Data released Thursday from the Department of Economic Development show the state’s unemployment rate tied for a record low of 3.1 percent in October.

Since data started being tracked in 1976, the only ...

ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) — In a Nov. 14 story about a woman who won a $1 million Powerball lottery prize, The Associated Press erroneously reported that she was from Iowa and that her ticket matched all six numbers. Nicole Argent is from St. Charles, Missouri, and her ticket matched five numbers, ...

ROCHEPORT, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri State Highway Patrol says three vehicles, including a school bus, were involved in a crash on Interstate 70 near Rocheport.

Officials say a passenger car spun out on the Missouri River Bridge early Thursday. The school bus from Our Lady of Lourdes ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri State Highway Patrol has released the names of the four people killed in an accident on Interstate 70 year Columbia.

The wreck happened Wednesday afternoon. I-70 was already shut down in the area due to an earlier vehicle fire. The patrol says the fatal ...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man has been charged with shooting out the back window of a stranger’s pickup truck in a case of road rage.

Forty-nine-year-old Gregory Cross, of Springfield, was arraigned Tuesday. He pleaded not guilty to unlawful use of a weapon and armed criminal ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Springfield man who participated in a conspiracy to distribute more than $1 million of methamphetamine in Missouri has been sentenced to 38.4 years in prison without parole.

Federal prosecutors say 29-year-old Michael Ryan Nevatt was sentenced Wednesday after ...

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Four people died in a crash involving several vehicles on Interstate 70 near Columbia.

Boone County assistant fire chief Gale Blomenkamp says the crash involved a semi-trailer truck, which was hauling two other semis, as well as a tractor-trailer and two passenger ...

WEBSTER CITY, Iowa (AP) — Iowa police say they’ve arrested a man in the death of a woman found not breathing at a central Iowa home nearly two months ago.

The Iowa Department of Public Safety says in a news release that 32-year-old Zachery Bassett was arrested Wednesday in St. Joseph, ...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — The family of a woman slain in Kansas by a man who wanted to kill Jews has settled a lawsuit with Walmart over the sale of a shotgun used in the shooting.

Terri LaManno was killed in 2014 outside the Village Shalom care center in Overland Park, Kansas.

The ...

FLORIDA, Mo. (AP) — The body of a St. Louis ballet dancer has been found in a rural northeast Missouri lake, a day after she was reported missing.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol says the body of 23-year-old Raffaella Maria Stroik was discovered Wednesday by a private plane pilot flying ...

SHAWNEE, Kan. (AP) — Authorities have identified a former college basketball player in Kentucky as the victim of a murder-suicide in suburban Kansas City.

Police in Shawnee, Kansas, found the bodies of 27-year-old Courtney Bivins, of Kansas City, Missouri, and 34-year-old Joshua Mobley, of ...

MANHATTAN, Kan. (AP) — Authorities say a 2-month-old baby has died three days after he was found not breathing in Manhattan.

Riley County Police Department spokeswoman Hali Rowland says the boy died Sunday.