JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) — Authorities have charged a Missouri man with shooting and critically wounding his son and killing his son's girlfriend after he was told he couldn't see his grandchildren...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Some black activists in St. Louis say there's an unfair racial component to criticism of St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner over her hiring of a man who led the investigation...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri's case for not renewing the license of its lone remaining abortion clinic includes a claim that three "failed abortions" there required additional surgeries and...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Officials say vandals have spray painted apparent references to a Peru prison massacre on a wall at the National World War I Museum in Kansas City.

SPOKANE, Mo. (AP) — A southwest Missouri high school graduate who was initially charged with sexually assaulting one classmate and threatening to assault another classmate has pleaded guilty to a...

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch, June 16

The gun industry, whose political power once seemed unassailable, shows new signs of coming unraveled. A never-ending series of mass shootings around the...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) — A man living in the country illegally has been sentenced to 18 months in prison for unlawfully re-entering the U.S.

The Kansas City Star, June 18

The border war is back: It's Kansas vs. Missouri in a pointless battle for USDA jobs

A costly competition between Kansas and Missouri over hundreds of...

A former FBI agent accused of botching the criminal investigation of former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens turned himself in Monday after being indicted on charges alleging that he lied in a...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A St. Louis judge says Missouri's Republican-led Legislature cannot cut off funding to abortion providers and their affiliates.

EUREKA, Mo. (AP) — An endangered wolf pup born at a preservation center near St. Louis has been named in honor of the St. Louis Blues' Stanley Cup victory.

GARDEN CITY, Mo. (AP) — Attorney General Eric Schmitt has sued a western Missouri town whose elected leaders held a closed-door vote to dismantle the police force.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson appointed a former judge who has supported an anti-abortion pregnancy center — and been disciplined for publicly doing so — to an...

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Two of five people from Kansas City remain hospitalized after their boat exploded on the Lake of the Ozarks.

The 25-foot Chris Craft boat exploded and caught on fire...

EMINENCE, Mo. (AP) — An Illinois woman has drowned while tubing in a southern Missouri creek that contained branches and other debris from recent flooding.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Two Missouri casinos will be getting new owners.

VICI Properties Inc. and Century Casinos Inc. are acquiring the Isle Casino Cape Girardeau in Cape Girardeau and Lady Luck...

TRENTON, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Highway Patrol says a 24-year-old police officer is recovering after being shot by a prisoner during a struggle inside a police vehicle.

ELDON, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri State Highway Patrol says a 47-year-old woman died after her golf cart overturned.

The patrol says Tisha Vanbarneveld, of St. Charles, was injured Saturday...

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Two women are charged with helping a relative who left Missouri with her daughter five years ago despite not having custody of the child.

DONIPHAN, Mo. (AP) — A small hospital in southeast Missouri that has been closed since October will not reopen.

The board of Ripley County Memorial Hospital in Doniphan voted Friday to...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A non-profit group is hoping to save historic homes that were damaged when a powerful tornado swept through Missouri's capital city last month.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A bill dubbed the "Jedi Disposal Act" could soon make Missouri the first state to allow outdoor cremations.

The bill would allow licensed funeral directors to...

OKOBOJI, Iowa (AP) — As a 62nd season of shows beckons, a new building on the Okoboji Summer Theatre grounds will be used for a rehearsal hall by actors hailing from across America.

CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — An eastern Missouri woman accused of attacking her 5-year-old son with a knife has been found not mentally competent to stand trial.

RAYTOWN, Mo. (AP) — Police say a woman has been shot and killed in the Kansas City, Missouri, suburb of Raytown.

The Kansas City Star reports the shooting occurred early Saturday morning in...

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) — A jury has convicted a 19-year-old Independence man of second-degree murder and a weapons count in the January 2018 shooting death of a teen.

STOCKTON, Mo. (AP) — Many residents of a rural southwestern Missouri county are critical of a state law that restricts how much local authorities can regulate industrial feedlots and say they feel...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Efforts to put a new Missouri law banning abortions at eight weeks of pregnancy to a public vote hit another roadblock.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly says she plans to issue an executive order to end a longstanding economic border war between her state and Missouri in the Kansas City area.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson is on a trade mission in Europe.

Parson left Friday for his first trade mission since becoming governor a year ago. He's visiting France,...

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri bar that served as a set location for the movie "Gone Girl" will reopen later this month.

The Southeast Missourian reports that The Bar in downtown Cape...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Organizers of the celebration to honor the Stanley Cup champion St. Louis Blues expect a massive crowd, and security will be tight.

MURPHY, N.C. (AP) — Authorities say a missing 5-year-old-old girl whose father hadn't seen her since she was a baby has been found in North Carolina, and her mother is charged in Missouri with...

OZARK, Mo. (AP) — Their ghostly pale color is the first hint these critters prefer the deep darkness of caves.

And bristly cave crayfish are so rare they've only been found in caves in nine...

MEXICO, Mo. (AP) — On Becker Family Farms in central Audrain County, the transition of ownership from one generation to another two years ago was also the time to specialize in crop...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Gov. Mike Parson says the state is getting as much as $28.8 million in federal grants to repair a freight and passenger train bridge in St. Louis.

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) — The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced Thursday that it will relocate two research agencies' headquarters to the Kansas City area, delighting Kansas and Missouri...

BENTON, Mo. (AP) — A 33-year-old southeast Missouri woman whose boyfriend is charged with killing her 2-year-old daughter is now charged in connection to the child's death.

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A parade 52 years in the making will finally happen Saturday in St. Louis, when the city celebrates the Blues' first-ever Stanley Cup championship.

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — The Mississippi River is dropping below flood stage along many of Iowa's riverfront cities after nearly three months of record highs caused by melting snow and torrential...

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) — The Harry S. Truman Library and Museum will close for about a year starting at the end of next month to undergo a $22 million renovation and expansion.

BRANSON, Mo. (AP) — The southwest Missouri tourist town of Branson is getting a new science attraction called WonderWorks.

The Orlando, Florida-based operation announced this week that the...

SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (AP) — Pope Francis on Wednesday deemed the first known black Roman Catholic priest in the United States to be "venerable," positioning the former slave for possible...

EAST CAPE GIRARDEAU, Ill. (AP) — The U.S. Coast Guard says it rescued 17 people and three dogs from floodwaters in Alexander County in southern Illinois.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Amtrak service between St. Louis and Kansas City will be partially restored this week.

The passenger rail service line and the Missouri Department of Transportation...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — A Missouri man who used fake nurse credentials to get jobs at three health care facilities has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison.

CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) — Barring an unexpected development, Metro Business College plans to close its campuses in Cape Girardeau, Jefferson City and Rolla by the end of the year.

BUTLER, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say a pilot killed when his small plane crashed into a western Missouri grain bin was an 80-year-old man who split his time between Florida and Kansas...