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Community colleges have joined Missouri's four-year colleges and universities in agreeing to freeze tuition next school year if state officials promise to nick and not slash their budgets.

It's a concern nationwide. There is a growing number of untested rape kits in storage, some dating back more than 20 years.

Posted on Thursday, November 19, 2009 at 5:12 a.m. Police say the thefts are happening at fitness centers, shopping plazas and the victim often doesna t notice something has been stolen until they see charges on their card.

Seven emergency responders, including two from the Kansas City area, have been given the Missouri Medal of Valor for savings lives in 2008.Democratic Gov.

A TEENAGE girl in Missouri will be charged as an adult, her lawyer said, for allegedly killing a nine-year-old girl because she "wanted to know what it felt like". The court in Cole County, near Jefferson City, charged the 15-year-old as an adult with strangling and stabbing to death last month nine-year-old Elizabeth Olten, lawyer Kurt Valentine ...

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A state investigation leads to the firing of a sex offender working for the State of Missouri in Joplin.

An undated file photo provided by the Cole County Sheriff's Department shows Elizabeth Olten, who went missing near her home on Route D near St.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A police officer testified Wednesday that a 15-year-old girl told investigators she killed a 9-year-old neighbor because she wanted to know what it felt like to kill someone, as a judge ruled the teen should stand trial as an adult.

Faced with high health insurance costs, a North Carolina brokerage passed the buck on to its employees, a Texas public relations firm switched from group insurance to stipends, and a Missouri travel agency let its workers walk away instead paying for insurance.

The related investigation in the Western District of Missouri is called Operation Juice Box.

Mid-Missouri has waited for court proceedings to begin in the Elizabeth Olten murder case to shed more light on the murder.

Missouri's unemployment rate dropped slightly last month as a few thousand more people gained jobs.

The Salvation Army begins their red kettle campaign on Monday. They will ring at more than 30 locations across Linn County.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol is investigating the death of a 30-year-old man in a shootout with a sheriff's deputy.

A Kansas City. Mo., man has been arrested in connection with a mid-Missouri home robbery in which one of his alleged accomplices was shot to death.

UPDATE: The situation has been resolved. Officials are expected to present more details at 4 p.m. press conference.

Roland Neil Mohler, 47, of Bates City, was arrested Tuesday, Nov. 10, and along with his father and three brothers, charged with 14 felonies, including forcible sodomy and forcible rape with a child less than 12 years old and use of a child in a sexual performance, according to a news release from Missouri Highway Patrol.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. a ' Two hikers are safe after being rescued by Missouri State Parks employees.

Jackson County State Rep. Gary Dusenberg will lead a House review of this week's false alarm at a state office building in Jefferson City Tuesday.