Washington News

Interest in politics bottoms out this time of year. People are in vacation mode, and elections are far away.

"The State of Missouri tried this year it couldn't do it," says Sgt. Jason Grellner of the Franklin County Narcotics Unit, "the State of Indiana tried they didn't get it done other states have tried," and where all of them have failed...success in small town Washington, Missouri.

Kansas City Star A Washington, Mo., man is charged with first-degree murder in the strangling of an eastern Missouri woman who went missing last week.

If you get the sniffles in Washington, don't reach for the Sudafed without a prescription.

A tragic break in the case of a missing woman from Union, MO. The body of 53 year old Deborah Marsch was found Sunday evening near Union.

People buying certain cold medicines in the eastern Missouri town of Washington will need a prescription after the City Council voted to crack down on a main ingredient in methamphetamine.

A missing Union, Mo. woman has been found dead. Police say Deborah Marsch, 53, was the victim of a random attack.

A 45-year-old man is charged with first-degree murder in the strangling of an eastern Missouri woman who went missing last week.

A 45-year-old man was in police custody Sunday night in connection with the death of a Franklin County woman whose car and dog were found abandoned Friday morning, authorities said.

New June 26, 3:38 p.m. Considering the dismal state of education funding in Washington, the mood was about as upbeat as it could be when Lake Washington School District officials presented the School Board with a proposed $216.7 million budget June 22.

A 27-year-old New Haven woman was sentenced Friday on methamphetamine and pseudoephedrine related conspiracy charges, Acting US Attorney Michael W. Reap said.

Four-time Race Across America champion Jure Robic once again led the long, lonely parade of ultramarathon cyclists into the St.

It was a deadly weekend at two major St. Louis area racing events, as two men were killed in separate accidents at the Budweiser Creve Coeur Lake Drag Boat Classic and at the St.

Franklin County prosecutors have struck a plea deal with a man charged with killing his father last year.

Joplin is one of the host cities for the 2009 Missouri Humanities council Chautauqua to be held June 17-20, 2009.

Gourmet to Go will open a downtown caf late this summer in St. Louis Place at Olive and Broadway.

Columbia Sylvan Learning customers will get their money refunded and receive top priority over creditors, the center's owner said in a news release Thursday.

The owner of Columbia's Sylvan Learning Center should have the money to meet shut-down obligations, especially to customers, a spokeswoman for Sylvan Learning Inc.

The sentencing of one of five men charged in connection with a fatal shooting during a home invasion in 2008 was postponed Monday.

A Franklin County hospital is too close to a neighbor to qualify for extra federal money.