Missouri High School Football News

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- Springfield Catholic jumped to an early 5-0 lead on its way to a route of Houston in Monday's district baseball semifinals.

Senior Ricky Frazier led Mizzou past Louisville in what may have been the greatest week of Mizzou's greatest era.

Ah, sweet redemption. Senior speed back Denzell Conway of the MICDS football team got his moment in the sun Saturday, finally.

About 150 investigators — on foot, horseback and all-terrain vehicles — combed rural Franklin County farmland Thursday looking for the child, whom investigators believe is dead.

Missouri coach Gary Pinkel has some options at defensive tackle, where Lucas Vincent and Harold Brantley are among those battling for the right to play next to incumbent starter Matt Hoch.

The enrollment effort fell short of the district's goal, but the district sees enough promise to open the school in fall 2014 after sharing space next school year at Hartman Elementary.

Detectives are investigating the deaths of two men and a woman whose bodies have been found at a farm just outside Ottawa in Franklin County, Kan., on Monday.

Last week in a game against Kirksville, Rock Bridge leadoff hitter Joe Barbee reached first base one steal shy of tying the school's single-season record.

The truck tumbled over a guardrail on the ramp from northbound I-35 and landed onto I-70. No serious injuries were reported.

The Kansas City Chiefs open their 2013 home schedule on September 15, when the Dallas Cowboys come to play.

Hearty paticipants ran through trenches, climbed walls and slogged through mud, among other obstacles, in three-mile Warrior Dash on Sunday at Platte Ridge Park in Platte City.

Family members of victims cheered when Matthew Nelson was sentenced for abusing 11 eastern Jackson County boys while they were in second and third grade.

When Rock Bridge left fielder Matt Priest lunged to his knees to snag a sinking line drive in the first inning of Thursday's game against Kirksville, it looked like a run-saving, highlight-reel caliber catch.

Kansas City police found the body Wednesday morning while investigating the disappearance of a Hickman Mills Junior High School eighth-grader. They would not confirm that the body belonged to the missing 14-year-old, identified by his mother as Montee Ross Jr.

Pleading guilty to two counts of first-degree murder meant Clifford D. Miller faced mandatory sentences of life in prison with no chance of parole.

Pleading guilty to two counts of first-degree murder meant Clifford D. Miller faced mandatory sentences of life in prison with no chance of parole.

And since I again missed the NFL combine this winter, I'm going on what I learned on Friday nights in the fall.