Missouri News

A county commissioner from eastern Missouri is facing drug charges. Lincoln County Commissioner Matthew Bass has been charged with two felony counts of drug possession.

A 65-year-old Atlanta man accused of killing a former University of Missouri student more than 30 years ago appeared in court for the first time Friday.

The Missouri Department of Natural Resources has announced it is laying off 48 employees in its Division of State Parks and Historic Sites, far fewer than the 100 the agency originally estimated it would lose.

Missourians will soon have more chances to win tens of millions of dollars. The Missouri State Lottery Commission voted Friday to start selling lottery tickets for Mega Millions.

A former clerk for the McDonald County prosecutor's office will stand trial for telling people she had cancer and then accepting donations even though she was healthy.

Even though it's still fairly warm, Missouri transportation officials are getting ready for winter weather.

A Kansas City woman has filed a discrimination complaint against the city's downtown Power & Light District.

A southeast Missouri man has died after a fire at his home. The fire broke out early Tuesday in Dexter.

Fortunately, new research instead shows that most of these earthquakes are aftershocks of big earthquakes in the New Madrid seismic zone that struck the Midwest almost 200 years ago.

Federal criminal charges were filed against three people and state criminal charges against a Kansas City man related to the scam.

The University of Missouri Extension has received federal funding to help Amish and Mennonite produce growers reduce the use of high-risk pesticides.

Mid-continent earthquakes along the Mississippi and elsewhere might just be long-lived aftershocks of big quakes, not fresh events, geophysicists suggest in a new study.

Missouri has reached the century mark in its quest to repair 802 of the state's worst bridges in five years.

Some Hindus and yoga instructors say yoga has religious or spiritual aspects and shouldn't be subject to a Missouri sales tax that applies to recreation.

Posted on Wednesday, November 04, 2009 at 5:57 a.m. The top counties for the year were Osage County with 318 deer, Franklin County with 295 and Callaway County with 240.

The Mississippi, Missouri, Meramec and other rivers are now falling and are expected to dip back below flood stage over the next several days.

A former Missouri grain dealer has pleaded not guilty to 12 state charges in a $27 million grain fraud case.

St. Louis-area voters have picked a new state House member to replace one who resigned over the summer.

BeltonBelton voters, by a 72 percent margin, decided against a takeover of the citys park department.Mayor Jimmy Odom and some City Council members proposed to change the citys charter to allow the council to take control of the parks.

During a procession led by the Patriot Honor Guard, people lined the streets of Smithville, Plattsburg and Lathrop on Tuesday to honor a Missouri soldier killed in Afghanistan.