Missouri News

Testimony in the trial of a black school teacher charged with assaulting police officers, resisting arrest and disturbing the peace at a Missouri store concluded Friday with the defendant telling the jury that white police officers had attacked and abused her.

Missouri Department of Labor director Larry Rebman will be in the St. Louis area on Thursday to discuss a program that he says has saved thousands of jobs in the region.

A woman who had been charged with child endangerment after almost 370 animals were seized from her Missouri farm has been placed on two years of unsupervised probation.Sixty-two-year-old Virginia Gambriel was charged with two counts of first-degree child endangerment after a raid in August 2008.

Jefferson City - Gov. Jay Nixon today presented the Missouri Medal of Valor to seven public safety officers from across the state for extraordinary acts of bravery and heroism that saved the lives of Missourians during 2008, his office announced in a news release.

Share + Nov 19, 2009 2:40 pm US/Central ST. LOUIS 1 of 1 A Missouri woman was arrested after a line-cutting altercation at a Wal-Mart in 2007.

A verdict could come as early as Thursday. Officials with the American Civil Liberties Union and Southern Christian Leadership Conference said the case is indicative of racial bias in the town, where 13 percent of the population is African-American. Kennett, the hometown of singer Sheryl Crow in the southeastern corner of Missouri , has struggled ...

Missouri highway officials have spent more than $100 million fixing the state's secondary highways this year.

Columbia Missourian Bustamante, her wrists shackled to her waist, told the judge that she had yet to meet with an attorney from the Missouri State Public Defender System and ... Police: Mo.

Missouri has approved $3 million in tax credits to kick-start a fundraising drive for renovations at the historic St.

Missouri's newest state senator has been sworn into office. Democrat Joe Keaveny of St.

Jose Lopez, also known as David Cerpa, 40, of Ontario, Calif., was sentenced by U.S. District Judge Ortrie D. Smith this afternoon to 22 years and six months in federal prison without parole.

Missouri agriculture has some new cheerleaders. A group calling itself the Missouri Farm Family Agriculture Alliance is launching an effort to promote Missouri crops, livestock and agribusinesses.

Five events starting in December offer Missourians a chance to see bald eagles in the wild and indoors.

The United States is doing a poor job of reducing preterm births, according to a new report, which found Mississippi, Alabama and Louisiana have especially high numbers of early, life-threatening deliveries.

Former Missouri lawmaker Judy Baker has a new job in President Barack Obama's administration.

Louis lawmaker Jeff Smith has been sentenced to one year and one day in prison in an obstruction of justice case.

Gov. Jay Nixon is outlining his latest funding plan for higher education. Nixon held a news conference Tuesday morning at the University of Missouri-St. Louis to announce an agreement regarding future funding for Missouri's public colleges and universities.

Prosecutors in Missouri have filed 15 additional charges against a father and his sons who are all accused of sexually abusing children.

Missouri's education commissioner is reconvening a special committee to provide advice about the future direction of the St.

Jay Nixon visited construction sites in Liberty and Springfield today to announce the Work Now initiative, which commits more than $260 million in federal and state funds to wastewater and drinking water construction projects in communities across Missouri.