Missouri News

After years of deep budget cuts, several states are poised to boost higher education funding this year, often in exchange for a promise by public colleges and universities to freeze tuition.

Radar indicated a tornado briefly touched down Tuesday over the east runways of Denver International Airport, where thousands of people took shelter in bathrooms, stairwells and other safe spots until the dangerous weather passed, officials said.

The Missouri State Fair will be increasing its efforts to collect canned food this year as it joins in a challenge presented by its industry trade association.

Here's how former Missouri Sen. Matt Bartle, R-Lee's Summit, once described the state's love affair with tax credits as an economic development tool: "We have become drunk on tax credits," Mr. Bartle said.

Missouri Sen. Claire McCaskill Tuesday added her support to a growing roster of Democratic activists pushing the former secretary of state to make another bid for the White House in 2016.

The Joplin Globe reports the announcement came after a closed board meeting Friday , which was the last of several board meetings held in recent weeks in conjunction with Speck's annual evaluation.

Scott Mestrezat, 27, is using a standup paddleboard to travel from the headwaters of the Missouri River to St. Louis.

ST. LOUIS -- The ash trees on the grounds of the Gateway Arch are expected to die off soon, and they're being removed.

Are you interested in locally raised and prepared foods? Have you tried to find fresh food for your home and for eating out? Check out these local places to explore.

St Louis, MO - infoZine - Missouri has been held out as a model for juvenile corrections programs, but the court system that puts young people into these programs is in crisis, finds a recent report by the National Juvenile Defender Center .

Are you wondering if anyone won the Powerball jackpot? The Powerball winning numbers for the June 15, 2013 drawing were 28, 36, 40, 48, 55, and the red Powerball number was 1. On Monday, June 17, Missouri Lottery officials announced one Powerball winner won a huge $1 million prize! The Missouri Powerball winner matched five out of six Powerball ... (more)

They call themselves "recovering politicians"--political figures whose careers and dreams have come crashing down because of scandals.

Pam Stephens and her father, Mike Evermon, in 1989. Stephens said her father "worked very hard to support his family."

For years he taught certified nursing assistants in southwest Missouri, and the fact that he was gay was no secret.

Missouri residents soon could turn to their hometown banks for a quick cash advance under legislation that could allow traditional financial institutions to compete with the payday lenders that proliferate across the state.

After all the phone calls, letters and trips to the Capitol, St. Louis developers are now celebrating that Missouri legislators did not get around to cutting historic tax credits.

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Summertime means the beach, and what's the beach without a good book? Whether your taste runs to thrillers, romance, literary fiction or nonfiction, there's something for you.

Dr. Robert Barnett, a Fulton veterinarian, draws blood from "Noodle," a Tennessee Walking Horse owned by Toni Michelle of Fulton as the first step in the Coggins test to make sure the animal does not have equine infectious anemia .

We here at NewsChannel 5 want to thank each and every one of you who helped make the 15th annual Komen St. Louis Race for the Cure a huge success.