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Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney is casting himself as a strict conservative as he looks to reset his campaign following three losses to rival Rick Santorum.

Shaken by a string of failures, Romney is hoping to avoid a fourth consecutive defeat Saturday on the path to his party's nomination.

Another excellent New Rule from Bill Maher, who took the GOP to task for being the ones who are really trying to divide Americans against one another, while blaming Obama for doing exactly that.

Though Republican Rick Santorum claimed momentum from the results, just 8 percent of Missouri's registered voters cast ballots in its presidential primary - setting a new low for state electoral participation.

For nearly two decades British security guard Edward Maher has managed to elude police after disappearing at the same time as the heist of a van containing more than 1million 19 years ago.

Roberta Sinclair matched all five white-ball numbers drawn on Jan. 28 with a used quick pick random draw, making her Missouri's first $1 million winner since Powerball changed in mid-January. Powerball players before Jan.

In the entranceway to the Missouri History Museum , not too far from where a small herd of African elephants roam their enclosure at the St.

Nicola Macpherson grabs a shiitake mushroom out of an oak log inside the greenhouse at Ozark Forest Mushrooms in the Big Springs region of the Ozarks on Jan.

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon said Thursday that before any toll booths could open on Interstate 70, voters first should agree to the idea.

Despite several lawmakers voicing fears about reversing decades of hard-fought civil rights gains, the Missouri House approved a measure that would change the rules for workplace discrimination cases heard in state court.

A group wanting to replace Missouri's income tax with a higher and broader sales tax says it is committed to getting the issue on the November ballot.

Owners who can no longer afford to care for their horses are abandoning them in southern Missouri, hoping they will join Missouri's only wild horse herd, which descends from animals set free in the Great Depression also by their impoverished owners.

A British security van driver suspected making off with 1 million pounds in a brazen 1993 heist was arrested in rural Missouri, where he had apparently been working for a cable company under a different name.

Mitt Romney, asked if there were any lessons learned in the wake of losing all three Republican voting contests to former Sen.

Jan 23, 2012 Hermann Jaeger, Ozark Grape Hunter: Saving European Vineyards in the Late 19th Century After months of legislative gridlock and political acrobatics, Missouri's congressional redistricting plan -- widely considered a partisan gerrymander -- awaits review from a trial judge.

Newt Gingrich, suddenly in danger of losing his perch as Mitt Romney's strongest GOP challenger, is fine-tuning his presidential campaign to place more emphasis on raising money, guarding his home turf and trying to avoid nasty quarrels with the front-runner. Rick Santorum's stunning success in this week's elections in Colorado, Minnesota and ... (more)

Leon Fisher, owner of Bud and Walt's Chicago Style Pizza and Pasta house in Nixa, has a few little... Bills in the Missouri House and Senate would allow Greene County commissioners to pass an ordinance to deal any properties that are considered a nuisance.

Hanna Woods Elementary School 's librarian said that when her colleagues first heard Judy Young at a conference two years ago, they were inspired by the author's ability to deconstruct the writing process.

A 55-year-old St. Louis man has died after being shot while carrying petitions to support a local ballot initiative about control of the St.

A couple is charged with promoting prostitution in downtown Springfield. Mark and Laura Fiedler were charged Monday, a year after they were arrested in a sting operation at the Landmark Building in Springfield.