LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Federal prosecutors have recommended a reduced sentence for a New Jersey political consultant caught in an Arkansas political corruption case. Donald “D.A.” Jones faces 33 to 41 months in prison when sentenced
BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) – Bentonville police released the name of an officer who shot and killed a 17-year-old robbery suspect. Officer Joseph Brown shot Dominick Matt on Dec. 6 and has been placed on administrative leave until
Government chatbots could soon be answering more questions from Missourians about their taxes or welfare if a proposal by an agency in Gov. Mike Parson’s administration gains traction. The Office of Administration asked for about $16 million
WENTZVILLE, Mo. (AP) – General Motors will invest $1.5 billion to make what it calls the “next generation” of mid-sized pickup trucks at its plant near St. Louis, the companys president said Friday. GM will use the
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – A judge has ruled that a Missouri midwife and her clinic can continue delivering the babies of its mostly Mennonite and Amish patients.Cole County Circuit Judge Jon Beetem disagreed this month with the
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Lawyers for a Missouri doctor who impregnated a 16-year-old Kentucky girl say the doctors marriage to the girl is valid and a legitimate defense to child pornography charges. Dr. Ashu Joshi’s attorneys contend
CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) – A former St. Louis-area dentist has been charged with threatening three judges involved in his divorce and child custody dispute. Jeffrey Reuter, 51, pleaded not guilty Thursday to three felony counts of interfering
MAYFLOWER, Ark. (AP) – Authorities are investigating after a property owner discovered a man’s body near Interstate 40 in central Arkansas. The man’s body was discovered Thursday afternoon by a property owner who was walking along a
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) – An Arkansas police officer who was fatally shot as he sat in his patrol car has been remembered for his integrity, professionalism as well as for his infectious smile and goofy laugh. During
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) – Police in the southeast Missouri town of Cape Girardeau are continuing to investigate after a man was shot to death at an apartment complex. The Southeast Missourian reports that the victim was
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – An Arkansas panel set a cutoff date for farmers to spray an herbicide next year but abandoned two proposals that critics said would be too expensive. The Arkansas State Plant Board voted
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – Two attorneys involved in an animal rights group’s open records lawsuit against the University of Missouri are seeking $345,000 in fees for their work fighting to obtain research records involving cats and dogs.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) – Missouri State University has received a $6.5 million donation that will be used to expand agriculture education for students in the Springfield public school district. The Darr Family Foundation said Wednesday the donation
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – The Arkansas Supreme Court ruled Thursday the state must count thousands of signatures submitted in favor of holding a referendum on a new law expanding the procedures optometrists can perform. In a
NEWPORT, Ark. (AP) – A teenager charged in the 2017 killing of an Arkansas police officer can be tried as an adult, the state Court of Appeals ruled. Derrick Heard was 16 when he was charged as
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – The Arkansas Supreme Court ruled Thursday that a death row inmate who was spared from execution two years ago is not entitled to new DNA testing of evidence that his attorneys say
HIGHFILL, Ark. (AP) – The airport serving northwest Arkansas and surrounding areas will be renamed the Northwest Arkansas National Airport, airport authority board members decided Wednesday. The airport, previously known as Northwest Arkansas Regional Airport, will retain
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – A federal judge on Wednesday restricted Arkansas from enforcing a law that bans using terms such as “burger” or “sausage” to sell vegetarian and vegan products.U.S. District Judge Kristine Baker granted a
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Kansas Citys new airport will include bathrooms designed to be inclusive for many situations, including two all-gender bathrooms. Justin Meyer, deputy director of the citys aviation department, told a City Council committee
OSAGE BEACH, Mo. (AP) – Divers for the Missouri State Highway Patrol have recovered the body of a man who went missing after a canoe he was in flipped at the Lake of the Ozarks.The patrol said
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) – A judge has denied two University of Arkansas students’ request to block a public health decree that has barred them from attending classes during a mumps outbreak because they don’t have the proper
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – The Kansas City Star says it will stop publishing a print edition on Saturdays in mid-March as more readers get their news online. The paper said Tuesday in a letter to readers
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – Authorities are investigating the death of a Columbia man who was found unresponsive in his still-running car as a homicide. Police identified the man in a news release Tuesday as 36-year-old Marceino Carlous
PATTON, Mo. (AP) – A southeast Missouri school district was flooded with complaints over the latest school-sponsored raccoon hunt, a tradition that dates back 37 years. The Banner Press reports reports more than 2,200 people across the
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. (AP) A Garland County justice of the peace won the Republican primary Tuesday for an Arkansas House seat vacated after a lawmaker was ousted for pleading no contest for failing to pay state
MUSKOGEE, Okla. (AP) An eastern Oklahoma man was arrested early Wednesday in western Arkansas for the stabbing of his supervisor at a fast food restaurant and the abduction of his wife and 2-year-old daughter. Police in
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) Missouri Supreme Court judges have denied a death row inmate’s appeal.David Hosier was sentenced to death for killing Angela Gilpin in 2009. The 64-year-old had a relationship with Gilpin while she was
Photo: Courtesy Associated Press via St. Louis Post-Dispatch JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A Missouri lawmaker has asked Gov. Mike Parson to prevent the state from reinstalling a statue of a Roman goddess on the dome of
SPRINGDALE, Ark. (AP) – A northwestern Arkansas woman was sentenced to 40 years in prison for trying to hire a hit man to kill a judge and another man in exchange for thousands of dollars in electronics
CONWAY, Ark. (AP) – A Conway police officer who is on military leave inadvertently shot an 18-year-old man when his gun accidentally discharged, authorities said.The officer was preparing to clean a gun when it discharged Friday, striking
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Authorities say a mid-Missouri couple is jailed after being charged with repeatedly locking a 9-year-old boy in a closet for hours without food or water. Cole County authorities said 52-year-old Joseph Ciaveralla
Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt says his office will not defend the state in a lawsuit contending the Missouri House violated the state’s open records law. Schmitt declined to explain his decision concerning a lawsuit over an
KIRKSVILLE, Mo. (AP) – A 35-year-old Missouri man has been sentenced to five years in prison for attacking his wife with an ax. Alidor Sita Masingo, of Kirksville, was sentenced after he pleaded guilty in late November
Photo courtesy of Associated Press via St. Louis Post-Dispatch JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Government funding for Missouri Planned Parenthood clinics is at stake in a lawsuit set to be argued before the state Supreme Court on
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri’s attorney general on Monday announced he’s suing the city of Marshfield for allegedly using traffic ticket quotas to generate revenue. In the lawsuit, Republican Attorney General Eric Schmitt’s office claims that
BENTON, Mo. (AP) – Current and former inmates say a rural Missouri county jail has been denying detainees basic necessities such as soap and shampoo. Allen Towe, of Sikeston, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch female inmates at
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) – A Springfield man awaiting trial in the killing of a toddler has been sentenced to two life sentences plus another 10 years for abusing a different child. Judge Thomas Mountjoy said 33-year-old Kenneth
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – The cold and flu season is just beginning, but the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services said Monday three deaths are blamed on the flu.The health department did not release any
CONWAY, Ark. (AP) – A Canadian-based mass timber manufacturer that Walmart has invested in announced Monday it’ spending $90 million to open a plant in Arkansas, the company’s first in the United States.Structurlam Mass Timber Corporation announced
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Employees at Missouri’s veterans home could see wages climb as turnover soars in the state. This comes as Gov. Mike Parson and legislators attempt to boost the pay for all state workers
LITTLE ROCK Ark. (AP) – According to health officials, people in Arkansas are having fewer babies. KATV reports the Arkansas Department of Health says the state last year had its lowest birth rate in at least 19
BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) – The Arkansas State Police announced Saturday it’s investigating the fatal shooting of a robbery suspect by a Bentonville police officer. Authorities said Bentonville police suspected that 17-year-old Dominick Matt had attempted to rob
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri’s minimum wage is set to increase again as part of a voter-approved plan to gradually hike pay. The minimum wage rate will hit $9.45 an hour beginning Jan. 1, up from
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – Former Columbia Police Chief Ken Burton pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor after originally facing a driving while intoxicated charge.The Columbia Missourian reported Burton didn’t attend a municipal court hearing Friday but his attorney,
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Dozens of sinkholes, some up to 12 feet deep, are dotting the landscape in the small southeastern Missouri city of Caruthersville, forcing road detours, swallowing sections of people’s yards and leaving city leaders
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Two Arkansas air ambulance bases closed because their operator wasn’t earning enough money from medical flights to keep them open. Air Evac Lifeteam closed its bases in Morrilton and Paragould after a
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – The Missouri State Highway Patrol says a teenager died while fleeing from police in Columbia.Seventeen-year-old Hayden Holt, of Hallsville, died in the crash early Friday. The patrol said Holt was fleeing when his
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Trustees of the Arkansas State University System have approved a plan to merge the financially struggling Henderson State University into its system. The trustees approved a resolution on the merger Friday at
LIBERTY, Mo. (AP) – A Missouri man has been sentenced to life in prison for stabbing his estranged wife to death after stalking her. Besides the life term for first-degree murder, 70-year-old Larry Ratliff, of Grain Valley,
RICH HILL, Mo. (AP) – Relatives of a missing Missouri mother say they are growing increasingly concerned after deputies found the woman’s phone, backpack and shoes.Nicole Mallatt’s belongings were found Thursday within 100 yards (91 meters) of
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) – A parolee found with a large quantity of methamphetamine after a bus ride from Texas to Tennessee has been convicted of drug and weapons charges, prosecutors said.Corey Young, 42, was convicted Wednesday of
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) – More than two dozen mumps cases have been reported at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville, state health officials said Thursday. The Arkansas Department of Health said 26 mumps cases have been reported
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – The amount of water being released into the lower Missouri River is being reduced ahead of winter, so flooded areas along the river will get some relief. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – About half a dozen people have applied for an influential new job in Missouri to draw state legislative districts under a nationally unique mandate to achieve “partisan fairness” and “competitiveness” in elections.Missouri’s
Photo: Courtesy Independence Police Department Facebook INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) A Grinch has stolen a large Santa Claus from the porch of a historic mansion in the Kansas City area. Police in Independence say the jolly old
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) The federal court in eastern Arkansas is reshuffling its district offices, a cost-cutting effort that will draw criminal jury pools from areas closer to where the crime took place. The realignment
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – The Arkansas Supreme Court on Thursday rejected the state attorney generals request to prohibit a judge who demonstrated against the death penalty from handling any cases involving her office.In a 4-3 decision,
BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) – Crews from several fire departments battled a large fire Wednesday near downtown Bentonville in northwest Arkansas. The Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that firefighters from four departments are battling the blaze at the United
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – State health officials say six people have died in Arkansas from influenza so far this flu season. The Arkansas Department of Health says the deaths have all occurred in people 45 years
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) – A dog that drew international attention because of a tail-like growth on his face will remain with the founder of a group that rescued him. The dog, named Narwhal the Little Magical
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – A Columbia woman who spent a week in a tree to protest the city’s plans to build a trail through a private nature area has been charged with trespassing. Susan Fourcade, known better
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Arkansas’ finance office says higher than expected sales and income tax collections in November kept the state’s revenue above forecast and above the same month last year. The Department of Finance and
JONESBORO, Ark. (AP) – Officials in the northeast Arkansas city of Jonesboro voted to rename a street in honor of Martin Luther King Jr. following months of spirited debate. The City Council on Monday approved the ordinance
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) – A Missouri couple whose son was stillborn in November said the baby’s body disappeared from the hospital and no one has explained how or why it happened. Kyle and Brianna Dudley, of Springfield
MOSCOW MILLS, Mo. (AP) – Authorities say a Missouri mobile home fire that killed a 7-year-old boy apparently started in the area where a candle was burning after a power outage. KSDK-TV reports Jaxon Parks was found
FARMINGTON, Mo. (AP) – A Missouri man has been sentenced to probation for hiding his mother’s corpse in a makeshift coffin and wooden vault in a storage shed after she died of what appear to be natural
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – Divers are again searching a river in central Missouri as they look for a Chinese woman who has been missing since October. The latest search of the Lamine River in Cooper County is
OSAGE BEACH, Mo. (AP) – Authorities say one person suffered minor injuries after a rock slide closed a mid-Missouri highway. The rock slide occurred Sunday night on Highway 54 near Osage Beach. As of early afternoon Monday,
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – An expanding television group is buying nine stations in six smaller markets. Standard Media Group of Nashville, Tennessee says it will buy stations in Arkansas, Indiana, Mississippi, New York and Tennessee for $59.2
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – A new monthly survey of business leaders suggests the economy is slowing down in nine Midwest and Plains states as the U.S. trade war with China continues. The overall index for the region
LAKE VILLAGE, Ark. (AP) – Workers have begun construction on a new solar project in southeast Arkansas that’s expected to produce enough electricity to power more than 18,000 homes once it’s up and running. The Chicot Solar
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Arkansas officials say they may consider revoking medical marijuana licenses for dispensaries that aren’t open by June. Arkansas Alcoholic Beverage Control officials regulate the state’s budding cannabis industry. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) Missouri officials are buying a piece of equipment that simulates the experience of being in an earthquake to prepare residents for a big tremblor in a region that saw one of the most powerful
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) – State records indicate an Arkansas youth mental health treatment center broke federal rules by using chemical injections to restrain young people held in seclusion. Inspection records obtained by the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette say the
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) The Boy Scouts of America is facing another lawsuit in a wave of litigation over decades-old allegations of sexual abuse. The Arkansas Democrat Gazette reports that two men filed a federal suit in Little
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – After a year that has seen some of the worst flooding ever in parts of the Midwest, concern is already rising that the spring of 2020 may bring more high water to
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – The federal government is suing a Little Rock-based insurance company over the firing of a worker who had just had a baby. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission filed the lawsuit Wednesday
PITTSBURG, Kan. (AP) – Authorities in Kansas and Missouri are investigating an officer-involved fatal shooting after a police pursuit in both states. The Kansas Bureau of Investigation says in a news release an officer from the Pittsburg
NEW YORK (AP) – Analyst Rod Sides of Deloitte LLP says Black Friday shopping is off to “a really good start.” Based on reports from his team who were in stores and malls over the past 24
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – A former Missouri prison therapist has been accused of sexually abused inmates in another lawsuit. The Kansas City Star reports 49-year-old Teresa Ketner alleges in the lawsuit filed last week that she
FORT SMITH, Ark. (AP) – State and county authorities are investigating after an Arkansas man died after falling ill in jail. The Sebastian County Sheriff’s Office says in a news release 56-year-old Roger Robinson of Fort Smith
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – The suspect in a pair of deadly shootings hours apart has been arrested after he walked into a Missouri police station covered in blood. Jefferson City police said in a news release
MARSHFIELD, Mo. (AP) – A former Webster County deputy accused of child molestation has pleaded guilty. Station KYTV reports that Brent Grey entered the pleas Wednesday. The three felony charges: child molestation, possessing more than 20 images
Photo: Courtesy kmov.com JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri is cracking down on drivers who use fake temporary license plates. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports the new, holographic temporary plates were unveiled by the Revenue Department this
KENNETT, Mo. (AP) – Authorities say a 14-year-old was killed when the all-terrain vehicle he was on crashed in southeast Missouri. The Missouri State Highway Patrol says the accident occurred Wednesday afternoon on a Dunklin County road
MARSHFIELD, Mo. (AP) – A southwest Missouri man has been charged with second-degree murder for allegedly killing his wife in 2015 and then stowing her body in a freezer in a storage unit. Fifty-seven-year-old Larry Dinwiddie, of
Photo: Courtesy ksnb.com KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Saint Luke’s hospital is caring for 12 sets of twins this week in its neonatal intensive care unit. KMBC-TV reports all of the twins were born between five and
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson says his top priority for next year’s re-election campaign is winning voter approval for a proposed constitutional amendment that would make the state’s 0.5% sales tax for highways
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Thousands are without power in Missouri as high winds whip across the state. Ameren reported that 17,871 customers were without service Wednesday morning, mostly in the St. Louis area. The National Weather Service
FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) – The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear an appeal in a lawsuit questioning a Ferguson police officer’s use of force against the man who was with Michael Brown when that officer shot
WEBB CITY, Mo. (AP) – A Kansas man has been charged with sexually assaulting a student at a Missouri school where he taught and coached. Twenty-eight-year-old Nicholas Popejoy, of Arma, Kansas, pleaded not guilty Monday to statutory
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Authorities are investigating after an inmate was shot and wounded at a Missouri jail. KRCG-TV reports that the Cole County inmate was treated at a hospital for non-life-threatening injuries and then returned
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) – A southeast Missouri prosecutor has dropped murder charges in the death of a 15-year-old girl, citing a failure of witnesses to come forward. Cape Girardeau County Prosecuting Attorney Mark Welker told KFVS-TV
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri health officials are offering an online option for reporting adult abuse and neglect after an investigation found the state was answering fewer than half of the hotline calls. The Missouri Department
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) – An Arizona official charged with running an adoption-fraud scheme involving women from the Marshall Islands has asked an Arkansas court to delay trial for 10 months. Maricopa County Assessor Paul Petersen is accused
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) – Authorities are investigating after a woman brought an illicit substance into a southwest Missouri courthouse that sickened deputies and temporarily shut down the building while a hazardous material team dealt with the situation.
BALLWIN, Mo. (AP) – Police in a suburban St. Louis community were called this week to free a small dog from the clutches of an automated vacuum cleaner. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Ballwin officers received
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) – One employee of a Springfield nonprofit that helps the homeless find housing has resigned and another was terminated after a state investigation. The Springfield News-Leader reports the Missouri Housing Development Commission investigation of
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) – A mother is suing another driver and the board that oversee the Missouri Department of Transportation over a crash that killed her 11-year-old daughter. The Springfield News-Leader reports Clorissa Tilden was forced into
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – A judge has ruled it isn’t unconstitutional for Missouri health officials to encourage families to vaccinate their children in a form they must complete to get a religious exemption. KCUR reports Senior
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – Authorities say a suspect in a Missouri killing has been arrested in Arizona more than 10 months after he was charged. The Boone County, Missouri, Sheriff’s Department said in a news release 60-year-old
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Court documents say an eastern Missouri man placed a hidden camera in store dressing rooms and a woman’s bathroom. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports 34-year-old Gabriel Trevino was charged last week in federal
OZARK, Mo. (AP) – Authorities say a bicyclist has died in a southwest Missouri crash. Ozark police said in a Facebook post officers responded around 10:15 a.m. Sunday to a report that a vehicle and bicycle had
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri Gov. Mike Parson and local leaders say they want to make sure minors, domestic abusers and violent offenders don’t have guns. Parson and mayors and police chiefs from St. Louis, Kansas
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) – A lobbyist who pleaded guilty to bribing three former Arkansas state lawmakers, including the governor’s nephew, has been sentenced to seven years in prison without parole. Rusty Cranford was sentenced in federal court
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – The chairman of the Arkansas Democratic Party says there’s no path for replacing the challenger to Republican Sen. Tom Cotton after the party’s previous candidate abruptly dropped out following the state’s filing
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. (AP) – Former White House press secretary Sarah Sanders is laying the groundwork for a possible run for governor of Arkansas in 2022. Sanders say she hasn’t made a decision yet regarding a race
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) – All University of Arkansas students are being required to have up-to-date vaccinations in order to attend classes following a mumps outbreak on campus. The state Department of Health on Friday issued a notice
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. (AP) A 47-year-old Hot Springs woman has avoided a possible death sentence by pleading guilty to killing her 71-year-old mother and her 8-year-old daughter. Court documents show Melissa Galey pleaded guilty Friday and was sentenced
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Republican U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri is pushing for federal investigations into uninhabitable conditions at some public housing serving mostly low-income residents in Missouri. The Kansas City Star reports that Hawley announced Friday
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) An Arkansas farmer has been sentenced to nearly three years in federal prison for falsifying loan applications that led to the theft of more than $3.3 million. Federal prosecutors say Marcus Sweetin lied to
FORT SMITH, Ark. (AP) Authorities in Arkansas say a 30-year-old woman and two of her children have died following a house fire earlier this week. Fort Smith police spokesman Aric Mitchell says Whitney Kaub died early Friday from
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – An advocacy group for people who were sexually abused by priests is urging the bishop of the Kansas City-St. Joseph Catholic diocese to make significant changes to review boards used across the
KINGSTON, Mo. (AP) – Northwest Missouri authorities say human remains found in Missouri and Nebraska are those of two missing brothers from Wisconsin. Caldwell County Sheriff Jerry Galloway announced in a news release Friday remains found Monday
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A St. Louis woman whose diary entry detailed dumping a body along a highway has been sentenced to two years in prison. A judge on Friday sentenced 39-year-old Joni Janis. She pleaded guilty
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Records show police and state workers responded repeatedly to concerns about the care of a terminally ill Missouri man before his body was found in a freezer in his wife’s bedroom, where
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – State insurance officials say Jefferson City residents made more than $170 million in insurance claims after a tornado hit the city on May 22. KMIZ reports Missouri Department of Insurance data shows
ST. PETERS, Mo. (AP) – An eastern Missouri man is accused of holding his pregnant girlfriend captive, punching her and forcing her to drink toilet water and bleach. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports 40-year-old Ronnie William Howard
BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) – An Arkansas judge ordered a journalist be released after she served a few hours of her three-day sentence for recording proceedings in a homicide case. Benton County Circuit Judge Brad Karren sentenced Nkiruka
WASHINGTON (AP) _ The Latest on federal executions (all times local): 6 p.m. Attorney General William Barr tells The Associated Press he will take the Trump administration’s bid to restart federal executions after a 16-year hiatus to
OZARK, Mo. (AP) – A southwest Missouri sheriff’s office is investigating after four deputies were sickened by a suspicious substance at a courthouse. Christian County Sheriff Brad Cole says a deputy fainted after searching the purse of
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – The Latest on a lawsuit alleging Missouri violated federal voter laws (all times local): 4:20 p.m. The Missouri Secretary of State’s Office is downplaying changes to the voter registration process called for
ATLANTA (AP) – Black Georgia lawmakers say they will push for a state hate crimes law after a white 16-year-old girl was accused of plotting to attack black churchgoers. The Georgia Legislative Black Caucus said Thursday the
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – Federal prosecutors say a man has admitted he tried to burn down a Planned Parenthood clinic in Missouri because it provides reproductive services. Forty-two-year-old Wesley Brian Kaster, of Columbia, pleaded guilty Thursday to
SWEDESBORO, N.J. (AP) – The U.S. Department of Agriculture says thousands of pounds of salad products are being recalled due to a possible E. coli contamination. The department says Missa Bay, LLC from Swedesboro, New Jersey, is
ARKADELPHIA, Ark. – The Henderson State University Board of Trustees Thursday approved a merger agreement and transition plan with the Arkansas State University System.The agreement is subject to approval of the ASU Board of Trustees and the
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Fire officials say a fire that damaged a housing unit at the former Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City apparently was caused by embers from a nearby prescribed burn. Jefferson City Fire
OKOLONA, Ark. (AP) – Authorities in Arkansas have identified the three people killed in a multi-vehicle crash in a construction zone on Interstate 30. The wreck happened Tuesday near Okolona, about 80 miles (130 kilometers) southwest of
Photo: Courtesy kmov.com HOUSE SPRINGS, Mo. (AP) – Conservation officers are investigating after a rare albino deer was shot and killed by a hunter in eastern Missouri. KMOV-TV reports the deer was killed Tuesday near a subdivision
PRINCETON, Mo. (AP) – Authorities say an inmate who escaped twice from a Missouri jail was captured more than 1,000 miles (1,609 kilometers) away in Delaware where he was living in a makeshift hut in a wooded
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A St. Louis County man is facing federal indictment for what prosecutors are calling a “romance scam” that cost a woman more than $20,000. The U.S. Attorney’s office in St. Louis on Wednesday
The 17-year-old who went missing from his job late Saturday night in Desha was picked up by officers from the Independence County Sheriffs Department early Tuesday evening in the Lock 2 area of the White River. WhiteRiverNow.com
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – An investigation has found that the Kansas City School District falsified attendance data and will be forced to repay money to the state. The Kansas City Star reports the district released the
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) – A federal judge has ruled a former University of Arkansas student can move ahead with a lawsuit alleging school officials acted with “deliberate indifference” after she reported being sexually assaulted by another student
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – A judge has upheld the University of Missouri’s ban on carrying concealed guns on campus. Circuit Judge Jeff Harris on Monday rejected the arguments from Missouri’s attorney general that the ban violated the
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – A sweeping review has found that close to 90% of the backlog of Missouri rape kits have never been tested. Attorney General Eric Schmitt announced Wednesday only 830 of about 7,0 total kits
Photo: Courtesy katv.com LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Former President Bill Clinton says efforts to increase access to credit and financial assistance in underserved areas can help bridge America’s partisan divide because it addresses a problem that
FENTON, Mo. (AP) – Authorities say a 78-year-old woman removed her 51-year-old daughter from a nursing home and then fatally stabbed her in a suburban St. Louis, Missouri, hotel before attempting to kill herself. Marjorie Theleman is
WEST QUINCY, Mo. (AP) – BNSF railway officials expect to have tracks cleared by early Wednesday after a train derailment in West Quincy. Railway spokesman Andy Williams says 12 cars on the 70-car train derailed early Tuesday
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has named fellow former lawmaker Ron Richard to Missouri Southern State University’s governing board. Parson appointed the Joplin resident to the position Tuesday. The two Republicans served together as lawmakers.
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) A Springfield man was sentenced to 10 years in federal prison without parole for shooting at a federal probation officer. Thirty-year-old Enrique Castaneda was sentenced Tuesday for assaulting a federal employee with a firearm. When
Photo courtesy of KNWA-TV BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) An Arkansas county judge has sentenced a television reporter to three days in jail for recording a hearing in a homicide case. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that Benton County Circuit Judge
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) Several Arkansas universities have reported a drop in international student enrollment. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reported Tuesday that the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville indicates its international student population is down about 2% from 1,461
FORT SMITH, Ark. (AP) Authorities in western Arkansas say a 3-year-old girl has died and four other people were injured after an early morning house fire. Police responded shortly after 3 a.m. Tuesday to the fire in Fort
WEBB CITY, Mo. (AP) Authorities say the deaths of two people at a Webb City dental office was a murder-suicide. Police Chief Don Melton said authorities believe 55-year-old Windell Glass fatally shot his estranged wife, 45-year-old Camille Hostetter,
CASSVILLE, Mo. (AP) Authorities say deer hunters in Missouri have found the skeletal remains of an Oklahoma man who has been missing for nearly a year. The Barry County Sheriff’s Office says the remains of Ritchie Vaughn Ellis,
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) Federal authorities have charged 20 people with conspiring to distribute heroin and fentanyl in the Springfield region. Five criminal complaints were unsealed Friday after the suspects were arrested in a law enforcement sweep that began
CONWAY, Ark. (AP) A former high school student in Arkansas has been sentenced to seven years in prison for devising a plan to shoot up a school. Circuit Judge Charles Clawson sentenced 20-year-old Daniel Croslin on Friday. Croslin
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) Missouri officials are stepping up enforcement of laws that ban selling vaping products to minors. The move is part of a state campaign launched Monday to deter young people from vaping. Missouri’s health department
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) Washington University has contributed $250,000 to an effort to place a Medicaid expansion question on Missouri’s November 2020 ballot. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the university contributed the money Friday to the political
REEDS SPRING, Mo. (AP) Authorities say a woman who was arrested at the scene of a suspected southwest Missouri arson fire has been charged with fatally stabbing a 74-year-old man at a nearby home. Thirty-year-old Elizabeth Rose Horn
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) Authorities say an autopsy has found no signs of foul play in the death of a man whose body was found in a freezer in his wife’s bedroom inside the couple’s southwest Missouri home.
ARKADELPHIA, Ark. (AP) – Two Arkansas college chemistry professors have been arrested on charges of making meth, in an apparent case of life imitating art. The Clark County sheriff’s office says Henderson State University professors Terry David
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) A subsidiary of the Oklahoma-based Cherokee Nation has filed an amended application to open a casino in Arkansas, either near Russellville or in Dover. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that Cherokee Nation Business submitted the
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) An Arkansas university is now the home of a photo archive containing nearly a million photos of historical figures and events. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports the collection arrived at the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) The head of Little Rock’s teachers union says another strike or other actions protesting Arkansas’ takeover of the local school district and their loss of collective bargaining rights is possible. Little Rock Education Association
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) – A lawyer for an Arizona elected official accused of running an adoption-fraud scheme is pushing back against human smuggling charges, saying his client ran a legal practice and “made happy families.” Utah
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – President Donald Trump has announced plans to nominate the executive director of the Kansas City Public Library to lead a little-known independent federal agency that the White House has tried to shutter.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri health officials say a woman’s death is the second in the state associated with the use of vaping products. The Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services said Friday the unidentified
FORT SMITH, Ark. (AP) – State highway officials have designated a stretch of Arkansas 22 as “True Grit Trail” in honor of the classic novel by Arkansas native Charles Portis. The Arkansas Department of Transportation unveiled the
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Arkansas’ Republican governor and the leaders of the state’s top lobbying groups have launched a campaign to keep a half-cent sales tax for road needs. Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Friday called the
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – The Arkansas Supreme Court has ruled a driver wasn’t criminally negligent when his pickup truck crashed into another vehicle, killing a family of four. The court’s majority determined Thursday there’s no evidence
WARRENSBURG, Mo. (AP) – A student at the University of Central Missouri is facing manslaughter charges in the shooting death of another student. Johnson County Prosecuting Attorney Robert Russell announced second-degree involuntary manslaughter charges Thursday against 24-year-old
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – The Latest on a Joplin, Missouri, woman whose husband’s body was found in a freezer (all times local): 2:50 p.m. A southwest Missouri woman has been arrested two days after her husband’s
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – A former Lee’s Summit police officer has been sentenced to eight years in federal prison without parole for robbing a bank. Richard Hagerty, of Independence, was sentenced Wednesday for armed bank robbery
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – Eight months after flooding began along the lower Missouri River, the amount of water being released from dams upriver will start to be reduced later this month. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
ST. LOUIS (AP) – Meteorite hunters are scouring farm fields for remnants of a basketball-size hunk of rock that blazed across the sky in the St. Louis area. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports several Washington University researchers
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) – Springfield is getting two electric-powered transit buses and could get more if they perform as expected. The Springfield News-Leader reports City Utilities says the buses will arrive in Springfield by the end of
EUREKA, Mo. (AP) – A wounded bald eagle is recovering after being found in a rural area of eastern Missouri. KTVI-TV reports Samuel Schaffrin found the badly injured eagle on Tuesday near his family’s ranch in Montgomery
Walmart is raising its profit expectations with online sales surging 41% the third quarter. The world’s biggest retailer reported particularly strong sales in the grocery aisle where competition is growing increasingly fierce. The company on Thursday posted
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Little Rock teachers are striking for the first time in more than three decades over the state’s control of the local school system and a panel’s decision to strip their union’s collective
PHOENIX (AP) – The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors has scheduled a Dec. 11 hearing for Assessor Paul Petersen to appeal his suspension amid human smuggling and other charges. Lawyers for Petersen say the suspension last month
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – A federal grand jury has indicted a former northwest Missouri police chief accused of striking a handcuffed man after the chief helped rescue the man’s infant daughter from a pond. Federal prosecutors
JACKSON, Mo. (AP) – A rescued puppy is attracting a lot of attention because of his cute resemblance to a unicorn. The nearly 10-week-old puppy, named Narwhal, has a tail-like appendage growing from his forehead. Narwhal was
DUBUQUE, Iowa (AP) – Betting on races at Iowa Greyhound Park in Dubuque rose by 14% this year, but the park’s future and that of greyhound racing still look dicey. The Telegraph Herald reports the wagering at
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) – Court records show a former lobbyist who pleaded guilty to bribing three former Arkansas lawmakers will be sentenced this month. Rusty Cranford could face up to 10 years in federal prison for bribing
ST. LOUIS (AP) – NASA says a meteor seen streaking through the sky behind the Gateway Arch in St. Louis was a basketball-size hunk of rock that broke off from an asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter.
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas is asking people interested in honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. to submit ideas to the city’s parks board within 90 days. Lucas’ announcement on Tuesday
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – A state appeals court ruled that Raytown’s city clerk must pay a penalty for refusing to release public records to a woman whose mother died in a car wreck. KCUR reports the
DURANGO, Colo. (AP) – The parent company of Walmart has sued dozens of counties in Colorado where the company has store locations. The company claims its stores’ equipment is being overvalued. The Durango Herald reports county assessors
JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) – Police say they are investigating the death of a man whose body was found in a freezer at a home in southwest Missouri. The Joplin Globe reports that Joplin police learned of the
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – The Democratic candidate hoping to unseat Republican U.S. Sen. Tom Cotton in Arkansas has dropped out of the race, citing a family health concern. Josh Mahony announced on Twitter Tuesday that he
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – An Arkansas state legislator announced a bid to unseat a Republican congressman as the filing period for next year’s election came to a close. Democratic state Sen. Joyce Elliott made her candidacy
CLINTON, Mo. (AP) – Authorities say a man, woman and young girl have been killed in an apartment fire in Missouri. Clinton Fire Chief Leo Huff says the fire was reported around 2:20 a.m. Tuesday. He says
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) Missouri is getting close to $35 million in federal grants for road projects in two cities. Gov. Mike Parson on Tuesday announced nearly $21 million will go toward pedestrian and bicycle lanes in Springfield.
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) The University of Missouri has received a $10 million gift from the Kinder Foundation, which will be used to support two new degrees programs. The university announced Tuesday it will offer a bachelor’s degree in
OZARK, Mo. (AP) A state lawmaker-turned-labor judge is facing a misdemeanor charge after his arrest on suspicion of driving while intoxicated. The Springfield News-Leader reports that former state Rep. Kevin Elmer was issued a criminal summons last month.
MINER, Mo. (AP) – A 33-year-old southeast Missouri woman is dead after stepping out of a moving vehicle and getting struck by a trailer that vehicle was towing. KFVS-TV reports Samantha Wilkinson of Sikeston died Sunday afternoon
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – A judge has found the University of Missouri knowingly violated the state’s open records law by overestimating the cost to provide records to an animal rights group. The Columbia Missourian reports a Boone
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (AP) – A St. Joseph woman who drowned her 6-month-old son has been sentenced to life in prison. The St. Joseph News-Press reports Sydney Jones was sentenced last week for child abuse resulting in
PINE BLUFF, Ark. (AP) – Mold contamination is so high at one Arkansas election office that officials are considering moving. Jefferson County Election Commissioner Stuart Soffer says air quality technicians found an election room with small mold
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Little Rock teachers say they’ll go on strike for one day this week over an Arkansas panel’s decision to strip their collective bargaining power and complaints about state control of the 23,000-student
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) – An Arkansas youth mental health treatment center is being investigated by the state Department of Human Services amid allegations of abuse, neglect and sexual contact among residents. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports the allegations
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) A southwestern Missouri fire chief has been convicted of three counts of second-degree statutory sodomy and one count of second-degree rape. The Springfield News-Leader reports that 70-year-old Brookline Fire Chief Larry McConnell was found guilty
TEXARKANA, Ark. (AP) A prosecutor says the death penalty will not be sought for an Arkansas teenager in a shooting that killed two people and wounded a third person. The Texarkana Gazette reports that Miller County Prosecuting Attorney
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) Police in Little Rock say three people are dead following two separate shootings in the city. Police reports say 27-year-old Jeremy Lamonta Dennis, 20-year-old Keyaria Thompson and 22-year-old Deunte Davis died in the shootings
EMINENCE, Mo. (AP) A herd of seven wild horses that were causing problems at a Missouri state park have been rounded up and adopted. The Springfield News-Leader reports that visitors to Echo Bluff State Park in Eminence were
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – President Donald Trump has qualified to appear on the ballot next year in Arkansas. Attorney General Leslie Rutledge and former White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders submitted paperwork and the filing fee
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Officials in one of Missouri’s largest school districts are grumbling as they work to comply with a new state law that requires them to wait until late August to begin classes. The
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – A University of Missouri fraternity with a troubled history is closing its door for now but could reopen with new members as early as 2022. The Columbia Missourian reports the Executive Committee of
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – Missouri’s health department wants to ban medical marijuana businesses from paying taxes, fines or fees in cash. But a hopeful Missouri marijuana producer on Friday told The Associated Press banning cash payments could
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – The Senate has confirmed a former Arkansas solicitor general as federal judge in Little Rock. President Donald Trump nominated 40-year-old Lee Philip Rudofsky for the U.S. District Court in eastern Arkansas. The
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) Two more presidential hopefuls are among the hundreds of candidates who have filed paperwork to appear on the ballot in Arkansas next year. Representatives for former Maryland Congressman John Delaney filed paperwork Thursday for
ST. LOUIS (AP) A special prosecutor tasked with determining if attorneys for former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens threatened St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner says in a report that no crime was committed. The report from retired Boone
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) – A Missouri certified public accountant has been convicted of a $7 million scheme to defraud his employer and clients. Federal prosecutors say 46-year-old Douglas Richardson, of Lebanon, was found guilty Thursday of six
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – A cold weather system had people in the Kansas City area wanting more than just a sweater. It also had them reaching for nose plugs. The National Weather Service speculated in a
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – An Arkansas law enforcement supervisor has been fired after FBI agents caught him stealing more than $30,000 in a sting.Court documents show former Greene County Sheriff’s Office Lieutenant Allen Scott Pillow was
SIDNEY, Neb. (AP) – Bass Pro Shops says nearly 120 jobs at its Cabela’s operation in Sidney will be relocated to Bass Pro Shops’ headquarters in Springfield, Missouri. The company announced Wednesday employees who choose not to
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – A Republican congressman from northwest Arkansas is among the hopefuls who have made candidacies official for the 2020 election. U.S. Rep. Steve Womack filed paperwork Wednesday to run for re-election for the
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Representatives from both sides of a divisive campaign over naming a street in Kansas City for Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. say they are ready to work together after voters approved a
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – A federal appeals court has upheld a judge’s ruling against an Arkansas anti-loitering law that opponents say unfairly targets panhandlers. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday upheld a federal
MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) – Alabama’s state tourism agency is being honored for its work promoting civil rights travel in 14 U.S. states. The office was presented with an award recognizing its marketing campaign for the U.S. Civil
LA MONTE, Mo. (AP) – Authorities say law enforcement officers shot and killed a man after he fired at them in western Missouri. The Pettis County Sherriff’s Office said in a news release that shooting happened Tuesday
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A former St. Louis police officer has been convicted of two misdemeanor assault charges for giving two handcuffed men a “rough ride” after they said obscene things about her. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Little Rock teachers are staging demonstrations over Arkansas stripping their collective bargaining power and the state’s ongoing control of the district. But they’re offering few clues on whether they’ll strike for the
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A 16-year-old is challenging how Missouri certifies minors as adults in the face of criminal charges. The minor’s public defender argued to Missouri Supreme Court judges Wednesday the state’s process for certifying
HELENA-WEST HELENA, Ark. (AP) – An eastern Arkansas city is shelving a plan to establish a 24-hour curfew in high-crime neighborhoods.Helena-West Helena officials have discussed instituting the measure after three homicides in two days last month. Police
EUREKA, Mo. (AP) – A Missouri man faces multiple charges after alleging attacking his grandparents with a golf club. Authorities say the elderly couple, both in their 80s, suffered serious injuries. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) A fatal shooting in the southwestern Missouri town of Springfield is under investigation. KYTV reports that officers responded to a home on the city’s north side around 5 p.m. Monday and found a man who
WRIGHTSVILLE, Ark. (AP) Authorities are investigating after an inmate at Arkansas prison died following an assault by another inmate. The Arkansas Department of Corrections says 50-year-old Albert Williams collapsed Sunday morning while being escorted to the Wrightsville Unit’s
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) A southwestern Missouri woman could face up to 30 years in prison after being convicted of killing a man she met on an online dating site. Prosecutors say 34-year-old Christina Duckett was found guilty of
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) Arkansas’ finance office says the state’s revenue remains above forecast and above the same point last year. The Department of Finance and Administration on Monday said Arkansas’ net available revenue in October totaled $470.9
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. (AP) Authorities say a Hot Springs man was arrested on a second-degree murder charge after he allegedly pushed his brother out of a moving vehicle, causing his death. An affidavit says 57-year-old Richard Dean Ammons
ST. LOUIS (AP) Newly obtained records show that the Missouri attorney general is investigating whether the longtime former top general of the Missouri National Guard “misused his office.” The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that documents obtained through an
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) Hundreds of candidates for state and federal office are expected to begin filing to run in Arkansas’ 2020 election. The filing period for office in Arkansas is set to begin at noon Monday at
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) Police say a shooting at a Little Rock hotel has left two teenagers wounded. Little Rock Police Department responded to a call about a shooting at the Staybridge Suites just before 10 a.m. on
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) A Missouri woman is facing two felony charges in connection with a crash in May that killed an 11-year-old girl. The Springfield News-Leader reports the 18-year-old woman was charged last week with involuntary manslaughter and
JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) Less than five months after announcing plans for a dental school in Joplin, the Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences has raised 75 percent of its $40 million fundraising goal. The $40 million will
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) Markers to 12 men convicted of murder and sentenced to death, before eventually being released, in connection with the Elaine Race Massacre will be placed along the Arkansas Civil Rights Heritage Trail. The University
TEXARKANA, Ark. (AP) A new attorney has been appointed for a southwest Arkansas doctor and his trial is being delayed on charges of overprescribing opiates and other drugs. Court records first reported by the Texarkana Gazette show the
CAPE GIRARDEAU, Mo. (AP) – One person is dead and another is injured after a shooting at an apartment complex in southeast Missouri. The shooting happened before 1 a.m. Friday in Cape Girardeau. Names of the victims
Photo: Courtesy ky3.com SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) – A man who caused panic at a Missouri Walmart when he walked inside wearing body armor and carrying loaded weapons in what he described as an effort to test his
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – More than 100 students who took the ACT this fall at a Kansas City high school will likely have to retake the college entrance exam because the results are missing. KMBC-TV reports
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – The Little Rock Police Department says its officers could be wearing body cameras as early as April. A $194,000 federal grant will pay for the cameras and video storage. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – A new report says an October survey of business supply managers suggests a bump occurred in economic growth for nine Midwest and Plains states. The report issued Friday says the Mid-America Business Conditions
INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (AP) – Prosecutors have dismissed charges against a Kansas City area woman accused of beating another woman to death with a baseball bat because of a technical issue. The Kansas City Star reports 35-year-old Courtney
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Arkansas appellate judges are getting a pay raise. The state increased pay for the 12 appeals court judges by $2,500 plus a 2.5 percent bump that adjusts to cost of living. The
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Black ice and frigid temperatures are proving to be a bad combination in the Kansas City area. The Kansas City Star reports more 170 morning rush hour accidents were reported Thursday in
ST. LOUIS (AP) – An administrative hearing to decide whether the state of Missouri can revoke the abortion license for the state’s only abortion clinic has concluded. The hearing in St. Louis before a commissioner with the
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (AP) – Storms raked across the central United States from the Gulf Coast to the Great Lakes ahead of an arctic blast that forecasters say could bring record cold to the South. Temperatures were predicted
GILLETTE, Wyo. (AP) – U.S. regulators plan to finish reviewing a proposed coal mining joint venture in the first half of 2020. Peabody Energy Corp. and Arch Coal Inc. seek to merge operations in Wyoming and Colorado.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – A Michigan-based housewares company is spending $20 million to open a new facility in Little Rock it expects to create about 90 new jobs within the next two years. HMS Manufacturing Company
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt is suing a Florida-based company and its president for alleged violations of Missouri’s no-call list. The lawsuit filed in St. Louis County Wednesday accuses Allied Health Supply,
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A 26-year-old Jefferson City woman accused of causing the death of a 4-year-old boy she was caring for is now charged with second-degree murder in his death. The Jefferson City News-Tribune reports
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – A Little Rock man has pleaded guilty to helping his half brother torture and kill a mother and her two young children while robbing the family’s home. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports 23-year-old
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – A Missouri appeals court has ruled a Columbia businessman is liable for a $2.75 million civil judgment awarded to a woman whose home was destroyed in an alleged arson. The Missouri Court of
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A medical marijuana trade group wants Missouri health officials to issue strict vaping regulations as the number of people in the United States suffering from vape-related lung illnesses continues to rise. The St.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – State Auditor Nicole Galloway says a closed St. Louis charter school was overpaid $1.4 million after falsifying attendance records. Galloway’s office announced Tuesday an audit of the St. Louis College Prep Charter
LADUE, Mo. (AP) – A St. Louis County doctor and nurse practitioner are awaiting sentencing after admitting they billed Medicaid for doctor visits when the doctor was out of the country. Fifty-eight-year-old Dr. Brij Vaid, of Ladue,
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – The former chief executive of a small north-central Missouri hospital pleaded guilty to participating in a billing scheme that caused more than $100 million losses. Sixty-two-year-old David Lane Bryns, of Lighthouse Point,
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A top Missouri Democrat is calling for an investigation of the health director, who said he tracked menstrual periods of Planned Parenthood patients. State House Minority Crystal Quade on Tuesday said Republican Gov.
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) The body of lawmaker and civil rights attorney John Walker will lie in state at Arkansas’ capitol as part of his funeral arrangements this week. Secretary of State John Thurston announced that Walker’s body
In a story Oct. 28 about a legal fight over the name of an amusement ride at Silver Dollar City in Missouri, The Associated Press reported erroneously that a California man had sued the amusement park. Silver
FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) An elected official in Arizona accused of running a human smuggling scheme that brought pregnant women from the Marshall Islands to the U.S. has pleaded not guilty to federal charges in Arkansas. Authorities say Maricopa
JONESBORO, Ark. (AP) An Arkansas State University alumnus says he was surprised to spot a few curious critters running around the campus library. Codie Clark, a math tutor, says he spotted at least two raccoons Sunday on the
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) Little Rock’s school district is bracing for the possibility of its first strike in decades because a state panel this month voted to strip the local teachers union of its collective bargaining power. The
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) John Walker, an Arkansas lawmaker and civil rights attorney who represented black students in a long-running court fight over the desegregation of Little Rock area schools, has died. He was 82. The Pulaski County
TEXARKANA, Ark. (AP) – Authorities in southwestern Arkansas say a 28-year-old woman has been arrested in connection with the July drowning death of her 1-year-old daughter. The Miller County Sheriff’s Office says Danielle Mitchell was arrested on
ST. LOUIS (AP) – The fate of Missouri’s only abortion clinic is at stake starting Monday, when a member of the state’s Administrative Hearing Commission will begin hearing arguments over whether the clinic can keep its abortion
SPRINGDALE, Ark. (AP) Police say a man was fatally shot accidentally with a stolen gun his friend was holding. Springdale Police Lt. Jeff Taylor said 19-year-old Pedro Pena was died Friday afternoon at a hospital after officers responding
CONWAY, Ark. (AP) Arkansas’ public television network faces repaying more than $400,000 from a state grant that auditors say was misspent. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports the state Department of Education audit released Friday says the Arkansas Educational Television
SALT LAKE CITY (AP) A Utah judge has reduced the bail for an Arizona county elected official charged in an alleged human smuggling scheme involving pregnant women. The Deseret News reports that a district judge Friday reduced Maricopa
STOCKTON, Mo. (AP) The Missouri State Highway Patrol says a woman has died after she was hit by a vehicle on state Highway 39 just south of Stockton. KYTV reports the incident happened just before 8 p.m. Friday.
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) The University of Missouri athletic department has apologized and removed a tweet intended to promote the NCAA’s “diversity and inclusion week” after receiving complaints it was racially insensitive. The original post showed a graphic with
WENTZVILLE, Mo. (AP) – Striking workers at a General Motors plant in the St. Louis area have voted to approve the company’s proposed contract. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports United Auto Workers Local 2250 at a plant
SPARTA, MO (AP) – The mayor of tiny Sparta, Missouri, says the town’s hand-activated tornado warning siren needs to be retired. Mayor Jenni Davis is the only person in the town of 1,900 residents authorized to
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A Missouri man accused of killing his disabled 9-year-old son now faces allegations of sex crimes involving girls. St. Louis County prosecutors on Thursday charged 46-year-old Dawan Ferguson with two counts of statutory
ARKADELPHIA, Ark. – The Henderson State University Board of Trustees voted Thursday to join the Arkansas State University System and proceed with development of a merger agreement.The move is subject to approval of the ASU Board of
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – An employee of two slain Wisconsin brothers says he believes a Missouri cattleman promised to give the men money to lure them to his farm so he could kill them. Twenty-five-year-old Garland
ST. LOUIS (AP) – A St. Louis University student in her early 20s is hospitalized in critical condition after a shooting near the central St. Louis campus. University officials have confirmed the woman who was shot about
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A Missouri attorney has filed a lawsuit claiming the state House acted unconstitutionally by blocking the public from accessing some lawmaker records. The Kansas City Star reports Sunshine and Government Accountability Project
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – The Arkansas Plant Board has fined a Missouri farmer $105,000 for using a banned herbicide on an Arkansas field he farmed. The board concluded at a hearing Wednesday that Jeffrey Todd, of
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) – Nashville’s sheriff has presented the Johnny Cash Museum proof the late musician who famously cultivated an image as an outlaw was actually granted law enforcement authority four decades ago. This week, Nashville Sheriff
ARKADELPHIA, Ark. (AP) – Authorities in southwest Arkansas say an 85-year-old man fatally shot his adult son after mistaking him for an intruder at his home. The Clark County Sheriff’s Office says the shooting happened early Wednesday
PHOENIX (AP) – The governing board in Arizona’s most populous county is taking steps to suspend an elected official accused of running a human smuggling scheme. He charged with human smuggling, sale of a child, fraud, forgery
DALLAS (AP) – The National Weather Service says nine tornadoes struck the Dallas area during Sunday’s stretch of severe storms in Texas. Forecasters confirmed the twisters Tuesday after surveying damage throughout North Texas. The strongest of the
NAPLES, Fla. (AP) – A Missouri man has been convicted of participating in the slaying of a Florida doctor. Prosecutors say the killing was arranged by the doctor’s husband. The Naples Daily News reports 29-year-old Jimmy Ray
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Federal prosecutors say 49 people have been arrested in Arkansas this month for operating three fentanyl-trafficking operations, including one that directly led to the death of two people. Federal prosecutors, the FBI
Photo: West Memphis Mayor Marco McClendon (left) stands with Tawana Bailey and former Arkansas legislator Steven B. Jones. Photo: Courtesy Talk Business Arkansas. LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – An ex-convict who pleaded guilty to bribery has been
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – A Missouri cattle farmer has been charged with first-degree murder in the deaths of two missing brothers from Wisconsin. Court documents filed Wednesday in Caldwell County, Missouri, show Garland Nelson of Braymer
SPARTA, Mo. (AP) The tornado siren failed to sound when a small tornado reached the area of Sparta, Missouri, because the small-town mayor couldn’t get to the hand-crank siren. KYTV reports that the tornado tracked into the Sparta
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) A report shows the obesity rate in Arkansas has increased among public school and state employees and their spouses. The Arkansas Center for Health Improvement’s analysis reveals that nearly 48% of such workers and
CONWAY, Ark. (AP) A technology company that works with Medicaid programs is expanding its central Arkansas facility and hiring 1,200 new workers. DXC Technology announced Tuesday the expansion of its facility in Conway, which currently employs nearly 450
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) A Springfield man has been sentenced to two life prison terms for child sexual abuse. Greene County prosecutors announced Monday in a news release that 30-year-old Johnny Cooper was sentenced Friday for 10 felonies, including
REPUBLIC, Mo. (AP) A Missouri man has busted the state records for the heaviest and second-heaviest pumpkins. KMBC-TV reports the 1,798-pound and 1,677-pound giants Richard Bottorf entered into the Republic Pumpkin Daze weigh more combined than a compact
LOUISIANA, Mo. (AP) – The Missouri Department of Transportation has apologized for posting an edited photo that cropped out a boy’s “Trump 2020” shirt and appeared to blur part of his “Trump 2020” cap. KSDK-TV reports that
COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – Several students face discipline for editing a screenshot of a Missouri middle school website to include a racist slur against black people. Columbia Public Schools spokeswoman Michelle Baumstark said Monday the students posted
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) – Authorities say a severe weather system has toppled trees and power lines, damaging some homes and outbuildings across parts of southern Missouri. National Weather Service Meteorologists Megan Terry says crews were headed out
NEW ORLEANS (AP) – The U.S. Coast Guard has called off a search in the Gulf of Mexico for a pilot who flew a small aircraft hundreds of miles beyond its intended destination in Louisiana. The search
FORT SMITH, Ark. (AP) Authorities in western Arkansas say a suspect is in custody following a man’s fatal shooting. Fort Smith Police Department spokesman Aric Mitchell says officers responded to reports of a shooting about 9:40 p.m. Saturday
Earlier this month, Arkansas Treasurer Dennis Milligan announced his team has partnered with The Arkansas Student Loan authority, Arkansas Department of Education and the 529 Education Savings Plan to launch an online education-readiness program, found at ARCollegeSaver.org.
HOT SPRINGS, Ark. (AP) Police in Hot Springs say three suspects have been arrested on murder warrants in the death of a 58-year-old woman. Police said in a news release Saturday that an 18-year-old woman, a 23-year-old woman
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) A University of Arkansas at Monticello vice president and provost is being recommended as the new chancellor of the university. UA System President Donald Bobbitt will recommend to the Board of Trustees that Peggy
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) A 27-year-old Nigerian national who lived in St. Robert has been sentenced to four years and three months in federal prison without parole for participating in a wide-ranging fraud conspiracy. Segun Prosper Otaru was sentenced
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) A 31-year-old Romanian national has been sentenced to 2.5 years in federal prison without parole for her role in a skimming operation at several southwest Missouri banks. Loredana Baceanu was sentenced Friday for possessing counterfeit
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) The Arkansas Racing Commission says it will wait for the outcome of two lawsuits before considering applicants for a casino license in Pope County. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that the panel made the decision
FULTON, Ark. (AP) Arkansas is dedicating a bridge in honor of a 4-year-old Texas girl whose remains were found in the area. Maleah Davis from Houston was reported missing in May. Her remains were found in June alongside
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) A jury in Little Rock deliberated for less than 30 minutes Thursday before convicting a man of capital murder for the killings of a 24-year-old woman and her two young children in 2017. According
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – A former sheriff’s deputy has pleaded guilty to receiving child pornography. Forty-year-old Leonard Jerome Wilson, formerly of Camdenton, accepted a plea deal Thursday that requires him to surrender his peace officer license
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) – The latest survey of bankers in rural parts of 10 Plains and Western states showed an improved rural economy this month, but the ongoing trade disputes continue weighing on the economy. The Rural
