Category Archives: Regional News

(AP) – Two Arkansas Gulf War veterans are leading a campaign to build a Desert Storm War Memorial in Washington D.C.The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports Jeff Kurczek and Brenten Byrd serve on the board for the National Desert

(AP) – Arkansas finance officials say the state ended its fiscal year with a $15.7 million surplus after a boost in sales tax collections over the past two months helped restore most of the budget cuts enacted

(AP) – Arkansas officials say they’ll partly comply with a request for information from President Donald Trump’s voting commission, but won’t release details such as voters’ Social Security or driver’s license numbers.Secretary of State Mark Martin’s office said Wednesday

(AP) – Arkansas lawmakers are delaying a vote on a temporary ban of a herbicide that’s been the focus of hundreds of complaints from farmers who say it’s causing widespread damage.The Arkansas Legislative Council’s executive subcommittee on

(AP) – A southern Missouri man is accused of repeatedly striking his mother with a fishing pole during a dispute and shooting at her as she fled on foot.The West Plains Daily Quill reports Howell County prosecutors

(AP) – The Shepherd of the Hills site in Branson has a new owner but the historic site’s future is still unclear.The Springfield News-Leader reports the Taney County Assessor’s office says the site was purchased by Shepherd

(AP) – Missouri residents are questioning U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill during town halls.More than 100 people peppered the Democrat with questions during an evening town hall Wednesday in Ashland, Missouri. She received a generally friendly response from

(AP) – The U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives says its investigators found components of illegal fireworks in the debris of a St. Joseph home that exploded July 4.ATF spokesman John Ham says the evidence

(AP) – Missouri revenue growth appears to have reached the threshold to trigger income tax cuts.Data released Wednesday by the state budget director show net general revenues hit more than $9 billion during the fiscal year that

(AP) _ A former Missouri sheriff’s deputy accused of fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend in 2011 will be tried in suburban St. Louis’ St. Charles County. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the venue

(AP) _ A former Missouri sheriff’s deputy accused of fatally shooting his ex-girlfriend and her new boyfriend in 2011 will be tried in suburban St. Louis’ St. Charles County.The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the venue change

(AP) – Authorities have apprehended an inmate who walked away from his work site in Texarkana on Monday.Arkansas Department of Corrections spokesman Solomon Graves says inmate Joshua Bean walked away from his assigned work-release job site at

(AP) – Cleanup efforts are underway after a small tornado swept through parts of Jonesboro. Officials say no one was hurt in the EF-1 twister that struck Monday.The National Weather Service in Memphis, Tennessee, says the Monday

(AP) – Authorities in Pine Bluff are investigating the deaths of two people in the Dollarway area.The Pine Bluff Police Department said the man and woman were found suffering from gunshot wounds Monday at an apartment. Police

(AP) – Authorities say three people were killed in a head-on collision in Missouri.The Springfield News-Leader reported http://sgfnow.co/2tei4fy that the two-vehicle wreck occurred at 1:20 a.m. Tuesday in Newton County. The Missouri State Highway Patrol says 18-year-old

(AP) – A house explosion in Missouri collapsed a house and injured three people.The St. Joseph News-Press reports local police, firefighters and the ATF are still investigating the cause of Tuesday morning’s explosion. Capt. Jeff Wilson of

(AP) Columbia Regional Airport is preparing for passenger numbers to take off in August, when United Airlines begins flights to Denver and Chicago.United announced in late February that it would offer a daily flight to Denver and

(AP) Authorities are searching for an Arkansas inmate who walked away from his work site in Texarkana on Monday.Arkansas Department of Correction spokesman Solomon Graves says inmate Joshua Bean walked away from his assigned work-release job site

(AP) – A yearslong project to implement high-speed internet at every Arkansas school is expected to be complete before summer break ends.The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports Arkansas will be one of a handful of states that guarantees the

(AP) – A federal appeals court panel has upheld the bribery conviction and 10-year prison sentence for a former Arkansas judge who admitted to reducing a jury award against a nursing home operator in exchange for campaign

(AP) – Federal prosecutors say a rapper shot someone in the neck while leaving a different Arkansas club just days before headlining a Little Rock concert where a shooting left 28 people injured.The U.S. Attorney’s Office for

(AP) – Democratic U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill is holding a series of town halls in mid-Missouri.McCaskill is hosting 10 forums this week in cities including Ashland, Moberly, Mexico and California. She’ll be in Missouri while the U.S.

(AP) – Authorities say two people were killed when the dirt bikes they were riding collided in southwestern Missouri’s McDonald County.The Missouri State Highway Patrol says 18-year-old Dalton Horn of Exeter and 29-year-old Alex Brannum of Russellville,

(AP) – Top Republican recruit U.S. Rep. Ann Wagner of Missouri says she’s not running for Democratic U.S. Sen. Claire McCaskill’s seat in 2018.Wagner said in a statement Monday that she’s instead running for re-election to her

(AP) – Arkansas has asked the federal government to approve new limits the state wants on its hybrid Medicaid expansion that would move 60,000 people off the program and impose a work requirement on some participants. Governor

(AP) – The application period for people seeking to grow, distribute or use medical marijuana in Arkansas is officially open. State officials opened the application period Friday and runs until Sept. 18. Voters last November made Arkansas

(AP) – Arkansas’ governor has given initial approval to a temporary ban on the sale and use of an herbicide that’s prompted hundreds of complaints from farmers and a federal lawsuit claiming it’s caused widespread damage.Governor Asa

(AP) – Arkansas is reinstating $60 million that was cut from the state’s budget earlier this year after seeing a rebound in sales tax collections over the past two months.The state Department of Finance and Administration announced

(AP) – A committee appointed by Governor Eric Greitens is recommending an overhaul of some of Missouri’s main tax credits, including ones for low-income housing and historic buildings. The report released Friday says the state should reduce

(AP) – Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens is cutting more than $250 million in spending for the fiscal year that begins Saturday, including money for K-12 school buses, higher education and social services.The Republican announced the cuts Friday

(AP) – A project involving scientists from Missouri is designed to help bumblebees by tracking their buzzing and activity.The Columbia Missourian reports scientists developed an acoustic listening system to monitor bee activity in a specific area. The

Authorities say a rapper whose concert in Little Rock became the site of a shooting that left 28 people injured has been arrested on unrelated charges. The U.S. Marshal Service says Ricky Hampton of Memphis, Tennessee, also

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Negligent homicide charges have been filed against a 30-year-old man in the deaths of two young children who drowned after the truck they were in rolled into a pond. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Little Rock’s police chief credits the quick work of first responders for there being no fatalities after 28 people were injured in a shooting at a rap concert.Police Chief Kenton Buckner also

BLUE SPRINGS, Mo. (AP) – Police in a Kansas City suburb say a 77-year-old man is dead and a younger relative has been arrested.Blue Springs police say the man was found dead Friday at a home where

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Federal officials say the Kansas City Zoo was not at fault when a chimp died.The U.S. Department of Agriculture inspected the zoo’s chimpanzee program after a 31-year-old chimpanzee died June 21. The

Police have cordoned off a block in downtown Little Rock as officers investigate a shooting at a downtown nightclub that left at least 17 people injured.Police say the shooting happened early Saturday at the Power Ultra Lounge.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Little Rock has had several drive-by shootings over the past week but police say recent ones don’t seem to be random.An 18-year-old was shot Thursday and suffered non-life-threatening injuries. Police spokesman Steve

NORTH LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – A central Arkansas police officer with a strong social media following says he plans to post less during work hours.The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that North Little Rock officer Tommy Norman announced

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – The application period for people seeking to grow, distribute or use medical marijuana in Arkansas is officially open.State officials opened the application period Friday and runs until Sept. 18. Voters last November

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – A Kansas City, Missouri, woman is suing Uber, alleging that a driver who served prison time for attempted murder sexually assaulted her in January after dropping her off at home. The Kansas

ST. LOUIS (AP) – A former employee of a St. Louis-area school district admits she embezzled $1.6 million from the district.Federal prosecutors say 51-year-old Angela Huskey of De Soto, pleaded guilty Friday to felony fraud for taking

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens has signed legislation to make it tougher to prove workplace and housing discrimination in court.Greitens signed the measure late Friday. The legislation has been blasted by Democrats and

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) – Springfield police say a pregnant woman was critically injured and her baby later died after she was hit by a pickup truck. Police say 26-year-old Mirenda Barrows of Springfield was hit early Friday

(AP) _ A 16-year-old boy has been ordered to stand trial as an adult in the beating death of a man in their hometown of Jefferson City, Missouri.The Jefferson City News Tribune reports that Cole County Circuit

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ Republican Gov. Eric Greitens is creating a taskforce to find ways to revamp Missouri’s prison system.Greitens announced his executive order Friday. He’s directing the taskforce to find ways to ensure there’s enough

(AP) – Police have arrested the mother of a toddler found dead in the back of an SUV parked the wrong way on a Northern California street.Police arrested 27-year-old Angela Phakhin and her boyfriend, 46-year-old Untwan Smith,

(AP) – A central Arkansas prosecutor has been nominated for a U.S. attorney post in the state.The White House announced Thursday that President Donald Trump has nominated Cody Hiland to serve as U.S. attorney for the eastern

(AP) – An Arkansas judge has temporarily removed the police chief in Jacksonville amid questions over whether he’s eligible to serve because of a misdemeanor conviction.The city hired Geoffrey Herweg in April, after learning he pleaded guilty

(AP) – Arkansas Governor Asa Hutchinson says the Senate GOP’s health care legislation needs to ease some of its limits on Medicaid spending and give the state greater control over the program, warning that the state would

(AP) – Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens is signing bills to allow farm equipment on highways at night and tax propane used as vehicle fuel.Greitens announced his support Thursday. One new law will allow farm machinery with proper

(AP) – Authorities have rescued several people from flooded Missouri roads and a campground after heavy rains caused waters to rise, sending cattle floating over a highway.National Weather Service hydrologist Scott Watson said from 8 to 11

(AP) – The final pieces of a Confederate Monument have been removed from a St. Louis park.The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that most of the 38-foot-monument was removed from Forest Park in St. Louis on Wednesday night.

CAMDENTON, Mo. (AP) _ Authorities say a 75-year-old suburban St. Louis man whose body was found in Missouri’s Lake of the Ozarks drowned after suffering an unspecified medical episode and fell into the water. KOLR-TV (http://bit.ly/2sUjH1X )

CLARKSVILLE, Ark. (AP) _ Plans are underway for a solar power plant in west Arkansas that will be the state’s largest for a municipal utility. Clarksville Light & Water Company and Scenic Hill Solar announced Thursday they’re

(AP) – A city in southwest Arkansas is creating a legal structure to accommodate medical marijuana entrepreneurs who are approved for state licenses.A workshop held Tuesday in Texarkana by the Planning Commission focused on appropriate zones for

(AP) – A 19-year-old woman has pleaded guilty to charges of first-degree murder and theft by receiving in the July 2015 shooting deaths of an Arkansas couple.The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports Circuit Judge Troy Braswell sentenced Anastasia Roberts

(AP) – The Arkansas Health Department says it will begin issuing birth certificates listing both spouses in married same-sex couples as the parents after the state lost a case before the U.S. Supreme Court this week.The department

(AP) – The American Civil Liberties Union of Arkansas is condemning the destruction of a Ten Commandments monument at the Arkansas Capitol, and says it’s still committed to having the display struck down in the courts.The ACLU

(AP) – Hundreds of inventors are auditioning their wares for Walmart as part of an “open call” by the world’s largest retailer. They’re hopeful the company will offer them shelf space at up to 4,700 stores nationwide.Company

(AP) – A man whose conviction in a Missouri sports editor’s death was overturned after spending nearly a decade in prison has settled a portion of his lawsuit against police.A federal judge was informed during a teleconference

(AP) – A jail inmate who escaped from a hospital has been arrested at a mobile home park in suburban St. Louis.St. Louis County police say 36-year-old Bruce Brutsman was taken into custody around noon Wednesday near

(AP) _ A judge has dismissed an assault charge against a southeastern Missouri sheriff being investigated in the death of a Tennessee inmate but ordered him tried on a robbery count.The Southeast Missourian of Cape Girardeau reports

(AP) _ A southwestern Missouri man who spent nearly two decades in mental hospitals for a conviction of a 1997 sexual assault of a teenage girl has been ordered freed after genetic evidence exonerated him.Jasper County’s prosecutor

(AP) A 32-year-old man has been booked in the Pulaski County jail in connection with the destruction of a newly installed Ten Commandments monument outside Arkansas’State Capitol. According to a timeline of the events at 6:55 Wednesday

(AP) – A Pine Bluff woman has been sentenced to 25 years in prison after pleading guilty to causing the 2015 death of an elderly man.The Pine Bluff Commercial reports 55-year-old Carla Davidson was charged with first-degree

(AP) – A portion of northbound Interstate 555 in northeast Arkansas and a bridge over the interstate are closed after a tractor-trailer rig crashed into the overpass, then exploded and burned.Jonesboro police spokesman Paul Holmes says 57-year-old

(AP) – An Arkansas panel has approved a 2 percent pay raise for all of the state’s top elected officials except the lieutenant governor, who has said he didn’t want the bump in salary.The Independent Citizens Commission

(AP) – A substitute teacher in southwest Missouri has been charged with having sexual contact with a high school student.The Joplin Globe reports the Lawrence County prosecutor’s office filed two counts of sexual contact with a student

(AP) – A state trooper charged with involuntary manslaughter after an Iowa man drowned after falling from a patrol boat into a Missouri lake has pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor boating violation.The Kansas City Star reports Trooper

(AP) – Missouri senators won’t reconvene until at least after the July 4 holiday to consider legislation on abortion.Republican Majority Leader Mike Kehoe on Tuesday announced the next Senate meeting is scheduled for July 6. But he

(AP) – Missouri appellate judges are reinstating descriptions of initiative petitions against right to work laws that were approved by the former Democratic secretary of state.The Missouri Court of Appeals’ Western District on Tuesday ruled eight of

(AP) – The Missouri Supreme Court says it’s constitutional to commit sex offenders to secure confinement after prison.In two rulings Tuesday, the high court supported the Missouri law, which allows sexually violent offenders to be committed indefinitely

(AP) _ Workers have installed a Ten Commandments monument outside Arkansas’ Capitol, two years after lawmakers approved a measure permitting the statue on state grounds.The 6-foot-tall (1.8-meter-tall) monument was placed on the Capitol grounds early Tuesday. Opponents

(AP) _ A 33-year-old Columbia woman was sentenced to 20 years in prison for the shooting death of a man who allegedly was selling her methamphetamine.Jaclyn Amber Rose was sentenced Monday for second-degree murder and armed criminal

(AP) – U.S. Army Corps of Engineers officials are expected to begin repairing nine sections of a levee along the Black River in northeast Arkansas that was damaged by floods last month.The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that emergency

(AP) – A central Arkansas police officer who shot a man during a low-speed chase has been cleared of any wrongdoing.The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that Sherwood officer Todd Abbott shot 26-year-old Jose Louis Burgos when responding to

(AP) – The Supreme Court has ruled for same-sex couples who complained an Arkansas birth certificate law discriminated against them.The justices on Monday issued an unsigned opinion reversing an Arkansas high court ruling that upheld the law.

(AP) – The mother of an Arkansas prison escapee who had been on the run for more than three decades said she has been in contact with her son since soon after his escape and that he

(AP) – The Missouri NAACP is issuing an advisory telling travelers to be careful while in the state because of a danger that civil rights won’t be respected.The advisory cites a bill passed by lawmakers and awaiting

(AP)Education Secretary Betsy DeVos and other proponents of school voucher programs are praising a U.S. Supreme Court ruling that said a Lutheran church was wrongly denied a state grant for its preschool playground. But opponents say the

AP) _ The Supreme Court has ruled that churches have the same right as other charitable groups to seek state money for new playground surfaces and other non-religious needs.The justices on Monday ruled 7-2 in favor of

(AP) _ A Confederate monument will be removed by Friday from a St. Louis park under a deal between the city and the Missouri Civil War Museum.As part of the agreement announced Monday by the city, the

(AP) – An Arkansas prison escapee who had been on the run for more than three decades has been recaptured.The state Department of Corrections says 60-year-old Steven Dishman was arrested Sunday at a home in Springdale in

(AP) – A 22-year-old Arkansas resident has drowned after going underwater in a swimming area of an Oklahoma lake.A preliminary report from the Oklahoma Highway Patrol says Centerton, Arkansas, resident Anthony Scarpati died Friday afternoon on Skiatook

(AP) – An inmate who escaped an Arkansas Department of Corrections work release program has been recaptured.Department spokesman Solomon Graves says 39-year-old Joel Lane was arrested about 2 a.m. Sunday in Pine Bluff after leading both state

(AP) – Columbia is looking into imposing heavier regulations on payday lenders.The Columbia Missourian reports that an ordinance is being drafted. Payday loan companies offer small loans, usually less than $1,000, that borrowers usually promise to pay

(AP) – A northwestern Missouri boy with a rare genetic disorder has fulfilled his dream of being a police officer.The St. Joseph News-Press reports that 15-year-old Dylan Golden’s former elementary school principal, the St. Joseph Police Department

(AP) – The University of Missouri Libraries is asking book lovers for some help.Library officials have a wish list of more than 400 books that they hoped to buy but are not able to because of budget

(AP) – Before the Supreme Court justices begin their long summer break, they’re poised to act on the Trump administration’s travel ban and a separation of church and state dispute involving a Missouri church playground.But something could

(AP) – The number of Missouri House races lacking major-party opposition has been on the rise.An analysis by The Associated Press of last fall’s elections found that 60 percent of Missouri House races lacked a Republican or

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) – An Arkansas university is nearing the end of site cleanup at a decades-old nuclear reactor and estimates it will take another $10.1 million to finish the job.Nearly 16,000 pounds of low-level radiological waste

ST. LOUIS (AP) – St. Louis County police are investigating the case of a toddler who died after the vehicle in which he was riding overturned after hitting several parked vehicles.Police say 14-month-old Keshawn Hampton Jr. of

ST. LOUIS (AP) – A St. Louis judge has pushed back until Jan. 8 the retrial of a man accused in the deaths of two sisters forced off an abandoned Mississippi River bridge.The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Some GOP state lawmakers want to give the Missouri attorney general authority to prosecute violations of state abortion laws.The Republican-led Legislature is considering the proposal during a special session on abortion regulations

ST. LOUIS (AP) – Authorities are searching for a 28-year-old man suspected of opening fire on a car earlier this month in St. Louis, critically wounding a 7-year-old girl and killing her parents and another man in

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas man has been sentenced to life in prison without parole after pleading guilty to killing a sheriff’s deputy and two other people last month.Little Rock television station KATV reports James

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas judge has ruled in favor of the cousin of world champion boxer Jermain Taylor regarding a 2014 shooting incident after the former Olympian didn’t appear at a court hearing.The Arkansas

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — An Arkansas panel has voted to temporarily ban the sale and use of an herbicide that has prompted hundreds of complaints and a federal lawsuit from farmers who say it has caused

DONIPHAN, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say a small plane crashed into a detached garage in rural southeast Missouri while making an emergency landing.No one was hurt when the Cessna 182 went down Thursday night about 3.5 miles

ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis police say a black off-duty officer who heard a commotion near his home and tried to help fellow officers arrest three black suspects has been shot by a white officer who

(AP) – Arkansas legislators have approved rules necessary to implement a new voter-identification law that could go into effect as early as September. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that the state Board of Election Commissioners approved the rules

(AP) – Police say a 2-year-old boy has died in an apparently accidental shooting in Yell County.The Yell County Sheriff’s Department says deputies responded to a home just north of Danville Tuesday night and found Jacob Chronister

(AP) – Arkansas farmer David Hillman says Tropical Depression Cindy could actually help the rice and corn he grows in the southeastern section of his state.”If there’s not so much rain, it could end up being beneficial,”

(AP) – An Arkansas judge has struck down a new state law eliminating mandatory life-without-parole sentences for juveniles, ruling that it denies individualized sentencing hearings to offenders who are in prison for offenses committed when they were

(AP) – After years of delays, construction has begun on what will be the largest solar farm in Missouri.The 72-acre project, with more than 33,000 solar panels, will be built in Nixa. A groundbreaking is scheduled for

(AP) – A top Missouri Republican donor is asking other political givers to push Attorney General Josh Hawley to run for U.S. Senate.USA Today reports Sam Fox in a Tuesday letter asked other GOP donors to urge

(AP) – Missouri Republican Gov. Eric Greitens says he prefers a ramped-up House version of a bill to tighten state abortion lawsGreitens told reporters Thursday in Jefferson City that he supports the latest House iteration, which has

(AP) – A Missouri circuit judge says Republican Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft’s office wrote a confusing and grammatically incorrect summary of a referendum to repeal right to work.A summary is meant to help voters understand ballot

(AP) – Attorneys for the U.S. Department of Justice say Ferguson, Missouri, is making progress in the effort to end racial bias in police and court practices, but more transparency is needed.U.S. District Judge Catherine Perry on

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. — Police in Little Rock say a mall worker wrestled away a stripper pole from a would-be thief who bit the employee during the struggle.According to police, a woman entered a Spencer’s store in

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) _ A former Missouri church youth leader has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for attempting to entice a minor for illicit sex. The U.S. attorney’s office said in a news

(AP) – An Arkansas Senate panel has voted to study a bill limiting which restrooms transgender people can use that had stalled in this year’s legislative session after facing opposition from the state’s Republican governor, tourism groups

(AP) – Animal rights groups say they are pleased that Tyson Foods wants to improve conditions at its farms but that the company’s plans don’t go far enough.Tyson announced Wednesday that it had installed cameras at its

(AP) – A Republican lawmaker says he’s seeking his party’s nomination for Arkansas secretary of state next year.Representative Trevor Drown of Russellville announced Wednesday he’s running for secretary of state in next year’s election. Secretary of State

(AP) – A former Arkansas police officer has been sentenced to more than 11 years for his role in a drug conspiracy.The U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Arkansas announced Friday that James Edgerson was sentenced

(AP) – University of Missouri System President Mun Choi wants the university to rescind an honorary degree given to Bill Cosby nearly 20 years ago.The system’s Board of Curators will vote Friday on Choi’s recommendation. A university

(AP) – A 22-year-old man has pleaded guilty in the arson death of a Sedalia man.Aran Cantrell, of Sedalia, pleaded guilty Wednesday to second-degree murder and first-degree arson as part of a plea agreement in the death

(AP) – A lawmaker says Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens will sign his bill to ban people convicted of sex offenses against children from coming within 500 feet of children’s museums.Cassville Republican Sen. David Sater said Wednesday that

(AP) _ Two more suspects have pleaded guilty in a methamphetamine distribution conspiracy that led to the ambush killing of a drug trafficker in southwest Missouri.Twenty-year-old Brooke Danielle Beckley and 28-year-old Jourdan Ashley McGinnis pleaded guilty Tuesday

(AP) – Arkansas State Police say a Louisiana man was killed when the all-terrain vehicle he was driving was struck by a tractor-trailer rig in southern Arkansas.Police say 23-year-old Jeffrey Hunter of Haynesville, Louisiana, died in the

(AP) – Four former Arkansas day care workers charged in the death of a 5-year-old disabled boy who was left in a hot van have been released from jail on bond. The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that Kendra

(AP) – An Arkansas panel is recommending a 2 percent raise for the state’s elected officials and judges, despite a request from the state Supreme Court that it receive an 11 percent bump in pay.The Independent Citizens

(AP) – Abortion rights groups are asking a federal judge to block several new abortion restrictions in Arkansas, including a ban on a commonly used second-trimester procedure.The American Civil Liberties Union and the Center for Reproductive Rights

(AP) – Arkansas officials are dropping their effort to block a request for the records related to the autopsy of an inmate who lurched and convulsed 20 times during his execution.The state Crime Lab on Tuesday filed

(AP) – The nation’s largest meat producer says it has installed video cameras in key areas of all its poultry processing operations and will seek a new way to slaughter birds.Tyson Foods says it views itself as

(AP) – Springfield authorities say they will not charge a Springfield man who shot an intruder in his house.Springfield police spokeswoman Lisa Cox says detectives don’t believe Chad Faught committed a crime when he shot a man

(AP) – A business consultant who sold Missouri on a sweetener manufacturing project that never materialized will be released from prison next year.The Columbia Daily Tribune reports Missouri Department of Corrections spokesman David Owen said Tuesday that

(AP) – Experts say a Supreme Court ruling this week could have a “chilling effect” on the many lawsuits filed in St. Louis claiming talcum powder causes a deadly form of cancer in women.Justices ruled 8-1 Monday

(AP) – Missouri’s Republican-led House has passed legislation to toughen state abortion regulations.Lawmakers on Tuesday voted 110-38 in favor of the bill, which would require annual inspections of clinics and give the attorney general the power to

(AP) – A federal judge has approved a settlement in the wrongful-death lawsuit filed by the parents of Michael Brown, an unarmed, black 18-year-old who was fatally shot by a white police officer in 2014 in Ferguson,

(AP) _ A 19-year-old has pleaded guilty in the ambush killing of a drug trafficker in southwest Missouri.The Springfield News-Leader reports that Nathaniel Lee, of Nixa, admitted Monday to using a firearm to commit a drug trafficking

(AP) _ The Pulaski County Sheriff’s Office says a man who had been in jail custody has died at a Little Rock hospital.Authorities say 36-year-old Kenneth Lawrence was brought to the jail on June 8th on a

(AP) _ Authorities are searching for an inmate who escaped while working in a cornfield near a prison in southeastern Arkansas.Arkansas Department of Correction spokesman Solomon Graves says the inmate, 46-year-old Robert Woodward, escaped Tuesday morning while

(AP) – A western Arkansas city may enter into a recycling agreement that would end more than two years of dumping recycling into a landfill.The Southwest Times Record reports the Fort Smith Board of Directors will decide

(AP) – The Supreme Court has ruled in favor of an Alabama inmate who complained that he didn’t have an independent mental health expert to help him try to stave off a death sentence at his trial.The

(AP) – Applications are now available for those who want to sell or grow medical marijuana in Arkansas under a new constitutional amendment legalizing the drug for some patients.The Medical Marijuana Commission on Monday posted the applications

(AP) – A judge has issued an injunction that will temporarily prevent the city of St. Louis from removing a Confederate monument from Forest Park.St. Louis Circuit Court Judge Robert Dierker on Monday issued the injunction and

(AP) – The former city clerk of a southeast Missouri town is charged with receiving stolen property after a state audit found more than $100,000 in “potentially fraudulent activities.”Dana Mayberry was charged Monday in Iron County. She

(AP) – A Georgia man is accused of killing a neighbor, stealing his car and later kidnapping a Missouri woman before he was finally apprehended in Kansas.Prosecutors in Georgia have charged 53-year-old John Czarnecki with murder in

(AP) – Missouri House members are strengthening proposed abortion restrictions pending in the Legislature.A House committee on Monday amended a Senate bill to prohibit abortion clinic staff from asking ambulances to drive without sirens or emergency lights.

(AP) _ Authorities say they’ve recovered the body of an 18-year-old who drowned in the Arkansas River in western Arkansas while trying to help other swimmers who were struggling in the water.Crawford County Sheriff Ron Brown says

(AP) _ The Missouri State Highway Patrol is investigating reports of fake police pulling over women in eastern Missouri.The Park Hills Daily Journal reports that on June 8, a 24-year-old woman was stopped in Jefferson County by

(AP) – Miss Greater Jonesboro has been selected Miss Arkansas 2017.Maggie Benton of Jonesboro was crowned Saturday night in Little Rock by Miss Arkansas 2016 Savannah Skidmore and Miss America Savvy Shields, who won the 2016 Miss

(AP) – Police say an innocent bystander was wounded in a shooting outside a movie theater in southwest Little Rock.Police Officer Steve Moore told reporters the man was wounded by stray gunfire about 10:30 p.m. Saturday when

(AP) – A northwest Arkansas house once occupied by former President Bill Clinton that was damaged by fire has been deemed a total loss.The home now owned by Stephanie and Robert Dzur and occupied by Stephanie Dzur’s

(AP) – Because of a charter high school, much of the University of Arkansas at Little Rock campus will be exempt from a law allowing guns on college campuses in the state.The state law goes into effect

(AP) – The University of Missouri plans to encourage more people to adopt research animals.The Columbia Daily Tribune reports the university announced Thursday it will work with Homes for Animal Heroes, a program developed by the National

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Kansas City police say a person died and a small restaurant was destroyed when a vehicle hit the business.Police say a Honda clipped a tow truck early Saturday, went out of control

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) – An Illinois woman was found not guilty of manslaughter in a crash that killed a Springfield couple in July 2015.Prosecutors charged 37-year-old Antonia Reiss, of Columbia, Illinois, after her car, traveling at 96

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Members of Arkansas’ congressional delegation are criticizing President Donald Trump’s decision to restore some travel and economic restrictions on Cuba that were lifted as part of the Obama administration’s historic easing. Republican

NEWPORT, Ark. (AP) – More than 1,000 mourners gathered on the campus of a northeast Arkansas university to memorialize a local police officer who was fatally shot earlier this week while investigating a vehicle break-in.Mourners filled an

ST. LOUIS (AP) – The fight over ownership of a Confederate monument in St. Louis is moving to the courts.The Missouri Civil War Museum sued the city of St. Louis Friday over ownership of the monument. The

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri lawmakers’ frustrations with Republican Gov. Eric Greitens are boiling over.State lawmakers are using a special session on abortion called by the governor as an opportunity to publicly slam Greitens. During his

TOPEKA, Kan. (AP) – An Arkansas man who owned a medical imagining business was sentenced to 18 months in federal prison and ordered to pay more than $1.5 million in restitution for health care fraud. U.S. Attorney

WEST MEMPHIS, Ark. (AP) – Arkansas police say four people will be charged with manslaughter in the death of a 5-year-old developmentally disabled boy left in a sweltering van all day. West Memphis Police Capt. Joe Baker

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Reality TV personality Josh Duggar will no longer be a part of a breach-of-privacy lawsuit four of his sisters filed after a magazine disclosed that the sisters told police they had been

NEW FLORENCE, Mo. (AP) – Authorities are investigating the death of a Missouri snake breeder who was shot several times by an intruder.The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that Montgomery County Sheriff Matthew Schoo says 29-year-old Benjamin Renick

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Court records say a man swam across the Missouri River and then tried to swim back to the other side after leading officers on a chase through the Kansas City area.The Kansas

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) – A Louisiana girl with a goal of hugging police officers in all 50 states has made it to Ferguson, Missouri.The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that 7-year-old Rosalyn Baldwin visited the Ferguson Police Department

NEVADA, Mo. (AP) – A former inmate alleges in a lawsuit that he was paraded naked through a southwest Missouri jail and had buckets of water thrown at his face by a jailer who later was charged

ROLLA, Mo. (AP) – Four buildings on the University of Missouri Science and Technology campus in Rolla have been evacuated after a suspicious package was found near the school’s nuclear reactor.Campus spokesman Andrew Careaga says the package

(AP) – A federal jury has cleared a retired Little Rock police lieutenant of accusations that he used excessive force in punching a man in the face outside a restaurant nearly six years ago.The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports

(AP) – Construction is expected to begin in March 2018 for a planned $1 billion pulp mill in south Arkansas.Members of the Clark County Quorum Court were updated this week on the plans for the pulp mill,

(AP) – Exxon Mobil has settled a lawsuit over a 2013 pipeline spill that dumped tens of thousands of gallons of crude oil into an Arkansas neighborhood.Attorneys representing 64 families announced the settlement Thursday. They say terms

(AP) – Gov. Asa Hutchinson says he hopes a task force that will recommend changes to Arkansas’ tax code will also look at a proposal that failed in this year’s legislative session to require online retailers to

(AP) – Missouri Republican Gov. Eric Greitens is among governors meeting with President Donald Trump.Greitens’ spokesman Parker Briden said Thursday Greitens will be in Washington, D.C. He and seven other governors are meeting with Trump to discuss

(AP) – The University of Missouri System president is laying out plans to improve the Columbia campus’ enrollment and public image.The Columbia Daily Tribune reports that President Mun Choi spoke to the Regional Economic Development Board of

(AP) – The Missouri Department of Natural Resources must pay a $5,000 fine for violating the Sunshine Law after it took members of the Clean Water Commission on a tour of hog farms without proper public notice.Cole

(AP) – St. Louis officials and the Missouri Civil War Museum are fighting over who owns a divisive Confederate monument.Museum Executive Director Mark Trout tells the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that the United Daughters of the Confederacy signed

(AP) – Missouri Governor Eric Greitens has enacted a new law allowing utility regulators to approve lower electricity rates to lure metal manufactures to Missouri.Greitens said Thursday that he has signed legislation that had been passed last

(AP) – Missouri senators have passed legislation to require annual health inspections of abortion clinics and enact other new restrictions on the procedure.Senators voted 20-8 in favor of the measure early Thursday. The measure now heads to

(AP) _ Officials in an Arkansas county have a plea for courthouse visitors: Please stop urinating in our elevator.Craighead County officials hope new security cameras will deter the steady stream of culprits who have been relieving themselves

(AP) _ Authorities say a 5-year-old girl was killed and four others were injured after a freight train struck a minivan in southwest Missouri.The Missouri State Highway Patrol says the crash happened Wednesday night after the van

(AP) – A group of Arkansas farmers have filed a class-action lawsuit against the makers of the herbicide dicamba that they blame for damaging their crops. The lawsuit was filed Wednesday in federal court in Jonesboro, Arkansas,

(AP) – A city in the northwestern corner of Arkansas is in mourning after the death of a high school teacher in a Florida triple homicide in which authorities say the suspect tried to cover up the

(AP) – An 18-year-old man is charged with capital murder in the fatal shooting of a decorated Arkansas police officer.Tyler Calamese appeared in Newport district court Wednesday morning. He has been assigned two public defenders. Arkansas State

(AP) – Arkansas’ Governor Asa Hutchinson is leaving for Europe and Israel this week on a weeklong trade mission to promote the state’s businesses and try to lure more jobs.Hutchinson said Wednesday he’s traveling to France, Germany

(AP) – An Arkansas day care center has fired four employees over the death of a 5-year-old developmentally disabled boy who was left in a sweltering van all day.Ascent Children’s Health Services CEO Dan Sullivan said Wednesday

(AP) – A 26-year-old man whose friend tumbled off the roof of his sport utility vehicle and died as he drove along a central Missouri road at 35 mph has been charged with a felony.The Columbia Daily

(AP) – A Springfield man is charged in a shooting that left one Carthage man dead and another injured.Thirty-year-old Lafayette Starr was charged Wednesday with first-degree murder, first-degree assault and armed criminal action after the shooting Tuesday

(AP) – A central Missouri man has been sentenced to life in prison for the deaths of two Saline County residents.Fifty-nine-year-old Donald Owens, of Marshall, was sentenced Monday after he pleaded guilty to two counts of first-degree

(AP) – Five men from Excelsior Springs pleaded guilty this week to their roles in a $4.3 million conspiracy to distribute large quantities of methamphetamine in five northwest Missouri counties.Federal prosecutors say the men distributed the drugs

(AP) – Missouri senators have passed legislation to require annual health inspections of abortion clinics and enact other new restrictions on the procedure.Senators voted 20-8 in favor of the measure early Thursday. The measure now heads to

(AP) _ Voters in Pine Bluff have overwhelmingly approved a temporary sales tax increase that will fund the city’s “Go Forward Pine Bluff” improvements initiative.The seven-year tax is expected to raise about $4 million per year for

(AP) – Arkansas State Police say an 18-year-old suspect is being held in connection with the fatal shooting of a decorated police officer.State police spokesman Bill Sadler says charges have not yet been filed against the suspect,

(AP) – A federal appeals court is hearing arguments over the constitutionality of Ohio’s new three-drug execution method.At issue before the 6th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati on Wednesday is the effectiveness of the first

(AP) – The herbicide dicamba has ruined about 100 acres of soybeans at a state-funded agriculture experiment station in northeastern Arkansas.Northeast Research and Extension Center Director Chuck Wilson tells the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette the afflicted field will be

(AP) – A central Arkansas woman has pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the fatal shooting of her husband last year.The Log Cabin Democrat reports that 31-year-old Lashawnda Renee Macon accepted a plea agreement Monday requiring her

(AP) – Police say a 5-year-old boy died after he was left in a day care vehicle all day in eastern Arkansas. The West Memphis Police Department says the boy was picked up by the day care

(AP) – A “semi-retired” rancher and farmer who hasn’t sought political office before says he’s challenging an Arkansas Republican congressman as a Democrat next year.Mike Nelson said Tuesday he’s seeking the party’s nomination to challenge Republican Rep.

(AP) – An inspection of opioid drug management practices at a Veterans Affairs center in southeast Missouri found that some procedures were not followed.The Southeast Missourian reports that the findings come after the John J. Pershing VA

(AP) – A former teacher’s assistant has pleaded guilty to receiving child pornography after admitting he placed a pen camera in the bathroom of a southwest Missouri elementary school.Federal prosecutors say 20-year-old Dalton Cole Sherman, of Buffalo,

(AP) – Attorneys for a man awaiting re-trial in the deaths of two sisters forced off an abandoned Mississippi River bridge in St. Louis say in a court filing that they’re negotiating with the Missouri Attorney General’s

(AP) – A former Colorado marijuana enforcement officer and a marijuana entrepreneur are among those accused of being involved with a large trafficking ring that shipped pot out of state.Former pot officer Renee Rayton, Scott Pack and

(AP) – The Missouri Senate could debate proposals to ramp up state abortion regulations as early as Wednesday.Lawmakers are considering requiring annual inspections for abortion clinics during a special session on abortion called by Republican Gov. Eric

(AP) _ A third defendant has been sentenced for participating in a southwest Missouri robbery in which a guest at a victim’s home fatally shot an accomplice.The Joplin Globe reports that 39-year-old Shawn Hency, of Carthage, was

(AP) – A U.S. Department of Health and Human Services agency is awarding the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences an $11 million federal grant for research on infectious diseases.The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports the grant is from

(AP) – Tyson Foods is recalling nearly 2.5 million pounds (1.1 million kilograms) of ready-to-eat breaded chicken due to an unlabeled allergen. The company, based in Springdale, Arkansas, says the recall was made after it was notified

(AP) – Arkansas officials are asking a federal judge to block an effort to subpoena records related to the autopsy of an inmate who lurched and convulsed 20 times during his execution.Kenneth Williams was put to death

(AP) – A police officer has been shot and killed in a small northeastern Arkansas town, and a manhunt is underway for the suspect.The shooting was reported about 7:30 p.m. Monday in Newport, about 90 miles northeast

(AP) – Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens has signed a bill aimed at averting a scenario in which Missouri residents could have been turned away at airports for lack of valid identification.The legislation signed Monday will give residents

(AP) – Missouri is being sued over allegations of inappropriately providing psychotropic drugs to foster care children.Two national child advocacy groups and Saint Louis University School of Law Legal Clinics filed the federal lawsuit Monday against the

(AP) – The Missouri Department of Corrections says a Missouri parole board member who reportedly admits concocting a word game played during questioning in parole hearings has resigned.Donald Ruzicka’s resignation Monday from the Missouri Board of Probation

(AP) – A Missouri lawmaker says he posted a Facebook video of himself decapitating and butchering a chicken on his farm Monday to show he was working before being called back for a legislative session on abortion.Republican

(AP) _ With concerns about bats literally falling from the ceiling, a rural Missouri county’s prosecuting attorney’s office has decided to relocate.The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the Iron County prosecutor’s office moved to the courthouse Thursday.

(AP) _ Missouri lawmakers are returning to the Capitol for a special legislative session on abortion.Republican Gov. Eric Greitens says a recent federal judge’s ruling that struck down some state abortion laws in part prompted his call

(AP) _ With concerns about bats literally falling from the ceiling, a rural Missouri county’s prosecuting attorney’s office has decided to relocate. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/2rVhroQ ) reports that the Iron County prosecutor’s office moved to

(AP) – Jefferson County authorities say an 8-year-old girl was killed when an all-terrain vehicle she was riding crashed in Tucker.Authorities told reporters the girl was riding with her stepmother shortly before 9 p.m. Saturday at Tucker

(AP) – The body of a missing northwest Arkansas man has been found in Beaver Lake.The Benton County Sheriff’s Office says the body of 50-year-old Edward Holmes of Bella Vista was found Saturday near a private boat

(AP) _ Police in the tourist town of Eureka Springs say a Missouri man died after falling from a staircase at a hotel.Eureka Springs police say William Thomas of Webb City, Missouri, died after falling Saturday night

(AP) – Police in northeast Arkansas say a man has died after being shot at a car wash and the suspect is in custody.Blytheville police say 28-year-old Deandre Love was found about 7:15 p.m. Saturday with multiple

(AP) – St. Louis’ sprawling Forest Park is getting a $5.8-million makeover.The roughly 1,300-acre park that’s some 500 acres bigger than New York City’s Central Park is renovating its 30-acre Central Fields, which has served as home

(AP) – The University of Missouri plans to increase enforcement of a housing policy that requires first-time freshmen to live on campus.The proposal is part of a budget plan approved last week by University of Missouri system

(AP) – A Kansas City theater company is offering a $500 reward for the return of its replica of the iconic flying car in the 1968 movie “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.”But the company’s CEO says the car

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) The fight over whether Arkansas’ three-drug execution protocol could subject inmates to a cruel punishment will resume when or if the state sets additional execution dates. Autopsy results were released last week, but

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – Little Rock leaders recently approved a resolution asking the state to restore local control over the city’s public schools, but the possibility of a school board election actually taking place and how

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) – Two Springfield men are charged with second-degree murder in a shooting death after what police say was a botched drug deal.Greene County Prosecutor Dan Patterson on Friday charged 38-year-old Quincy Owens and 28

JONESBORO, Ark. (AP) – Tuition and fees will go up 3.4 percent for students at Arkansas State University this fall.ASU trustees approved the fee increases Thursday. It’ll now cost $8,478 for an undergraduate, in-state student taking 15

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) – Fire has heavily damaged a northwestern Arkansas house once occupied by former President Bill Clinton.Television station KHBS/KHOG reports that one person was inside the Fayetteville, Arkansas, home when the fire was reported early

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) – An attorney who was heading Arkansas’ Alcoholic Beverage Control Division on an interim basis has been named to the post permanently.Gov. Asa Hutchinson on Friday named Mary Robin Casteel as the agency’s

FULTON, Mo. (AP) – Fulton police are looking for three stolen sculpture pieces that are part of a 32-piece sculpture that was to be used in a new forensic center currently being constructed.Police Lt. William Ladwig said

OLATHE, Kan. (AP) – A man who spent nearly 17 years in prison for a 1999 robbery is free after supporters found another man who looked like him and lived near the crime scene.Richard Anthony Jones, of

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (AP) – The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ work plan for this year includes nearly $42 million to complete work on four Missouri River levees at St. Joseph.The levees were damaged during the 1993

ST. LOUIS (AP) – A report says a Missouri parole board member and employee played a game during parole hearings in which they earned points for incorporating song titles and unusual words such as “manatee” and “hootenanny”

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – A Kansas man charged with fatally shooting an Indian national at a suburban Kansas City bar has been indicted on federal hate crime and firearms charges.The Justice Department announced Friday that Adam

PEVELY, Mo. (AP) _ An eastern Missouri mother and her baby are injured but shaken after a steel plate fell off a railroad bridge and crashed through the back window of their car.KMOV-TV reports that Mindy Damica

SEARCY, Ark. (AP) _ Prosecutors say they won’t seek the death penalty for a man charged in the death of a Searcy man who disappeared more than 20 years ago.Brandon Lee Wheeler is charged with capital murder

(AP) – The remains of two Arkansas veterans killed in World War II and the Korean War have been found and returned to the state.The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports Army Pfc. Robert Mitchell of Searcy and Marine Pfc.

(AP) – An Arkansas State Police trooper who was critically injured in a head-on crash on Interstate 40 in western Arkansas is the state’s Trooper of the Year.Cpl. Roy Moomey was presented with the award Thursday in

(AP) – The Arkansas Supreme Court has upheld the capital murder and kidnapping convictions of a man sentenced to life in prison for the 2014 killing of a real estate agent. The court on Thursday affirmed the

(AP) – The Arkansas Medical Board isn’t pursuing an investigation into how drugs used to execute four inmates in April was obtained.The panel’s attorney said Thursday that he found no evidence that any doctors licensed by the

(AP) – A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit against a central Arkansas city and a judge that alleges they’re violating constitutional rights by effectively operating a debtor’s prison with a court that’s imposed fines and jail

(AP) – A Texas man has been found guilty in federal court in Missouri of smuggling human growth hormone to patients, including professional wrestlers.The U.S. Attorney’s office in St. Louis says 57-year-old George Patino of Houston was

(AP) – The Missouri State Highway Patrol has identified a man who has been missing for two weeks at the Lake of the Ozarks.The patrol says 20-year-old Jesse Blakely, of Matteson, Illinois, disappeared at the lake on

(AP) – A portion of a 38-foot-tall granite monument to the Confederacy in St. Louis has been removed, but a spokesman for the mayor’s office says the bulk of the memorial may remain in place for weeks.Cranes

(AP) – The city of Springfield, Missouri, is moving closer to starting a local prescription drug monitoring program.The Springfield News-Leader reports that a City Council committee decided Tuesday to let the full council vote on a bill

(AP) _ A planned $100 million entertainment district in El Dorado has a new name as the city gears up for a grand opening later this year.The entertainment district will be called the Murphy Arts District. The

(AP) Police are investigating a fatal shooting outside a Springfield bank.The Springfield News-Leader reports that police spokesperson Lisa Cox says the shooting happened about 4 p.m. Wednesday outside of a Commerce Bank branch. The victim was taken

(AP) – The Arkansas Medical Marijuana Commission has finalized the process for accepting applications for medical marijuana sellers and growers.The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports the five-member commission developed a more detailed application scoring method Tuesday. The method breaks

(AP) – A lawsuit alleges that Arkansas Department of Human Services employees knowingly placed foster children into a home with a “known violent sexual predator.”The lawsuit was filed Monday on behalf of seven former foster children of

(AP) – Tyson Foods Inc. says its purchase of AdvancePierre Foods is now complete.Springdale, Arkansas-based Tyson said in a news release Wednesday that the estimated $4.2 billion transaction to acquire Blue Ash, Ohio-based AdvancePierre Holdings Inc. is

(AP) – The Arkansas Highway Commission has decided to seek a ballot measure to increase money for state roads next year after lawmakers refused to send voters a proposal that would have raised $200 million a year.The

(AP) – The University of Missouri plans to close its Washington-based lobbying office by the end of the summer, costing two staff members their jobs.The cuts are part of the university’s system-wide budget reductions announced Friday by

(AP) – Supporters of a new osteopathic medical school in Joplin are looking forward to late July, when the first class of 162 students is scheduled to arrive.The Joplin campus of the Kansas City University of Medicine

(AP) – Authorities say two Missouri men have been arrested in the theft of $5,000 worth of Pokemon cards.Police allege the pair broke into a car last month in Springfield and stole a backpack containing 10 boxes

(AP) – Missouri Republican Governor Eric Greitens says he’s calling lawmakers back to the Capitol to work on abortion policies.Greitens announced Wednesday he’s calling another special session starting Monday to address a St. Louis ordinance against discrimination

(AP) _ The University of Missouri will pay $750,000 to settle claims filed after a Columbia firefighter died in a walkway collapse at a university apartment complex. The Columbia Daily Tribune (http://bit.ly/2r3r5Uw ) reports that the settlement

(AP) – Lawyers for reality TV personality Josh Duggar say he faced “unwarranted public scrutiny” after his sisters were revealed to have told police they’d been molested by him.Duggar’s lawyers made the comment in a complaint in

(AP) – A capital-murder trial has been postponed for a man accused of shooting two men and crushing their bodies in a car at an Arkansas salvage yard.The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports Judge William Pearson agreed to defense

(AP) – Authorities say a woman and an infant were injured after a street sweeper crashed into a home in Benton County.The Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that Benton County crews were cleaning roads and filling pot holes

(AP) – Police say a 29-year-old man was fatally shot by a 4-year-old child in eastern Arkansas.Police in Helena-West Helena told reporters Courtney Craig was pronounced dead at a hospital where he was taken following the shooting

(AP) – The six members of Arkansas’ congressional delegation have written to President Donald Trump in support of a federal disaster declaration for the state as a result of severe storms, flooding and tornadoes that struck the

(AP) – A southeast Missouri woman is accused of setting the fire that killed a man.KFVS-TV reports that the fire broke out Sunday in an apartment building in Poplar Bluff. Firefighters pulled 57-year-old Tommy Younger from the

(AP) – A former teacher and coach at a southwest Missouri high school will serve five years of supervised probation after pleading guilty to having sexual contact with a student.Calvin Thomas Jr., a former special needs teacher

(AP) – An outgoing superintendent at a southwest Missouri school has been suspended with pay since shortly after he said a prayer at the high school’s graduation.The Willard School Board voted in May to suspend Superintendent Kent

(AP) – United Airlines says it wants to contact a musician who says she was barred by a United supervisor from boarding a plane with her violin, leading to a scuffle that caused her to miss her

(AP) _ No damage is reported after a small earthquake shook some areas of eastern Missouri early Tuesday.The U.S. Geological Survey says a magnitude 2.6 earthquake occurred at 6:29 a.m. Tuesday, centered near the town of Bonne

(AP) – A man sentenced to life without parole for a killing that occurred when he was 15 is now eligible for parole after rulings from by the state’s and nation’s highest courts.The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports a

(AP) – Motorists in Oklahoma and Arkansas are enjoying some of the lowest gas prices in the nation.AAA said Monday that the average price of a gallon of regular gasoline is $2.09 in Oklahoma – lowest in

(AP) – An Arkansas scientist who has made a series of appearances on “The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon” will leave his day job at the Museum of Discovery in Little Rock on Wednesday.The museum’s chief marketing

(AP) – Arkansas highway officials have reopened a ramp off Little Rock’s Broadway Bridge that had been closed since last year.Southbound drivers can now enter westbound Arkansas 10 without having to go through a part of downtown

(AP) – Early voting starts Tuesday in Pine Bluff on a temporary five-eighths-cent sales tax increase.Proponents say the seven-year levy will revive the southeastern Arkansas city of 50,000. Opponents say that a “Go Forward Pine Bluff” initiative

(AP) – Arkansas officials say they anticipate that between 20,000 and 40,000 people will ask for permission to obtain medical marijuana.The state Health Department’s chief lawyer, Robert Brech, told a joint meeting of the Senate and House

(AP) – The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to hear a Missouri technical college’s challenge of a ruling that its mandatory drug testing policy is unconstitutional when applied to all students.The nation’s high court refused without comment

(AP) – A National Transportation Board report says the same slick rails that stalled a sightseeing train in 2014 prevented an assist train from stopping before crashing into it.The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports a fall foliage sightseeing train

(AP) – Arkansas State Police say a Tennessee man was killed when he was struck by a car while trying to cross Interstate 30 on foot.A police report says 20-year-old Christopher Wayne Dufour of Collierville, Tennessee, died

(AP) – A former jail supervisor in Arkansas has admitted to lying to FBI investigators during a sex abuse investigation.Online court records show former Pulaski County jail supervisor Scott Hazel pleaded guilty Friday to making a false

(AP) – Officials in a northwest Arkansas city say failure to properly authorize collection of property taxes leaves the city facing a $391,0 budget shortfall and possibly eliminating its police department.Cave Springs City Attorney Justin Eichmann told

(AP) – Arkansas State Police say a state prison guard was stabbed by an inmate at the East Arkansas Regional Unit in Brickeys.Trooper Liz Chapman said in an email Sunday that state police are investigating after an

(AP) – Missouri lawmakers effectively eliminated state spending on sobriety checkpoints beginning in July. The move follows criticism by some Republican lawmakers who question the effectiveness of checkpoints and raised concerns about whether they represent unreasonable searches

(AP) – St. Louis police say a man was found fatally shot on Interstate 70. Authorities did not immediately publicly identify the victim, who was found wounded about 3:15 a.m. Saturday and later was pronounced dead at

(AP) – A suburban Kansas City man is charged with second-degree murder in with what police suspect was a road-rage shooting that killed the other driver. Jackson County prosecutors on Saturday also charged 45-year-old John C. Young

(AP) – A 7-year-old girl who was critically injured in a shooting last week that killed three other people, including her parents, has died.The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports Deniya Irving died Saturday from injuries she received in

VAN BUREN, Ark. (AP) – A 34-year-old Arkansas man has died following a two-vehicle accident on Interstate 40 in Crawford County.The Arkansas State Police says Marlon A. Jackson of Warren was killed in Friday night’s accident in

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) – Missouri lawmakers effectively eliminated state spending on sobriety checkpoints beginning in July.The move follows criticism by some Republican lawmakers who question the effectiveness of checkpoints and raised concerns about whether they represent

ST. LOUIS (AP) – St. Louis police say a man was found fatally shot on Interstate 70.Authorities did not immediately publicly identify the victim, who was found wounded about 3:15 a.m. Saturday and later was pronounced dead

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – A suburban Kansas City man is charged with second-degree murder in with what police suspect was a road-rage shooting that killed the other driver.Jackson County prosecutors on Saturday also charged 45-year-old John

FORT SMITH, Ark. (AP) – A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit brought by a federal prisoner in a northwestern Arkansas jail who said staff used excessive force against him.The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that Eastern Arkansas’ U.S.

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) – An attorney for a northwestern Arkansas college says a motion to bar his firm from a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit against the school is harassment.The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette reports that attorneys for former

BLYTHEVILLE, Ark. (AP) – Three suspects have been jailed and are charged with first-degree murder in the Memorial Day killing of a 28-year-old Blytheville man.Authorities say the suspects fatally shot Richard Wilkins Jr., during a fight that

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – Authorities are investigating a woman’s death in Kansas City, Missouri, as a homicide and asking the public for help locating her missing car.Police said in a news release that Ashley Geddes was

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) – A second man has been sentenced in the fatal shooting a 6-year-old girl in Kansas City.The Jackson County prosecutor’s office says 21-year-old Howard Chase was ordered Friday to serve two life sentences

ST. LOUIS (AP) – The Missouri Supreme Court will not review the conviction of Rodney Lincoln, who is serving life in prison in the death of a St. Louis woman 35 years ago, a crime he claims

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) – An advocacy group has submitted language for initiative petitions that seek a statewide vote to impose significant changes on the captive-deer industry in Missouri.The Columbia Missourian reports that Missouri Hunters for Fair Chase