Missouri

A former St. Louis, Missouri, area police officer was accused this week in a federal indictment of groping eight men he’d handcuffed and sexually abusing one of them, prosecutors said Thursday.

A former children’s pastor in southern Missouri told police he stabbed his wife and children before he set their house on fire in the early morning hours of Sept. 16. 

Hundreds of school systems around the country have adopted four-day weeks in recent years, mostly in rural and western parts of the U.S. Districts cite cost savings and advantages for teacher recruitment.

A Missouri judge has ruled that an 84-year-old white man will stand trial for shooting Ralph Yarl, a Black teen who went to the man’s house by mistake.

A Missouri Republican wants exceptions to the state’s near-total abortion ban. Jamie Corley of suburban St. Louis filed constitutional amendments Wednesday to allow abortions in cases of rape, incest and fatal abnormalities until fetal viability.

The BTK serial killer has been named the “prime suspect” in at least two unsolved cases, including one in Oklahoma that led authorities to dig this week near his former Kansas property in Park City, authorities announced Wednesday.

A transgender former student is suing a Missouri school district for forcing her to use the boys bathrooms or the high school’s only single-stall bathroom.

The 45-year-old man was put to death Tuesday evening, shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a request to block the execution over arguments he was mentally incompetent

The charges stem from a July 4 arrest that Northwoods officer Samuel Davis made without informing dispatchers or writing a report, according to the probable cause statement.

A man who shot and killed two Missouri jailers almost 23 years ago during a failed bid to help an inmate escape is set to be executed. Forty-two-year-old Michael Tisius is scheduled to receive a lethal injection Tuesday evening at the state prison in Bonne Terre.

Hundreds of people visited a small town in Missouri this week and last to see a nun whose body has barely decomposed since 2019.

People around the country are going to an abbey in Gower, Missouri, to see the body of a nun whose remains are intact after being buried for four years.

A high school sophomore in Missouri was suspended three days after she recorded her teacher last week using a racist slur in class.

James Lynch said his Eagle Scout training kicked in and he checked the teen’s pulse and tried to stanch the blood in a neighbor’s driveway before paramedics arrived.

Authorities say five people were killed when a tornado tore through an area of rural southeastern Missouri before dawn on Wednesday. The twister caused significant destruction in and around the small communities of Glen Allen and Grassy, about 50 miles south of St. Louis. The tornado was spawned by a large storm system moving through the Midwest and South. That...

The National Weather Service on Tuesday evening began issuing tornado warnings in Iowa and Illinois and said a confirmed twister was spotted southwest of Chicago near Bryant, Illinois.

A Missouri sheriff and two deputies are accused of participating in a scheme to help a man kidnap his child.

The animal tore through stainless steel clips used to secure his enclosure after an escape earlier this month, officials said.

A boy who has been missing from Washington state since at least mid-June was found safe in Missouri, the FBI office in Seattle said Tuesday. Authorities said 8-year-old Breadson John had vanished by June 17, when a welfare check at his home in Vancouver, Washington, just across the state line from Oregon, determined his absence, officials said. On Friday, Breadson…

As he languished in a Missouri prison for nearly three decades, Lamar Johnson never stopped fighting to prove his innocence, even when it meant doing much of the legal work himself.