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Ex-St. Louis area police officer accused of sexually abusing handcuffed men
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.
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Ex-youth pastor stabbed family, set house on fire to hide financial troubles, affidavit says
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.
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4-day school week has students celebrating, parents trying to solve child care gap
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.
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Judge rules white man will stand trial for shooting Black teen Ralph Yarl, who went to wrong house
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.
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Missouri Republican seeks exceptions to near-total abortion ban, including for rape and incest cases
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.
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Oklahoma authorities name the BTK killer as the ‘prime suspect' in at least two unsolved cases
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.
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Transgender former student sues Missouri school for making her use boys bathrooms
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.
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Missouri man executed for luring and killing 6-year-old girl at an abandoned factory
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
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Missouri officer charged with kidnapping and beating a man until his jaw broke
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.
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Missouri man faces execution for killing 2 jailers in failed bid to help inmate escape
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.
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Nun Whose Body Shows Little Decay Since 2019 Death Draws Hundreds to Rural Missouri
Hundreds of people visited a small town in Missouri this week and last to see a nun whose body has barely decomposed since 2019.
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Hundreds Flock to Missouri to See ‘Miracle Nun'
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.
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Missouri High School Student Suspended 3 Days After Recording Teacher Using Racial Slur in Class
A high school sophomore in Missouri was suspended three days after she recorded her teacher last week using a racist slur in class.
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‘He Didn't Deserve to Get Shot': Good Samaritan Who Helped Ralph Yarl Found Him Bloody and Motionless
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.
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Missouri Tornado Kills 5 in Latest Wave of Severe Weather
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...
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Midwest and South Brace for Second Wave of Tornadoes After Deadly Weekend Storms
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.
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Missouri Sheriff, 2 Deputies Charged in Plot to Kidnap a Child
A Missouri sheriff and two deputies are accused of participating in a scheme to help a man kidnap his child.
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An Andean Bear Escaped His Enclosure at the St. Louis Zoo — Again
The animal tore through stainless steel clips used to secure his enclosure after an escape earlier this month, officials said.
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8-Year-Old Boy Missing From Washington State for 8 Months Is Found in Missouri
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…
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Lamar Johnson Fought to Prove His Innocence for 28 Years. Now, He's Free
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.