By SUMMER BALLENTINE (JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — Missouri lawmakers in 2016 will again try to rein in state ethics laws that are some of the loosest in the nation,… Read more »

The Associated Press In Bangkok, police-flanked partygoers will ring in the new year at the site of a deadly bombing that took place just months ago. In Paris, residents recovering… Read more »

By JIM SALTER and ALAN SCHER ZAGIER (ST. LOUIS, AP) –€” Though the Mississippi River and its tributaries didn’t top the 19 vulnerable levees that federal officials were monitoring, the dangers… Read more »

By JIM SALTER and JIM SUHR (ST. LOUIS, AP) — Warm and wet weather over the last several weeks followed by storms that brought a deluge of rain in recent days… Read more »

(FULTON, Mo., AP) — In a juvenile justice system that poses plenty of adversity to young people drawn into it, a Missouri judge came up with a plan to bring… Read more »

By JIM SALTER (HANNIBAL, Mo., AP) — Mark Twain once quipped, “The lack of money is the root of all evil.” But starting early next year, some of Twain’s favorite… Read more »

By JOHN ROGERS (LOS ANGELES, AP) — It’s not just a junkyard — or even a really big junkyard — but a living, breathing monument to Los Angeles pop culture…. Read more »

(JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — A Missouri lawmaker has again proposed an amendment to the state constitution that would make daylight saving time permanent, but at least two neighboring states… Read more »

By CONNIE CASS (WASHINGTON, AP) — One nation, two wars, a quarter-million lives lost, millions forced from their homes, and still no end in sight for the pitiless, seemingly bottomless… Read more »

By DAVID BAUDER (NEW YORK, AP) — The groundbreaking Los Angeles rap act N.W.A. will join a quartet of 1970s era FM radio rockers — Chicago, Cheap Trick, Deep Purple… Read more »