By SUMMER BALLENTINE and MARIE FRENCH (JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — An Associated Press review found numerous examples of Missouri lawmakers championing legislation that affects the industries in which they work…. Read more »

By KEN DILANIAN (WASHINGTON, AP) — Jason Matthews spent 33 years as a CIA operations officer before retiring to write spy novels. With his second novel, “Palace of Treason,” out… Read more »

By JOHN ROGERS (LOS ANGELES, AP) — When he wasn’t busy scribbling out the theory of relativity, Albert Einstein seems to have spent a fair amount of time writing letters… Read more »

By GLYNN A. HILL (WASHINGTON, AP) — John Foley appreciates the fact that his son James, the American journalist beheaded in Syria by the Islamic State group last year, has… Read more »

By JOHN ROGERS (LOS ANGELES, AP) — It was a clear spring day in 1937 when Amelia Earhart, ready to make history by flying around the world, brought her personal… Read more »

Central Missouri Repertory Theatre will present “Erin Elevator’s Extraordinary Adventure” by Claudia I. Hass this summer at six locations in west-central Missouri. This children’s show, directed by UCM Chair and Professor… Read more »

By MARIA SUDEKUM (KNOB NOSTER, Mo., AP) — A grandson and namesake of the man who piloted the massive B-29 that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Japan, during World… Read more »

By DARLENE SUPERVILLE (WASHINGTON, AP) — Michelle Obama said Wednesday that it’s important to help bees, butterflies and other creatures that spread the pollen that helps food grow. She also… Read more »

(LONDON, AP) — Christie’s auction house is offering works by Claude Monet, Rene Magritte, Joan Miro, Marc Chagall and Pablo Picasso this month amid a voracious global appetite for impressionist… Read more »

By JACK GILLUM, EILEEN SULLIVAN and ERIC TUCKER (WASHINGTON, AP) — The FBI is operating a small air force with scores of low-flying planes across the country carrying video and, at times,… Read more »