(JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — Missouri election authorities are predicting about one in four voters will cast ballots in next week’s primaries. Statewide voter turnout on Tuesday is projected at… Read more »

(KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — The city council in Kansas City has voted unanimously to ban the open carry of firearms, but the law could be stripped by a measure… Read more »

(KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — A suburban Kansas City youth soccer coach has pleaded guilty to secretly videotaping young girls while they changed their clothes in his daughter’s bedroom. The… Read more »

(SUNSET HILLS, Mo., AP) — Police in a St. Louis-area city are investigating contradictory reports from their mayor and a bicyclist who says the elected official caused him to crash…. Read more »

(LENEXA, Kan., AP) — Two Kansas City nonprofits are getting a total of about $120,000 in federal funds to improve areas around the Middle Blue River. The regional office of… Read more »

(ST. LOUIS, AP) — A new program in St. Louis places homeless veterans into furnished apartments, an effort to both get them off the street and help them turn their… Read more »

(WABASHA, Minn., AP) — Mississippi River workers say roughly a dozen barges and their tugboats have been grounded by sandbars in Minnesota. KTTC-TV reports (http://bit.ly/1nVNGgI) at least nine tugboats are… Read more »

(JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt is touting passage of legislation that authorizes the appointment of a special ambassador to the Middle East focused on religious freedom…. Read more »

(JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — The Humane Society of the United States has contributed $375,000 to an effort to defeat a Missouri ballot measure creating a constitutional right to farm…. Read more »

(COLUMBIA, Mo., AP) — The Columbia Police Department plans to outfit all of its uniformed officers with body cameras. Assistant Chief John Gordon announced Thursday that the department has purchased… Read more »