(PIERRE, S.D., AP) — A group that promotes environmental protection and outdoor recreation is creating a pilot program in South Dakota to try to keep trash out of the Missouri… Read more »

By JIM SALTER and JIM SUHR (FERGUSON, Mo., AP) — A man who authorities say opened fire on officers in Ferguson, Missouri, on the anniversary of Michael Brown’s death was critically… Read more »

(BRANSON, Mo., AP) — Water seeping through a pond’s clay liner likely led to the massive sinkhole that developed in May at a Branson area golf course, according to a… Read more »

By SUMMER BALLENTINE (JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — A Missouri agency has no plans to recover what a state audit described as more than $1.5 million in overpayments for an… Read more »

(CARTHAGE, Mo., AP) — The mother of a 26-year-old Joplin man who claims her son’s suicide in a Carthage jail was captured on video surveillance has filed a federal lawsuit… Read more »

(EDMUNDSON, Mo., AP) — Police suspect a woman died from complications after receiving illegal, cosmetic injections in her buttocks at a hotel room in the St. Louis suburb of Edmundson…. Read more »

(FERGUSON, Mo., AP) — A Ferguson city councilman says the federal government’s plan to reform policing and municipal courts could bankrupt the St. Louis suburb where the police shooting death… Read more »

(COLUMBIA, Mo., AP) — A professor and a research specialist at the University of Missouri face charges in Washington state for allegedly removing artifacts from a national forest without proper… Read more »

(KIRKSVILLE, Mo., AP) — Kirksville’s city council has given the go-ahead for residents looking to downsize to a smaller — much smaller — home. The Kirksville Daily Express (http://bit.ly/1IKEV42) reports… Read more »

(MARSTON, Mo., AP) — A federal agency says molten aluminum hitting water is the apparent cause of explosions that injured more than 30 employees at a southeast Missouri aluminum plant…. Read more »