By ADAM ATON Associated Press (JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — Missouri lawmakers are considering how to combat rising levels of opiate addiction — and while some proposals have garnered widespread support, others… Read more »

(IRONTON, Mo., AP) — Authorities say a 3-year-old Missouri boy who was found dead hours after he was reported missing likely died of hypothermia. The Iron County coroner’s office told The (Park… Read more »

(SPRINGFIELD, Mo., AP) — Police say that a Springfield maintenance worker who died after an accident at the city landfill was struck by a semitrailer. According to a news release from the… Read more »

(JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — Missouri’s K-12 public schools would get about a $76 million increase in basic funding under the budget proposed by a House panel. A House committee on Thursday… Read more »

(JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — A historically black university in Missouri is celebrating the 150th anniversary of its founding soon after the end of the Civil War. The Jefferson City News Tribune… Read more »

(COLUMBIA, Mo., AP) — A film crew is turning the 2003 killing of a Columbia man into an episode for a true-crime cable TV series. The Columbia Daily Tribune (http://bit.ly/1RvXygI ) reports… Read more »

(ST. LOUIS, AP) — A man is dead after being shot, then dropped off at a St. Louis hospital. Police say the man was shot about 1:30 a.m. Friday on the city’s… Read more »

(O’FALLON, Mo., AP) — Police in the St. Louis suburb of O’Fallon are searching for a man who stabbed a boy that was part of a group playing touch football in the… Read more »

(KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — Officials are trying to hammer out a deal to address competing water needs of south-central Kansas irrigators and a national wildlife refuge that’s lost considerable water to… Read more »