By ADAM ATON (JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — A Missouri lawmaker is proposing that the state make it a crime for a woman to use drugs while pregnant in an… Read more »

(PATTON, Mo., AP) — Authorities say a woman was killed and a teenager was seriously hurt when a deer crashed through a car window in southeast Missouri. The Missouri State… Read more »

(ST. LOUIS, AP) — A Bosnian immigrant formerly from Illinois faces sentencing for giving money to terror groups in Iraq and Syria. Jasminka Ramic pleaded guilty in September to conspiring… Read more »

By JIM SALTER and JIM SUHR (KINCAID, Ill., AP) — Sharon Stivers mustered a smile as a visitor walked into her muddy yard. “Welcome to my flood sale,” Stivers joked, nodding… Read more »

(CAMPBELL, Mo., AP) — A man has drowned after fleeing from officers in the flooded Missouri Bootheel region. The Missouri State Highway Patrol says the body of 40-year-old Rickey G…. Read more »

The Associated Press The latest developments on flooding in the Midwest (all times local): 8:20 a.m. Amtrak has suspended traffic on a route that runs from Kansas City to St…. Read more »

By JIM SALTER and ALAN SCHER ZAGIER (ST. LOUIS, AP) — Officials closed a major interstate highway south of St. Louis on Thursday morning amid historic flooding that has already left… Read more »

(APPOMATTOX, Va., AP) — Police have arrested an Appomattox County man suspected of kidnapping a 14-year-old Missouri girl. The Richmond Times-Dispatch (http://bit.ly/1OYDaiu) reports Virginia State Police announced Tuesday they have… Read more »