(KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) – A Kansas City teenager is charged with abandoning a corpse after the body of a 14-year-old was found in a dirt pile on the city’s… Read more »

By DAVID A. LIEB (JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) – A federal appeals court on Friday upheld a Missouri law banning protests within 300 feet of funerals but struck down a… Read more »

(POMONA, Mo., AP) – A 54-year-old southwest Missouri woman is dead after apparently being struck by lightning. Howell County authorities say Connie Lou Wake died Wednesday. Authorities say Wake’s son… Read more »

(SPRINGFIELD, Mo., AP) – Two teenagers are accused of escaping from a juvenile rehabilitation camp then fatally beating and stabbing an elderly couple at a vacation cabin in southwest Missouri…. Read more »

(KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) – The city council in Kansas City has taken steps to help low-income residents faced with significant increases in water bills. The city council has approved… Read more »

(LEADWOOD, Mo., AP) – An eastern Missouri man is being credited with saving the life of a 12-year-old boy, jumping into a flooded river to pull the child to safety…. Read more »

(WARRENSBURG, Mo., digitalBURG) – Three days after being fatally shot by police in a raid on his home, police released the name of the victim Sunday morning. Beau Appleton, 57,… Read more »

(KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) – Kansas City leaders and crime victims want potential criminals to understand that they are being watched and are on their way to life in prison… Read more »