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A man who was adopted as a 3-year-old from South Korea almost four decades ago and flown to America is in detention awaiting deportation because of “the severity of his criminal history,” U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement said. Adam Crapser ...

Protesters at the demonstration against the Dakota Access pipeline are increasingly divided over how to stop the project, with militant younger activists seeking more aggressive tactics and an older crowd arguing for peaceful protest centered on prayer. The differences came ...

Missouri’s candidates for governor Republican Eric Greitens and Democrat Chris Koster are spending millions of dollars, mostly on advertising, in the final weeks leading up to the Nov. 8 election, campaign finance reports filed Monday show. The latest records show ...

A University of Connecticut provost is about to be named president of the University of Missouri, nearly a year after the Columbia campus was roiled by protests over administrators’ handling of racial and other issues on the Columbia campus, a ...

The next president of the United States will start with a huge following on Twitter but a clean slate of tweets. It’s all part of the peaceful transition of power in the social media age. The White House said Monday ...

A monthly survey of business leaders suggests the economy will continue slowing in nine Midwest and Plains states, in part because of manufacturing weakness, according to a report released Tuesday. The Mid-America Business Conditions Index report said the overall economic ...

Missouri’s lowest-in-the-nation tobacco tax will rise if at least one of two ballot measures passes in November. But voters seeing the onslaught of TV ads on behalf of both can be excused if they don’t know what to believe. After ...

The crowdsourcing goal was modest: $5,000, enough to help a few dozen people camping in North Dakota to protest the nearby construction of the four-state Dakota Access oil pipeline. The fund has since topped a staggering $1 million. The fund ...

The race for control of the Senate is tearing toward its finale on a last-minute burst of cash from both sides, with a half-dozen top races essentially tied. The outcomes of those contests, in states from Nevada to Missouri to ...

Several wind power companies have sued the Clinton County Commission and the Clinton County Planning and Zoning Commission for barring them from building wind turbines as part of a larger project. Osborn Wind Energy, Osborn Wind II, Boulevard Associates and ...

A Missouri House candidate publicly accused of raping a soon-to-be lawmaker from another district is suing her for defamation, a move the woman criticized as an attempt to discourage victims from reporting crimes. Steven Roberts Jr.’s lawsuit filed Thursday in ...