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A Florissant man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for child molestation and possession of child pornography. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports 47-year-old Herbert W. Morrison was sentenced Monday. He had pleaded guilty to 19 counts of statutory ...

The Missouri Ethics Commission has dismissed a complaint against a state House member over allegations that he allowed lobbyist gifts for others to be reported as his. The commission this past week said it found no inaccuracies in lobbyist expenditures ...

A Kansas City man who robbed a bank and unsuccessfully tried to rob a casino has been sentenced to nearly 17 years in prison without parole. Federal prosecutors say 63-year-old James T. Smith was sentenced Monday to 16 years and ...

Another suspect has been arrested in Missouri in connection with the fatal shooting of a woman just hours after her wedding in Topeka in 2014. The Topeka Capital-Journal reports a 38-year-old man was arrested Monday afternoon in Raytown, Missouri. He ...

Google is creating a new company to oversee its highly lucrative Internet business and a growing flock of other ventures, including some — like building self-driving cars and researching ways to prolong human life — that are known more for ...

The Missouri Supreme Court has sentenced Kimber Edwards’ to be executed on Oct. 6. Edwards, a former St. Louis City Workhouse guard, was convicted of first-degree murder in June 2002. Edwards arranged to have his ex-wife, Kimberly Cantrell, killed to ...

As a campaign to raise the minimum wage as high as $15 has achieved victories in such places as Seattle, Los Angeles and New York, it has bumped up against a harsh reality: Plenty of scofflaw businesses don’t pay the ...

Four years since being swamped when the federal government blasted three holes in a Mississippi River levee, the tiny southeast Missouri community of Pinhook has been turned into a footnote by bulldozers. Demolition efforts got underway Thursday in Pinhook, which ...

A St. Louis woman is accused of trying to smuggle heroin to a northeast Missouri jail inmate through a kiss. The Hannibal Courier-Post reports that 66-year-old Bettye Wilson is charged with delivery of a controlled substance at a correctional facility ...

Wherever their summer travels have taken them, Supreme Court justices probably will weigh in on Texas’ plans to execute two death row inmates in the week ahead. If past practice is any guide, the court is much more likely to ...

Missouri lawmakers hoping to help counties repair what one senator described as “crumbling” local courthouses are set to clash with the governor in a fight over whether ramping up court fees is the best way to pay for maintenance. At ...