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Social media giants including Twitter, Yahoo, Facebook and Google are pushing back against Senate legislation that would require them to alert federal authorities of any terrorist activity, according to industry and government officials. In private meetings on Capitol Hill, industry ...

A Cape Girardeau businessman has been found guilty of killing his wife and 18-year-old son. KFVS reports that jurors in a Cape Girardeau County court on Thursday found George Joseph guilty of first-degree murder in the 2013 deaths of his ...

A Kansas City man has been charged in the death of a 3-year-old boy who was killed when shots were fired into his family’s home. The Jackson County prosecutor’s office said Thursday that 22-year-old SirTerry L. Stevenson is charged with ...

A Kansas City, Kansas, man has been charged after authorities say he rammed a police car and swerved toward police officers who were attempting to slow his pickup during a pursuit in Independence. The Kansas City Star reports Jesus A. ...

A 52-year-old man is jailed in lieu of $100,000 cash bond after being accused of using a bogus bomb in holding up a St. Louis County bank. St. Louis County prosecutors charged John Lyons on Thursday with first-degree robbery and ...

Republican attorney and University of Missouri School of Law associate professor Josh Hawley announced plans Thursday to run for state attorney general. The 35-year-old from Columbia said in an online video that he’s running on a conservative platform and planned ...

An eastern Missouri building inspector is facing theft charges. The Daily Journal newspaper in Park Hills, Missouri reports that Farmington building inspector Jaime Nicole Ellis was charged Tuesday with felony stealing. She is free on $15,000 bond. A message seeking ...

Defying a White House veto threat, the Republican-controlled House on Wednesday approved a bill granting states authority to regulate waste generated from coal burned for electricity. The bill, approved 258-166, would largely bypass a federal rule issued last year by ...

A Missouri man has been sentenced to 30 years in prison for knowingly exposing a sexual partner to the virus that causes AIDS. David Lee Mangum, 39, of Dexter, was sentenced Tuesday, the Poplar Bluff Daily American Republic reported. He ...

Scientists have developed a vaccine strain that has tested 100 percent effective in protecting chickens from bird flu and testing is underway to see if it also protects turkeys, U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack told the House Agriculture Committee at ...

The St. Louis-area’s congressional delegation says some contamination in a suburban landfill prone to smoldering came from the government and could justify changing oversight of the property. The delegation writes in a recent letter to U.S. Secretary of Energy Ernest ...