MLM Counties News. Notices. Need-to-know Information.

Missouri has already seen nearly as many drowning cases in the first seven months of this year as in all of 2014. The Springfield News-Leader reports that two recent drowning deaths pushed the total in the state this year to ...

A former southwest Missouri high school teacher has been sentenced to four years in prison for having sex with one boy and sending nude photographs to another. The Joplin Globe reports 33-year-old Jessica Low was sentenced Monday after pleading guilty ...

Three people were sickened by carbon monoxide at a Kansas City office building. The Kansas City Star reports that firefighters responded to a call about noon Monday regarding shortness of breath at an office building in the Crossroads Art District. ...

Earth dialed the heat up in June, smashing warm temperature records for both the month and the first half of the year. Off-the-charts heat is “getting to be a monthly thing,” said Jessica Blunden, a climate scientist for the National ...

Republican lawmakers are calling on Democratic Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon to arm the state National Guard after a recent attack on two Tennessee military facilities left five soldiers dead. Governors of at least six other states have ordered that their ...

A federal appeals panel has reversed a lower court’s rejection of a challenge to the Affordable Care Act brought by a Missouri lawmaker fighting required birth control coverage in his state-sponsored insurance plan. The Eighth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ...

A top police officer in the Kansas City, Missouri, department has been selected to be the new police chief in Temple. The Central Texas city has announced Floyd Mitchell will take over its police agency in September, succeeding the retired ...

A former southwest Missouri sheriff stockpiled 3 tons of food in the basement of the Christian County Jail in what his replacement suspects was part of an effort to prepare for the “end of times.” It’s unclear whether the food, ...

Congress’ midsummer to-do list may take until Christmas to clear. At the top are maintaining the flow of highway funding, easing automatic budget cuts to the Pentagon and domestic agencies, renewing tax breaks and raising the debt limit. A misstep ...

Northwest Missouri has seen a rise in fatal wrecks, and authorities are alarmed because most of the victims weren’t wearing seat belts. A Missouri State Highway Patrol troop for the area reports a 54 percent increase in vehicle fatalities for ...

U.S. businesses’ outlook on sales in the coming months has darkened after sales growth slowed in the second quarter, according to a survey released Monday. More companies also expect to cut back on their investment in equipment and buildings in ...