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The Supreme Court’s ruling last month legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide has left Americans sharply divided, according to an Associated Press-GfK poll that suggests support for gay unions may be down slightly from earlier this year. The poll also found a ...

Authorities say a 71-year-old suspect in the killing of a Georgia man has been arrested in the eastern Missouri town of Wentzville. The Wentzville Police Department and SWAT Team made the arrest Thursday night at a motel. WRBL-TV reports that ...

A day after the number of homicides in St. Louis topped the 100 mark for the year, the FBI, DEA and local police on Monday announced a new effort to curb the growing trend of violence in the city. Mission ...

After a federal jury gave Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev the death penalty for his crimes, survivors of the 2013 attack expressed relief that at least the four-month trial was over. “We can breathe again,” said one survivor. But a ...

State Sen. Bob Dixon is joining four other announced Republican candidates vying for Missouri governor in 2016, touting his Christian faith and conservative views during a Monday announcement on the front porch of his Springfield home. “Healthy families and a ...

Kansas City’s minimum wage will rise to $13 an hour over about four and a half years under an ordinance that council members approved Thursday, although there are questions whether it could withstand a legal challenge. The ordinance, which makes ...

A federal agency has proposed $74,000 in fines for a storage tank manufacturer accused of exposing workers to hazardous levels of a chemical than can cause lung cancer and other health problems. The U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and ...

A 22-year-old Kansas City man has been charged with child molestation and statutory sodomy after police say he failed a lie detector test on a nationally syndicated television talk show. Dameion M. McBride was charged Wednesday for inappropriately touching two ...

As heroin use jumps in Springfield and throughout Missouri, the Show Me State stands alone in not having a prescription drug monitoring program — a key to curbing the drug’s proliferation, according to federal experts. Nationally, heroin use has been ...

Missouri officials pushed this week for an extension to file paperwork needed for farmers to receive crop insurance, coverage the governor and attorney general say is necessary amid heavy rainfall and flooding. Attorney General Chris Koster filed a lawsuit after ...

Families of the 12 people James Holmes killed and the scores he injured in a packed movie theater were relieved that jurors only needed 12 hours to reject the idea that he was legally insane when he opened fire. Now ...