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A northwest Missouri prison is struggling to recover from a riot and the following months-long lockdown. Crossroads Correctional Center in Cameron is struggling to recover from the May 12 riot. The facility houses about 1,500 medium and maximum security inmates. ...

The theft of more than 20 firearms at a Fenton gun store last week was the latest in an increase in such robberies at gun stores in Missouri and Illinois, according to federal officials. Figures from the Bureau of Alcohol, ...

Republican Rep. Kevin Yoder and his Democratic challenger are having a hard time keeping their political footing on immigration issues, complicating their efforts to win a competitive swing House district in Kansas that President Donald Trump narrowly lost. Yoder is ...

On 9/11, Stephen Feuerman saw the World Trade center aflame through the window of his Empire State Building office and watched, transfixed, as a second fireball burst from the twin towers. He ran through the 78th floor urging everyone to ...

The task of drawing new boundaries for thousands of federal and state legislative districts is still about three years away, yet the political battle over redistricting already is playing out in this year’s midterm elections. North Carolina’s congressional elections were ...

Twenty years after Larry Page and Sergey Brin set out to organize all of the internet’s information, the search engine they named Google has morphed into a dominating force in smartphones, online video, email, maps and much more. That resounding ...

Hiring in the United States picked up in August as employers added a strong 201,000 jobs, a sign of confidence that consumers and businesses will keep spending despite the Trump administration’s conflicts with its trading partners. The unemployment rate remained ...

A Las Vegas man has been charged with first-degree murder in the death of his 6-year-old daughter whose remains were found in an Illinois garage last year. St. Clair County, Illinois, prosecutors charged Jason Quate on Thursday in the death ...

Leona LeClair Kinsey was a fiercely independent woman who could go pheasant hunting, serve the bird for dinner, then take the feathers and turn them into an artistic gift. Her daughter, Carolyn DeFord, remembers how they’d also hunt deer, elk ...

Opponents heavily outspent supporters of a so-called right-to-work law that was overwhelmingly rejected by Missouri voters in the August primary elections. New financial reports filed with the Missouri Ethics Commission show that the opposition led by unions spent almost $17 ...

The searchers rummage through the abandoned trailer in Valier, Montana, flipping a battered couch, unfurling a stained sheet, looking for clues. It’s blistering hot and a grizzly bear lurking in the brush unleashes a menacing growl. They can’t stop, though. ...