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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 ...

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 ...