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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 ...

The Office of the Missouri State Public Defender released a statement Friday calling for a moratorium on the state’s use of the death penalty. The decision came in the wake of the release of a study by University of North ...

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 ...

The Obama administration proposed new regulations Thursday designed to reduce the environmental impact of coal mining on the nation’s streams, a long-anticipated move that met quick resistance from Republicans, even as the administration projected only modest job losses in coal ...

A Missouri circuit county judge ruled that the Department of Corrections violated the law by refusing to disclose records about pharmacies that compound the state’s execution drug. The American Civil Liberties Union of Missouri, which sued the state, said the ...

Taxis are losing business travelers to ride-hailing services like Uber, a survey shows. In the three months ended in June, Uber overtook taxis as the most expensed form of ground transportation, according to expense management system provider Certify. Uber accounted ...