Missouri’s largest electric utility believes a bill aimed at reducing competition and giving monopoly providers an advantage in building transmission lines will avoid cost overruns and deliver better results for customers.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri’s Republican attorney general on Monday said he will limit access to gender-affirming care for minors, sidestepping the GOP-led Senate as it struggles to pass a law banning the practice for children completely. As hundreds of activists rallied at the Capitol to pressure lawmakers to act on the bill, Attorney [...]
The second of three former correctional officers sentenced in the fatal beating of a state inmate received a 20-year prison term Monday, the same as a co-conspirator, despite a judge's declaration he could have stopped the attack as the senior officer.
An Illinois man who leaped onto the hood of a car suffered life-threatening injuries when he was thrown off and run over during a police chase early Monday
ST. LOUIS – Spring has sprung in the area and with temperatures nearing 70° later this week, lawn care specialists are already pressing into full gear. “Today is the start of really getting into the busy season. So with the temperatures changing, pre-emergents definitely needing to get down,” said Joshua Paske, owner of Paske Pest [...]
There are a number of reasons to bolster school safety in modern times. A new school identification effort is underway to increase safety when seconds count.
ST. LOUIS -- A New York Times columnist and best-selling cookbook author spent five months learning how to properly make a Chicago thin-crust pizza. J. Kenji López-Alt's article about the experience is causing a stir in St. Louis. Did Chicago steal the Gateway city's signature style? Not quite, but he does argue that most Midwestern [...]
Elizabeth Mackintosh was found murdered in a bathroom at Covenant Theological Seminary in 1990. The decades-old case was the subject of a recent episode of the true-crime series, "Cold Justice."
Preparations appear to be underway for the unprecedented scenario that Donald Trump could become the first former president in U.S. history to be indicted. Barricades arrived outside the criminal courthouse in Manhattan on Monday while law enforcement agencies grapple with how to protect the former president. Questions also remain as to whether Trump would be [...]
As Bruce Willis celebrated his 68th birthday Sunday, the actor’s family and loved ones, including wife Emma Heming and ex-wife, actress Demi Moore, took to social media to celebrate the icon who is suffering from frontotemporal dementia (known as FTD).
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Several prescribed burns will be conducted in Mark Twain National Forest on March 19. According to a press release from the United States Forest Service, the largest burn will be near Elm Springs and visible from Rolla. Other burns happening today include: Officials say the burns will be reducing the fuel load [...]