Missouri

Teachers and staff will now be able to discipline students with “physical force” as a “last resort.”

The school district introduced a new policy that allows “certified” individuals to use “physical force” as a way of “correcting student behavior.”

Abby the poodle-hound mix normally weighs about 50 pounds but her owner guessed she lost half her body weight in the cave.

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt has defeated scandal-scarred former Gov. Eric Greitens and 19 others in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate. He will face Trudy Busch Valentine, a nurse and philanthropist who defeated Marine veteran Lucas Kunce and nine others in the Democratic primary. Republican leaders have long feared that a Greitens win would jeopardize a red state Senate...

A record 12 inches of rain fell overnight in parts of St. Louis, Missouri, causing extreme flash flooding and prompting evacuations from residents trapped in their homes and vehicles.

At trial, prosecutors painted Beau Rothwell as a meticulous planner and showed the jury his texts with a woman he was having an affair with, as well as a list of pros and cons he made for leaving his wife.

Drone footage in Mendon, Missouri, shows the derailed train that resulted in 3 deaths

Seven train cars derailed in Mendon, Missouri, after an Amtrak train struck a dump truck at a public crossing.

Facebook has removed a campaign video by Republican Missouri U.S. Senate candidate Eric Greitens for violating “policies prohibiting violence and incitement,” because the ad showed him brandishing a shotgun and declaring that he was hunting RINOs, or Republicans in Name Only. Twitter blocked the video from being shared. In the ad, Greitens is flanked by a tactical unit that breaks...

Severe storms hit Kansas City, Missouri late Tuesday night through early Wednesday morning, leaving damage and prompting a Severe Thunderstorm Warning from the National Weather Service.

A Missouri state representative went viral this week after delivering an impassioned speech opposing a transgender sports bill. The bill, which later passed 89-40, bans transgender girls from competing on girls’ sports teams.

A judge has dismissed charges against three men prosecuted after a tourist boat sank and killed 17 people during a 2018 Missouri storm

The email, widely circulated online, cited the end of pandemic-related government assistance and rising gas prices as opportunities to offer lower wages for ‘paycheck to paycheck’ employees.

Chain-reaction collisions involving dozens of vehicles on a foggy interstate in southeast Missouri caused at least six deaths and multiple injuries

The woman was watching nine children under the age of 3 when she is alleged to have left the residence for about 12 minutes, leaving them unsupervised

The University of Missouri-St. Louis Business School’s DEI accelerator is taking a new approach to funding start-ups and creating generational wealth.

Talk about “right place, right time.” Emergency responders were in the middle of training on how to conduct icy water rescues when they spotted two teens who fell into a frozen lake.

A Missouri woman has been charged with killing her boyfriend with a sword on Christmas Eve.

Finding the fossils of a large duck-billed dinosaur in southern Missouri is exciting enough, but a paleontologist who helped lead the dig believes there are many more in the same area

More than $1.4 million has been raised for a man who spent 43 years behind bars before a judge overturned his conviction in a triple killing