Missouri News

WASHINGTON - Winter looks likely to be mild in the Midwest and dry in the Southeast, the government said Thursday.

Fifty jobs at the flagship University of Missouri campus will be spared from a systemwide hiring freeze announced Monday.

One good deed resulted in the shredding of another - a mortgage deed. Despite tough economic times and tight budgets, donations from the Columbia Orthopaedic Group enabled the Central Missouri Food Bank to pay ...

A coalition consisting mainly of death penalty critics called for a moratorium on Missouri executions Wednesday in order to study the current system.

WASHINGTON -- Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton's possible nomination as secretary of State is fraught with complicated issues, according to Sen.

A plea hearing for the mother and stepfather of a 4-year-old southeast Missouri boy who died from an infection in 2005 is rescheduled to Dec.

Missouri's highway funding has hit a pothole. The director of the Missouri Department of Transportation says revenues are down almost 5 percent through the first four months of the fiscal year.

A special legislative session to hasten winter utility bill assistance remains on the table.

Voters in Greene County made history . In a vote that was little noted outside southwest Missouri, that county became the first in 35 years to opt into Missouri's nonpartisan court plan.

His slim lead has shrunk further, but Republican John McCain remains ahead of Democratic President-elect Barack Obama as Missouri's local election jurisdictions turn in their official results.

Missouri's public safety chief is concerned the state could be wrongly targeted because of confusion over where a prominent terrorism leader is being held.

A former postmaster in southwest Missouri is sentenced to five months in federal prison for stealing nearly $53,000 in postal funds during 2006.

A Missouri health department study shows that nearly two-thirds of smokers want to quit in the next six months, with nearly 80 percent believing that they can stop at some point.

A Mid-Missouri man accused of selling deadly drugs to a teenager pleaded guilty Monday, but the teen's family is not happy with the outcome.

In 2006, the average American ate 13.3 lbs of turkey... with a hearty helping devoured at Thanksgiving time.

The University of Missouri system has put a freeze on hiring at all four campuses.System president Gary Forsee cited the "global financial crisis" in announcing the freeze Monday to employees.

A former utility regulator and economic development director will lead Jay Nixon's Office of Administration.

Photo Credit: AP Photo Marilyn and Dale Johnson head back to their house in Fort Scott, Kan., after feeding the animals on their southeast Kansas farm Tuesday, Nov.

Nearly two weeks after Election Day, Americans know who their next president will be.

Gov. Matt Blunt's former chief of staff used his state e-mail account to rally conservative legal and activist groups in an unsuccessful attempt to derail his boss' September 2007 appointment of a Missouri ...