Missouri

Dana Shepherd, 52, was charged with murder and rape in the fatal stabbing of Carme Van Huss, 19, authorities said.

A St. Louis County, Missouri, teenager suffered rare complications from West Nile virus that have left him paralyzed and on a ventilator.

Ferguson police have released officer-worn body camera footage showing a protester knocking a Black police officer to the ground on the 10th anniversary of Michael Brown’s death, leaving the Missouri officer with a life-threatening brain injury.

A St. Louis man is in critical condition after being shot in the head by a masked gunman during his wedding. Police told KSDK-TV that two masked gunmen entered the bride’s backyard early Saturday as guests were still celebrating a small Friday ceremony at her home.

A Missouri man has been charged with driving a stolen truck onto a runway behind a plane that had just landed at St. Louis’ airport while fleeing police before eventually crashing into an officer’s car.

A Missouri judge has ruled that a longshot gubernatorial candidate with ties to the Ku Klux Klan can stay on the Republican ticket.

Judges some places don’t grant divorces when one of the parties is pregnant — and one Missouri lawmaker is trying to change that, at least in her state.

Authorities say a court employee and a police officer were fatally shot Thursday after the court process server tried to serve an eviction notice at a home in Missouri. Police say a second officer was critically injured, but is expected to survive.

A mother in Missouri faces criminal charges for mistakenly placing her 1-month-old baby in an oven instead of a crib, officials said.

Valentina Gomez, who is running for Missouri secretary of state, lit two books on fire, including an LGBTQ guide for teens and a sex education book.

A driver backed through the wall of a Missouri nail salon, killing a woman and injuring three other people, authorities said.

A decade-old cold case centered on a Navy veteran who disappeared without a trace in rural Missouri is hot again after an amateur sleuth and YouTube creator’s help led police to unidentified human remains.

Gypsy Rose Blanchard has been paroled years after she persuaded an online boyfriend to kill her abusive mother. The now-32-year-old Missouri woman was released on Thursday.

A former St. Louis, Missouri, area police officer was accused this week in a federal indictment of groping eight men he’d handcuffed and sexually abusing one of them, prosecutors said Thursday.

A former children’s pastor in southern Missouri told police he stabbed his wife and children before he set their house on fire in the early morning hours of Sept. 16. 

Hundreds of school systems around the country have adopted four-day weeks in recent years, mostly in rural and western parts of the U.S. Districts cite cost savings and advantages for teacher recruitment.

A Missouri judge has ruled that an 84-year-old white man will stand trial for shooting Ralph Yarl, a Black teen who went to the man’s house by mistake.

A Missouri Republican wants exceptions to the state’s near-total abortion ban. Jamie Corley of suburban St. Louis filed constitutional amendments Wednesday to allow abortions in cases of rape, incest and fatal abnormalities until fetal viability.

The BTK serial killer has been named the “prime suspect” in at least two unsolved cases, including one in Oklahoma that led authorities to dig this week near his former Kansas property in Park City, authorities announced Wednesday.

A transgender former student is suing a Missouri school district for forcing her to use the boys bathrooms or the high school’s only single-stall bathroom.