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A major milestone was hit at Whiteman Air Force Base on Saturday, August 23, when Lt. Col. Ryan Bailey of the 131st Bomb Wing and Missouri National Guard took flight in the B-2 Stealth Bomber. Bailey surpassed 1,000 flying hours as he took to the sky on Saturday...

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. - Petty Officer 1st Class Mikel Pierce, an interior communications electrician from Columbia, Missouri. and 2000 graduate of Wright City High School, is serving in the U.S. Navy aboard Pre-Commissioning Unit Gerald R. Ford (CVN 78)...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The family of 18-year-old Michael Brown is asking for silence and peace as they lay him to rest. The funeral for Brown begins this morning. Brown's great uncle will deliver the eulogy, and the Rev. Al Sharpton is also expected to speak...

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Archdiocese of St. Louis is urging people who take part in the ice bucket challenge to raise funds to fight Lou Gehrig's disease to shift their donations away from the ALS Association. The Post-Dispatch reports that the archdiocese suggests donating to the John Paul the Second Medical Research Institute, an organization conducting similar research using only adult stem cells..

This Tibetan mastiff could probably swallow that girl in one bite, but he doesn't because he's a good boy. Yes he is! A very good boy!

About twenty people marched in a peaceful manner from the Sedalia Train station to the Municipal Building Sunday afternoon (Sun. Aug. 24).  This march was not just a march to focus on the events that have happened in the last two weeks in Ferguson, but also to help send a message that all racism needs to come to an end...

NAPA, Calif. (AP) -- A large earthquake rolled through California's northern Bay Area early Sunday, damaging some buildings, igniting fires, knocking out power to tens of thousands and sending residents running out of their homes in the darkness...

WASHINGTON (AP) — U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder is promising a thorough investigation into the fatal police shooting of Michael Brown while calling for "an end to the acts of violence in the streets" of Ferguson. Holder says the Justice Department will "defend the right of protesters to peacefully demonstrate...

The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is a craze unlike anything seen in years. But how exactly did it morph into the sensation it is?

As great and well-intentioned as the ALS Ice Bucket Challenge is, it doesn't truly hammer home the horror of Lou Gehrig's disease.