Associated Press

The Missouri Supreme Court says local courts can’t throw people back in jail for not paying previous jail debts.

A former Kansas City priest who was defrocked last year following an investigation into allegations of child sexual abuse no longer has valid licenses to practice medicine in Kansas and Missouri, according to registration records.

University of Missouri officials say they have fired a campus police officer after verifying he was in a photo depicting him blackface.

A Missouri lawmaker who’s introduced measures that would force adults to own handguns and young adults to own AR-15 semi-automatic rifles said he’s trying to make the point that mandates are bad and doesn’t actually want to require gun ownership.

Nonprofit organizations and state bodies are already planning a celebration of 200 years of Missouri history and culture when the state reaches its bicentennial in 2021.

Hundreds of homes have flooded in several Midwestern states after rivers breached at least a dozen levees following heavy rain and snowmelt in the region, authorities said Monday while warning that the flooding was expected to linger.

A 13-year-old girl is dead after fire broke out at a home in south-central Missouri.

Police in Kansas City, Missouri, are investigating a stabbing death at a hotel.

Authorities say a knife-wielding Oklahoma man who was fatally shot by police had been reported as a possible escapee from a Sedalia jail.

Three men have been sentenced this week for the kidnapping and torture of a man over a drug debt.