Jefferson City

About half a dozen people have applied for an influential new job in Missouri to draw state legislative districts under a nationally unique mandate to achieve “partisan fairness” and “competitiveness” in elections.

Missouri college athletes could be paid under new proposals by state lawmakers.

Missouri officials are buying a piece of equipment that simulates the experience of being in an earthquake to prepare residents for a big tremblor in a region that saw one of the most powerful earthquakes east of the Rocky Mountains in the 1800s.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol reported several fatalities in traffic crashes during the Thanksgiving holiday counting period.

The suspect in a pair of deadly shootings hours apart was charged with murder on Friday, a day after he walked into a Missouri police station covered in blood and allegedly told people in the lobby that “I know I committed two murders.”

Missouri health officials are offering an online option for reporting adult abuse and neglect after an investigation found the state was answering fewer than half of the hotline calls.

The Missouri State Highway Patrol has launched an upgraded Missouri AMBER Alert system.

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson and local leaders say they want to make sure minors, domestic abusers and violent offenders don’t have guns.

Fire officials say a fire that damaged a housing unit at the former Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City apparently was caused by embers from a nearby prescribed burn.

Missouri residents could soon find it easier to update their addresses for voter registration under a settlement that voter advocates reached Thursday with the state’s Revenue Department.