Jefferson City

A Jeff City woman was killed in a Cole County accident on Monday.

Missouri Supreme Court judges have denied a death row inmate’s appeal.

A mid-Missouri couple is accused of repeatedly locking a 9-year-old boy in a closet without food and water for hours at a time and only letting him out to eat in the mornings.

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.