City council members in the small southern Missouri town of Van Buren are taking turns keeping City Hall open after two employees walked off the job in the midst of the mayor's legal dispute.
Prosecutors say a man imprisoned for a Missouri strangling raped a woman days before the 2013 killing, even though he avoided arrest in that alleged sexual assault after saying the sex was consensual.
Prosecutors are seeking to have the probation rescinded for a man linked to a fatal drunken-driving crash in southwestern Missouri, saying he's failed 11 drug tests.