A second brother has been sentenced in the beating death of an 84-year-old woman more than three decades ago during a break-in at her eastern Missouri home.
Police are looking for fresh leads in the 43-year-old killing of a 9-year-old girl who was abducted while walking home in Springfield and later found in a shallow grave.
Authorities allege a former jail guard persuaded her terminally ill father to fatally shoot her estranged husband to resolve a custody dispute and then kill himself.
A suspect has been arrested in Oklahoma in the deadly shooting of a southwest Missouri couple who were killed when they interrupted a robbery at their home.
A convicted felon was charged with a total of 18 felonies including murder after a series of shootings that left 3 people dead and 2 wounded in the Kansas City area.
A woman charged with intentionally driving her children into the Kansas River waived her right to a preliminary hearing and did not enter a plea at a court hearing.