St. Louis

There may be a cease-fire, but the economic “border war” involving the use of incentives to lure jobs across the state line in the Kansas City area isn’t exactly over.

Authorities say a wrong-way driver from Tennessee caused a triple fatality crash on the outskirts of Missouri’s capital city.

Guns have claimed the lives of two more children in the St. Louis area amid growing frustration about violence in the state’s largest cities.

The speaker of the Missouri House said he hopes to have a proposal aimed at combatting gun violence ready to debate next year, but critics say action needs to be taken sooner as the death toll mounts in the state’s largest cities.

A freight train believed to be bearing a flammable liquid used in solvents derailed Tuesday in an Illinois suburb of St. Louis, causing a fire that sent thick, black smoke into the air and prompted the evacuation of nearby schools and residences.

A series of shootings has left four people dead in Kansas City over 24 hours as concerns mount about violent crime in the state’s two largest cities.

A former eastern Missouri police lieutenant has been sentenced to two months in prison for stealing from a law enforcement association.

A St. Louis jail guard has been charged with allowing two heroin and fentanyl dealers to use her apartment to stash their drugs and guns.

A paddle boat race on the Missouri River that that was postponed in July because of high water has been rescheduled for October.

A St. Louis police officer fatally shot a suspect who tried to pull a gun from his pocket during a struggle early Thursday, the police chief said.