Missouri

A mother in Missouri faces criminal charges for mistakenly placing her 1-month-old baby in an oven instead of a crib, officials said.

Valentina Gomez, who is running for Missouri secretary of state, lit two books on fire, including an LGBTQ guide for teens and a sex education book.

A driver backed through the wall of a Missouri nail salon, killing a woman and injuring three other people, authorities said.

A decade-old cold case centered on a Navy veteran who disappeared without a trace in rural Missouri is hot again after an amateur sleuth and YouTube creator’s help led police to unidentified human remains.

Gypsy Rose Blanchard has been paroled years after she persuaded an online boyfriend to kill her abusive mother. The now-32-year-old Missouri woman was released on Thursday.

A former St. Louis, Missouri, area police officer was accused this week in a federal indictment of groping eight men he’d handcuffed and sexually abusing one of them, prosecutors said Thursday.

A former children’s pastor in southern Missouri told police he stabbed his wife and children before he set their house on fire in the early morning hours of Sept. 16. 

Hundreds of school systems around the country have adopted four-day weeks in recent years, mostly in rural and western parts of the U.S. Districts cite cost savings and advantages for teacher recruitment.

One lucky Powerball ticket sold in Missouri just made someone $1 million richer.

A Missouri judge has ruled that an 84-year-old white man will stand trial for shooting Ralph Yarl, a Black teen who went to the man’s house by mistake.

A Missouri Republican wants exceptions to the state’s near-total abortion ban. Jamie Corley of suburban St. Louis filed constitutional amendments Wednesday to allow abortions in cases of rape, incest and fatal abnormalities until fetal viability.

The BTK serial killer has been named the “prime suspect” in at least two unsolved cases, including one in Oklahoma that led authorities to dig this week near his former Kansas property in Park City, authorities announced Wednesday.

A transgender former student is suing a Missouri school district for forcing her to use the boys bathrooms or the high school’s only single-stall bathroom.

The 45-year-old man was put to death Tuesday evening, shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected a request to block the execution over arguments he was mentally incompetent

Yesterday in Missouri, a devastating car accident was recorded on a neighbor’s security cam video. The footage captured a car soaring through the air at a considerable speed before colliding with a house. Tragically, the female driver lost her life in the collision. Thankfully, the occupants inside the house at the time managed to avoid harm and escaped injury....

The charges stem from a July 4 arrest that Northwoods officer Samuel Davis made without informing dispatchers or writing a report, according to the probable cause statement.

A man who shot and killed two Missouri jailers almost 23 years ago during a failed bid to help an inmate escape is set to be executed. Forty-two-year-old Michael Tisius is scheduled to receive a lethal injection Tuesday evening at the state prison in Bonne Terre.

Four people died and seven others were seriously injured when a car crossed the center line of a Missouri highway and struck five motorcycles.

Hundreds of people visited a small town in Missouri this week and last to see a nun whose body has barely decomposed since 2019.

People around the country are going to an abbey in Gower, Missouri, to see the body of a nun whose remains are intact after being buried for four years.