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The Democratic governor criticized the tax cut plan just a day after it won final approval from a Republican-led legislature that touted it as a means of remaining economically competitive in a battle for businesses with Kansas and other bordering states.

Twenty-one-year-old Spc. Charles P. McClure, of New Bloomfield, died May 2 in Camp Buehring in Kuwait.

Makeba Alcide missed the meet record for the heptathlon by just one point Friday at the SEC Outdoor Track and Field Championships. 

House Bill 436 seeks to nullify any and all past and future federal laws that might infringe upon Missouri’s interpretation of the Second Amendment, which is very different from the Supreme Court’s and which can be summarized thusly: Anything goes.

Records released by the Missouri Department of Social Services contain no indication that anyone called LP’s mother or visited her home. Given the family’s history, a call to the state child abuse hotline would likely have resulted in a search for LP and possibly a return to state supervision.

Under the legislation, students would have to be continuously enrolled for a certain number of credit hours per semester to continue receiving state aid.

Commissioner Ed Davis acknowledged that police might not have uncovered or disrupted a plot even if they had fully investigated the family of Tamerlan Tsarnaev based on Russia's warnings.

Scholars have long questioned whether it was an infection or pneumonia that killed Jackson, who gained the nickname "Stonewall" early in the war and went on to be lionized in the South and feared in the North because of his military exploits.

In addition to a nearly $25 billion budget, lawmakers have already sent Gov. Jay Nixon a potential $700 million income tax cut.

The building is rising at the northwest corner of the site where the twin towers were destroyed in the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks.

Blunt and his Democratic colleague from Missouri, Claire McCaskill, want resolution of the long-delayed project that would build a quarter-mile levee and install infrastructure to protect farmland and small towns from the Mississippi River.

Three Columbia gamers hope to develop and sell their own games through their new company, Sparks Games.

The Southeastern Conference Outdoor Track and Field Championships opened Thursday at Audrey J. Walton Stadium with the men’s hammer throw, heptathlon and decathlon.

Led by a home run by Kelsea Roth, Missouri beat Arkansas 8-0 in five innings to advance to the semifinals of the Southeastern Conference tournament.

Shannon Welker, a St. Louis native who has served for five years as an assistant coach at the University of Michigan, is the third head coach the Missouri program has had.

Columbia police arrested Phillip J. Masters on charges of first-degree robbery and armed criminal action. He is being held in Boone County Jail.

Rashard Bigham led a Boone County Sheriff's deputy on a chase through the El Chaparral subdivision after failing to stop at a stop sign, according to a department release.

The Tolton Catholic girls soccer team completed its regular season Thursday night with a 5-0 victory over Moberly's junior varsity squad at Cosmopolitan Park.

The Tigers are scheduled to compete against Nevada and Northwestern, among other teams, Nov. 28 and 29 in Las Vegas. 

The Ashland man was selling Adderall to a 13-year-old girl and a 17-year-old boy, according to a news release from the Boone County Sheriff's Department.