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Probation and parole officers rallied Tuesday to demand that they begin receiving about $4.4 million in back pay the courts have said the state owes them.

Scientists, intrigued by video games’ intrinsic ability to distract and focus the mind, have for decades looked for ways to use video games to improve health and patient outcomes.

The St. Louis Police Department are putting a new strategy into action, which includes a curfew for children younger than 18, to decrease the number of homicides in the city.

Richard Auchon, who served in the Blunt administration, will be taking over for Eric Feltner, who resigned last month when it became public he had been charged with two misdemeanor pornography counts.

Hulshof raised five times more than Steelman during the past quarter.

The Guard insists there's little reason to expect the information will be exploited. Columbia police say a National Guard computer was stolen in Columbia.

John Middleton, 48, was scheduled to die by lethal injection on July 30.

The payment is part of a national settlement in which the drug-maker has agreed to pay hundreds of millions of dollars to 44 states and the federal government. Missouri’s portion of the settlement was announced Tuesday.

The Guard is withholding details pending an investigation, and insists there’s little reason to expect the information to be exploited.

Students from MU’s Department of Architectural Studies and the Missouri University of Science and Technology’s School of Engineering in Rolla have been meeting since January 2007 to design a house powered entirely by the sun for the 2009 Solar Decathalon project.

There was little else on the minds of St. Louisans on Monday than the sale of one of the city’s most famous icons to Belgian brewer InBev.

In their first year of a law capping tuition increases, most Missouri universities are raising their tuition by nearly the maximum amount allowed during the upcoming school year.

Leo Morton will take on the role effective Aug. 1. He will not be a candidate for the permanent position, however.

Their campaign agenda includes making government more transparent and accountable, increasing funding for higher education, focusing on economic development and increasing access to affordable health care.

Blunt is scheduled to make stops in Great Britain, Spain, Germany and the Netherlands.

The five candidates for attorney general on the Aug. 5 primary ballot explain their positions on some of the more important issues in the race.

After some recent involvement in Sunshine Law dramatics, Rep. Jeff Harris of Columbia, a Democratic candidate for attorney general, has come up with a plan to improve the current policy.

A social activist had a two-story-high mural painted on the outside of a duplex in St. Louis to oppose the city’s use of eminent domain.

The lieutenant governor is scheduled to appear with the congressman on Monday in Cape Girardeau for the announcement.

A Torah scroll valued at about $30,000 reported stolen from a St. Louis-area synagogue is one of a handful of Torah scrolls stolen in the past year in the United States. The motive may be a hate crime or the profit from selling sacred documents on the black market.