State News

The river is already a few feet above flood stage and gaining in the Missouri towns of Canton, La Grange, Hannibal, Louisiana, Clarksville, Winfield and St. Louis.

Under the new law pharmacists will use electronic logs to track purchases of cold medications with pseudoephedrine, which can be used to make meth. The law also allows some nurses to prescribe controlled substances.

McCain says Obama plans to raise taxes. But Obama says his plan would cut taxes for 95 percent of American workers, while increasing taxes on corporations and the wealthy.

The National Weather Service forecasts moderate flooding in St. Louis and near 1993-level flooding in some river towns.

Residents of Dutchtown met with officials to learn about government buyouts after their town flooded in March.

The attorney general’s office says Heaven Scent Paws, a Cole County company claiming to train dogs to help diabetics, is ripping off consumers.

The body was sent to the Boone County Medical Examiner’s Office for an autopsy and identification.

A southeast Missouri man convicted 14 years ago in a college student’s murder but who claims innocence moved one step closer Monday toward the chance to clear his name. The man was prosecuted by Kenny Hulshof when he was a special state prosecutor

The audit says problems in the process used to check the names of immigrants seeking citizenship led to large backlogs and raised questions about the reliability of resulting information.

Three hand signs and luck are the only things holding Poplar Bluff resident from a $50,000 prize and a chance to compete internationally during the Beijing Olympics.

Three people are dead after separate accidents across the state, according to reports from the Missouri State Water Patrol.

Authorities are investigating whether the theft is connected to similar cases across the country.

Hulshof has the reputation for being an aggressive prosecutor, but an AP review shines light on four death penalty reversals in which Hulshof was the prosecutor.

“It’s gotten to be an ‘us versus them’ type of thing,” Mayor Fred Foley said. “I think it’s the first time they’ve been up against a small, rural area like this.

Raymond A. Potts, owner of Potts Contracting Group Inc., is charged with failing to pay the money to his company's employee pension benefit plan.

The director of Table Rock Water Quality tested water from seven portions of Table Rock for bacteria.

The U.S. Coast Guard said a clean-up effort used a vacuum truck and a skimmer to remove a majority of the fuel that had spilled from a sinking towboat.

The Museum and Hall of Fame will be moved to a new development that will include the United States Bowling Congress and the Bowling Proprietors Association of America.

Increasing rain and winds cause several weather warnings throughout Missouri with tornados forming in Washington and St. Louis County.

Eric Feltner, of Columbia, resigned Friday after reports emerged that he had been charged with two misdemeanor counts of providing pornography to a child.