Missouri

A Festus woman has been ordered to pay $17,000 in restitution after admitting to stealing from a client of a Jefferson County program that provides services for people with intellectual and developmental disabilities, according to court records. Laura E. Volkart, 43, pleaded guilty to felony financial exploitation of an elderly...

CLAYTON, Mo. – A Houston, Texas, woman has been ordered to appear in St. Louis County Circuit Court next month for posing as an airline employee to scam a hotel out of a free room. The scam occurred in March at the Pear Tree Inn, just south of Interstate...

A St. Louis woman already on probation for stealing is back in custody after robbing a downtown hotel worker at gunpoint after crashing into the victim’s vehicle.

"We can literally just eat them straight off the tree whenever we want during lunch."

Luca Messina was born with low vision and carries a gene mutation linked to Leber's congenital amaurosis, according to his mother, Blair Messina, who says he can tell whether lights are on or off but otherwise sees very little. On Saturday, Luca rolled across the ramps at Renner Brenner Park in Riverside, Missouri, guided by his aunt and his father as he joined a crowd of blind and low-vision skateboarders trying out a course built with them in mind.

Compassionate. Resourceful. Energetic. Kind. Spunky. Those are words used to describe 71-year-old Betty McKim who retired July 20 from Pony Bird after 49 years of caring for people with severe disabilities that required intensive care. McKim, who lives in Grubville, was the last of Pony Bird’s original employees. Pony...

Missouri voters will be asked whether most counties should require that their sheriffs be elected and limit the circumstances under which they can be removed from office. The proposed constitutional amendment, called Amendment 8 , mirrors state law, which already requires sheriffs to be elected. The amendment and current law exempt St. Louis, St. Louis County and St. Charles County, which are appointed by local officials. The amendment’s only change to state law would be the process for removing

FENTON — A 71-year-old Fredericktown man has been charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action following a fatal shooting Friday evening, Oct. 9, in Jefferson County that authorities believe stemmed from a road rage incident. Michael Frederick Miller, 71, is accused of shooting and killing a man in...

Showers and possible thunderstorms could disrupt Wednesday travel after three days of 90-degree heat.

Ryan Schmuhl started his trucking business — Schmuhl Brothers Inc., based in Kansas City, Kansas — in 1995 with his brother Ty and two big rigs. In 2000, he estimates, a 360-mile round trip cost about $90 in diesel. He said that the same trip, on the same lanes, costs about $490 today.