Missouri

The Missouri Department of Conservation has made changes to methods of preventing the spread of chronic wasting disease, a deadly pathogen that has infected about 1%, or nearly 1.5 million, of Missouri’s white-tailed deer. But hunters are frustrated with the changes and some hunters’ decisions could affect meat processors and taxidermists.

A Berkeley man has pleaded guilty in federal court to participating in a property fraud conspiracy involving at least 14 properties in St. Louis and St. Louis County, with intended financial losses exceeding $1.5 million. James L. Townes Jr., 51, entered his guilty plea Thursday in U.S. District Court in...

The Missouri Lottery is looking for someone who is in possession of a ticket from a St. Louis grocery store now worth $271,000.

A St. Louis woman who regularly protected her car keys from electronic thieves woke up to find her 2017 Nissan Maxima missing after leaving her key fob outside its protective holder for one night. Sherri ... Read more

When a dental surgery center in Independence opens next month, it will be the first in the state exclusively for Medicaid patients.  The center, which will provide dental care requiring anesthesia to children and adults, wouldn’t have been possible even five years ago, before Missouri began an overhaul of the dental care offered through its […] The post Needed dental care is within reach for more people around KC, but Medicaid cuts loom appeared first on The Beacon .

SLMPDThe St. Louis Metropolitan Police Department says an inmate who escaped from the city justice center Sunday morning was taken into custody Sunday afternoon in St. Louis County. With support from St. Louis County Police, plus regional and federal partners, 29-year-old Maurio Thomas was located near the corner of Tesson Ferry Road and Hermitage Drive.Earlier in the day, SLMPD spokesman Mitch McCoy said the public should consider Thomas "incredibly dangerous." He was detained on burglary and s

The Lincoln University lawsuit puts a decades-old funding fight in front of a federal judge. On Oct. 7, seven current and former students of Lincoln University of Missouri sued the state in U.S. District Court, alleging it shortchanged the HBCU in violation of federal law and the Constitution. They’re asking for a remedial fund of about $549 million and a court order guaranteeing equal funding going forward. Nothing has been proven, and the state hasn’t answered in court yet. ABC17 labels the fi

A Buffalo, Missouri truck driver just hit a big nearly $100,000 slot machine win at a casino in Iowa.

Truck Overturns in Kansas City, Killing Dozens of Cows and Causing Dozens More to Roam Streets

State officials answered a key question this week underpinning the complex financing of the Kansas City Chiefs stadium, outlining boundaries of a district that will use local sales taxes and revenue to fund part of the deal that includes public and private monies. STAR bonds, or sales tax and revenue...