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A bald eagle is slowly recovering after surgeries in Missouri, the victim of a shooting that experts say is far too common for America's national bird and other raptors.
A bald eagle was shot in the beak. A care team in Missouri is hopeful it can be saved
A bald eagle is slowly recovering from surgeries after it was shot in Missouri. The male eagle was found injured in central Missouri on July 11. A volunteer with the World Bird Sanctuary picked him … more
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Dolly Parton performs during an event celebrating the Missouri statewide expansion of Dolly Parton's Imagination Library, Tuesday, Aug. 27, 2024, in Kansas City, Mo. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
Dolly Parton is sending free books to children across 21 states — and around the world
Dolly Parton’s father grew up poor and never got the chance to learn to read. Inspired by her family, over the past three decades, the 78-year-old country music legend has made it her mission to … more
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FILE - A Missouri and American flag fly outside Planned Parenthood in St. Louis, June 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)
Planned Parenthood challenges Missouri law that kicked area clinics off of Medicaid
Missouri Planned Parenthoods are challenging the state over a new law that kicked the organization out of the Medicaid program. Planned Parenthood Great Plains and Planned Parenthood Great Rivers … more
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FILE - Abortion-rights supporters take part in a protest, May 30, 2019, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)
Missouri abortion-rights amendment faces last-minute legal challenges
Both sides of the debate over whether to enshrine abortion rights in Missouri’s constitution have filed last-minute legal challenges hoping to influence how, and if, the proposal goes before … more
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Court tosses Missouri law that barred police from enforcing federal gun laws
Federal appellate judges have overturned a Missouri law that banned police from enforcing some federal gun laws. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found the law unconstitutional Monday. It … more
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For many Asian Americans, Ferguson unrest set them on a path of resistance and reflection
This month marks 10 years since the fatal shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. It turns out that the way Black Lives Matter protesters were treated in the days that followed has led to … more
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With their massive resources, corporations could be champions of racial equity but often waiver
A Missouri nonprofit founded in 2015 to help address the issues that contributed to the police shooting death of Michael Brown Jr. and the riots that followed has faced the same lament many … more
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With their massive resources, corporations could be champions of racial equity but often waiver
A Missouri nonprofit founded in 2015 to help address the issues that contributed to the police shooting death of Michael Brown Jr. and the riots that followed has faced the same lament many … more
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FILE - Missouri Gov. Mike Parson holds up an example of a legal package of Life Savers Gummies, left, and a slightly smaller package of hemp-derived gummies, right, at the Capitol in Jefferson City, Missouri. (AP Photo/David A. Lieb, File)
Parson says Ashcroft is blocking effort to ban unregulated THC because of hurt feelings
Gov. Mike Parson says Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft is blocking an executive order to ban various unregulated forms of the cannabis compound THC over “hurt feelings." Parson endorsed … more
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FILE - This undated booking photo provided by the Missouri Department of Corrections shows Marcellus Williams. (Missouri Department of Corrections via AP, File)
Missouri Supreme Court blocks agreement that would have halted execution
The Missouri Supreme Court has blocked an agreement that would have spared the life of death row inmate Marcellus Williams and instead ordered a hearing to proceed on Williams’ innocence claim, … more
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FILE - This undated booking photo provided by the Missouri Department of Corrections shows Marcellus Williams. (Missouri Department of Corrections via AP, File)
Missouri man makes life-or-death effort to prove innocence before execution scheduled for next month
Testimony begins in a hearing with life-or-death implications for Missouri inmate Marcellus Williams. The hearing Wednesday address whether to vacate Williams’ 1998 murder conviction. Time is of … more
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FILE - A sign for the Department of Justice Federal Bureau of Prisons is displayed in the Brooklyn borough of New York, July 6, 2020. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan, File)
3 people charged after death of federal prison worker who opened fentanyl-laced mail
A federal prison inmate and two other people are facing charges of conspiring to mail drugs to a penitentiary in California where a mailroom supervisor died last week after opening a letter that … more
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It's been 10 years since 18-year-old Michael Brown was killed by a police officer in Ferguson, Missouri, turning the St. Louis suburb into the focal point of the national reckoning of the often tense relationship between law enforcement Black people.
Michael Brown’s death transformed a nation and sparked a decade of American reckoning on race
Michael Brown has been dead for a decade. The Black teenager's death in Ferguson, Missouri, prompted an eruption of protests in the suburban city and gave a boost to a then-nascent Black Lives Matter … more
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Sue Fleming, 88, who was among more than 40 people sickened with listeria food poisoning tied to a deadly outbreak involving Boar's Head deli meats, sits at her home in High Ridge, Mo., Thursday, Aug. 8, 2024. (AP Photo by Nick Ingram)
88-year-old victim in Boar's Head deli meat outbreak underscores risks for those most vulnerable
An 88-year-old Missouri woman was among more than 40 people sickened with listeria food poisoning tied to a deadly outbreak involving Boar's Head deli meats. Sue Fleming was hospitalized for nine … more
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FILE - Abortion-rights supporters take part in a protest, May 30, 2019, in St. Louis. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)
Arizona and Missouri will join 5 other states with abortion on the ballot. Who are the others?
Voters in at least seven states will decide referendums on abortion rights this year, with potentially more to come. Arizona, Colorado, Florida, Maryland, Missouri, Nevada and South Dakota will hold … more
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Today in History: August 18, 19th Amendment gives women the vote
Today is Sunday, Aug. 18, the 231st day of 2024. There are 135 days left in the year. Today in history: On Aug. 18, 1920, the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, guaranteeing American … more
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FILE - Kansas City, Mo., Mayor Quinton Lucas speaks during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, May 13, 2022. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)
Missouri voters pass constitutional amendment requiring increased Kansas City police funding
Missouri voters have narrowly passed a constitutional amendment requiring Kansas City to spend a quarter of its budget on police. Tuesday's vote highlights tensions between Republicans in power … more
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August primaries: How local votes compared to state results
Local voters largely sided with voters statewide on Tuesday regarding their parties’ picks for candidates for office in the Nov. 5 general election, according to state and county officials’ reports, pending certification. more
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This image released by the Food Safety and Inspection Service, an agency of the United States Department of Agriculture, shows the product label for Boar's Head Virginia Ham meat, one of 71 products recalled as an investigation into a deadly listeria outbreak. The popular deli meat company is recalling an additional 7 million pounds of ready-to-eat products made at a Virginia plant as the investigation continues, U.S. Agriculture Department officials said Tuesday, July 30, 2024. (FSIS/USDA via AP)
Third person dies in listeria outbreak tied to Boar's Head deli meats
Federal food safety officials say three people have now died in a listeria food poisoning outbreak linked to Boar’s Head deli meats. The overall number of people sickened has risen to 43. The … more
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FILE - Rapper Nelly approaches the stage for a concert in Erbil, northern Iraq, March 13, 2015. (AP Photo/Seivan M. Salim, File)
Rapper Nelly is arrested and accused of having illegal drugs. His lawyer says the case will die
Rapper Nelly has been arrested at a St. Louis-area casino. The Missouri Highway Patrol said Wednesday that an officer found four illegal ecstasy pills on him. The rapper’s attorney said an … more
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