Missouri

Hundreds of people visited a small town in Missouri this week and last to see a nun whose body has barely decomposed since 2019.

People around the country are going to an abbey in Gower, Missouri, to see the body of a nun whose remains are intact after being buried for four years.

A high school sophomore in Missouri was suspended three days after she recorded her teacher last week using a racist slur in class.

James Lynch said his Eagle Scout training kicked in and he checked the teen’s pulse and tried to stanch the blood in a neighbor’s driveway before paramedics arrived.

Authorities say five people were killed when a tornado tore through an area of rural southeastern Missouri before dawn on Wednesday. The twister caused significant destruction in and around the small communities of Glen Allen and Grassy, about 50 miles south of St. Louis. The tornado was spawned by a large storm system moving through the Midwest and South. That...

The National Weather Service on Tuesday evening began issuing tornado warnings in Iowa and Illinois and said a confirmed twister was spotted southwest of Chicago near Bryant, Illinois.

A Missouri sheriff and two deputies are accused of participating in a scheme to help a man kidnap his child.

The animal tore through stainless steel clips used to secure his enclosure after an escape earlier this month, officials said.

A boy who has been missing from Washington state since at least mid-June was found safe in Missouri, the FBI office in Seattle said Tuesday. Authorities said 8-year-old Breadson John had vanished by June 17, when a welfare check at his home in Vancouver, Washington, just across the state line from Oregon, determined his absence, officials said. On Friday, Breadson…

As he languished in a Missouri prison for nearly three decades, Lamar Johnson never stopped fighting to prove his innocence, even when it meant doing much of the legal work himself.

Blake Gilley, 38, said his children told him that they were instructed not to interact with others. Their mother has been accused of kidnapping.

Two kidnapped Missouri children were found at a supermarket in Florida after nearly a year of being missing, police said.

Family members are questioning why Kansas City police didn’t find a man’s body in the cargo area of his own SVU until after they towed it to a Missouri police station earlier this month.

The Overland Park police have released the video of a semitrailer dragging a compact car along an interstate in Kansas Wednesday morning.

Drag queens in full makeup and dozens of other advocates are rallying against Missouri bills aimed at transgender children and drag shows. A House committee debated the measures Tuesday.

The sheriff’s department said in a statement that all five had been recaptured by mid-morning Saturday. One inmate was located at a second-hand retail store in Poplar Bluff, Missouri, on Friday morning.

A surveillance video shows the inmates leaving in a stolen vehicle moments after breaking out of a Missouri county jail.

Five Missouri inmates were caught on video getting into a stolen Toyota Scion minutes after breaking out of a county jail Tuesday night.

Teacher shortages and poor retention rates for public school employees prompted the change.

Investigators said the man tried to place an order in the restaurant’s drive-thru lane.