Missouri

Facing waning support from longtime backers and donors in the wake of the attack at the U_S_ Capitol last week, Republican Missouri Sen_ Josh Hawley has defended himself in a newspaper column, accusing the media and the “Washington establishment” of deceiving Americans into calling him an “insurrectionist.”

Rep. Cori Bush, D-Mo., slammed President Donald Trump on Wednesday and called on Congress to impeach the president. “The 117th Congress must understand that we have a mandate to legislate in defense of Black lives. The first step in that process is to root our white supremacy, starting with impeaching the white supremacist-in-chief.”

Becky Harper sobbed as she spoke to a Missouri dispatcher after stumbling across her expectant daughter in a pool of blood, her womb slashed open and the child she had been carrying missing.

Republican Sen. Josh Hawley says he is going forward with his objection to the Electoral College results in Pennsylvania despite the violent breach at the Capitol by supporters of President Donald Trump.

The parents of a 4-year-old Missouri girl allegedly killed by neighbors to remove a “demon” now face charges

Doctors in Missouri said a 3-year-old boy experienced a stroke after he tested positive for COVID-19, in what they called a possible example of the neurological effects associated with the coronavirus pandemic.

To be named Teacher of the Year is an honor itself. For Darrion Cockrell, it’s a remarkable accomplishment, considering his turbulent early life, NBC News reports.

The Kansas City Star’s top editor has apologized for past decades of racially biased coverage

As major hospitals across the country struggle with a rising flood of COVID-19 patients, small-town hospitals with limited staff, equipment and resources are increasingly forced to cope without the help of those larger facilities. Dr. Shane Wilson, who works in a small Missouri hospital, joined LX News to describe their day-to-day reality.

Mercy Hospital is in the St. Louis, Mo., area, which is in danger of running out of hospital rooms for its most critical patients.

A suburban St. Louis election official who worked at a polling place on Election Day despite a positive test for the coronavirus has now died, raising concerns for the nearly 2,000 people who voted there

More than 21 million voters across the U.S. have already cast ballots in person amid record-breaking early turnout

A woman convicted of fatally strangling a pregnant woman, cutting her body open and kidnapping her baby is scheduled to be the first female inmate put to death by the U.S. government in more than six decades.

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson, a Republican who has steadfastly refused to require residents to wear masks, tested positive for the coronavirus.

Authorities say a St. Louis police officer who was shot in the head while responding to a shooting on the city’s south side has died.

A white St. Louis couple criminally charged for waving guns during a Black Lives Matter protest outside their home made the case in their opening night speech of the Republican National Convention that they had a “God-given right” to defend themselves and their property.

Cori Bush, a onetime homeless woman who led protests following a white police officer’s fatal shooting of a Black 18-year-old in Ferguson, has ousted longtime Rep. William Lacy Clay in Missouri’s Democratic primary

After both of his parents died due to lack of health insurance, Erich Arvidson is fighting to make Medicaid available to those who need it in his home state of Missouri, which has some of the strictest eligibility requirements in the country.

St. Louis’ top prosecutor has charged a husband and wife with felony unlawful use of a weapon for displaying guns during a racial injustice protest outside their mansion.

A husband and wife who were caught on video brandishing firearms at protesters outside their St. Louis home have turned their rifle over to police after a search warrant was executed, NBC News reports. Authorities went to Mark and Patricia McCloskey’s home Friday amid an ongoing investigation into the incident. The couple went viral last month after arming themselves with a...