The mother of a 15-year-old boy says giving probation to the southeast Kansas woman accused of having sex with him sends a message that it's OK to abuse a child.

An O'Fallon teenager has pleaded guilty to charges related to throwing a bag of human feces on a pregnant woman.

The Missouri Department of Corrections says the death of an inmate has been ruled a homicide.

U.S. Transportation Secretary Mary Peters says a new plan will make it easier to improve the nation's highways, including Interstate 70 in Missouri.

A Gasconade County fugitive missing for almost nine years is captured in Tennessee.

Missouri's social services agency has failed to publish a list of businesses whose workers are on Medicaid - a violation of both a state law and gubernatorial order.

A report issued Tuesday says that Missouri's obesity rate is rising.

The International Brotherhood of Teamsters says lenders are holding up a potential plan for helping Interstate Bakeries Corp. exit almost four years of bankruptcy protection, endangering thousands of jobs.

The already gloomy future of NovaStar Financial is only getting darker as the sole remaining source of revenue for the former mortgage lender is drying up.

A federal prosecutor in St. Louis says 68 people have been indicted on charges related to methamphetamine production.