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By JIM SALTER Associated Press A woman has been charged with distributing fentanyl and crack cocaine at a St. Louis apartment building where five people died of apparent drug overdoses. The overdose deaths were among seven within a couple of blocks of each other. The deaths prompted warnings from city leaders about the risks posed

By MARGARET STAFFORD Associated Press The Missouri Supreme Court has put a St. Louis couple who gained national attention for waving guns at racial injustice protesters on probation as attorneys. Judges on Tuesday ruled that if Mark and Patricia McCloskey violate their one-year probation, their law licenses will be suspended. A state attorney oversight agency

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Patients could see physical therapists without first getting a prescription from their doctor under a bill advancing in the Missouri House. The GOP-led chamber gave the proposal initial approval Tuesday in a voice vote. Currently, Missouri patients must get a referral from a doctor or a prescription before seeing a

WARRENSBURG, Mo. (AP) — The trial of a Missouri man accused of killing two brothers from Wisconsin has been delayed until March of next year. Garland Nelson, of Braymer, is charged with capital murder in the deaths of Justin and Nicholas Diemel, of Shawano County, Wisconsin, in July 2019. On Monday, Johnson County Circuit Judge

BONNE TERRE, Mo. (AP) — An eastern Missouri prison remains on lockdown after an employee was stabbed by an inmate. Missouri Department of Corrections spokeswoman Karen Pojmann says an inmate made his own weapon and used it to stab a staff member at the Eastern Reception, Diagnostic & Correctional Center in Bonne Terre. The incident

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — An investigation continues after the Jefferson City office of the Missouri Department of Corrections had to be evacuated when white powder was found inside an envelope. A news release says a staff member of the department’s central office opened an envelope at about 10:45 a.m. Monday and found the substance.

By DAVID A. LIEB and SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri state senators remain divided over a congressional redistricting plan as a filibuster carries on through its second day. The state Senate essentially was split Tuesday among three camps over how to redraw the state’s eight U.S. House districts in response

HARRISONVILLE, Mo. (AP) — Authorities say two women in their 70s died in a wrong-way crash on Interstate 49 in western Missouri. The Missouri State Highway Patrol says the crash happened Monday afternoon near Harrisonville when a sport utility vehicle driver identified as 77-year-old Sandra Hammond, of Belton, mistakenly entered the southbound lanes of the

By SUMMER BALLENTINE Associated Press JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri Supreme Court is considering what action to take on a contested new law that bans local police from enforcing federal firearms rules. The Missouri Supreme Court heard arguments on the lawsuit Monday. St. Louis, St. Louis County and Jackson County are suing to

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The full Missouri House will consider a proposed constitutional amendment that would impact Medicaid funding in the state. A House budget committee on Monday approved the proposed amendment and sent it to the full House. The amendment would give the Legislature the power to make annual appropriations to the health

By JIM SALTER Associated Press The public safety director in St. Louis on Monday issued a warning about a dangerous batch of what is suspected to be fentanyl after a seventh person in the same area of the city died of an apparent overdose. First responders were called to the 4400 block of Forest Park

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) — A Springfield man has been convicted of killing his neighbor and burning her home after a dispute about a property line. Pavel Samsinak was convicted Friday of second-degree murder, armed criminal action, arson and tampering with evidence. Prosecutors said he killed 66-year-old Alice Hale in September 2020 and then set her

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Kansas City police say one man died and another was injured in an overnight shooting. Police say the two men drove to North Kansas City with gunshot wounds early Monday. One person died and the other suffered serious injuries. No other details have been released. 

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Police in St. Louis are investigating the overdose deaths of six people over one day within a two-block area of the city. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that the fire department responded to eight overdoses — six of them fatal — between 3 a.m. and 9 p.m. Saturday. All the incidents

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Police investigators in Kansas City say officers called to a home for a domestic disturbance fatally shot a man who left the home wielding a knife. Officials say the shooting happened shortly before 3 a.m. Monday in the city’s Blue Hills neighborhood. Police were called to the home for a

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. — Lucas Williamson had 19 points as Loyola Chicago defeated Missouri State 71-62. Tate Hall had 13 points for Loyola Chicago. Gaige Prim had 21 points and 10 rebounds for Missouri State.

SPANISH LAKE, Mo. (AP) — Two young girls were shot and injured in a St. Louis suburb Sunday morning after police say one of them found a gun in the home. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that St. Louis County police said officers were called to a home in Spanish Lake around 11:30 a.m. Sunday

ST. LOUIS (AP) — The Missouri Supreme Court is set to hear arguments over whether a new state law forbidding local law enforcement from enforcing federal gun laws is constitutional. A lower court judge rejected the challenge to the law brought by St. Louis city and county and Kansas City officials last August, but that