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There's a little-known practice in the U_S_ known as “gooning.”.

BNSF Railway says in a federal lawsuit that victims of an Amtrak derailment in Missouri should be required to seek settlements through arbitration, rather than filing lawsuits.

Amazon averaged 13 million viewers in its first stream of "Thursday Night Football," according to Nielsen data the company released.

Desperate to keep their hospitals open, some rural communities gamble on private equity buyers. Sometimes they lose.

Trump has refused to concede defeat in the 2020 election, but in an interview slipped into accurately referring himself as 'former' president.

The 62-year-old died at a hospital an hour after the crash.

The Southeastern Conference was perhaps one blocked kick away from perfection on opening weekend, with a few impressive nonconference wins and some no-brainers.

When FBI investigators began to look over the documents they had seized from Donald Trump's home, they became "alarmed," a source told The Washington Post.

A boy was handcuffed and driven 1,700 miles to Missouri after he filed for a restraining order against his mother, prosecutors say.

The mother of a California teenager conspired with a former Missouri boarding school dean on a plan that resulted in the boy being forced into a car, handcuffed for more than 24 hours and driven to a Missouri school for troubled youths, federal prosecutors said Wednesday. The indictment accuses Shana Gaviola, 35, and Julio Sandoval, 41, of violating a protective order issued at the request of Gaviola's son. The U.S. Attorney's office in Fresno said Sandoval is founder of an agency that transports minors to boarding schools, and is the former dean of a Missouri boarding school himself — apparently one that is the subject of several criminal cases and lawsuits.

Republicans and Democrats alike have joined the tax-cutting trend during a midterm election year.

The policy says corporal punishment will be used only when other forms of discipline have failed and then only with the superintendent's permission. The district had dropped the practice in 2001.

The law targeting child sex trafficking and sexual assault also restricts the types of reading materials educators can provide.

A poem for Sunday

Trump and his GOP allies have been accused of emboldening far-right groups like the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers.

The pastor later apologized after a video of his rant went viral.

Retirees wanting the biggest bang for their buck should consider moving to the South or Midwest, a new study found.

Recently graduated Lluvia Arellano is the first student athlete in Brownsville IDEA Riverview’s school history to sign with a university to compete in athletics, athletic director and volleyball coach Albert Perez said.

Spelunkers in Missouri were startled earlier this month when they went to explore a cave and found a dog.

Buc-ee’s is about to put a little Texas twang in Springfield, Missouri.

Temperatures were in the 90s when the girl was discovered in the SUV, police said.

Methotrexate is often used to treat rheumatoid arthritis, Crohn's disease and cancer. But it can also be used to terminate nonviable pregnancies.

A preliminary investigation suggests that the explosion was caused by a gas leak, officials said.

Vultures are targeted by poachers because they draw unwanted attention to their illegal activities.

Boys Grow offers mentoring to 14 to 16-year-olds, like teaching them "soft skills."

The Kremlin was surely paying attention when Missouri’s junior senator cast the sole vote not to strengthen the Western alliance. | Opinion

CBS News reported that Monday's search warrant related to classified White House records that Trump had moved to Mar-a-Lago.

The Democratic-led Senate has passed a raft of significant legislation over the last several weeks, culminating in the Inflation Reduction Act.

A 74-year-old retired schoolteacher from a New York City suburb was sentenced to 30 months in prison Wednesday for mailing dozens of violent threats to LGBTQ affiliated individuals, groups and businesses over several years.

Only four other people have been charged with taking guns onto the Capitol grounds that day.

A surprise show of support for abortion in Kansas, and election deniers in Arizona have a good night.

In one of the biggest days of this year's primary campaign season, red-state Kansas rejected a measure that would have made it easier to restrict abortion, and voters in Missouri repudiated a scandal-tarred former governor seeking a Senate seat.

Trump was right where he liked to be — at the center of the action with the attention of the entire political universe, though this time it was not at all to clear that he held a winning position.

The results mark a major defeat for Greitens, who fully embraced former President Donald Trump as he looked to claw his way back to the political fore.

Abortion is on the ballot in Kansas, while Trump's influence in swing state Arizona will be tested.

Long, an early Trump endorser, added to the odd confusion after Trump offered a vague show of support in the race.

In Michigan, several Republicans are vying to take on incumbent Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. And there are notable primaries for several U.S. House seats.

Missouri's top race is an open contest for U.S. Senate following the retirement of Republican Roy Blunt.

Kansans vote on a state constitutional amendment that could open the door to more abortion restrictions in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade.

In Washington, two Republicans who voted to impeach then-President Donald Trump are aiming to fend off primary opponents.

Arizona is one of the most closely watched states in the nation, with competitive primaries for U.S. Senate, U.S. House, governor, attorney general and secretary of state.

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt has defeated scandal-scarred former Gov. Eric Greitens and 19 others in the Republican primary for U.S. Senate.

Rebecca Ruud was found not guilty of murder and other charged but was found guilty of illegally abandoning a corpse.

Primary elections are being held in six states on Tuesday.

Aspiring Republican candidates are jumping at two open Missouri U.S. congressional seats.

“Fox & Friends” went above & beyond to comfort Donald Trump after a new CNN poll spelled bad news for the ex-president.

Hawley's been widely ridiculed since video showed him fleeing Capitol rioters not long after saluting them.

Gov. Mike Parson, a farmer himself, declared a drought alert in a bid to get state agencies to "lessen the impact," as families face "really tough decisions."

The North Kansas City Police Chief said Vasquez was the first North Kansas City police officer to die in the line of duty.

Officer Daniel Vasquez, 32, was attempting to stop a vehicle for expired temporary tags in North Kansas City Tuesday morning when the car's driver shot the officer and drove away, Clay County Sheriff Will Akin said. Vasquez was taken to the University of Kansas Health System. The suspect turned himself in to police in Kansas City after a Blue Alert had been issued for his car.

The suspect is accused of robbing two other convenience stores before the deadly encounter.

A McDonald's and Dairy Queen in Marshfield, Missouri town are roasting one another in a brutal road sign war that has since gone viral on social media.

The plane had a "minor collision" with a guardrail but otherwise didn't hit anything, officials said.

Marjorie Theleman, 81, of Webster Groves, pleaded guilty earlier this month to second-degree murder in the November 2019 killing of 51-year-old Sharon Theleman, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported. The younger woman was found dead at a Holiday Inn Express in Fenton.

Its name alone is terrifying. But infections in humans are both rare and devastating. Here are five things to know about the microscopic brain-eating amoeba Naegleria fowleri.

Rothwell admitted to killing his wife in 2019 after a heated argument over an affair but he denied it was premeditated.

The beach at Lake of Three Fires State Park has been shut down after the person was diagnosed with the rare and usually fatal infection caused by the Naegleria fowleri amoeba.

ONE OF the more shameful moments in congressional history was the passage in 1850 of the Fugitive Slave Act. It required that even slavery-free Northern states must abet that evil

After an Amtrak train collided with a dump truck in Missouri, Newsy found incidents at similar highway-rail crossings are happening more often.

The first lawsuits have been filed following an Amtrak train collision and derailment in rural Missouri that killed four people and injured up to 150 others.

A large Missouri hospital chain briefly stopped providing emergency contraception amid confusion over whether the state’s abortion ban could put doctors at risk of criminal charges for providing the medication, even for sexual assault victims.

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The Supreme Court's ruling allowing states to regulate abortion has set off a travel scramble in some parts of the U.S., as abortion providers redirect patients to states that still allow the procedure.

An Amtrak passenger train struck a dump truck at an uncontrolled crossing in a rural area of Missouri, killing three people on the train and one in the truck.

When a GOP Missouri U.S. Senate candidate released a video Monday in which he cocked a gun after calling for a hunt of fellow Republicans who he believes are “RINOs,” or Republicans in Name Only, Facebook scraped it off its platform within a few hours.

Facebook has removed a campaign video by Republican Missouri U.S. Senate candidate Eric Greitens that shows him brandishing a shotgun and declaring that he's hunting RINOs, or Republicans In Name Only.

The fast-food chain announced that the three new locations will employ a workforce of 660 employees.

The U.S. Marshals Service Lone Star Fugitive Task Force captured two out-of-state suspects, including a man accused of murder and a jail escapee, in San Antonio on Tuesday, the agency announced.

Twenty years after a spate of deaths at a rural Missouri hospital, a former worker has been charged with murder.

Authorities say they've arrested a former respiratory therapist who is charged with first-degree murder in the death of a patient 20 years ago.

Former President Donald Trump enters the next stretch of the midterm campaign emboldened by primary victories but facing new risks.

A Missouri man who killed a couple during a robbery at their rural home nearly 26 years ago has been put to death, even as another state has halted executions that have become increasingly uncommon in the U.S. Carman Deck was executed Tuesday at the state prison in Bonne Terre.

Applebee’s has confirmed that an employee of a Missouri-based franchisee has been fired after sending an email speculating that high gas prices and the end of pandemic stimulus money would force employees to work longer hours for lower pay.

Fifteen years after Maggie Drew was first sent to Circle of Hope Girls' Ranch in southwestern Missouri, she says she still bears psychological scars and physical pain from abuse.

Missouri is hiring wildly successful Cleveland State basketball coach Dennis Gates to help rebuild a long-floundering program that has churned through seven head and interim coaches since Norm Stewart prowled the sidelines in Columbia.

The ex-wife of Missouri GOP Senate candidate Eric Greitens has accused him of physical abuse.

For all their angst about the possibility of former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens winning the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in the state, GOP leaders haven’t coalesced behind an alternative.

A Kansas City woman is in custody after authorities allege she decapitated her 6-year-old son. The Jackson County Prosecutor’s office said 35-year-old Tasha Haefs is charged with first-degree murder and armed criminal action after her son’s body was found at the family home late Tuesday.

Justin Perez-Gorda, 33, died Jan. 29 while being treated at a medical center for federal prisoners in Springfield, Missouri, a spokesperson for the Federal Bureau of Prisons said via email.

Former President Donald Trump says Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell “does not speak for the Republican Party.”.

A winter storm is bringing a mix of rain, freezing rain and snow to the central U.S. Airlines canceled thousands of flights, officials are urging people to stay off roads and schools are closed.

A winter storm is bringing a mix of rain, freezing rain and snow to the central U.S. Airlines canceled thousands of flights, officials are urging people to stay off roads and schools are closed.

A requirement to get vaccinated against COVID-19 kicks in Thursday for millions of health care workers in about half the states.

An overturned conviction in Missouri is raising new questions about video testimony in criminal court cases nationwide.

South Carolina remains the No. 1 team in The Associated Press women’s college basketball poll despite its first loss of the season.

Lauren Hansen made a driving layup with 0.1 seconds left and Missouri stunned No. 1 South Carolina 70-69 in overtime Thursday night in the Southeastern Conference opener for both teams.

A Missouri woman has been charged with killing her boyfriend with a sword on Christmas Eve.

As storms roared across five states, one of the dozens of people killed was a 9-year-old southeast Missouri girl who loved swimming, dancing and cheerleading.

Kentucky's governor says tornadoes may have killed 70 people in the state and the death toll may exceed 100.

President Joe Biden has signed an executive order to make the federal government carbon-neutral by 2050, with a 65% reduction in planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and an all-electric fleet of cars and trucks five years later.

Alabama once again collected a Southeastern Conference title and two big league-wide individual awards.

New York has announced three more cases of the omicron variant of the coronavirus, bringing to eight the number of state cases linked to the new variant.

A federal judge has blocked President Joe Biden's administration from enforcing a coronavirus vaccine mandate on health care workers in 10 states that had brought the first legal challenge against the requirement.

Some people might describe Hartville, Missouri, as being in the middle of nowhere, but the U.S. Census Bureau says it’s the closest town to the middle of the nation.

America is about to find out where its heart is.

Missouri's Tyler Badie is the only player in the country to run for at least 200 yards in four different games in a season.

A coalition of 10 states has filed a lawsuit challenging a new rule by President Joe Biden's administration requiring millions of health care workers to be vaccinated against COVID-19.

Stetson Bennett passed for 255 yards and two touchdowns before giving way to former starter JT Daniels, leading No. 1 Georgia to a 43-6 win over Missouri.

A federal lawsuit accuses the National Rifle Association of violating campaign finance laws by using shell companies to illegally funnel up to $35 million to Republican candidates, including former President Donald Trump, Sen. Josh Hawley of Missouri and others.

A jury has been selected in the trial of a Missouri man charged with killing his Chinese wife.