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Authorities around Fredericktown, Missouri, called for some evacuations and told other nearby residents to shelter in place. The state Department of Natural Resources is on the scene to assess potential environmental impacts from the incident.
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American burying beetles bring dead animals underground, turn them into preserved meatballs and feed them to their babies. The St. Louis Zoo is working to save the threatened beetle.
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Zach Dinicola's approach to repairing, not replacing, KitchenAid mixers has earned him more than 600,000 followers on TikTok. He operated a five-person repair business out of Augusta, Kansas, since 2020.
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Contract drivers for IRIS operate Kansas City’s low-cost, city-subsidized rideshare app. They want the right to unionize and negotiate higher pay, benefits and safety measures on the job.
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An NPR’s Midwest Newsroom poll conducted by Emerson College Polling showed local control of police is still divisive, even though the Kansas City Police Department is managed by a state board and St. Louis won its local supervision with a statewide vote in 2013.
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The Missouri Court of Appeals heard oral arguments Wednesday in the innocence case of Sandra Hemme, who served 43 years in prison — more time than any other wrongly convicted woman in the U.S.
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La policía ha vinculado los espectáculos secundarios y carreras callejeras con el robo de algunos vehículos Stellantis y GM de alta gama, como Jeeps, Chargers y Camaros.
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A circuit court in May ruled that both a county and a local municipality can impose a 3% sales tax at dispensaries in their jurisdictions. That's led to marijuana sales tax rates of nearly 18% in some places.
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Fall is typically a drier time of the year for the Great Plains and Midwest. But drought is once again rearing its head in much of the region, and experts are not seeing relief anytime soon.
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Special prosecutors charged former Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody with one count of interference with the judicial process, a low-level felony, for asking a restauranteur to delete text messages after his controversial raid of the Marion County Record.
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At the age of 18, Chris Dunn was sentenced to life in prison for a crime he says he didn't commit. It would take two key witnesses recanting and a new state law to free him — even as the Missouri Attorney General worked to keep him behind bars.
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A new survey from The Midwest Newsroom and Emerson College Polling Center asked registered voters in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska about measures on Nov. 5 ballots as well as a variety of political, social and economic subjects.
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Police have connected sideshows and street racing with the theft of some high-end Stellantis and GM vehicles like Jeeps, Chargers and Camaros.
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Crop prices have returned to more normal levels this year — down from record highs. As farmers expect less income this year, that's likely to send ripples through the larger agricultural economy.