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He resigned the governor’s office in 2018 to avoid impeachment and settle a felony charge. He’s being inundated with attack ads highlighting allegations of child abuse. Yet Eric Greitens is still considered among the frontrunners in the Aug. 2 GOP Senate primary.

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt has dropped all but three of his 47 lawsuits against school districts. The Lee’s Summit district, arguing he overstepped the limits of his authority, filed a counterclaim against him.

The 7,800 residents of Fort Scott are reeling from the loss of their 132-year-old community hospital that was closed at the end of December by Mercy, a St. Louis-based nonprofit health system.

Michael Politte is serving a life sentence after a jury found he murdered his mother, Rita Politte, as a 14-year-old in Washington County, Missouri.

A major air ambulance company that commonly charges tens of thousands of dollars now says it never intended to make a Pittsburg family pay so much.

What started as a tense debate over whether Rockwood’s schools should reopen in person last fall has descended into schoolyard bullying among the adults.

Country Club Plaza, Oak Park Mall and Independence Center face similar challenges and starkly different futures.

Each year, volunteers venture out nationwide on a single night for the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development’s point-in-time count in an effort to tally the country’s homeless population. Rural volunteers say they rely on the count to aid their unhoused populations. Meanwhile, experts say HUD may be undercounting.

Installed inside gas stations, liquor stores and smoke shops, cryptocurrency kiosks tend to be placed in Kansas City neighborhoods with larger numbers of Black and Latino residents. Critics say they're a targeted attempt to exploit financially vulnerable people with steep fees for a volatile product.

For the first time in U.S. history, the federal government is trying to count most households through the Internet for the once-a-decade census, but the rollout has been fraught with risks.