A Fulton is in jail facing federal child pornography charges. Chad Craghead, 44, is accused of pretending to be a teenage boy online and getting nude pictures of a 16-year old Iowa girl. He’s also accused of extorting of another teen. Craghead used to ...

(AP) Jonathan Schoop hit a solo homer and two-run double to help the Detroit Tigers beat the St. Louis Cardinals 6-2. The Tigers have won three straight for the second time in a 10-day span. Schoop has played a key part in the relative surge, hitting 1...

(AP) Declaring that the federal government was “taking on the bad actors doing bad things to our communities,” President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced a series of efforts to stem a rising national tide of violent crime. But questions persist about h...

(AP) St. Louis Blues defenseman Carl Gunnarsson has announced his retirement after 12 NHL seasons. Gunnarsson scored the overtime goal in Game 2 of the 2019 Stanley Cup Final for St. Louis that tied the series on the way to the franchise’s first ...

(AP) Britney Spears asked a judge Wednesday to end the court conservatorship that has controlled her life and money since 2008. The dramatic request at a Los Angeles hearing came with her first words in open court in the conservatorship in its 13-year ...

Police are investigating gunshots in central Columbia. Officers say they responded to an area of Hirth Avenue near West Worley at around 2:10 a.m. Wednesday. They found evidence of gunshots and damage to a home. No one was hurt. Witnesses say they saw ...

A Columbia man is in jail after leading a cop chase in northwestern Callaway County. Deputies said Tuesday they spotted a stolen vehicle near State Roads ‘E’ and ‘DD.’ The driver refused to pull over, and a chase followed. The car went off-road along C...

Jefferson City firefighters had to work through the night to put out a train car fire. Authorities said the fire started around 8 p.m. Monday at the railyard on North Chestnut Street. They found a container car from Union Pacific on fire. No other trai...

(AP) The Democrats’ sweeping attempt to rewrite U.S. election and voting law has suffered a major setback in the U.S. Senate. The bill failed in a key test vote Tuesday, blocked by a filibuster wall of Republican opposition. The measure would str...

Authorities in Sedalia are looking for an escaped prison inmate. The Pettis County Sheriff said Jason Laird slipped away from custody while working on the Missouri State Fairgrounds Wednesday afternoon. Investigators say he got about an hour-and-a-half...