(AP) — The number of Americans seeking unemployment aid fell last week to 444,000, a new pandemic low and a sign that the job market keeps strengthening as consumers spend freely again, viral infections drop and business restrictions ease. Thursday’s r...

(AP) — The House has voted to create an independent commission on the deadly Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol, sending the legislation to an uncertain future in the Senate as Republican leaders work to stop a bipartisan investigation that is opp...

(AP) — Israel has unleashed another wave of airstrikes across the Gaza Strip, killing at least one Palestinian and wounding several, and Hamas fired more rockets. The fighting continued Thursday even as expectations rose that a cease-fire could be comi...

One of the men convicted of a central Columbia killing will spend 10 years in prison. Aaron Harris, 28, learned his prison sentence Thursday morning. He pleaded guilty in March to second degree murder and unlawful use of a weapon in the 2019 death of 1...

Fulton police say they have found Tori Taylor. She is the woman who authorities said may have been kidnapped on Apr. 26. Taylor, 25, finally called her family on Tuesday night. Authorities tracked her down a little before midnight in Centralia, Illinoi...

The Food Bank for Central & Northeast Missouri is moving to a bigger location in Columbia. The organization announced Wednesday that is moving its Central Pantry from its Big Bear Blvd. facility to the Moser’s Foods building on Bus. Loop 70 W...

(AP) Mark McCloskey, a St. Louis personal injury lawyer who gained national attention after he and his wife waved guns at racial injustice protesters who marched near their home last summer, says he will run for the U.S. Senate in 2022. McCloskey made ...

A school bus gets stuck on a flooded road in Howard County. The sheriff said on Tuesday that bus got stuck on Route Z. It apparently is not for a county district. No word anyone was hurt. Columbia Regional Airport recorded more than an inch of rain on ...

(AP) — Israeli airstrikes have killed at least six people overnight across the Gaza Strip and destroyed the home of an extended family. Despite growing international pressure for a cease-fire, the military said Wednesday it widened its strikes on milit...

(AP) — The New York attorney general’s office says that it is conducting a criminal investigation into former President Donald Trump’s business empire, expanding what had previously been a civil probe. Attorney General Letitia James’ investigator...