In partnership with The Missouri Independent and The Associated Press, MuckRock mapped various radioactive waste sites in the St. Louis area, over the past 75 years.

The jar of cukes has survived time, construction, and foul weather. But can it survive fame?

Despite all logic, state governor still insists hitting F12 in a web browser is 'hacking'

An anonymous bidder has purchased Picture Cave, a Missouri cave system filled with 1,000-year-old Native American artwork, for $2.2 million. Held by St. Louis–based Selkirk Auctioneers & Appraisers, the sale went forward despite the Osage Nation’s efforts to block it, reports Jim Salter for the Associated Press (AP).

SALEM, MA — The Satanic Temple (TST) has appealed a member’s reproductive rights case to the US Supreme Court in response to the Eighth Circuit Court’s dismissal of TST’s claim that Missouri abortion laws violate TST’s religious beliefs.

A gunman opened fired inside a petrol station in Springfield, Missouri, killing four and injuring at least two others.

A Missouri bill intended to bar libraries in the US state from stocking “age-inappropriate sexual material” for children has been described by critics as “a shockingly transparent attempt to legalise book banning” that could land librarians who refuse to comply with it in jail.

The violence of the U.S. Civil War transformed Jesse James from Missouri farm boy to vicious killer.

The unions — all except one — argued that Bob McCulloch’s longtime support of organized labor deserved loyalty. By Aída Chávez, Ryan Grim.

A loyal Yorkshire terrier stayed with a missing 3-year-old girl in a dense cornfield in Missouri all night -- and heroically led a search party to them with a "weak bark," authorities said. Remy Merritt and her dog, Fat Heath, had gone missing Thursday night in Qulin, triggering a desperate search that brought in some 150 volunteers, authorities said.

Missouri man David Robinson has been freed from prison nearly 18 years after being wrongly convicted for a 2001 murder. Robinson was released Monday night after Attorney General Josh Hawley recommended that charges against him be dismissed. There was barely any evidence to tie Robinson to the murder of Sheila Box—there was no physical evidence, and only one eyewitness, a paid police informant, claimed he saw Robinson shoot Box at an intersection. The informant, Albert Baker, later admitted he had given a false testimony in return for $2,500 in cash and expenses.

Missouri’s Cade Bormet tumbled into an unpadded brick wall during the Tigers’ home game against Georgia tonight while trying to field a foul ball, causing the freshman outfielder to be removed from the field on a stretcher by emergency personnel. Upon being carted off, Bormet did display the sign everyone was looking for...

A St. Louis radio host has reportedly resigned from one of his two broadcast jobs after tweeting about ramming "a hot poker up David Hogg's ass." Hogg is one of the teenage survivors of the Parkland shooting in Florida who has become a vocal advocate for stronger gun laws.

A St. Louis grand jury has indicted Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens on a felony invasion of privacy charge related to the Republican's admitted extramarital affair with a woman in 2015.

Cahokia was bigger than Paris—then it was completely abandoned. I went there to find out why. By Annalee Newitz. (Dec. 2016)

Travel advisories warn you to carefully consider visiting certain places. Reasons typically range from severe weather to government instability, from civil war to terrorism. The US State Department issues such advisories on a regular basis. Earlier this month it warned Americans against traveling to Somalia because of widespread terrorist and criminal activity, including kidnappings, bombings and murders.

A new Missouri bill would target abortion providers and sanction employment and housing discrimination against people who use birth control or have an abortion. Blessed be the fruit. By Sejal Singh. (June 21, 2017)

The removal began Monday in the Confederate Memorial in St. Louis' Forest Park after the city and the Missouri Civil War Museum came to an agreement.

State Rep. Mike Moon of Ash Grove said Monday, June 26, 2017, he meant to show his work as a farmer who is frustrated by the delays in the legislative process. He did not intend the perceived comparison of chicken slaughter to abortion. By Joe Robertson.

As global temperatures rise and the oceans warm, what used to be 500-year floods are now happening more frequently.