One year after Ferguson protests sparked renewed focus on policing in the US, the women of The Yarn Mission continue dialogue about race and social justice. By Sarah Kendzior. (Aug. 6, 2015)

Frank Ancona, the imperial wizard of the Traditionalist American Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, smelled like cat piss… By Doyle Murphy.

The wife of a Ku Klux Klan leader who was found fatally shot next to a river in eastern Missouri has been jailed on suspicion of first-degree murder. An official at the St. Francois County Jail told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch Monday that 44-year-old Malissa Ancona is in custody. Charges have not been filed.

Missouri’s new constitutional carry law will be effective New Year’s Day. Senate Bill 656 made it so Missourians can carry a concealed gun without a permit or training.

The 2017 Missouri General Assembly session, which begins on Wednesday, could bring a number of changes to state issues, including sentencing guidelines for certain criminals. House Bill 38, sponsored by State Rep. Galen Higdon (R – District 11), aims to get rid of mandatory minimum sentences in criminal cases involving non-violent or minor crimes. After working on the bill for the last few years, Higdon told 41 Action News that getting rid of mandatory sentences and “blanket punishments” could lead to fairer judgments.

Police are on high alert -- and in at least one city, mourning -- after four officers were shot Sunday in incidents around the country. Perhaps most startling to law enforcement is that in three of the shootings, it appears the alleged perpetrators specifically targeted police officers, according to authorities and local media reports.

A livestock auction house in the town of Macon [Missouri] has more in common with an exotic African market than you might think. By Lise Saffran.

A strong earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 5.3 has struck near Stillwater in Oklahoma, with shaking felt in Tulsa, Oklahoma City and nearby states such as Kansas and Missouri, seismologists and residents say.

When an unstoppable underground fire collides with radioactive waste — nobody really knows what happens next.

The National Football League’s Rams left behind more than bitterness when the team ditched St. Louis for Los Angeles last month - it left a stadium saddled with about $144 million in debt and maintenance costs.

At the end of December 2015, a huge storm named "Goliath" dumped 9-10 inches of rain in a belt across the central United States, centered just southwest of St. Louis, most of it in a three-day downpour. The rain blanketed the Meramec Basin, an area of 4,000 square miles drained by the Meramec River, which enters the Mississippi River south of St. Louis.

A suburban St. Louis police officer was in critical condition late Friday after he was shot in the neck in what investigators described as an "ambush" following a traffic stop. Ballwin Police Chief Kevin Scott said the unidentified officer was walking to his car after the initial conversation with the motorist he stopped for speeding Friday morning when that driver "advanced quickly" on him from behind, firing at least three shots. The officer "had no chance at all" to pull his handgun and "was completely helpless," Scott said, noting the encounter was recorded by the police car's dashcam.

A librarian in Kansas City, Missouri, was recently arrested simply for standing up for a library patron’s free speech rights at a public event featuring a former US diplomat. Both the librarian and the patron face criminal charges. One hopes that the case—only the most recent of many attacks on our libraries' defense of free speech and privacy—will be resolved without further cost, trouble and damage. By Francine Prose.

For almost sixty years, the weekly St. Louis Evening Whirl brazenly attacked criminals, exposed the sexual peccadilloes of the black bourgeoisie, and racked up millions in libel claims— most of the time in iambic, rhyming couplets. By Scott Eden.

The new law will allow gun owners beginning Jan. 1 to carry a concealed weapon without a state-issued permit, but not as far — or as many places — as

[T]hough not citizenship papers, free negro bonds nevertheless provided security. If they functioned correctly, they could save a free African American from kidnapping or imprisonment.

By late summer 1861, most Americans, North and South, were just coming to grips with the prospect of a long and bloody civil war. Not so the people of western Missouri and eastern Kansas — they had already been fighting over slavery for over five years.

On Aug. 30, 1861, Maj. Gen. John C. Frémont, commander of the Union Western Department in St. Louis, issued a proclamation of martial law.

The two governor candidates bickered throughout the campaign. By Kevin McDermott.

A Republican kingmaker, Ted Cruz's campaign manager and questions of faith hounded an "anti-corruption" crusader until his tragic end. By Andy Kroll.