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John E. Branch, 55, of Fenton, was listed in serious condition following a car crash Monday on Highway 50 in Franklin County, according to a report by the Missouri State Highway Patrol .

The Justice Department secretly obtained two months of telephone records of reporters and editors for The Associated Press in what the news cooperative's top executive called a "massive and unprecedented intrusion" into how news organizations gather the news.

Members of VFW Auxiliary 9170, American Legion Unit 274, First United Methodist Church, St.

Retired Marine Capt. Ralph Dobbs salutes a returning World War II veteran as he steps off the bus at the Central Missouri Honor Flight Welcome Home Party at the Courtyard Marriott hotel early Wednesday morning.

The special education teachers at Millard's Walt Disney Elementary spun "a web of deceit," as one state official put it, to cover up after one of them allowed a student with a peanut allergy to taste a peanut butter sandwich during a class activity.

Members of VFW Auxiliary 9170, American Legion Unit 274, First United Methodist Church, St.

Republicans in the Missouri General Assembly handed Gov. Jay Nixon, a Democrat, a defeat on the Medicaid expansion issue.

April 29. The Associated Press. WASHINGTON -- Missouri's two U.S. senators want the Pentagon to reconsider a proposed troop realignment that could reduce the number of soldiers stationed at Fort Leonard Wood in south-central Missouri by nearly 4,000.