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A shortage of lethal injection chemicals has contributed to declining use of capital punishment in the United States with a new report on Thursday noting only 39 executions this year.

A shortage of lethal injection chemicals has contributed to declining use of capital punishment in the United States with a new report on Thursday noting only 39 executions this year.

Actress Glenn Close joined lawmakers on Capitol Hill Wednesday to lobby for legislation expanding access and quality of mental health treatment.

Gov. Jay Nixon says over $700 thousand in grants from the Delta Regional Authority will help several communities in southeast Missouri move forward with infrastructure improvement and workforce development projects.

FEBRUARY 25: Governor Jay Nixon of Missouri speaks to the media after a meeting with President Barack Obama at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building February 25, 2011 in Washington, DC.

Dec. 12 --Like most politicians, Kansas City Mayor Sly James has been willing to support corporate tax breaks that lower the tax rates for powerful companies but essentially increase the tax burden on others who can't sweet-talk City Hall .

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon stood alongside lawmakers from both political parties last week and called upon the General Assembly to reform the state's ethics laws, which the governor correctly described as among the weakest in the nation.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., December 17, 2013 - In Missouri, legislation has been introduced to nullify every federal gun control measure on the books, "whether past, present or future."

Politicians in the states of Missouri, South Carolina, Alabama and others have started their courtship of Boeing.

Patty Prewitt is currently serving a life sentence for a crime she, and many others, claim she did not commit.

Like passengers flying standby during the Christmas rush, Missouri politicians now are in a wait-and-see mode as to whether they will get a prized seat or be bumped by others in a multistate competition to assemble a new Boeing airplane.

Michael T. Nietzel, president of Missouri State University from 2005 to 2010, on Dec. 20 will receive an honorary degree from the University of Kentucky, where he worked for 32 years prior to coming to Springfield.

Boeing Co. said Thursday that it plans to add 300 to 400 jobs in St. Louis over the next two years in a reshuffling of its research and development operations.

The day before, President Barack Obama addressed the issue as part of a speech on income inequality.

Gov. Jay Nixon visited IBM's technology service delivery center on Friday morning to present the company with an award recognizing its hiring of veterans as part of his Show-Me Heroes program.

A truck driver transporting propane was killed in a single-vehicle accident Friday morning in Kearney, according to the Clay County Sheriff's office.

Gov. Jay Nixon on Friday appointed a Democratic state senator to take over a labor department roiled by a discrimination allegation and tapped a Republican state House member for a position on the state parole board.

Gov. Jay Nixon says the U.S. Department of Agriculture issued a disaster declaration for 14 counties that have suffered from extreme or exceptional drought.

Commonly known as the "Blue Book," the manual was printed every two years until a 2010 law barred its paper publication.