(SPRINGFIELD, Mo., AP) — A Springfield-based nonprofit has sent 38 tractor-trailers filled with emergency supplies to people recovering from Hurricane Sandy. By next week, Convoy of Hope expects to have… Read more »

(DESLOGE, Mo., AP) — For the second time in recent weeks, the Ku Klux Klan is suing a Missouri town over the right to hand out leaflets. A judge ruled… Read more »

(KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — Missouri regulators will allow Kansas City Power & Light to increase some customers’ rates to recover losses from a new energy conservation program. The utility… Read more »

By BILL DRAPER (KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — A day after Missouri voters barely rejected a sharp increase in the state’s tobacco tax for the third time in a decade,… Read more »

(JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — Missouri’s younger hunters bagged more than 19,000 deer in the first youth weekend deer hunt of the season. The state Conservation Department says hunters ages… Read more »

(JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — Some Missouri business leaders are hoping that a newly enlarged Republican majority in the state House can help them enact their agenda. The Missouri Chamber… Read more »

By DAVID A. LIEB (JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon won re-election Tuesday, turning back a challenge from Republican businessman Dave Spence in a job-themed campaign that… Read more »

(JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — Missouri turkey hunters reported taking nearly 8,500 birds last month, a 20 percent increase from October 2011. The state Conservation Department says southwestern Missouri’s Webster… Read more »

(STOTTS CITY, Mo., AP) — Investigators are working to determine what caused a twin-engine plane crash that killed two people in southwest Missouri. The Missouri State Highway Patrol says the… Read more »

By CHRIS BLANK (JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — Missouri’s statewide vote Tuesday will decide the fate of initiatives dealing with tobacco taxes, oversight of police in St. Louis, an online… Read more »