Here's a list of upcoming road closures and traffic alerts for the week of Sept. 16-22.

Chief J. McMillen says the comments were made two days ago on a public Facebook account.

Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt on Friday will release details of a lengthy investigation into sex crimes involving Roman Catholic clergy.

Parson met with St. Louis Mayor Lyda Krewson, St. Louis County Executive Sam Page and about a dozen other area leaders to address violence in the city. 

Missouri Republican Gov. Mike Parson says he's running to keep his seat.

The man was arrested and charged with making terroristic threats

The Missouri Supreme Court has ruled that a lawsuit filed over the Rams' departure from St. Louis in 2016 will be heard in a St. Louis courtroom.

UPDATE: A woman accused of shooting her mother in southeast Missouri is in custody. 

When the congregation moved out of a century-old Methodist church in St. Louis, the building could have turned into a vacant eyesore. Instead, Lisa and Dan Macheca bought it and turned it into a bed and breakfast.

The Missouri Department of Corrections is partnering with a university to launch college-level classes designed to train murderers, rapists and other long-term inmates to be ministers.

Emergency personnel tell the Southeast Missourian Myron Tillman caused several traffic incidents while driving the wrong way on Interstate 55 Thursday.

A ban on most abortions at or after eight weeks of pregnancy won't take effect as scheduled in Missouri. 

U.S. District Judge Howard Sachs heard arguments Monday on a motion by Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union seeking a temporary restraining order for the new law until a lawsuit against it is decided.

The fatal shootings of two children, 8 and 15, over the weekend in St. Louis were the latest casualties in what has been a deadly summer for young people.

CAPE GIRARDEAU, MO -- A St. Louis man has been charged with murder in Cape Girardeau.

Critics of new abortion restrictions in Missouri are headed to court to try to block the law from taking effect on Wednesday.

One person has died and another is injured after they were shot in Cape Girardeau late Saturday night.

The Cape Girardeau Police Department says Santonio Parker was arrested.

A 63-year-old man is charged with killing two people whose bodies were found in a pickup truck parked in St. Louis.

Abortion-rights advocates on Thursday sued Missouri's top election official, alleging his actions and state laws denied them the right to put one of the nation's most restrictive abortion laws to a public vote.

A trial over whether election officials are doing enough to help voters navigate Missouri's new voter photo identification law has begun.

Two men with handguns in their waistbands alarmed shoppers when they entered a Kansas City-area Walmart on Sunday, but police say they were just buying ammunition for target practice.

The Missouri Public Defender's office plans to experiment with sending text messages to defendants reminding them of their court dates in an effort to reduce the number of people in jail.

The Missouri Public Defender's office plans to experiment with sending text messages to defendants reminding them of their court dates in an effort to reduce the number of people in jail.

Six dogs, one cat and one person in a wheelchair were rescued from a burning house early Saturday morning.

A top Missouri prosecutor says he doesn't believe women will be charged with felonies for seeking abortions under a new state law. 

"Ladies Night Out" will take place from 9:30 a.m. to 4:15 p.m., on Monday, Aug. 26, at the First Christian Church in Poplar Bluff. 

UPDATE: The suspect in the Carter County, Missouri standoff has surrendered to authorities, multiple media outlets report. 

36-year-old Jeremiah Ramone Twiggs is wanted on an active warrant for molestation of a minor and resisting arrest for a felony.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Critics of a new Missouri law that restricts abortions say they won't make a push to gather the signatures needed to put it to a public vote.

A gasoline engine manufacturer will be opening up a new facility in southeast Missouri to create 130 jobs within the next 12 months.

Briggs & Stratton Corporation says it will be closing its facility in Murray, Kentucky by fall of 2020.

Missouri's top election official says abortion-rights advocates can start collecting signatures to get a public vote on a new law restricting abortions.

U.S. Agriculture secretary Sonny Perdue's agriculture disaster declaration for Illinois due to severe flooding opens up aid to five west Kentucky counties, including McCracken. 

The entire state of Illinois, 15 counties in Missouri and eight counties in Iowa join Kentucky's five counties for the areas eligible for Economic Injury Disaster Loans.

When there's a heat wave, it can be rough for people who work outside. Employees at one local business share what they do to keep cool during excessive heat. 

Former Illinois Gov. Pat Quinn's son started a 190-miles journey across the state to raise awareness and provide support for people who are experiencing homelessness.

 JEFFERSON CITY, MO -- Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has ordered U.S. and Missouri flags to be flown at half-staff at government buildings across the state on Monday in honor or Representative Rebecca Roeber.

Upcoming road closures, construction projects and traffic alerts for the week of Aug. 12-18.

Prosecutors have charged a 20-year-old man with making a terrorist threat in the second degree by causing a panic at a Walmart store in Springfield, Missouri.

Police have identified the man who walked through a Walmart in Springfield, MO with a gun. 

An investigation is ongoing and additional charges may follow.

Two mass shootings that took place over the weekend have been the focus of national news stories. But some experts say the coverage can affect the mental health of kids, so it's important for teachers and parents to be prepared to talk with them about the tragedies.

The Poplar Bluff Police Department released a photo of a man wanted in connection with a kidnapping.

A sales tax holiday in happening Friday, August 2 through Sunday, August 4 in the Show Me state.

A spokesman for Missouri Gov. Mike Parson is leaving the governor’s office to lead Parson’s expected re-election campaign.

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson is heading to Australia for a trade mission.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Planned Parenthood and the American Civil Liberties Union filed a federal lawsuit Tuesday seeking to stop a Missouri law that bans abortions beyond the eighth week of pregnancy from taking effect Aug. 28.

Authorities are investigating after a man said he found the body of an infant in a freezer while cleaning out his mother’s St. Louis apartment after she died.