Curators' funding request up 19 percent The University of Missouri Board of Curators has approved a $1 billion appropriations request for fiscal 2010, a 19 percent increase over this year.
Ill. jail escapee found guilty in federal court An East St. Louis federal jury has convicted a California man on counts of drug possession, money laundering and attempted escape from the St. Clair County jail in Belleville in 2004.
Mo. funeral home accused of mishandled bodies Missouri's attorney general on Friday accused a funeral home of improperly handling bodies, including one that was stored in an electrical room for 10 months without being embalmed or refrigerated.
Trial begins in videotaped sex killing of woman A man on trial for capital murder in the videotaped slaying and sexual torture of a 41-year-old woman will not dispute most of the charges against him, his lawyer said Friday.
Hulshof touring businesses in Mo. gov.'s primary From a battery maker charging ahead to a plastics plant in hard times, Republican gubernatorial candidate Kenny Hulshof heard about Missouri's economic highs and lows Friday as he kicked off a 10-day business tour building up to the primary election.
Osborne: Pelini priority is re-energizing Huskers For a man who coached some of the most dominant teams in college football history, Tom Osborne has modest expectations for the 2008 Nebraska Cornhuskers.
Four-day school week not option in Missouri In more than a dozen states, public school districts have begun offering four-day weeks to cut their fuel costs. But in Missouri, that option does not yet exist.
Mo. strives to make welcome center an attraction Hoping to make the state's new Welcome Center along Interstate 44 near the Oklahoma border an attraction, transportation officials have asked artists for their ideas for a custom mural.
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