For an ugly vision of how Missouri’s Capitol operates, look no further than the current push to renew an expensive and unnecessary mandate requiring eye exams for children entering public school.This mandate has been around since 2007.

By Dana O'Neil What it means: At this point, Missouri is playing for seed and NCAA location more than anything.

Several Missouri lawmakers are pushing animal welfare and farmer freedom bills that they say came out of debate over Missouri's new dog breeding regulations.

His losing streak broken and the GOP presidential race entering a lull, Mitt Romney now turns his attention to extending the huge cash advantage he enjoys over his rivals.

This is the forty-second article in our series about Ozarks culture and heritage in the counties of Missouri that are part of the Ozarks region.

Berkeley Police are searching for a missing baby boy. Zamari Oliver, 11 months, was dropped off by his mother at a babysitter's, Tamara N. Collins', home on Tyndall Friday morning.

Rick Santorum spoke Friday, Feb. 3 at the John Knox Pavilion. The doors opened at 6:15 p.m., but lines formed early on this cold rainy night.

From left; Former Missouri Rep. Ike Skelton, Navy Secretary Ray Mabus, former Arizona Rep.

The cold weather may have kept most people warm inside their homes, but it offered nothing but cold comfort to eight drivers who, one after another were pulled over and arrested — most of them on suspicion of drunken driving — early Saturday by Troop A of the Missouri Highway Patrol.

Missouri leads the nation in homicides of black victims for the second year in a row, with a rate seven times higher than the national average.