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Pumpjacks, the oil rigs that resemble those thirsty bird toys, are going up in Missouri for the first time in two decades, the latest region to revive a long-faded industry as crude nears $130 a barrel.
The owner of a group home where 11 people died in a 2006 fire was charged with money laundering, conspiracy and health care fraud in an indictment that also names his wife and daughter.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is moving closer to a possible expansion into Russia with the appointment of an experienced European executive to scope out possibilities in a vast retail market worth more than $140 billion a year in food sales alone.
Wal-Mart's internal meetings are on display in three decades worth of videos made by a Kansas production company scrambling to stay in business after Wal-Mart stopped using the firm.
Legislators are seeking to ban mixed martial arts competitions — sometimes called "cage fighting" — among children in Missouri, which appears to be the only state where youth matches are allowed.
Ultimate fighting was once the sole domain of burly men who beat each other bloody in anything-goes brawls on pay-per-view TV.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will open its latest generation of energy-efficient test stores this week with a Las Vegas Supercenter that uses new cooling technology to cut overall energy use by up to 45 percent.
A former small-town Missouri mayor and pastor can go to trial over allegations he made sexual advances in an Internet chat room to a detective posing as a 13-year-old girl, a judge ruled Monday.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. will open its first in-store medical clinics under its own brand name after leasing space in dozens of stores to outside companies that operate the quick-service health stops.
No one will ever confuse Jim Murray with a teenager. His tall frame, broad shoulders and clipped gray hair give him away for the grandfather he is. But the 69-year-old retired police chief of this small Missouri town cuts a credible figure as a 13-year-old girl surfing the Web, looking for friends. He knows all the instant-messaging shorthand, the emoticons.
No one will ever confuse Jim Murray with a teenager. His tall frame, broad shoulders and clipped gray hair give him away for the grandfather he is.
A small-town mayor and pastor charged with enticing a child over the Internet was recorded calling the investigating detective at home Wednesday and asking him to stop the case.
A small-town mayor and church pastor was in jail Monday on charges of soliciting sex over the Internet from a police detective posing as a 13-year-old girl.
A freak cluster of January tornadoes blew across the unseasonably warm Midwest, demolishing houses, knocking a railroad locomotive off its tracks and even temporarily shutting down a courthouse. More thunderstorms were possible Tuesday.
Child sex abuse charges have been refiled against the leader of an isolated church commune, a month after the original case was unexpectedly dropped by prosecutors.
Tyson Foods Inc. plans to revise labels that say its fresh chicken is "raised without antibiotics" after the U.S. Department of Agriculture said it made a mistake in approving labels that use that term.
A year after its worst holiday sales season ever, Wal-Mart Stores Inc. may rebound to have a good season after finding the right mix of merchandise and marketing to complement its return to a focus on low prices.
The stepfather of a slain 9-year-old girl and his friend need public defenders to represent them against rape and murder charges, an attorney said Tuesday.
The stepfather of a 9-year-old girl found dead in a hillside cave and his friend were each charged Saturday with murder and rape.
Two men including the stepfather of a 9-year-old girl whose body was found in a cave in southwest Missouri were arrested in her death, authorities said.
The stepfather of a 9-year-old girl whose body was found Friday in a hillside cave in southwest Missouri was arrested in her death, authorities said.
Two men have been arrested in the death of a 9-year-old girl whose body was found Friday in a hillside cave in southwest Missouri, authorities said. Newton County Sheriff Ken Copeland identified one as a 24-year-old male and the other as a man of about the same age.
The search for a 9-year-old girl who was reported missing after she was left home alone stretched across the rugged Ozarks countryside Wednesday, and the sheriff said he suspects foul play.
A day after charges were unexpectedly dropped in a heavily publicized church sex abuse case, the prosecutor declined to explain her decision while an attorney for one of the accusers denied defense claims that her client stopped cooperating.
In a sudden turn a week before trial, prosecutors on Tuesday dropped a headline-grabbing child sex abuse case against the leader of an isolated church commune in the Ozarks.
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