Missouri state government

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — When cotton balls were scattered outside the Black culture center at the University of Missouri's flagship campus in 2010 in...

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Student protests over racial incidents on the University of Missouri campus escalated over the weekend when at least 30 Black...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri's lieutenant governor is accusing Justice Department officials of "fanning the flames of racial division," as the federal agency...

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) With measured remarks and a conciliatory tone, police, political leaders and civil-rights activists on Thursday sought to tamp down tensions after...

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The state senator who sponsored Missouri's new public safety director when he was appointed amid the fallout from the...

FERGUSON, Mo. (AP) — Missouri police have been brushing up on constitutional rights and stocking up on riot gear to prepare for a grand...

CHARLESTON, Mo. (AP) — Cornealious "Mike" Anderson spent 13 years free from prison due to a clerical error, then nearly a year behind bars...

This photo provided by Jameson Hsieh shows a clown wearing a mask intended to look like President Obama at the Missouri State Fair. The announcer asked the crowd if anyone wanted to see “Obama run down by a bull,” according to a spectator. “So then everybody screamed. ... They just went wild,” said Perry Beam, who attended the rodeo at the State Fair in Sedalia on Saturday Aug. 10, 2013. (AP Photo/Jameson Hsieh) by David LiebAssociated Press Writer JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The Missouri State Fair on Monday imposed a lifetime ban on a rodeo clown whose depiction of President Barack Obama getting charged by a bull was widely criticized by Democratic and Republican officials alike.