Missouri officials say the insurance payout from the May 22 Joplin tornado will be the largest payout in the state’s history. The Missouri Department of Insurance says it expects the claims to eventually total between $1.5 billion and $2 billion. …
Signs of recovery are emerging in Joplin after a deadly May 22 tornado that devastated the city. Now, officials are considering how to improve Joplin while rebuilding it. More than half of the nearly 2 million cubic yards of debris …
A businessman who spent several years in prison after he was wrongfully convicted of molesting his stepdaughter said Friday that he has reached a $15.5 settlement with the Kansas City suburb of Lee’s Summit. Ted White was freed in 2005 …
A southwest Missouri sheriff’s department says deputies have worked hundreds of overtime hours to catch suspected copper thieves who’ve been disrupting phone service for months. Five men from Springfield and nearby towns are now under arrest in Greene County on …
A suburban St. Louis biofuels ethanol company has won a $48.4 million judgment against a title company whose mistake caused it to bypass building a plant outside Wichita, Kan. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that a jury returned the verdict …
The jury has ruled that the state and a contractor were not responsible after a woman died when the car she was in fell through a hole in a bridge near St. Joseph. A Buchanan County jury on Wednesday ruled …
The St. Jo Frontier Casino was having a good financial year until the Missouri River began flooding in June. Figures from the Missouri Gaming Commission show the casino in St. Joseph reported a 5 percent increase in gross revenue in …
A St. Louis man has been ordered to serve four years and nine months in federal prison for an identity-theft operation authorities say was helped by a worker at a southwestern Illinois restaurant. Thirty-one-year-old Miltiano Johnson also was ordered to …
Insurance agents in states along the swollen Missouri River basin say federal officials are causing widespread confusion among property owners by pushing the sale of flood insurance policies that might not cover damage from the river flooding that began this …
Cape Girardeau investigators are still trying to resolve 18 arson investigations for fires that have occurred since 2008. The Southeast Missourian reports that nine arsons from 2008 remain unsolved, along with five from 2009, three in 2010 and one this …