INDIANAPOLIS (AP) -- Inmates at jails in Indianapolis, Baltimore, St. Louis and Philadelphia face the nation's highest levels of sexual abuse at the hands of guards, according to a new federal report based on surveys of inmates at U.S. jails and prisons....

MARSHALL, Mo. (AP) -- The city of Marshall has its Sister of Liberty statue back where it belongs....

UPLANDS PARK, Mo. (AP) -- A judge acquitted an auxiliary police officer from a St. Louis County village of charges that he was not licensed to act as a police officer when he chased a speeding car that caused a fatal accident....

JOPLIN, Mo. (AP) -- Missouri Southern State University has approved a budget for the next fiscal year that will require it to dip into reserves....

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A central Missouri woman whose son died in a car accident while she was talking on a cellphone has been sentenced to one year in a county jail....