Missouri moves to lift ban on foreign farm owners
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Weeks before a Chinese conglomerate agreed to buy Smithfield Foods Inc. in the largest such takeover of a U.S. business, Missouri lawmakers quietly approved legislation removing a ban on foreign ownership of agricultural land....

Inmate ordered to trial in SW Mo. killings
SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) -- A state prison inmate has been ordered to stand trial for the 2011 stabbing deaths of an elderly couple in their southwest Missouri home....

Kan. merchant admits selling counterfeit goods
KANSAS CITY, Kan. (AP) -- A man accused of selling counterfeit shoes and clothing at a store in northeast Kansas has pleaded guilty in federal court....

Mo. man accused of killing jail cellmate
ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (AP) -- A northwest Missouri man convicted of murdering his young son is now accused of killing a fellow jail inmate....

Body of pharmacist recovered from Mo. lake
LEBANON, Mo. (AP) -- Residents of a southern Missouri town are mourning a local pharmacy owner whose body was found in the Lake of the Ozarks....