GRAIN VALLEY, Mo.—An intoxicated pilot was arrested after landing a small aircraft early Friday on Interstate 70 southeast of Kansas City, Missouri, after radioing that he had run out of fuel, authorities said.

CLAYTON, Mo.—An elderly Missouri woman who removed her disabled daughter from a nursing home and stabbed her to death at a hotel has been sentenced to 10 years in prison.

A 21-year-old woman who went missing in Missouri in mid-May was found dead last week, authorities say. Her body was hidden in a “grave” that was recently dug near a home outside Cape Girardeau.

MENDON, Mo.—An Amtrak passenger train traveling from Los Angeles to Chicago struck a dump truck Monday in a remote area of Missouri, killing three people and injuring dozens more as seven rail cars tumbled off the tracks and landed on their sides, officials said.

Two more states announced their first probable cases of monkeypox Saturday.

Consumers have no health risk of getting avian flu if they eat poultry, but producers are anxious about the virus killing flocks and causing shortages and price increases.

COLUMBIA, Mo.—A Missouri man convicted of killing his wife, burying her body, and lying to authorities about her whereabouts pleaded guilty Tuesday to child abuse charges involving the couple’s young daughter.

The Justice Department sued Missouri on Feb. 16 to block state officials from enforcing a law that seeks to make invalid several federal firearms laws.

Missouri’s COVID-19-related state of emergency expired on Friday after Gov. Mike Parson decided against extending the designation.

O’FALLON, Mo.—A Missouri cave containing Native American artwork from more than 1,000 years ago was sold at auction Tuesday, disappointing leaders of the Osage Nation who hoped to buy the land to “protect and preserve our most sacred site.”

Missouri Governor Mike Parson on Tuesday announced that he has pardoned the McCloskey couple who recently pleaded guilty to several misdemeanor charges after they wielded guns last year to defend their home from activists who walked through their private, gated neighborhood.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton sued the Biden administration in an effort to restore former President Donald Trump's "Remain in Mexico" policy.