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Joan Miller's home in St Louis was badly damaged when a tornado hit it

More than 25 killed as tornadoes hit two US states

Severe storms that swept through the US states of Missouri, Kentucky and Virginia left more than 25 people dead, laying waste to local communities and cutting off electricity to nearly 200,000, authorities said Saturday.

US • 17 May

Christopher Collings was put to death by lethal injection (File image)

Man executed in Missouri for nine-year-old girl's murder

A man convicted of the rape and murder of a nine-year-old girl was executed in the midwestern US state of Missouri, prison authorities said.

US • 04 Dec 24

Marcellus Williams was put to death by lethal injection at a prison in Bonne Terre (File image)

Missouri man executed despite prosecutor's opposition

A Missouri man has been executed, despite the prosecutor's office that secured his murder conviction 21 years ago expressing doubts about the integrity of the case.

US • 25 Sep 24

Brian Dorsey is set to be executed by lethal injection (File image)

Convicted double murderer to be executed in Missouri

A Missouri man convicted of murdering his cousin and her husband is to be executed in Missouri, despite widespread calls for his life to be spared.

US • 09 Apr 24

The derailed train lying on its side near Mendon, Missouri

3 deaths, multiple injuries in US train crash

An Amtrak train with 243 passengers on board has derailed in the US state of Missouri after hitting a truck at a public crossing near the town of Mendon, killing three people.

US • 28 Jun 22

Carman Deck was executed with a lethal injection (File image)

Missouri executes man after three murder trials

The state of Missouri has executed a man sentenced to death three separate times for murdering a couple more than a quarter of a century ago.

US • 04 May 22

Ernest Lee Johnson was executed by lethal injection (file)

Convicted murderer executed in Missouri

A 61-year-old man, who was convicted of murdering three people, was executed in the US state of Missouri, despite pleas for clemency from the Vatican and his lawyers on the grounds that he was intellectually disabled.

US • 06 Oct 21

This footage shows the birds flocking on the lake, in a sensational show of nature.

Video shows half a million geese gathered at US lake

A video recorded at a wildlife refuge in the midwestern United States shows half a million snow geese gathered on a lake.

News Lens • 12 Feb 20

The 30cm skewer was embedded from Xavier Cunningham's cheekbone to the back of his neck

US boy survives impaling head on kebab skewer

A ten-year-old American boy is making a remarkable recovery after a meat skewer impaled his skull but missed his brain, in what medics called a "one in a million" accident.

World • 13 Sep 18

Missouri officials have asked bishops of the four other dioceses to cooperate with the inquiry

Missouri opens clerical sex abuse inquiry in St Louis

An investigation has been launched into alleged clerical sexual abuse in the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St Louis in the US, a week after a report finding widespread clergy sex abuse in Pennsylvania was released.

US • 24 Aug 18

The 17 victims were aged between 1 and 70 and came from six US states

Nine members of same family die in 'duck boat' incident

Nine members of the same family were among the 17 people killed when a "duck boat" sank during a storm on Thursday on a Missouri lake in one of the deadliest US tourist tragedies in years.

Missouri • 21 Jul 18

The vessel sank after it was caught in a storm on Thursday at Table Rock Lake

17 people dead after US 'duck boat' capsizes

Divers have recovered the last four bodies from the wreckage of a "duck boat" that sank during a storm in the US state of Missouri.

US • 20 Jul 18

Johnson and Johnson is battling about 9,000 talc cases

J&J ordered to pay $4.7 billion in asbestos cancer case

A US jury has ordered Johnson & Johnson to pay a record $4.69 billion to 22 women who alleged the company's talc-based products, including its baby powder, contain asbestos and caused them to develop ovarian cancer.

Business • 13 Jul 18

Sergeant Jeff Kinder said a total of nine people were found dead after the shootings

Nine dead after Missouri mass murder

Nine people are dead following a mass murder in rural Missouri in which the suspected gunman took his own life, police in the Midwestern state said today.

News • 27 Feb 15

US police officer who shot black teenager resigns

Darren Wilson has resigned from the Ferguson police force nearly four months after he fatally shot an unarmed black teenager and less than a week after a grand jury decided not to indict him.

News • 30 Nov 14

Protesters march through the Galleria near St Louis

Ferguson protests target Black Friday sales

Police in Ferguson, Missouri were out in force again overnight as demonstrators shut down a shopping centre near the town and 15 people were arrested.

News • 29 Nov 14

The parents of Michael Brown, left and right, bow their heads as they remember their son at a news conference in New York

Brown's parents call Wilson's account 'crazy'

The parents of Michael Brown, the teenager shot dead by a policeman, have called the account given by the officer who shot him unbelievable.

News • 26 Nov 14

Teenager Michael Brown was shot on 9 August

National Guard troops tripled after Ferguson riots

The Governor of Missouri has tripled the National Guard deployment in and around the riot-hit town of Ferguson in an attempt to head off another night of violence.

News • 26 Nov 14

US police shoot dead boy holding toy gun

Police in the US city of Cleveland have shot and killed a 12-year-old boy who was waving around what turned out to be a toy gun at a playground.

News • 24 Nov 14

A protester holds an American flag outside the Ferguson Police Station

Missouri town awaits grand jury verdict

Residents of a St Louis suburb are awaiting a grand jury's decision on whether to bring criminal charges against a white policeman who fatally shot a black teenager.

News • 24 Nov 14

Police in Ferguson confront demonstrators protesting the death of Michael Brown

Restraint urged ahead of Ferguson decision

US Attorney General Eric Holder has urged police restraint if there are backlash protests over a decision on proceedings against a police officer who shot dead a teenager in Missouri.

News • 21 Nov 14

Protesters march down the streets in Clayton in Missouri

State of emergency declared in Ferguson, Missouri

The governor of the US state of Missouri has declared a state of emergency and activated the National Guard ahead of a grand jury decision in the case of a black teenager shot and killed by a white police officer.

News • 17 Nov 14

Protesters stepped up their demands that the local criminal inquiry be turned over to a special prosecutor

US attorney general visits Ferguson

US Attorney General Eric Holder has met with community members in Ferguson, Missouri, and vowed a thorough civil rights inquiry into the fatal police shooting of an unarmed black teenager that has set off 12 nights of racially charged protests.

News • 21 Aug 14

There have been street protests in Ferguson every night since Michael Brown was shot dead

47 arrests in latest Ferguson protest

Police have said they arrested 47 people during a night of protests in Ferguson, the Missouri town rocked by violence over the police shooting of an unarmed black teenager.

News • 20 Aug 14

There has been tension on the streets for the past week

US AG orders second autopsy on Missouri teen

The US Attorney General has ordered a second post mortem examination on Missouri teenager Michael Brown who was shot dead by police on 9 August.

News • 18 Aug 14