The suspect in the Tucson shooting rampage has been transported from Missouri to Arizona so a judge can consider whether he’s mentally fit to stand trial.

If not, Jared Lee Loughner will return to the federal prison in Springfield to extend his stay by another eight months.

Loughner has pleaded not guilty to 49 charges stemming from the Jan. 8 shooting that killed six and injured 13, including Representative Gabrielle Giffords.

Loughner’s attorneys have filed an injunction saying the Springfield prison’s forced medication of Loughner has not proven there’s a substantial probability his condition can be improved so that he can stand trial.

Missouri community colleges are getting $20 million in federal grant money.

The federal grant is to train unemployed workers for health care jobs. Education Officials officials say the grant will pay for about 4,600 students through the state’s 12 community colleges and Linn State Technical College.

A man who was maced by St. Louis Police later died at a hospital.

Police say 49-year-old Tommy Fluellen managed to escape from the patrol car, and when they caught him on foot he fought them, so they maced him.

Police took him to the emergency room when he became unresponsive in the patrol car.

Doctors say he died from cardiac arrest.

Members of the United Auto Workers have approved a deal that lets General Motors expand production at the plant in Wentzville.

The $380 million plant expansion will mean 1,800 new jobs to the area.

St. Louis beat out Shreveport, Louisana, to build G.M.’s new midsize truck.

A man is suing the Kansas City-St. Joseph Diocese because he says a priest fathered a child with the man’s wife five years ago…. and he says the church knew about it but kept quiet.

The diosese says the priest admitted to having the affair with the woman in 2004 and 2005 when the man made the allegations to the church at the time.

The man suing the diocese says didn’t find out until almost a year ago that the child was not his.