Missouri bursting at the seams

Missouri has not seen a decade of population growth like this one for 100 years. The census bureau says Missouri grew by almost 480,000 people this decade, 9% increase. State demographer Ryan Burson says it’s the biggest population boom in a century in two...

Fayette High School fire accidental

A space heater is being blamed for the fire that destroyed most of Fayette High School. Assistant State Fire Marshal Randy Cole says it wasn’t turned on. Someone had set some items on top of the unit’s power cord, however, which subsequently caught fire....

Fayette students displaced

Administrators at Fayette Public Schools are trying to figure out how to proceed now that the high school has been mostly destroyed by fire. Superintendent Larry Leech says he hopes to keep the 200-plus students on campus by splitting up an elementary school gymnasium...

Kemper lives!

Kemper Military School in Boonville, which came within a whisker of closing last summer, has finished its fall semester. It has also received approval from a bankruptcy judge to continue for a spring semester.School Vice President Ben Phelps says the school has to...

Man kills wife, self in workplace

A Springfield man has walked into a home furnishing store and shot his estranged wife to death, and then has killed himself. Police say Jeffrey Lawson shot his wife, Michelle, several times. She died during surgery. He was dead at the scene from a single gunshot wound...