Associated Press Missouri headlines

BLUE SPRINGS, Mo. (AP) -- A 3-year-old child died and two adults suffered minor injuries in a fire at a Blue Springs apartment complex on Friday.

O'FALLON, Mo. (AP) -- Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt announced Friday that no charges will be filed in the 2017 death of Tory Sanders, a Black inmate at a rural jail who died under similar circumstances to George Floyd -- after a white law enforcement officer's knee was pressed on his neck.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has granted 15 new pardons and two sentence commutations, the Republican governor's office said Friday.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A state lawmaker from the Kansas City area says she plans to return to work at the Missouri Capitol on Monday after recovering from a heart attack.

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) -- The University of Missouri plans to hold in-person graduation ceremonies this spring after canceling the ceremonies last year because of the coronavirus pandemic.

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- Conservative talk radio host Rush Limbaugh has been buried in a private cemetery in St. Louis, his family announced Friday.

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A driver has died in a dramatic crash that saw his car sail over the side of a St. Louis bridge ramp and land upside down on train tracks below, police said.

MEHLVILLE, Mo. (AP) -- A couple whose bodies were found in their home last week died of COVID-19, St. Louis County authorities said Friday.

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner has asked the Missouri Supreme Court to restore her authority to prosecute a couple accused of wielding guns at racial injustice protesters last summer.

WILDWOOD, Mo. (AP) -- Police in eastern Missouri have identified a teenager killed in a shooting that also injured his 18-year-old friend following a disturbance at a Wildwood home.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A man who was walking along Blue Parkway in a commercial district of Kansas City has been killed in a hit-and-run crash, police there said.

UNION, Mo. (AP) -- An eastern Missouri school bus driver has been accused of using homemade restraints on a nonverbal child several times while driving him between home and school.

O'FALLON, Mo. (AP) -- Missouri teachers and child care providers will be eligible for COVID-19 vaccination in mid-March, Gov. Mike Parson said Thursday.

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) -- A bill to allow scholarships for low-income Missouri children to attend private schools barely passed the state House Thursday, showing how divisive the issue is even in a Republican supermajority Legislature.

MISSION, Kan. (AP) -- When COVID-19 patients inundated St. Louis hospitals, respiratory therapists arriving for yet another grueling shift with a dwindling supply of ventilators would often glance at their assignments and cry, heading into the locker room to collect themselves.

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) -- Poor Missouri families could get money to pay for their children to go to private schools through a tax credit program given initial approval Wednesday in the state House.

PRINCETON, Mo. (AP) -- An ordinance approved this week in a northern Missouri county would allow local deputies to arrest federal agents who are enforcing certain gun laws.

RAYTOWN, Mo. (AP) -- A woman arrested in the fatal shooting of a man in Raytown this week has been charged with second-degree murder in the case, officials said.

WILDWOOD, Mo. (AP) -- One man was killed and another injured in a shooting at a Wildwood house in eastern Missouri, police there said.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Authorities in Missouri have announced that a man already in prison for a separate crime has been charged in the 2018 killing of a Kansas City woman whose body was found in rural wooded area months after she disappeared.