Associated Press Missouri headlines

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Missouri is asking medical professionals who are not working to join a specialized state team that responds to critical health emergencies.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- The search for the body of a Missouri woman presumed to have been murdered by her husband could cost at least $500,000, forcing her family to ask lawmakers and the community for help in funding the effort.

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) -- Gov. Mike Parson issued a statewide stay-at-home order on Friday, meaning Missouri has joined about 40 other states already requiring residents to avoid going out except for essential purposes.

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) -- Missouri Gov. Mike Parson issues statewide stay-at-home order to combat the spread of the new coronavirus.

BENTONVILLE, Ark. (AP) -- Missouri highway officials approved a plan to complete the remaining five miles of the Bella Vista Bypass, also known as the Interstate 49 Missouri/Arkansas Connector.

HARRISONVILLE, Mo. (AP) -- The Cass County Sheriff's Office says three people are charged with robbing and assaulting a woman Thursday in a Kansas City, Missouri-area cemetery.

HOLLISTER, Mo. (AP) -- Authorities say a 79-year-old woman has died in a house fire in southwest Missouri, along with two cats and a dog.

NEW YORK (AP) -- Just when Americans need it most, a U.S. newspaper industry already under stress is facing an unprecedented new challenge.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Zach Garrett, a 2016 Olympic silver medalist in archery, is one of a handful of athletes in the Kansas City metro affected by the postponement of the 2020 Summer Games in Tokyo until 2021. But it has also affected others in Kansas City who participate in and follow archery.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Every word John Price spoke was a struggle.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Randy Tobler says his Missouri hospital has until mid-May before it runs out of money -- that’s the rosy projection, anyway.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- The Italian deli was open, two produce stands. A coffee shop reluctantly offered walk-up service through a half-shut door.

O'FALLON, Mo. (AP) -- Former Missouri Gov. Eric Greitens has re-emerged after nearly two years out of the public eye, fueling speculation that his resignation after a tawdry scandal didn't kill his political aspirations.

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) -- Smaller local governments are issuing stay-at-home orders to slow the spread of the coronavirus in Missouri, where the governor hasn't issued a statewide order.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Two more suspects have been charged with the fatal shooting of a teenager and the wounding of four others in a popular entertainment district in Kansas City.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A former Missouri State Highway Patrol trooper who was driving a boat when a handcuffed Iowa man fell out and drowned has received the final payment of a legal settlement he reached with state officials.

ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) -- A man suspected of home invasion in suburban St. Louis is recovering after being shot by the homeowner, and he's also expected to face criminal charges.

O'FALLON, Mo. (AP) -- Coronavirus cases in Missouri are rising at an alarming rate, but health experts said Wednesday it’s too soon to know if the state is emerging as one of the next hot spots for the pandemic.

CARROLLTON, Ala. (AP) -- As the coronavirus spread across the United States, workers at the lone hospital in one Alabama county turned off beeping monitors for good and padlocked the doors, making it one of the latest in a string of nearly 200 rural hospitals to close nationwide.

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) -- Missouri Gov. Mike Parson said Wednesday that he's expecting a $500 million revenue shortfall this year because of the coronavirus pandemic and he announced he's cutting roughly $175 million in spending to make up for it.