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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A Springfield man who participated in a conspiracy to distribute more than $1 million of methamphetamine in Missouri has been sentenced to 38.4 years in prison without parole.

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) -- Four people died in a crash involving several vehicles on Interstate 70 near Columbia.

WEBSTER CITY, Iowa (AP) -- Iowa police say they've arrested a man in the death of a woman found not breathing at a central Iowa home nearly two months ago.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The next generation of biotech food is headed for the grocery aisles, and first up may be salad dressings or granola bars made with soybean oil genetically tweaked to be good for your heart.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- The family of a woman slain in Kansas by a man who wanted to kill Jews has settled a lawsuit with Walmart over the sale of a shotgun used in the shooting.

ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) -- An Iowa woman who thought she had won $100 on the Powerball was a few zeros off -- she won $1 million.

CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) -- A police association that focuses on adding diversity and fighting discrimination is trying to gain a foothold within the St. Louis County Police Department, but its leaders claim the police chief is blocking its path.

FLORIDA, Mo. (AP) -- The body of a St. Louis ballet dancer has been found in a rural northeast Missouri lake, a day after she was reported missing.

DALLAS (AP) -- Caroline Rose Hunt, a philanthropist, luxury hotel magnate and daughter of Texas oilman H.L. Hunt, has died at age 95.

ST. LOUIS (AP) -- An Illinois man has pleaded guilty to robbing five Illinois banks as part of a plea deal in which he won't be charged for a sixth robbery in Missouri.

DELLWOOD, Mo. (AP) -- A 17-year-old has been charged with fatally shooting another man as he was walking along a suburban St. Louis road.

FARMINGTON, Mo. (AP) -- The Missouri State Highway Patrol has been asked to investigate the death of an inmate at a jail in the eastern part of the state.

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Tuesday named fellow Republican state Treasurer Eric Schmitt to replace Sen.-elect Josh Hawley as the state's next attorney general.

BALTIMORE (AP) -- Several Roman Catholic bishops on Tuesday urged colleagues at their national meeting to take some sort of action on the clergy sex abuse crisis despite a Vatican order to delay voting on key proposals.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) -- Forecasters are warning that snow, sleet and freezing rain are likely Wednesday and Thursday across parts of the South.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Kansas City health officials allowed a group of volunteers to feed the homeless in parks across the city a week after some health inspectors threw home-cooked chili, sandwiches and soup into trash cans and poured bleach on some of the food.

LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) -- A top executive at a Missouri mental health company has pleaded guilty to helping bribe Arkansas lawmakers to influence state legislation and boost company profits.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Jackson County Prosecutor Jean Peters Baker says her office will not prosecute most marijuana possession cases.

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. (AP) -- Prosecutors say a Wisconsin man fatally stabbed a Missouri mother who forced her daughter to pretend she was disabled, not to save the daughter, but to get the mother out of the way so he could romantically pursue the daughter.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) -- A southern Missouri teacher who oversaw a history class presentation in which a ninth-grader dressed as a member of the Ku Klux Klan has apologized for a "lapse of judgment" and is suspended indefinitely, the superintendent of the predominantly white district said Tuesday.

TEHRAN, Iran (AP) -- Iran's semi-official Fars news agency says five of 12 border guards abducted in October by militants near the Pakistani border, have been released.

BERLIN (AP) -- A 57-year-old man has gone on trial in Germany on attempted murder charges on allegations he poisoned co-workers' sandwiches over several years.

LONDON (AP) -- The Latest on Britain's departure from the European Union (all times local):

BEIJING (AP) -- China said Thursday that 15 foreign ambassadors exceeded their diplomatic roles by issuing a letter expressing concern about the incarceration of hundreds of thousands of members of the country's Muslim minorities in re-education camps.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Saudi Arabia's top prosecutor is recommending the death penalty for five suspects charged with ordering and carrying out the killing of Saudi writer Jamal Khashoggi.

STRASBOURG, France (AP) -- The European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday that Russian authorities' arrests of opposition leader Alexei Navalny were politically motivated, a decision that could embolden Kremlin critics.

LONDON (AP) -- UK opposition leader Jeremy Corbyn says May must withdraw "half-baked" Brexit deal.

KUALA LUMPUR, Malaysia (AP) -- Two Chilean tourists accused of killing a man in Malaysia were sentenced to two years in prison Thursday after they pleaded guilty to a reduced charge not amounting to murder.

SINGAPORE (AP) -- The Latest on the summit of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, which ends Thursday in Singapore (all times local):

CAIRO (AP) -- An international rights group says a Sudanese opposition activist who had been living in Egypt was abducted and returned to Sudan in an operation coordinated by the security services of both countries.

LONDON (AP) -- UK Prime Minister Theresa May says she will ask Parliament to back her Brexit deal 'in the national interest'

MOSCOW (AP) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin says Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has signaled readiness to discuss a Soviet-era proposal on settling a decades-old territorial dispute.

LONDON (AP) -- Embattled UK Prime Minister Theresa May says she has taken 'the right choices, not the easy ones' on Brexit.

LONDON (AP) -- Two British Cabinet ministers, including Brexit Secretary Dominic Raab, resigned Thursday in opposition to the divorce deal struck by Prime Minister Theresa May with the EU -- a major blow to her authority and her ability to get the deal through Parliament.

STRASBOURG, France (AP) -- The Latest on a European court ruling on Russian opposition leader Alexei Navalny (all times local):

ROCHESTER, Ind. (AP) -- A northern Indiana woman charged in a school bus stop crash that killed three children is due in court for her first hearing in the case.

DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) -- Saudi Arabia says 11 suspects indicted, prosecutors requesting death penalty for 5 for writer Jamal Khashoggi's killing.

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) -- Rival lawmakers exchanged blows in Sri Lanka's Parliament on Thursday as disputed Prime Minister Mahinda Rajapaksa claimed the speaker had no authority to remove him from office by voice vote.

BEIJING (AP) -- Washington and Beijing have resumed talks over their spiraling trade dispute ahead of a meeting between Presidents Xi Jinping and Donald Trump, China's Commerce Ministry said Thursday.

MILAN (AP) -- Chinese consumers remain the focus of luxury goods makers, as a new study by Bain consultancy shows they will fuel nearly half of global high-end sales by 2025.