The storied Delta Queen riverboat appears headed for a return to cruising after a decade of forced retirement.

A staffer at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency with long ties to former EPA administrator Scott Pruitt has been selected by Oklahoma’s new governor to serve as state secretary of energy and environment.

An attorney for a Lawrence man accused of sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl tried arguing that the charge should be dismissed because Kansas law says life begins at fertilization.

The case against a Kansas man who is fighting deportation to his native Bangladesh will go on until at least 2022.

A woman is suing after the former superintendent of the state’s juvenile corrections complex was convicted of grabbing and shoving her.

Tulsa County authorities say a teenager and a woman have been arrested in the fatal Thanksgiving Day shooting of a man by a person who was trying to break into the victim’s truck.

    The Missouri Attorney General’s Office is seeking court orders for Catholic dioceses to provide records as part of an investigation into potential clergy abuse.  All four Missouri Roman Catholic dioceses have agreed to open their records.       Attorney General spokeswoman Mary Compton in a Tuesday statement said the office wants personnel records, records relating to allegations of abuse and other documents from Missouri Catholic organizations. …

    News organizations will now choose which reporters witness executions in Missouri  The new state police is part of a settlement that led to the dismissal of a journalist’s lawsuit Tuesday.       Previously, the Missouri Department of Corrections director picked which reporters were denied or granted access. But BuzzFeed News reporter Chris McDaniel sued in 2016 after he was not allowed access.       The American Civil Libertie…

     Concerns about the use of taxpayer money have prompted an audit of the Missouri Public Safety Director’s Office.       Both Governor Mike Parson and new Department of Public Safety Director Sandy Karsten requested the audit.       Karsten had asked for an internal review after Parson appointed her at the end of August. Karsten says the internal review raised concerns that merit a more in-depth investigation of past administra…

A new proposal would designate Route 66, the Mother Road that connected Chicago to Los Angeles, as a National Historic Trail.