A concert named for a late employee of Joplin Workshops will take place Saturday afternoon in Schifferdecker Park to benefit those who were left without a job when the workshop’s laundry area caught fire three months ago.

A law enforcement officer in southeastern Oklahoma fatally shot a man who authorities say was armed with a knife.

Authorities say a 14-year-old boy has died in an all-terrain vehicle crash in southwest Kansas.

State environmental officials say elevated mercury levels in fish have been found in 14 more lakes in Oklahoma than last year.

A former Missouri church youth leader has been sentenced to 10 years in federal prison for attempting to entice a minor for illicit sex.

Authorities say an off-duty police officer has been shot in the arm and a suspect in the ankle in an exchange of gunfire in St. Louis.

A federal judge in St. Louis is set to hear an update on the progress Ferguson, Missouri, has made in its agreement with the U.S. Department of Justice.

Authorities say a 10-year-old Kansas boy died after the bicycle he was riding collided with a pickup truck in southwest Nebraska.

The Oklahoma Highway Patrol says an 18-year-old man was killed when the pickup truck he was driving crashed while he was leading a law officer on a police pursuit.