Associated Press State News
  • Missouri city aids tornado-ravaged Okla. town
    MOORE, Okla. (AP) -- Officials in Joplin, Mo., have brought together a team of public safety employees they are sending to tornado-stricken Moore....
  • Twister season starts late, but starts nonetheless
    TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- Deadly tornadoes that have raked communities in Middle America over the past week, including Monday's massive twister that carved a path of destruction through the Oklahoma City suburb of Moore, belie what had been a relatively quiet start of the 2013 tornado season....
  • Twister season starts late, but starts nonetheless
    TULSA, Okla. (AP) -- The tornadoes that have raked communities in Oklahoma, Texas and other states over the past week belie what has been an unusually slow start to the 2013 tornado season....
  • 5 killed in crash in Ill.; van coming from Calif.
    ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A van carrying 11 men returning from a California religious gathering careened off of a southern Illinois freeway and overturned several times Monday, killing five of them and sending six others to hospitals, authorities said....
  • Missouri judge orders monitoring for ex-Mamtek CEO
    ST. CHARLES, Mo. (AP) -- A Missouri judge on Monday ordered the former head of a failed artificial sweetener plant in Moberly to wear a GPS electronic monitoring device while he awaits trial on felony fraud and forgery charges....