All Star Game
Missouri Governor Jay Nixon works with the new hands-on E-sponder electronic mapping device during a tour of the St. Louis City Emergency Management Agency in St. Louis on July 12, 2009. The emergency office has been opened and manned 24 hours a day due to the 2009 Major League Baseball All Star Game to be played at Busch Stadium on July 14. U.S. President Obama is expected to attend. (UPI Photo/Bill Greenblatt)
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A mentally ill Missouri man will spend the next 12 years in prison after stabbing the dean of a community college in the neck, a judge said.
A deadly storm that spawned five tornadoes late last week killed at least 16 people across Oklahoma. Officials said Monday they fear the death toll will rise.
The Mississippi River could crest at more than 11 feet above flood stage as more rain and snow fall on an already saturated Midwest, weather officials said.
The overflowing Mississippi River topped levees in northern Missouri, as weather forecasters predicted more rain, adding to flood conditions along the river.
A powerful storm system, stretching from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico, dumped snow and torrential rains, spawned tornadoes and was blamed for three deaths.
At least one person is dead and Missouri, Arkansas, Alabama and Mississippi were mopping up Thursday from severe storms and several tornadoes, officials said.
Snow fell in parts of the Midwest and other regions had a snow-sleet-rain mix Friday, all part of a storm system pushing eastward across the United States.
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A huge storm moving across the central United States, already blamed for one death, could dump as much as 2 feet of snow in some areas, forecasters said.
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