(JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — Missouri Sen. Roy Blunt said Thursday there were no winners in a dispute that led to the 16-day partial shutdown of the federal government. Blunt was the lone Republican...

By ANDREW TAYLOR (WASHINGTON, AP) — The government reopened its doors Thursday after a battle-weary Congress approved a bipartisan measure to end a 16-day partial shutdown and avert the possibility...

By DAVID CRARY and JESSICA GRESKO (WASHINGTON, AP) — Barriers went down at federal memorials and National Park Service sites, and thousands of furloughed federal workers returned to work across the...

(JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — Some additional Missouri employees could face furloughs if the federal government doesn't resolve a budget stalemate this week. State budget director Linda Luebbering says...

By GILLIAN FLACCUS and MATT VOLZ (HELENA, Mont., AP) — The government shutdown is slowing the wheels of justice in federal courts by delaying civil cases, forcing prosecutors to operate with skeleton...

By BRIAN SKOLOFF and MATTHEW DALY (TUSAYAN, Ariz., AP) — The Obama administration's willingness to allow states to reopen national parks shuttered by the partial government shutdown comes with one...

(SHELL KNOB, Mo., AP) — Organizers of the longest continuously running bass tournament on Table Rock Lake are hoping it can be rescheduled, after it was postponed because of the federal government shutdown. The...

(KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — Missouri is proposing to tighten eligibility for food stamps for thousands of adults who aren't meeting work requirements. The change sought by the Department of Social Services...

By JESSE BOGAN (EMINENCE, Mo., AP) — Many of the people who live amid the hills and hollows around this southern Missouri town aren't comfortable with the government telling them they have to do anything,...

By DAVID EGGERT (LANSING, Mich., AP) — Republicans in the Midwest would like you to know something about the government shutdown that closed the national parks and put 800,000 workers on the street:...

By KEN THOMAS (CLINTON, N.Y., AP) — Hillary Rodham Clinton on Friday derided the partial government shutdown, saying dysfunction and gridlock are emblematic of too many people in politics choosing "scorched...