By BILL DRAPER (MARYVILLE, Mo., AP) — Conflicting stories, the fog of underage intoxication and the disappearance of cellphone video of an alleged Missouri sexual assault two years ago led a special...

By BILL DRAPER (KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — More than two months after being appointed special prosecutor to re-examine a northwest Missouri teenager's claims that she was raped by an older schoolmate who...

By DONNA CASSATA  (WASHINGTON, AP) — Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand has secured public support from nearly half the Senate, but not enough votes, for her proposal to give victims of rape and sexual assault...

(KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — A prominent Kansas City defense attorney has been hired to represent a northwest Missouri man at the center of a teen sexual assault case that has gained worldwide attention...

By BILL DRAPER (MARYVILLE, Mo., AP) — A day after a Jackson County prosecutor was named to re-investigate a northwest Missouri teen sexual abuse case, a modest crowd of a few hundred people braved chilly...

(MARYVILLE, Mo., AP) — A northwest Missouri sheriff anticipates up to 2,000 people showing up for a protest organized online on behalf of a girl who says she was sexually assaulted when she was 14. Nodaway...

(KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — Jackson County prosecutor Jean Peters Baker says neither politics nor personal connections will play any role in her review of a northwest Missouri teen sexual assault case that...

(JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — As state attorney general, Chris Koster is sometimes referred to as Missouri's top prosecutor. But as the nationally publicized case of an alleged teenage sexual assault has...

By BILL DRAPER (KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — The Missouri teen who says she was raped by an older boy at her high school and left passed out on her porch wrote in an online woman's magazine that the incident...

By BILL DRAPER (MARYVILLE, Mo., AP) — A 14-year-old girl who says she was raped by an older boy from her high school could get another chance to bring the case to court when a special prosecutor reviews...

(JEFFERSON CITY, Mo., AP) — Some of Missouri's top-ranking Republican officials are calling on Attorney General Chris Koster to get involved in an alleged sexual assault case in northwest Missouri. Koster's...

(MARYVILLE, Mo., AP) — Maryville city and school officials say they are on heightened alert in response to negative attention the city is receiving over a sexual abuse case. City, school and police...