By BILL DRAPER (KANSAS CITY, Mo., AP) — A former University of Central Missouri aviation student who was accused of paying his roommate to kill a Warrensburg bar owner is back home in Saudi Arabia,...

Editor's Note: This story has been updated to include comment from the Warrensburg Police Department.  By ANDY LYONS (WARRENSBUG, Mo., digitalBURG) The Johnson County, Mo., Prosecutor's Office released...

By NICOLE COOKE and ANDY LYONS (WARRENSBURG, Mo., digitalBURG) – Judge R. Michael Wagner filed an order Monday afternoon to deny bond for Ziyad T. Abid. It was also decided Monday during an earlier hearing...

By ANDY LYONS (digitalBURG) -- After hearing from both the defense and the prosecution in Ziyad T. Abid’s case, Judge R. Michael Wagner recessed the hearing and announced he would make a ruling “very...

WARRENSBURG, Mo. (AP) — A central Missouri judge is to hear arguments about why a Saudi national accused of first-degree murder should be released on bond before his August trial. The government of...

By ANDY LYONS (digitalBURG) - The Missouri Western District Court of Appeals has decided that R. Michael Wagner will remain the judge in the trial of Ziyad T. Abid. Attorneys for Abid, who is one of the...