Teddy Roosevelt challenged a staffer to a boxing match WHILE he was president, and the man blinded him in the left eye.

The 1856 caning of Senator Charles Sumner by a pro-slavery U.S. Representative Preston Brooks was a step on the road to the Civil War.

"As nice as I can be about it, committees are a bad idea," Missouri coach Eli Drinkwitz said Monday at SEC football media ...

Maine has a rich history in this country, being originally part of the Massachusetts Colony and gaining statehood in 1820, as a “free state” — in the Missouri Compromise, balancing the entrance of ...

Every state has a capitol that houses its state legislature. Many are domed buildings similar to the US Capitol, but others ...

Over the last few decades, crime in America has declined, but the U.S. continues to imprison more people than other developed countries. The country’s penal system has led to increased fiscal burdens ...

Protestors gathered during a special session at the Missouri Capitol to protest the redrawing of maps and a ballot measure to weaken the state’s initiative petition process. Michael Thomas Getty ...

In an effort to avoid a bruising ballot fight over rent control this November, tenant advocates and a group of high-powered real estate developers this week put forth a compromise that would allow ...

Hybrid work can create unexpected problems and less certainty to workers’ routines than if they go either fully remote or fully in-office. LYCS Architecture on Unsplash, CC BY A truce of sorts has ...

Missouri's compromise budget does not include increases in basic state aid for public schools or higher education. State employees will not receive a general cost-of-living pay increase for the first ...

INDEPENDENCE, Mo. (KCTV) - The lights in the basement of the Harry S. Truman Presidential Library and Museum are kept low to protect documents that date back to 1782. Some have never left Washington, ...