A gunman with a grudge against civic leaders stormed a city council meeting early today, killing two police officers and three others before being shot dead.

A gunman ran amok in a Missouri church, killing three people and wounding several others.

THE US Supreme Court, in an abortion case of relatively narrow scope, cleared the way yesterday for a Missouri prison inmate to terminate her pregnancy.

A MAN who fatally stabbed his grandmother more than 30 times to get cash for crack cocaine was executed earlier yesterday in the US state of Missouri.