Comptroller Donna Baringer is calling for an investigation into how her predecessor, Darlene Green, was issued paychecks ...

The summer before his freshman year of high school, Nolan Zink took a more intensive course and created the demo for what is now Second Coat.

ST. JOSEPH, Mo. (News-Press NOW) -- Across Missouri, reports of waterborne bacteria and related illnesses have been on the ...

The deadly infection has been historically rare, but as climate change heats up waters and worsens flooding, research shows ...

Rare ‘brain-eating amoeba’ detected in drinking water supplies in Australia - Naegleria fowleri is one of the world’s most ...

The amoeba is a single-celled organism that lives in hot springs, lakes and other warm freshwater bodies. Infections are rare ...

The average person shouldn't worry about brain-eating amoebas like the one recently diagnosed in the state, an MU infectious disease specialist said on Thursday.

As public health officials investigate the source of the exposure, it’s believed the patient went water skiing at the Lake of ...

The Missouri Department of Health has begun an investigation into the brain-eating ameba after a person showed symptoms after ...

Missouri health officials are investigating how the person was exposed, but they may have been in the water at Lake of the ...

Health officials in Missouri say a resident has contracted a lab-confirmed case of what is commonly known as "brain-eating" ...

An infectious disease expert at the University of Missouri Health Care said the symptoms are pretty much like meningitis.