ST. LOUIS ? James Flannel, 37, of St. Louis, Missouri, appeared before United States District Court Judge E. Richard Webber on today?s date. Flannel was sentenced to life in prison for discharging a firearm in furtherance of a carjacking that resulted in the death of Boris Iouioukine, a Laclede Cab...

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. ? An Aurora, Missouri, man was sentenced in federal court today for illegally possessing firearms after leading law enforcement officers on a high-speed chase from Bolivar, Mo., to Springfield, Mo. Milton W. Sparks, 38, was sentenced by U.S. District Judge M. Douglas Harpool to...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. ? A former Kansas City-area man, who claimed self-defense after fatally shooting another man during a drug deal, was sentenced in federal court today for drug trafficking and for illegally possessing 52 firearms he stole from a local pawn shop. Kameron M. Bynum, 26, of Wilson,...

KANSAS CITY, Mo. ? A Kansas City, Missouri, man pleaded guilty in federal court today to illegally possessing three firearms that he sold to an undercover law enforcement officer. Robert E. Shepherd, 50, pleaded guilty before U.S. Chief District Judge Beth Phillips to one count of being a felon...