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A man accused of sexually assaulting a Bowling Green woman is seeking a new judge.

A Kansas City man was sentenced to 14 years in prison for the rapes of two young women in 1992.

Jackson County prosecutor Jean Peters Baker says neither politics nor personal connections will play any role in her review of a northwest Missouri teen sexual assault case that has gained worldwide attention.

Prosecutors say an Indiana man accused of back-to-back sexual assaults in Chicago threatened to kill one of his victims unless the 14-year-old girl stopped praying during the assault.

The Missouri teen who says she was raped by an older boy at her high school has written an account of her ordeal for an online woman's magazine.

Police say "torture and rape" were part of an armed home invasion in the Kansas City suburb of Grandview. The Kansas City Star reports that at least three armed suspects broke into a single-family home around 2 a.m. yesterday. Police say a 21-year-old woman was raped and three men — ranging in age from 25 to 57 — were scalded with hot grease...

MOBERLY, Mo. (AP) - A central Missouri jury has convicted a Moberly man of rape and other charges in a case in which a woman was assaulted and held in a freezer. Randolph County jurors found Sean Williams guilty Thursday of being an accessory to kidnapping and first-degree assault, forcible sodomy and forcible rape...

(Hannibal, Mo)—10th Judicial Circuit Judge Rachel Bringer Shepherd hands down a sentence of 25 years in prison to a Hannibal man on Tuesday, after 37 year-old Melvis Palmer pleads guilty to charges of first-degree assault and sexual assault.