Conception Abbey monastery is undergoing a total renovation. It’s the most significant renovation ever done of the building since the structure was built in 1880. The renewal of the 81,700-square-foot ...

CONCEPTION, Mo. (AP) -- Three people, including two monks, were killed and two others were injured after a gunman opened fire at the Conception Abbey Benedictine monastery in northwest Missouri, ...

It’s been 10 years since an armed man entered a Northwest Missouri monastery and opened fire. On June 10, 2002, Lloyd Robert Jeffress shot four monks at Conception Abbey, a Benedictine monastery in ...

Benedictine Father Kenneth Reichert stands outside the Basilica of the Immaculate Conception at Conception Abbey in Conception, Mo., in this June 2003 photo. It was taken a year after two monks were ...

CONCEPTION, Mo. -- Two monks fatally shot at a Roman Catholic abbey were remembered as "icons of honesty and simplicity" who were taken in a brutal and senseless way. More than 1,000 people filled the ...

CONCEPTION, Mo. — A man wielding two rifles opened fire in the hallways of a Roman Catholic abbey Monday, killing two monks and wounding two others before committing suicide in a chapel, authorities ...

CONCEPTION, Mo., June 11 -- Investigators have not established a motive for why 71-year-old Lloyd Jeffress opened fire at a Catholic monastery here in rural northwest Missouri, killing two monks and ...

CONCEPTION, Mo. - Two monks slain in a shooting rampage at an abbey were mourned Friday by about 1,000 people at a Mass held in the same chapel where the killer took his own life. The Rev. Philip ...