Governor signs law shielding doctors prescribing ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine
A bill signed into law by Gov. Mike Parson Tuesday will shield health care providers from losing their medical licenses…
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Missouri helps abortion opponents divert state taxes to crisis pregnancy centers
In the final days of Missouri’s legislative session in May 2019, lawmakers turned their focus to a bill that would…
Pair of lawsuits expose potentially massive hole in Sunshine Law
In 2017, in two different state government agencies, Missouri’s Sunshine Law was put to the test. Just weeks after Josh…
Addressing the ‘trust factor’: Researchers tackle health disparities using genetics
Quenton Tompkins’ family tree is deeply rooted in rural McCormick County, S.C. His grandfather was a sharecropper in McCormick. His…
$2M Missouri witness protection fund finds few takers in second year of operation
In 2020, amid the worst wave of violent crime in almost 15 years, Missouri lawmakers set up a new witness protection…
High court won’t hear appeal over McCloskeys’ law licenses
The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear an appeal from Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the St. Louis husband-and-wife…
Months-long wait times for Medicaid coverage may finally shrink
Missouri officials have vowed again to lower the number of days it takes to process Medicaid applications – which was…
Man pleads guilty in death of Miss Sweetie Pie’s grandson
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis man admitted Friday that he killed the grandson of a woman whose St.…
Eight Missouri ministers accused of sex abuse in Southern Baptist Convention report
The Southern Baptist Convention’s list of accused sex abusers within the denomination includes at least eight men in Missouri. The…
‘A piece of history for your house’: Stone salvaged from Capitol Building are auctioned
On Friday morning, stones quarried more than 100 years ago performed one last service for Missouri. Until recently, the dense…
8,500 Missourians may have survived COVID if all had been vaccinated
If all of Missouri’s adults were vaccinated against COVID-19, more than half of the more than 14,000 deaths attributed to…
Lead industry misled the public about its toxic problem for decades
Lead is a dangerous neurotoxin. Researchers have known that for decades. But the substance stuck around for decades in everyday…
COVID vaccine for children under 5 could be available as soon as June 21
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s administration is preparing to ship out to the states millions of COVID-19 vaccines for children…
State to spend more than $100M settling pay claims for corrections officers
Missouri corrections officers would receive a back pay settlement and future payments worth more than $100 million under an agreement…
Reed, Boyd, Muhammad are indicted on federal bribery charges
A federal grand jury indicted three St. Louis aldermen, including the board’s president and longest-serving member, on charges of accepting bribes…
Senate hopeful Trudy Busch Valentine counters NRA fundraiser plan at Grant’s Farm
U.S. Democratic Senate candidate Trudy Busch Valentine says she convinced the board she serves on that oversees her family’s St.…