VA sending mixed messages for vets about cannabis use to treat PTSD
Despite increasing legal access to medical and recreational cannabis in states across the U.S., veterans face unfair treatment and stigmatization…
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Missouri will become the last state to enforce federal mental health parity act
Under a new state law that went into effect late last month, Missouri will become the final state to enforce…
Judge orders no change – for now – in prisoner health care contractor
Work to bring a new contractor for prisoner health care services online in Missouri can continue; but the actual transition…
Missouri ERs treating people who took ivermectin in attempt to combat COVID-19
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Several people have been treated in Missouri emergency rooms after taking the parasite drug ivermectin, even…
Missouri Secretary of State Ashcroft wants to ban help for absentee ballot mistakes
JEFFERSON CITY (AP) — Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft, a Republican, is urging the Legislature to prohibit local election…
9/11: As the decades pass, the act of remembering evolves
SHANKSVILLE, Pa. (AP) — Across the vast field where the plane fell out of the sky so many years ago,…
Section of I-70 to close for Missouri Marine’s procession
ST. CHARLES (AP) — Several miles of westbound traffic on Interstate 70 in suburban St. Louis will close briefly Wednesday…
Virginia is set to remove statue of Confederal Gen. Lee
RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — A towering statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in Richmond, Va., is set to come…
Missouri launches Office of Childhood to expand services for children, families
Missouri’s new Office of Childhood officially launched Monday with a mission to transform the landscape of early childhood in the state for…
Jobless Americans will have few options as benefits expire
NEW YORK (AP) — Millions of jobless Americans lost their unemployment benefits on Monday, leaving only a handful of economic…
Black women are taking up guns for protection against rising violence
TAYLOR, Mich. (AP) — Valerie Rupert raised her right arm, slightly shaking and unsure as she aimed at the paper…
Pandemic hardship is about to get even worse for millions of out-of-work Americans
Millions of unemployed Americans are set to lose pandemic-related jobless benefits after Labor Day – just as surging cases of…
Black farmers await billions in promised debt relief
BOYDTON, Va. (AP) — There was a time when Black farms prospered. Just two generations out of slavery, by 1910…
Concert venues bank on proof of vaccination, negative COVID tests to woo back fans
MARYLAND HEIGHTS — Fans of the band Wilco could have reasonably interpreted frontman Jeff Tweedy singing “I Am Trying to…
Roadblocks facing Strickland’s claim of innocence are nothing new for Missouri
Kevin Strickland was hopeful Thursday was going to be his first step towards freedom after 40 years in prison. A…
November trial set for lawsuit challenging $1.4 billion Missouri prison health care contract
A trial will be held in early November to determine whether a subsidiary of St. Louis-based Centene will take over the…