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…
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Longtime Missouri inmate will wait weeks for new court date
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man who has been in prison for more than 40 years for a…
With schools in session, doctors fear new child COVID wave
Children are making up an increasing number of patients filling Missouri hospitals during the summer COVID-19 surge, and some doctors…
Purdue opioid settlement could help expose roots of drug crisis
There’s a long history of U.S. courts’ being called upon to fix large-scale public health crises. Lawyers and judges, for…
Judge conditionally approves Purdue Pharma opioid settlement
A federal bankruptcy judge gave conditional approval Wednesday to a sweeping settlement that will remove the Sackler family from ownership…
COVID cases among children rising as Missouri Delta variant wave enters fifth month
Clay LaRue, superintendent of the Van Buren R-1 School District, made a tough decision Sunday. With COVID-19 cases spiking in…
Texas bans most abortions, with high court mum on appeal
The nation’s most far-reaching curb on abortions since they were legalized a half-century ago took effect Wednesday in Texas, with…
Lack of vaccine mandate gives some hospitals competitive edge in staffing wars
In the rural northeastern corner of Missouri, Scotland County Hospital has been so low on staff that it sometimes had…
Federal Pell Grant program will now help prisoners work on college degrees
WASHINGTON — Prison inmates around the U.S. are getting the chance to do something that was almost unheard of a…
Missouri judge refuses to reinstate federal jobless benefits
A Missouri judge refused on Tuesday to reinstate federal unemployment benefits that were cut in June when Gov. Mike Parson…
Biden opens civil rights probe into states banning school mask mandates
WASHINGTON — Federal education officials have launched civil rights investigations in five Republican-led states that have prohibited school districts from mandating…
St. Louis, Jackson County extend mask mandates into fall
ST. LOUIS (AP) — Two of Missouri’s largest jurisdictions approved on Monday extensions of their mask mandates, and another Kansas…
Missouri ICUs filling as Delta variant wave hits northeast, southeast regions
New cases from the Delta variant wave that has killed more than 1,150 Missourians since June 1 have plateaued but hospital ICUs continue…
Pandemic uncovers rising suicide rates among people of color
Rafiah Maxie has been a licensed clinical social worker in the Chicago area for a decade. Throughout that time, she’d…
Sites offering antibody treatments aim to help high-risk Missouri COVID-19 patients
Missouri is opening antibody treatment centers in several counties in the hopes that they’ll keep some high-risk patients with COVID-19…
Medicaid expansion delays violate federal law, courts, attorneys say
Attorneys who successfully sued to force Missouri to enact voter-approved Medicaid expansion argued in a letter to state officials Thursday…