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JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Fans in Missouri will be able to bet on sports next year as a result of a ballot measure that barely passed despite getting help [...]

KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) — Abortion-rights advocates on Wednesday asked a judge to overturn Missouri’s near-total ban on the procedure, less than a month after voters backed an abortion-rights https://apnews.com/article/abortion-missouri-amendment-ballot-election-f114445b087e77d0cc786d3eeb2eb615. [...]

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri's Republican attorney general has pledged to enforce some laws restricting abortion despite a new https://apnews.com/article/abortion-missouri-amendment-ballot-election-f114445b087e77d0cc786d3eeb2eb615 widely expected to undo the state's near-total ban on the [...]

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri court on Monday upheld a new state law that bans some gender-affirming health care for minors, a victory for supporters of the ban as [...]

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Republican U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley won reelection Tuesday in Missouri, fending off a challenge from Democrat Lucas Kunce. Hawley is among former President Donald Trump’s [...]

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Republican Lt. Gov. https://apnews.com/article/senate-elections-elections-missouri-tigers-mens-basketball-eric-greitens-roy-blunt-b380c02d94b274c6e6260f9a9730af53 won the Missouri governor’s race Tuesday, defeating Democratic challenger https://apnews.com/article/missouri-election-governor-crystal-quade-roller-derby-077fb887f8893abba85fe804fb074ffc to maintain the GOP’s grip on the state’s government. Kehoe will [...]

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri voters enshrined abortion rights in their constitution Tuesday, positioning the state to undo one of the nation's most restrictive abortion bans. “Tonight, through the [...]

Orlando Harris’ family pleaded with Missouri police to confiscate the 19-year-old’s bullet-proof vest, ammunition and AR-15-style rifle. They knew his mental health was fragile after more than one suicide attempt. [...]

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri man who died after he was placed in a spit hood and restrained in a Missouri prison was motionless for nearly 10 minutes before […]

Dozens of farmers in Iowa, Minnesota and Wisconsin are scrambling to feed their flocks after a struggling organic broiler chicken producer abruptly closed a year after getting a $39 million [...]

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A campaign to https://apnews.com/article/abortion-missouri-ballot-election-c284f4fe17a23b63a4528bc2b2051943 so far has raised close to $22 million, finance reports filed Tuesday show. The campaign reported bringing in more than $14 [...]

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A Texas man https://apnews.com/article/texas-execution-shaken-baby-case-ce7b6bdee40f6b33d2347b0d69ca06d2 is at the center of another push for clemency in the U.S., this time backed by several GOP lawmakers and bestselling author [...]

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — The FBI and the U.S. Postal Inspection Service on Tuesday were investigating the origin of https://apnews.com/article/suspicious-packages-election-powder-iowa-nebraska-tennessee-63c85689b94f0f55cf68c64dd05bea8f that have been sent to or received by elections [...]

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Missouri's Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday over whether an abortion-rights amendment should go before voters this year. The proposal to enshrine abortion rights in the [...]

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — With ballot deadlines approaching, courts in Nebraska and Missouri are weighing legal arguments that could take measures seeking to expand abortion rights out of the hands [...]

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri judge on Friday ruled that an abortion-rights campaign did not meet legal requirements to qualify for the November ballot, potentially thwarting a yearslong [...]

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri judge ruled Thursday that an anti-abortion GOP official used misleading language to summarize a ballot question designed to restore abortion rights in the state. [...]

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Federal appellate judges overturned https://apnews.com/article/government-and-politics-joe-biden-mo-state-wire-michael-brown-gun-politics-1a08383c079dda0f9e837a05451f2acd Monday that banned police from enforcing some federal gun laws. The 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals found the Missouri law [...]

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Both sides of the debate over whether to enshrine abortion rights in Missouri’s constitution have filed last-minute legal challenges hoping to influence how, and if, the [...]

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri Planned Parenthoods filed legal challenges Monday against a https://apnews.com/article/planned-parenthood-medicaid-abortion-db9adee20b60b625ea7b2709e5149704 that kicked the organizations off the federal Medicaid health insurance program. Planned Parenthood Great Plains and [...]

Missouri voters have once again passed a constitutional amendment requiring Kansas City to spend at least a quarter of its budget on police, up from 20% previously. Tuesday’s vote https://apnews.com/article/police-race-and-ethnicity-legislature-reform-029d30c14cef9f500ed98f82d3569552 [...]

Rapper Nelly was arrested early Wednesday at a St. Louis-area casino, and the Missouri Highway Patrol said an officer found four illegal ecstasy pills on him. The rapper's attorney said [...]

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Missouri voters have nominated Lt. Gov. Mike Kehoe to be the Republican candidate for governor, making the governor’s race his to lose. Speaking to a crowd [...]

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Exonerees and advocates on Thursday called out Missouri’s Republican attorney general for pushing for a man’s https://apnews.com/article/missouri-death-row-inquiry-board-state-supreme-court-0103d6047d1caa04eefbb6ef262063fb despite https://apnews.com/article/missouri-death-row-inmate-dna-evidence-0a179b0aafb1a0c0a3e144f7e3592a62 by the local prosecutor to overturn […]

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — The Biden administration has doled out more than $2 billion in direct payments for https://apnews.com/article/business-race-and-ethnicity-racial-injustice-6b53816a4b8ab40a6f603180fe62d9d7 discriminated against by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the president announced […]

Byline: SUMMER BALLENTINE, LEAH WILLINGHAM, JULIE WALKER, RON TODT, MICHAEL CASEY; ASSOCIATED PRESS Millions of Americans sweated through yet another scorching day as temperatures soared Sunday across the U.S., while [...]

South Dakota voters will decide again whether to legalize recreational marijuana, an issue with a frustrating history for backers of the ballot initiative in the conservative state. On Monday, Secretary [...]

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — All Missouri driver’s licenses would be labeled with a U.S. citizenship stamp under a bill approved Tuesday by Republican House members, who argued the change [...]

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — Former President Donald Trump continued his march toward the GOP nomination on Saturday, winning the https://apnews.com/article/missouri-republican-presidential-caucuses-trump-haley-delegates-7ce826ccc49909017784c3f99c146413 and adding to his delegate haul at a party convention [...]

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — https://apnews.com/article/chiefs-super-bowl-parade-shooting-kansas-city-d9f4466b69cbb2dfe0f007414aebe730 that killed one person and wounded nearly two dozen more during the Kansas City Chiefs' Super Bowl victory parade occurred in a state with [...]

A Minnesota man was charged with murder Monday after authorities say he posed as a package delivery driver, entered a home and demanded money before he shot three people in [...]

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Many students at a historically Black college in Missouri returned from Christmas break this week dressed in black, mourning the suicide of a beloved administrator [...]

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — Restrictions on medical care for transgender minors are up for debate in the South Carolina House on Wednesday, as a slew of like-minded proposals receive discussion [...]

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — What’s expected to be an expensive and bitter fight over multiple Missouri abortion-rights ballot measures so far has not attracted much money. An abortion-rights campaign called [...]

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Reproductive rights activists in Missouri agree they want to get a ballot measure before voters this fall to roll back one of the strictest abortion [...]

A herd of followers are tracking a moose on the loose in southern Minnesota, hoping the majestic animal's journey ends safely after it was spotted Tuesday 140 miles (225 km) [...]

COLUMBIA, Mo. (AP) — A trial for a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of Missouri's https://apnews.com/article/2022-midterm-elections-voting-missouri-government-and-politics-342663e72a921cb9a5f55657d87a0910 for voters is scheduled to begin Friday. Here is a look at the function of [...]

FARGO, N.D. (AP) — One police officer died and two others were critically injured in a shooting in Fargo, North Dakota, that also killed the suspect on Friday, police said. [...]

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — An Iowa ban on most abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy was signed into law Friday, forcing clinics to scramble to arrange out-of-state care [...]

DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — The harassment started to intensify as TV meteorologist Chris Gloninger did more reporting on climate change during local newscasts — outraged emails and even a [...]

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — A constitutional amendment to restore abortion rights in Missouri will move forward after a judge on Tuesday broke (fbe60ab843041b3509c5275e8a703207) a standoff between two Republican officials [...]

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Transgender minors and some adults in Missouri will soon be banned from accessing puberty blockers, hormones and gender-affirming surgeries under a bill signed Wednesday by [...]

ST. LOUIS (AP) — Embattled St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner, the city's first Black prosecutor and a Democrat, announced Thursday that she will resign, following allegations of negligence and [...]

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — With her insurance about to run out and Republicans in her home state of Missouri ramping up rhetoric https://apnews.com/article/lgbtq-laws-states-gender-affirming-zephyr-fc2528326823c8232cb0aaa7ece0beab, Erin Stille nervously visited a foreign [...]

CLAYTON, Mo. (AP) — A Missouri judge on Wednesday temporarily halted a first-of-its-kind rule restricting access to gender-affirming health care for transgender kids and adults, just hours before it was [...]

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) — Dozens of advocates, including drag queens in full makeup, rallied Tuesday at Missouri's Capitol against bills banning transgender athletes from participating on girls sports teams, [...]

Byline: Summer Ballentine / AP (The Center Square) -- Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt won the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate on Tuesday in convincing fashion, doubling the number [...]

Byline: Summer Ballentine Missouri's Republican Gov. Mike Parson on Thursday said his administration won't help enforce President Joe Biden's federal COVID-19 vaccine mandate in some limited instances. Parson's executive order [...]

Byline: Jim Salter;Summer Ballentine ST. LOUIS -- Suburban St. Louis shop owners Sunday swept up broken glass and boarded up storefront windows that were shattered overnight when a day of [...]