Callie House walked out of the Missouri State Penitentiary in Jefferson City on August 1, 1918, and headed back to her five children and job as a “washerwoman” in Tennessee. Her crime …
VATICAN CITY (AP) — The Vatican has long defended its World War II-era pope, Pius XII, against criticism that he remained silent as the Holocaust unfolded, insisting that he worked …
ST. LOUIS –Â Metro Transit and the St. Louis Area Foodbank are expanding the free Food on the Move program this summer. The mobile food pantry will visit five Metro …
The actual day was June 19, 1865, and it was the Black dockworkers in Galveston, Texas, who first heard the word that freedom for the enslaved had come. There were speeches, …
KINGSWAY EAST – The St. Louis Symphony Orchestra will perform a free public concert on Sunday, in honor of Juneteenth, at Greater Mount Carmel Missionary Baptist Church. The hour-long concert …
NASHVILLE, Tenn. (AP) — As the Supreme Court appears on track to overturn the constitutional right to abortion, progressive prosecutors around the U.S. are declaring they won’t enforce some of …
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Joe Biden signed legislation Thursday meant to make shipping goods across oceans cheaper — a move the White House says will help lower retailer costs that …
A proposal that would bring ranked-choice voting to Missouri as part of the biggest change in state elections since the introduction of the partisan primary may not have enough signatures to make …
Attorney General Eric Schmitt lost on Thursday on almost every point raised to prevent dismissal of his office’s lawsuit against Columbia Public Schools over its mask mandate. Circuit Judge Josh Devine, in …
In 2020, 6.1 million U.S. children (about the population of Missouri) lived in households where both adults and children struggled to keep food on the table. Since early 2020, schools have …
WASHINGTON — Parents of children under 5 are one step closer to protecting them against COVID-19 after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s outside vaccine panel recommended emergency use authorizations …
St. Louis has become the first Missouri city to completely ban no-knock search warrants, or warrants that allow police officers to enter a property without announcing their presence. Surrounded by …
Gov. Mike Parson has signed legislation requiring electrical transmission line developers to pay farmers more for easements on their land. Parson, a Republican, was in Sedalia Saturday for a Missouri Cattlemen’s Association steak fry …
Realtor Shari Asher’s clients were in the process of listing their home in Monett in 2019 when they saw something in the deed that rattled them. “When I sat down …
Politics may be a matter of life or death. AÂ study published June 7Â by the British Medical Journal examined mortality rates and voting patterns in the past five U.S. presidential elections, …
Residents living in some majority Black neighborhoods in St. Louis have a 18-year lower life expectancy than residents of majority white neighborhoods less than 10 miles away, a regional health study found. …
(AP) — U.S. Sen. Raphael G. Warnock, senior pastor of Ebenezer Baptist Church in Atlanta, is Georgia’s first Black senator. His memoir, “A Way Out of No Way,” will be …
VATICAN CITY (AP) — Pope Francis announced the first appointments Tuesday under his newly reformed Vatican bureaucracy, tapping a trusted cardinal and outside financial experts to serve on a new …
A fund Missouri legislators set up 20 years ago to provide low-income residents with civil legal services received an unprecedented $126 million in funding this year. Last year’s budget appropriation …
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