When a longtime patient visited Dr. William Sawyer’s office after recovering from COVID-19, the conversation quickly turned from the coronavirus to anxiety and ADHD. Sawyer — who has run a family …
The opening U.S. House hearing in a series on the Jan. 6 attack included some eye-opening new details about the events of the day and the broader plot to halt …
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House on Thursday passed a “red flag” gun control bill that would allow federal courts to temporarily remove a firearm from an individual who is adjudged …
A widely anticipated hearing Thursday by the U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol alleged two groups supporting then-President Donald Trump planned the riot …
WASHINGTON (AP) — Curbing abortion rights and expanding the right to be armed in public are long-sought goals of the conservative legal movement that the Supreme Court seems poised to deliver within the next …
The U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 202,1 attack on the Capitol will use its first public hearing to tie the violent attempt to overturn the election directly to …
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A former St. Louis jail guard has been sentenced to four years in federal prison for allowing two detainees to beat another inmate in his cell …
Attorney General Eric Schmitt announced Wednesday that he’s issued subpoenas to seven school districts across the state as part of his ongoing investigation into school districts’ curriculum and practices. Schmitt, …
Though the use of self-destructing text-messaging apps has the practical effect of “side-stepping the reach of Missouri’s Sunshine Law,” their use by then-Gov. Eric Greitens and his staff was not …
ST. LOUIS (AP) — St. Louis Board of Aldermen President Lewis Reed has resigned his post five days after federal charges were announced against him and two others for allegedly …
A bill signed into law by Gov. Mike Parson Tuesday will shield health care providers from losing their medical licenses when prescribing ivermectin or hydroxychloroquine, two medications that have not been …
In the final days of Missouri’s legislative session in May 2019, lawmakers turned their focus to a bill that would outlaw abortion in the state if the U.S. Supreme Court …
In 2017, in two different state government agencies, Missouri’s Sunshine Law was put to the test. Just weeks after Josh Hawley was sworn in as attorney general that year, his …
Quenton Tompkins’ family tree is deeply rooted in rural McCormick County, S.C. His grandfather was a sharecropper in McCormick. His mother, who turns 88 this month, grew up as the …
In 2020, amid the worst wave of violent crime in almost 15 years, Missouri lawmakers set up a new witness protection program proponents said would break down barriers of silence that left perpetrators unpunished. …
The U.S. Supreme Court declined on Monday to hear an appeal from Mark and Patricia McCloskey, the St. Louis husband-and-wife lawyers whose law licenses were placed on probation for pointing …
Chantal Hailey, assistant professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin My research at this moment focuses on school choice in New York City, and particularly the role of race …
Missouri officials have vowed again to lower the number of days it takes to process Medicaid applications – which was an average of 101 days in April — and come into federal …
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A St. Louis man admitted Friday that he killed the grandson of a woman whose St. Louis-area soul food restaurant was the setting for the reality …
The Southern Baptist Convention’s list of accused sex abusers within the denomination includes at least eight men in Missouri. The denomination recently released a 205-page, long-secret compilation of its ministers …
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