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Missouri Republicans are pushing a change that would move most high-profile legal fights — including ballot initiative challenges — out of the Western District Court of Appeals and into the Eastern District. They are also hoping to block any challenges to state law or the constitution from being filed outside of Cole County.  While framed […]

A coalition of marijuana companies is filing lawsuits against businesses across Missouri, accusing dozens of stores of illegally selling marijuana under the guise of “THCA hemp flower” and undercutting the state’s regulated cannabis market. The lawsuits target nearly 40 stores in St. Louis County and 17 businesses in the Kansas City area, including major hemp […]

State Sen. Stephen Webber is calling on Waymo to retract and correct testimony provided to the Missouri Senate Transportation Committee last week regarding the company’s driverless vehicles. Webber, a Democrat from Columbia, said in a letter to Waymo on Friday that the testimony given to the committee falsely claimed that the company’s driverless vehicles had […]

Once is an accident. Twice is a coincidence. Three times is a pattern. So what does it say when five times in recent months ballot summaries written by Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins have been tossed out by the courts? Since October, judges at every level of Missouri’s court system have stepped in to […]

Secretary of State Denny Hoskins wants another chance to write the ballot language for a referendum on Missouri’s gerrymandered redistricting map after admitting that the first version he prepared was unfair. And he doesn’t want to answer any questions about how the first version was crafted or who advised him on what it should say.  […]

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Department of Justice released more than 3 million pages of documents Friday related to the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. The release, which in the 3 million pages includes more than 2,000 videos and 180,000 images, comes more than 40 days after the agency was legally required to release the full set of […]

Missourians placed more than half-a-billion dollars in bets on sporting events in December but promotional offers offset the taxable profits, leaving less than $1 million to help problem gamblers and public education. Voters narrowly approved sports betting in November 2024, with a majority of just 2,691 votes out of almost 3 million cast. The first […]

WASHINGTON — The federal government began a partial shutdown early Saturday, even though Senate Democrats and President Donald Trump reached a deal that allows lawmakers more time to negotiate new constraints on immigration enforcement.  The Senate voted 71-29 on Friday evening to pass the reworked government funding package before a midnight deadline. But the earliest the […]

Missouri’s Western District Court of Appeals unanimously tossed out part of Secretary of State Denny Hoskins’s ballot language on Thursday for an initiative petition that would bar state funding of private education. The decision, written by Judge Douglas Thomson, says that Hoskins’s summary statement was “misleading” because of a bullet point that says the petition […]

A Missouri House committee heard testimony Wednesday on a bill that would prevent courts from seizing weapons from high-risk individuals. The bill contains changes to state firearm statutes, a catch-all that rounds up a number of gun-related provisions that Republicans have attempted to pass in previous legislative sessions. Alongside prohibiting so-called red flag gun seizure […]

A Missouri House committee on Thursday approved legislation aimed at reducing barriers for patients to access nonopioid medications prescribed by health professionals, an effort by lawmakers to help prevent Missourians from developing opioid use disorders. The legislation, sponsored by Republican state Reps. Melanie Stinnett of Springfield, Brian Seitz of Branson, Tara Peters of Rolla and […]

Crime continued to decline in 2025, with homicides down 21% from 2024 and 44% from a peak in 2021, according to a new analysis of crime trends in 40 large U.S. cities released by the nonpartisan think tank Council on Criminal Justice. If federal nationwide data, which is set to be released later this year, […]

The Jefferson City drama this week was the cancellation of the Missouri chief justice’s annual “state of the judiciary” speech to a joint session of the legislature, a cancellation in response to a unanimous state Supreme Court decision that enforced the constitution’s rule that a bill must have only one subject. The objection from some […]

WASHINGTON — The U.S. Senate could vote as soon as Thursday night to approve a government funding package after Democrats brokered a deal with the White House to strip out the full-year spending bill for the Department of Homeland Security.  That bill will be replaced by a two-week stopgap for programs run out of DHS, […]

WASHINGTON – U.S. Sen. Eric Schmitt took to the Senate floor Wednesday to defend federal agents arresting suspected undocumented immigrants in Minnesota, calling them “American heroes.” “We owe them our absolute, unequivocal, unflinching support,” the senator told his colleagues, many of whom are now calling for an investigation into the Department of Homeland Security after […]

When Rachel Marshall was growing up in Virginia, her parents kept a magnet on the refrigerator from a national homeschooling advocacy group, with a phone number to call if local school officials tried to interfere with their decision to educate their children at home. “You tell [the organization] the state’s after you, and they will […]

Americans feel their health care costs are going up faster than other household expenses, hold President Donald Trump and congressional Republicans responsible and say the issue will factor into their votes in this year’s midterm elections, according to a poll published Thursday by the nonpartisan health research organization KFF.  Three-quarters of voters polled, including majorities of […]

A $250,000 earmark in Missouri’s budget for a nonprofit founded by former Gov. Mike Parson — including money drawn from a federal program designed to help low-income families — raised red flags for Democratic lawmakers Wednesday, who questioned how and why the money was requested by the executive branch. The nonprofit, The 57 Foundation, takes […]

During Wednesday’s hearing on Gov. Mike Kehoe’s plan to replace Missouri’s individual income tax with an expanded sales tax, the key word was trust. The proposed constitutional amendment giving the legislature three years to overhaul state tax policies is open-ended —- it allows lawmakers to impose sales tax on any financial transaction exchanging goods or […]

Missouri families are seeking a clear way to identify the quality of their local schools, parents and advocacy organizations told the House Education Committee Wednesday. The committee was discussing a bill sponsored by state Rep. Dane Diehl, a Republican from Butler, that seeks to give schools A-F grades for their students’ performance and extra state […]