A man is sleeping on the ground next to a bus stop wrapped in a blanket when he is spotted by a police officer. A City of Las Vegas Marshal notices the 55-year-old while patrolling near the Fremont Street Experience in Downtown Las Vegas on a recent November morning, according to the police report. Officer […]
President-elect Donald Trump is suing The Des Moines Register and pollster J. Ann Selzer for publishing a poll that showed Vice President Kamala Harris leading in Iowa in the days before the 2024 election, claiming the poll amounted to “fraud and election interference.” The lawsuit, filed in the Polk County District Court Monday, seeks unspecified […]
U.S. House Democrats awarded committee leadership positions to three members on Tuesday, completing a post-election shakeup that saw some longtime lawmakers ousted. The caucus voted to make Virginia’s Gerry Connolly the ranking member on the House Oversight & Accountability Committee, Minnesota’s Angie Craig the top Democrat on House Agriculture and California’s Jared Huffman the ranking […]
The director of Missouri’s Department of Social Services will resign next month, allowing Gov.-elect Mike Kehoe to choose a new leader for the embattled agency. Robert Knodell’s last day as director of the department — which oversees foster care, Medicaid, other public assistance programs and services for delinquent youth — will be Jan. 13. He […]
Members of Kansas’ congressional delegation celebrated the federal government’s decision Monday to remove a proposed electric transmission line route from a program offering assistance for power infrastructure projects. But the project will still move forward. The U.S. Department of Energy earlier this year announced a list of preliminary “National Interest Electric Transmission Corridors” to offer […]
Members of Congress are among those calling for greater transparency from the federal government as a spate of reported drone sightings concentrated in New Jersey and New York has raised questions beyond the Northeast. Reported sightings of drones, officially known as unmanned aerial systems, or UAS, have spiked since Nov. 18, when authorities received several […]
Kerwin Harris’ heart beat for the last time as he lay on the ground of a residential St. Louis street. Harris was chased, pinned face-down and held in a carotid-artery chokehold by then-St. Louis police officer Steven Pinkerton, who thought he matched the description of a robber-at-large. Another officer used a Taser to shock him […]
Everywhere I go, from trivia at Your Pie Pizza to our church’s Sunday School lesson to our family conversation, people are talking about the same thing, the shooting of an insurance company CEO. Is it the right thing to talk about? And is there a good way to handle conversations about such a topic? First […]
WASHINGTON — President-elect Donald Trump pledged Monday to keep the polio vaccine available throughout his presidency, but didn’t extend that protection to other vaccines, saying he expects his administration will look closely at safety — something the U.S. Food and Drug Administration already does before granting approval. Trump’s comments came during an hour-long press conference […]
Andrea Deutsch, the mayor of Narberth, Pennsylvania, and the owner of a pet store in town, doesn’t get health care coverage through either of her jobs. Instead, she is enrolled in a plan she purchased on Pennie, Pennsylvania’s health insurance exchange. Deutsch, who has been mayor since 2018, is paid $1 per year for the […]
For now, anyway, grocery giants Kroger and Albertsons aren’t going to merge into a single grocery megagiant to confront Walmart, another megagiant. But in many ways, the damage caused by 40 years of non-enforcement of relevant antitrust law is already done, said Stacy Mitchell, co-director of the Institute for Local Self Reliance and a prominent critic of […]
Every time Missouri lawmakers have proposed legislation to essentially ban intoxicating-hemp products in the last few years, the hemp industry has mounted a united opposition to stop them. Products like Delta-8 THC drinks can currently be bought everywhere from bars to coffee shops statewide. Year after year, hemp business owners and distributors have asked the […]
Instead of focusing on esoteric and special or personal interests, there are many areas that need to be addressed in the new legislative session that begins on Jan. 8 that could improve the lives of many Missourians. What will the policy priorities be of the new legislature? If you scanned the hundreds of pre-filed bills, […]
Crouched behind a dumpster in a St. Louis alley, Officer Steven Pinkerton heard gunshots. It was after midnight on Aug. 10, 2013, in the Dutchtown neighborhood and an argument that had been building for hours among a group of young men had escalated into a shootout. Pinkerton said he saw two men rush by the […]
LaDonna Prince’s new reproductive care clinic in Illinois was supposed to be open more than a year ago. Prince and her staff were prepared for Indiana to ban abortion, and started trying to move operations to Danville, Illinois, in 2023. It’s about 90 minutes across the border from her old clinic in Indianapolis, which provided […]
WASHINGTON — Former U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi was injured while on an official trip to Luxembourg to commemorate the 80th anniversary of the Battle of the Bulge and admitted to a hospital, her office said Friday. “Speaker Emerita Pelosi is currently receiving excellent treatment from doctors and medical professionals,” spokesperson Ian Krager wrote in […]
A rise in food prices makes for a less than merry holiday season. Grocery prices rose 0.4% in November, according to the Consumer Price Index, released this week by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Eggs made one of the biggest jumps at 8.2% over the month, and 37.5% over the past year, providing challenges for people […]
Every day, Missourians pay a small tax with each purchase they make that’s been supporting conservation efforts in the state. And now that Missouri is in a drought alert, those dollars are helping farmers prepare. Since 1984, Missourians have approved the tax, which is one-tenth of a percent on every purchase, every 10 years. In […]
Kansas City Mayor Quinton Lucas initially denied knowing who paid for a poll seemingly designed to sink North Kansas City’s chances of landing a new Royals baseball stadium. But newly obtained documents show the poll was commissioned by Lucas’ own re-election campaign. The poll was released in August 2023 and showed 70% of Clay County […]
Many college basketball fans in Kansas and Missouri will remember Sunday’s game between the Jayhawks and Tigers in Columbia for years. There was history to digest from Mizzou’s 76-67 win. First, there was KU’s dropping two games as the national No. 1 in one week to unranked opponents. That hasn’t happened to any team since 2003. Years […]
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