EDWARDSVILLE - The Madison County Sheriff’s Office announced this past Friday, March 20, 2026, that it has added three new employees and approved two internal transfers, bringing new faces to its patrol and jail divisions. The sheriff’s office said Jose Morales-Cuevas is transferring from jail deputy to patrol deputy, and Tanner Miles is transferring from support staff clerk III to jail deputy. The office also announced three new hires: Dylan Darity, who is joining the patrol
On March 21, 2026 at approximately 3:46 PM, District 4 officers responded to a call for a shooting in the 1400 block of N 13th St. When they arrived, officers located three people shot.
The Missouri Supreme Court handed down three rulings Tuesday that could shape the 2026 election, saying lawmakers had the authority to pass a new congressional map last year, leaving intact the state’s photo-ID requirement for voters and striking down limits on voter-registration and absentee-ballot outreach. The decisions gave Missouri Republicans a major win in the […]
BATON ROUGE – Louisiana and Missouri have secured a federal consent decree with the Trump administration, barring the federal government from using coercion tactics to force social media companies into censoring speech.
For Quinton Hayes Jr. and his classmates, social media “is where a lot of our lives happen.” The 12-year-old middle school student from Bloomington said that includes having fun, talking with friends — and bullying. “It follows you home,” he said, “onto your phone, into your head.” Hayes described how his friend was affected when […]
New York, March 24, 2026 — After a federal judge struck down the Pentagon’s media access policy last week, the Defense Department enacted a new policy that retains the same core constitutional problem as the original one — it allows the government to punish the press for asking questions.
The following can be attributed to Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) Chief of Advocacy Seth Stern:
“As the Supreme Court has repeatedly held, journalists are entitled to publish what their sources tell them. If the Pentagon has a constitutional basis to restrict what its employees tell the press, that’s a matter between the Pentagon and its employees. The press doesn’t work for the government and any policy that purports to require the press to help the government keep secrets from the American public is unconstitutional. The revised policy does exactly that by threatening to revoke journalists’ access if they publish information obtained through ‘unauthorized’ disclosures. The closure of the workspace for the press further demonstrates the government’s censorial and retributive motives.
“We were pleased to hear that The New York Times is headed back to court to enforce the judge’s ruling and we hope the judge is not generous with second chances. The revised policy is not a good faith effort to comply with Judge Friedman’s order. It adds mostly meaningless window dressing while retaining the core constitutional violation — subjecting journalists to punishment for doing their jobs. Noncompliance with judicial orders is punishable through monetary sanctions, attorney disciplinary referrals, and contempt of court, including imprisonment pending compliance. It’s past time that this administration, its officials, and its lawyers start facing real consequences for ignoring court orders and the Constitution.”
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A perfect storm has arrived on the ledgers of many state budgets, bearing down on the people who often need help the most. Federal and state policy decisions, the end of pandemic aid and long-term fiscal trends — such as people aging into Social Security benefits — are requiring states to take a tougher look […]
Airport security workers missed work Monday at the highest rate since a partial government shutdown began in mid-February, the Department of Homeland Security said, and the Trump administration sent immigration officials to some airports in an attempt to keep lines moving. Travelers reported hourslong security lines at major airports in Atlanta and Houston, while waits […]
A simple idea is gaining traction in Jefferson City: fund colleges based on how many students they enroll, and let the money follow the student. It sounds fair. It sounds efficient. And it is more complicated than it appears. Missouri lawmakers are right to revisit how the state funds higher education. The current approach lacks […]
Missouri residents can receive state income tax credits on donations to food pantries, homeless shelters and soup kitchens. Two bills seeking to make adjustments to those credits were discussed Monday afternoon by a Missouri House committee. One bill, introduced by Republican state Rep. John Voss of Cape Girardeau, would eliminate the Dec. 31 expiration date […]
An exhibition of rarely seen photos now on view at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis highlights the story of Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, two women whose lifelong romance fueled their artistic collaboration.
Documents indicate that the tech company may be planning a massive natural gas-powered data center project in Nebraska — but it could hinge on one piece of legislation.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s conservative justices on Monday appeared skeptical of the validity of mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day, in a case that could potentially affect hundreds of thousands of voters during the upcoming midterm elections. The high court heard arguments on whether federal law overrides a Mississippi law that requires mail-in ballots […]
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