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Federal funding that provides access to contraceptives and reproductive health screenings has resumed in Missouri, the Missouri Family Health Council announced in a press release Tuesday. The council, a nonprofit which distributes funds to 52 family planning centers in Missouri and three in Oklahoma, has been operating without key federal funding for three months. It […]

A bill purporting to target the issue of misinformation and defamation caused by generative AI has mutated into something that could change the internet forever, harming speech and innovation from here on out. The Nurture Originals, Foster Art and Keep Entertainment Safe (NO FAKES) Act aims to address understandable concerns about generative AI-created “replicas” by […]

Growing season in Missouri is underway despite copious amounts of rain that have drenched much of the state since spring.

COLLINSVILLE – Two men from Wisconsin face felony charges in Madison County after a traffic stop by Collinsville Police yielded multiple illegally possessed firearms. Stevie K. Wilson, 24, and Liroderick D. Love, 46, both of Milwaukee, Wisc., were charged on June 23, 2025 in two cases presented by the Collinsville Police Department. Wilson was charged with three counts of felon in possession of a weapon, each Class 3 felonies. Wilson is accused of possessing multiple firearms, including a Glock 44 .22 LR, Glock 45, and 9mm Taurus G2C on June 21, 2025. His possession of the weapons was unlawful as a felon previously convicted of Fleeing and Eluding an Officer in a 2023 case out of Milwaukee County, Wisc. Love also faces a Class 3 felony count of felon in possession of a weapon. On June 21, 2025, he reportedly possessed a Bear Creek Arsenal BCA15 firearm after previously being convicted in a 2023 Milwaukee, Wisc. case of Second Degree recklessly Endangering Safety. Both cases

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The county had not yet seen the lawsuit when FOX 2 asked county executive Sam Page about it Wednesday morning.

Police say the driver was wanted for multiple shooting incidents.

The suspect vehicle was wanted in connection to multiple shootings, and a suspect was taken into custody after a foot pursuit, police said.

A U.S. Marine from Wentzville is among those to be featured in a unique tribute to America’s fallen heroes.

A Kentucky man thought he could make a quick score by driving from the Louisville area to steal from a St. Peters department store. He thought wrong.

This report has been updated. WASHINGTON —  U.S. House Republican efforts to pass the “big, beautiful bill” hit a roadblock Wednesday, when leaders left the chamber in a holding pattern for more than seven hours before calling a procedural vote that stalled amid opposition from hard-right members and others. The House must adopt the rule […]

WASHINGTON — A federal judge Wednesday ruled as unlawful an executive order by President Donald Trump that barred asylum by claiming an “invasion” at the southern border and the need to protect states. It’s the first major blow to the Trump administration in its attempt to end the ability for asylum seekers to make asylum […]

WASHINGTON — Protesters demonstrated against the “big beautiful bill” outside the U.S. Capitol Wednesday as House Republicans whipped votes to get the bill across the finish line and to President Donald Trump’s desk by a self-imposed July Fourth deadline. Shelley Feist stood on Independence Avenue near the entrance to the House of Representatives holding signs […]

Missourians fear the "One Big Beautiful" may bring cuts to Medicaid.

GODFREY – At Lewis and Clark Community College, Associate Biology Professor Rosemarie Vithayathil is more than an instructor — she’s a mentor, a motivator and, for many students, a trusted guide through the challenges of higher education. Effective at the start of the 2025–2026 academic year, Vithayathil will be promoted to the rank of professor — a recognition of her outstanding contributions to teaching, mentorship and campus leadership. Vithayathil said what she enjoys most is how, each semester, her class transforms into a close-knit family. “Our class sizes are small, and I get to know each of my students personally,” she said. “Besides being a teacher, I sometimes have to take on the role of confidant and friend.” Her approach to teaching emphasizes not only academic excellence but also personal growth. In rigorous courses like microbiology, she challenges students to commit fully,

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ALTON – An Alton woman accused of battering an elderly victim and an Alton man charged with burglarizing a Wood River building face felony charges filed last week in Madison County. Kelsey L. Graham, 34, of Alton, was charged on June 23, 2025 with a Class 2 felony count of aggravated battery and one count each of battery and criminal trespass to a residence, both Class A misdemeanors. On June 20, 2025, Graham allegedly entered a residence in Marine without authority and attacked the home’s occupants. She is accused of knowingly pushing one victim to the ground who was 60 years of age or older at the time, as well as grabbing another victim by the neck with her hands. The Madison County Sheriff’s Office presented the case against Graham, who was granted pretrial release from custody. Additional conditions have been imposed on her release, including that she have no contact with the victims in this case and refrain from entering the Marine residence where the incident

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Abortion rights supporters are asking a judge to block a Republican-led plan asking Missouri voters to once again decide whether abortion should be legal in the state.

Winner Jami Cox Antwi rolled up 55% of the vote in Tuesday's special election to pick a new 8th Ward alderman.

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Paramount Global, which owns CBS News, has reportedly decided to settle President Donald Trump’s frivolous lawsuit over the editing of a “60 Minutes” interview with his former presidential rival Kamala Harris.

Virtually no one aside from Trump’s hangers-on believes the case had any merit, let alone $16 million worth. There was no rational reason for Paramount to settle — aside from paying for favoritism, including over its planned merger with Skydance Media.

Legendary First Amendment lawyers Floyd Abrams and James Goodale each recall a time when news outlets were owned by news companies that had both economic and principled interests in defending the First Amendment. They’re alarmed by what they’re seeing today.

“The agreement of Paramount to pay any settlement amount to Donald Trump ... is an ominous blow to press freedom in our nation.”

Floyd Abrams

Abrams, who represented The New York Times during the Pentagon Papers case and had a hand in countless other seminal First Amendment rulings, told Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) via email that “the agreement of Paramount to pay any settlement amount to Donald Trump based on a ‘60 Minutes’ broadcast that was both journalistically responsible and fully protected by the First Amendment is an ominous blow to press freedom in our nation.”

As Abrams noted in a letter to the Times, despite the significant challenges the Trump administration presents for media outlets, “it is not too much for the public to ask of the press that it remain vigilant in its coverage of him and militant in defense of itself.”

Goodale, the Times vice president, vice chairman, and general counsel from 1963 to 1980, led the newspaper’s resistance to the Nixon administration’s war on the press. He told FPF in an email, “It’s a sad day for journalism in the United States when the corporate owners of major news broadcasters are unwilling to fight back against baseless lawsuits by politicians.”

“It’s a sad day for journalism in the United States when the corporate owners of major news broadcasters are unwilling to fight back against baseless lawsuits by politicians.”

James Goodale

Goodale reiterated his view, which he also expressed in a prior interview with FPF, that businesspeople unwilling to safeguard reporters’ rights should choose a different industry. “Operating a news outlet is a serious responsibility and those whose other financial interests won’t allow them to stand up for the First Amendment should stay out of the news business.”

Seth Stern, FPF’s director of advocacy, added that Paramount’s settlement and other capitulations by major media outlets “put to rest the myth that billionaires and corporate conglomerates will refrain from meddling with the editorial affairs of news publishers they own. CBS and other corporate-owned news outlets are full of great journalists who deserve ownership that won’t throw them under the bus to make a buck. Americans concerned by these developments should support independent news outlets willing to stand up for their journalists’ First Amendment rights so that our free press can survive this administration.”

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