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The number of shootings – which totaled 109 victims between Thursday and Sunday – surpassed last year's holiday weekend total.

A swift water rescue in Columbia, Missouri, turned deadly when the rescue boat capsized. Assistant Chief Matthew Tobben, Boone County Fire Protection District, had recently relocated to Boone County after serving in Union, Missouri, for a number of years.

As the former Hurricane Beryl continues its track toward the region, utilities are continuing their daily operations, and some are ramping up ahead of the potential for heavy rain.

The Major Case Squad is now investigating a shooting that left one man dead Sunday night in Berkeley.

Officers found the shooting victim inside a car on Jefferson Avenue.

Assistant Chief Matt Tobben was thrown into the water and drowned after his boat overturned, according to the Boone County Fire Protection District.

The Boeing Co. is in discussions with the U.S. Department of Defense to preserve its government contract business in the wake of the aerospace giant agreeing to plead guilty to a criminal charge in connection with two fatal crashes, two media outlets reported Monday.

The man was rushed to an area hospital, where he was pronounced dead.

In one of four cases between a provider of gender-affirming care and the Missouri Attorney General, a judge ruled Missouri’s consumer protection law doesn't authorize Bailey’s demands for unredacted records.

The St. Louis County Police Department shut down a gas station in the Norwood Court municipality on Thursday afternoon to investigate a deadly shooting.

(The Center Square) – Missouri Republican Gov. Mike Parson kicked off bill-signing season on Monday by exempting a federal agency and its public contractor from paying state or local sales taxes.

(The Center Square) — Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares filed an amicus brief Monday with attorneys general from 15 other states asking the U.S. Supreme Court to hear a case about schools socially transitioning students without parents’ knowledge or consent.

U.S. Reps. Nikki Budzinski, D-Springfield, and Mike Bost, R-Murphysboro, introduced bill that aims to better train military personnel to handle assault claims

A Tubi original movie called Continental Split dramatizes the threat of the New Madrid fault, which has a 25-40% chance of a magnitude six or greater earthquake in the next 50 years.

Ringo Starr celebrated his 84th birthday on Sunday with his annual Peace and Love event in Los Angeles, and his message  of peace and love was spread not only across…

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A man from the O'Fallon, Missouri, area is accused of confronting a food delivery driver outside his home and shooting the driver.

Late last summer, I proposed that the city implement a city-wide bike network using recently awarded Rams Settlement Funds. Eventually, this idea was included among 20 other finalists, rising up as one of the more popular possibilities for use of the windfall, among hundreds of citizen proposals initially submitted. In anticipation of the informal public […]

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Body camera footage showing Asheville Blade journalist Matilda Bliss's press pass. Bliss and colleague Veronica Coit were convicted of trespassing for recording police evicting unhoused people from a public park.

In a recent decision, the U.S. Supreme Court made it easier for individuals to sue if they can prove they were retaliated against for exercising First Amendment rights. For Asheville journalists Veronica Coit and Matilda Bliss — who were arrested and convicted for covering a police sweep of a homeless encampment at a public park — the court’s ruling bolsters their appeal of their conviction, as well as any lawsuit they may eventually file.

Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) Advocacy Intern Jimena Pinzon and Advocacy Director Seth Stern wrote for the Asheville Citizen Times about why this decision should give Bliss and Coit hope.

Last week’s decision is a win for press freedom nationwide because it empowers reporters who are needlessly arrested and prosecuted to seek justice in court. Officials in Asheville should take note and start thinking about cutting settlement checks and, more importantly, reforming their anti-speech practices going forward.

You can read the full op-ed here.