Missouri’s backlog of unresolved child abuse and neglect cases has fallen by more than 80%since January, with officials anticipating it will be eliminated by the end of the year.
Power company Ameren says businesses considering a move to Missouri are seeking a skyrocketing amount of energy capacity compared with even five years ago.
Hello, and welcome back to State of Emergency. My name is Zoya Teirstein, and today we’re going to be talking about a place one journalist dubbed, “the most unfortunate city in the United States.” It’s been just over four years since Hurricane Laura slammed into southwest Louisiana just shy of Category 5 status — the […]
Last March Oregon became the seventh state to pass “right to repair” legislation making it easier, cheaper, and more convenient to repair technology you own. The bill’s passage came on the heels of legislation passed in Massachusetts (in 2012 and 2020), Colorado (in 2022 and 2023), New York (2023), Minnesota, Maine and California. All told, 30 states are considering […]
GRANITE - The annual Granite City Labor Day and Picnic sponsored by the Greater Madison County Federation of Labor turned out to once again be a wonderful event for families and children and a way to celebrate the traditions for families. The event began with the parade through downtown Granite City, starting at Niedringhaus and State Street. Dean Webb, president of GMCFL, noted that the parade has become a tradition for union families in the community and said it brings union families together and demonstrates the pride of what the unions represented have done for the city and the area. This year's parade marshal was State Representative Katie Stuart. The parade featured a diverse group of participants, including steelworkers, carpenters, electricians, and many other skilled workers. The parade proceeded to Wilson Park in Granite City, where GMCFL hosted a picnic for union families, offering refreshments and hotdogs.
ST. LOUIS - Someone shot and killed a man outside of the Salamas Supermarket on North 13th Street Monday night. Police went out after calls about a shooting at around 8 p.m. in the St. Louis Place neighborhood of north St. Louis. They found a man shot with serious injuries. The man was transported to [...]
The mailers started showing up in Rep. Jeff Farnan’s district months before the Aug. 6 primary, labeling the Republican from Stanberry a tool of teacher’s unions with an agenda of “open borders” and “higher taxes.” By the time voters went to the polls, the Missouri chapter of the American Federation for Children had spent $90,000 […]
What the public thinks the law is can matter more than what a law on the books actually says. So inaccurate or exaggerated reporting on a problematic law can make it even more harmful in practice. Over the years, I have written about a number of viral news stories that inadvertently misrepresent the law, causing […]
A four-year-old girl was accidentally shot and killed by a child in north St. Louis early Tuesday morning, with police investigating the incident as an accidental shooting.
When someone wants to add chicks to their backyard farm or populate a larger operation, they often order from hatcheries. For the past 100 years, those hatcheries have used the U.S. Postal Service to ship live baby birds around the country. Increasingly, customers and suppliers say slow deliveries are causing birds to arrive dead. The Midwest Newsroom’s Kavahn Mansouri investigates.
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