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Sgt. John Spicer is currently undergoing dialysis while he's stuck on the transplant list for another year at least, the police department said.

Jamie Corley of suburban St. Louis filed constitutional amendments Wednesday to allow abortions in cases of rape, incest and fatal abnormalities until fetal viability. Viability is typically around 24 weeks.

Cpl. Dallas Thompson with Missouri State Highway Patrol said troopers were at the scene of a crash that killed one person. The victim was not identified.

SATE (Slightly Askew Theatre Ensemble) re-tells Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream imagining if the Mechanicals were rehearsing a play about the star-crossed lovers Hermia, Lysander, Helena, and Demetrius. Meanwhile, Puck, […]

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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez and 13 other top prosecutors from around the U.S. are throwing their support behind efforts to compensate people sickened by exposure to radiation during nuclear weapons testing. The Democratic officials sent a letter Wednesday to congressional leaders, saying “it’s time for the federal government to [...]

Lights, camera, action. Missouri is hoping to get back into the movie industry by luring production companies with tax credits.

St. Louis CITY SC will play FC Dallas on Aug. 30 at CITYPARK stadium.

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The new law will allow rural hospitals access to necessary federal funds and help keep the doors open for their communities.

Two Black Lives Matter flags, one Trans Lives Matter flag and a church pillar were burned during the late night and early morning of Aug. 28 and 29.

Polished.com, Inc., an online appliance retailer which started as local, family-run Goedeker's, has agreed to pay $100,000 to former company CEO Albert Fouerti and former vice president Elie Fouerti in a settlement over unpaid rent and other property-related costs.

Police failed to mention federal and state protections against newsroom raids when applying for a warrant to seize equipment from the Marion County Record.

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When police applied for a warrant to raid the Marion County Record, they didn’t bother mentioning the Privacy Protection Act of 1980 — a federal law that largely bans newsroom seizures. They claimed afterwards that they knew about the PPA but didn’t think it applied (we have our doubts). And the judge who issued the warrant was apparently clueless about the law.

Authorities in Marion are far from the only ones to ignore the PPA. We noted earlier this year that police in Asheville, North Carolina, neglected to mention it when they applied for a warrant to search a journalist’s phone. And federal prosecutors are struggling to explain how the FBI raid of journalist Tim Burke’s Florida home could have complied with the PPA.

It’s a real problem that law enforcement and judges seem so confused (at best) about such an important press freedom law. It’s crucial that journalists themselves know their rights, especially when the government doesn’t. That’s why Freedom of the Press Foundation (FPF) collaborated with the First Amendment Foundation on a guide covering journalists’ rights under the PPA (and state shield laws), as well as how journalists should respond if police knock on their doors or otherwise attempt to seize their newsgathering equipment.

You can read and download the guide below.

Suburban St. Louis resident Jamie Corley proposed the constitutional amendments to allow those exceptions up until viability, which typically is around 24 weeks.

Idalia, now a tropical storm, has caused a mess at airports coast-to-coast, as flights were canceled from Florida and the East Coast, just days before the long holiday weekend.