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Ethics Committee meets behind closed doors for second time this week

2 years 3 months ago
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - For the second time this week, a group of lawmakers met behind closed doors for hours to discuss an ethics complaint. This is the first time the committee has been publicly linked to Rep. Dean Plocher. While it's unclear what the focus of the investigation is, lawmakers could also be focusing [...]
Emily Manley

Abortion foes are fighting against making IVF freely available

2 years 3 months ago
Two weeks ago the Alabama Supreme Court blew up IVF treatments in the state by ruling that frozen embryos are human life. This made IVF too risky and forced hospitals and clinics to stop providing it. But everybody loves IVF—even Republicans—so the Alabama legislature moved like lightning to pass a bill giving IVF clinics absolute ...continue reading "Abortion foes are fighting against making IVF freely available"
Kevin Drum

Peoria Police Put Out Recruiting Poster Telling Recruits To Come Play β€˜Call Of Duty’ In Real Life

2 years 3 months ago
Whatever your thoughts on policing in general in America, I would hope it would be largely uncontroversial to state that a huge percentage of Americans believe that police are generally over-militarized and at least slightly a little too trigger happy, especially when it comes to engaging minority communities. If you somehow think that there isn’t […]
Dark Helmet

Manhunt over in St. Francois County, suspect in custody

2 years 3 months ago
ST. FRANCOIS COUNTY, Mo. - A manhunt for a man accused of sodomy and arson ended Wednesday evening. Police say Michael Pender, 21, was located inside a car near where it all started and was taken into custody. At least seven law enforcement agencies were looking for Pender and had deployed seven K-9 teams, a [...]
Mallory Thomas