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Congresswoman Cori Bush has co-sponsored a bill in congress to provide federal grants to women who travel long distances to receive reproductive health care.

Thousands of patients seeking an abortion have been going to clinics in the Metro East since the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe vs. Wade one year ago. Planned Parenthood officials have increased staff at the Fairview Heights clinic to keep up with increased patient loads.

GODFREY - Firefighters battled an intense fire at Burns Wild Game Meat Processing and Smoke House in Godfrey on Thursday night on Winter Lane. Fire officials reported considerable damage at the scene. The fire call to Godfrey Fire Protection District came at 7:30 p.m. and when they arrived flames were shooting through the roof of the building. Brighton, Alton, Wood River and Fosterburg also were dispatched to the scene. Madison County Emergency Management was also present and Alton Memorial Ambulance was there, but there were no injuries reported. No one was present inside the building when firefighters arrived and the fire is under investigation.

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There were unavoidable comparisons between the two maritime disasters – the most privileged people on Earth versus the most destitute; a risk taken for adventure versus a risk taken for survival; countries rushing to rescue versus a country deflecting blame.

The properties, which front a prominent intersection, near Barnes-Jewish Hospital, now have disintegrating brick steps and holes in exterior walls.

A state board wanted a St. Louis funeral home shut down, but a Cole County judge disagreed.

Haven of Grace recently celebrated A MOMentous Luncheon at the Downtown Missouri Athletic Club with more than 400 guests in attendance.

It's shaping up to be a hot and humid weekend around the St. Louis metro. Temperatures are expected to climb up to the 90s for each of the next three days.

Air pirate needed a second 727 plane after man crashed his Cadillac into landing gear.

A tea vendor that's built a following at the Tower Grove Farmers Market will take over a recently vacated storefront just down the street in Tower Grove East. Chimera Teas announced on Instagram earlier this month that it would be opening at 3149 Shenandoah Avenue later this summer. That's the charming storefront that previously housed Kitchen House Coffee, which closed in March after nearly nine years in business.

Crews are responding to early-morning smoke Friday at the historic Union Trust Bank Company Building in East St. Louis.

University officials say they are investigating "recent suspicious network activity."

The company that provides buses for St. Louis Public Schools will host a hiring fair for bus drivers on Friday.

On June 24, 2022, the landscape of reproductive healthcare in this country took a frightening turn for the worst. The Supreme Court decision in Dobbs v Jackson Women’s Health Organization that overturned what had previously been a constitutional right to abortion set off a whirlwind of changes in healthcare – not only as related to […]

The post Opinion: Dobbs decision spurs moral injury to abortion patients, providers alike appeared first on Missouri Independent.

One advocate calls the coal ash pits in her town a "ticking time bomb."

The Parkway School District will conduct an intruder training exercise Friday at Parkway Central Middle School.

“The burden now is on tribal nations to advocate for themselves and intervene whenever water rights are an issue.”

One man is behind bars on felony charges after he allegedly set an elderly man on fire in Red Bud, Illinois over a property dispute.