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This report has been updated. WASHINGTON — A federal judge issued a preliminary injunction Monday, blocking a provision in Republicans’ “big, beautiful” law that would have barred Medicaid funding from going to Planned Parenthood for one year. District Court Judge Indira Talwani wrote in a 36-page opinion that Planned Parenthood established “a substantial likelihood of success […]

The Missouri Supreme Court isn’t as ready to hear the appeal of a ruling that allowed abortions to resume in the state as Attorney General Andrew Bailey is to argue it in front of the seven judges. In filings for an appeal of Jackson County Circuit Judge Jerri Zhang’s July 3 preliminary injunction, Bailey’s office […]

A fire destroyed a vacant house and damaged another in East St. Louis early Tuesday morning, with no injuries reported and the cause of the fire still under investigation.

“I recommend that you take great care to avoid interfering with state-controlled police operations,” said City Counselor Michael Garvin in a letter.

U.S. Sen. Eric Schmitt said in January that the Justice Department should open up all its Jeffrey Epstein files. Last week, he was more reserved.

Top Missouri officials say they intend to move forward with an expansion of the MOScholars program this year. The NEA is hoping to block that effort.

The Post-Dispatch’s 2024 Public Pay database includes figures for mayors, teachers, police and other public servants in the St. Louis area.

Confluence Academies is hosting a neighborhood outreach event at Old North Academy in north St. Louis to support students and families before the school year begins, providing them with essential information and resources.

She does a lot of experimenting with her recipes — "which sometimes works out really well, but sometimes Toledo doesn't like my weird things," she says.

Clyde Thibodeaux, 67, of Tilden, Ill. is facing nine charges related to child sex abuse, including eight counts of predatory criminal sexual assault and one count of aggravated criminal sexual abuse, with 11 possible victims identified over a span of 50 years.

Nashat Aljerwan and his family have lived at Za'atari Refugee Camp in Jordan for 12 years. But in 2023, a path to resettlement opened that would have allowed them to come to St. Louis. That path quickly closed. In the wake of President Trump’s January executive order to suspend all refugee resettlement, the Aljerwan family became one amongn thousands already vetted, approved, and in limbo.

St. Charles County Prosecutor Joseph McCulloch said the child was born prematurely and weighed only 1.2 pounds at birth.

Request for information tied to recent tornado in St. Louis finally was fulfilled — but not through system city uses to handle public’s Sunshine Law requests

Volunteers would be allowed to trap feral cats within city limits and take them to be spayed or neutered and vaccinated for rabies.

The head of Missouri’s cannabis testing unit said the new unannounced visits to collect product samples shouldn’t impact business, in a podcast by the Missouri Cannabis Regulation Division. “This is going to be just another arm of compliance, guys,” said Ryan Bernard, the division’s testing and research unit manager. “So keep this business as usual […]

ST. LOUIS - Monday’s 1.57” of rain at Lambert Airport was a new record for St. Louis. But the really heavy rain fell in Fayette County, IL and Montgomery County, MO, where totals of 4 to 7 inches were common. Brownstown, IL reported more than 13 inches. An Extreme Heat Warning is in effect for [...]

Devon Allman and Duane Betts, sons of Allman Brothers Band’s Gregg Allman and Dickey Betts, respectively, have been touring as the Allman Betts Band since 2018. While their shows celebrate…

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