Latest Missouri News
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Here's how abortion clinics are preparing for Roe to fallJACKSON, Miss. (AP) -- Leaders of a Tennessee abortion clinic calculated driving distances and studied passenger rail routes as they scanned the map for another place to offer services if the U.S. Supreme Court lets states restrict or eliminate abortion rights.
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Court says McCloskeys can't advise right-wing group for freeThe Missouri Supreme Court denied a request by U.S. Senate candidate Mark McCloskey and his wife to give free legal advice to a conservative activist group as a condition of their professional probation, but McCloskey said Thursday he'll try to find another right-wing organization to represent.
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20 years after spate of hospital deaths, ex-worker accusedIn the five months that Jennifer Anne Hall was a respiratory therapist at Hedrick Medical Center, the rural Missouri hospital experienced 18 "code blue" incidents -- an alarming increase in sudden cardiac arrest events for a hospital that historically averaged one of them a year, according to a police investigator.
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Assistant chief gets $162K to settle discrimination lawsuitST. LOUIS (AP) -- The city of St. Louis will pay a St. Louis assistant police chief nearly $162,000 to settle his federal discrimination lawsuit in which he alleged he was passed over for the city's top police job because he is white.
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Missouri governor OKs new US House map favoring RepublicansJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Missouri Gov. Mike Parson signed new U.S. House districts into law Wednesday that are expected to shore up Republican strength in the state's most competitive congressional district ahead of this year's elections.
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Cards' O'Neill has winning hit, twinbill-record 6 Ks vs MetsNEW YORK (AP) -- Tyler O'Neill had the simplest of goals in the ninth inning of a tied game.
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Lawsuit: Students taunted Black student, threatened lynchingAdministrators at a Missouri school district that is the subject of a federal civil rights investigation failed to protect a Black teen from repeated racial taunts that culminated with him being threatened with a lynching, a lawsuit alleges.
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Republican Senate candidates promote 'replacement' theoryNEW YORK (AP) -- Several mainstream Republican Senate candidates are drawing on the "great replacement" conspiracy theory once confined to the far-right fringes of U.S. politics to court voters this campaign season, promoting the baseless notion that there is a plot to diminish the influence of white people in America.
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Abortion resistance braces for demands of a post-Roe futureThe day's first caller begged for help to cross state lines and end her pregnancy. "Please," the woman from Texas said in her voicemail. "Anything would be greatly appreciated."
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Workers vote on forming Missouri's only active library unionWorkers at a public library system based in Columbia are voting this week on whether to become the only active public librarians union in the state.
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Editorial Roundup: MissouriSt. Louis Post-Dispatch. May 16, 2022.
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Missouri man accused of holding, torturing woman for 2 daysLATHROP, Mo. (AP) -- A man who was recently released from prison has been charged with kidnapping and other felonies after authorities said he threatened to kill and severely beat a woman he met on a dating site, keeping her imprisoned for two days at his father's home in northwestern Missouri.
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Prosecutor seeks to vacate man's conviction in mom's deathPOTOSI, Mo. (AP) -- A Missouri prosecutor is seeking to vacate the conviction of a man who spent nearly two decades behind bars for the 1998 death of his mother -- a crime he and others insist he did not commit.
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Girl is 5th person to die from St. Louis crash last weekST. LOUIS (AP) -- An 11-year-old girl is the fifth person to die from her injuries in a crash caused by a vehicle that police had tried to stop in the minutes before it hit a van carrying seven family members, authorities said.
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Oregon sued over failure to provide public defendersPORTLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Criminal defendants in Oregon who have gone without legal representation for long periods of time amid a critical shortage of public defense attorneys filed a lawsuit Monday that alleges the state violated their constitutional right to legal counsel and a speedy trial.
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Buttigieg sends $5B to cities for safety as road deaths soarWASHINGTON (AP) -- With upcoming data showing traffic deaths soaring, the Biden administration is steering $5 billion in federal aid to cities and localities to address the growing crisis by slowing down cars, carving out bike paths and wider sidewalks and nudging commuters to public transit.
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Missouri man acquitted of killing man and witness in 2020ST. LOUIS (AP) -- A Missouri man has been acquitted of murdering a 19-year-old man and the woman who witnessed that shooting in 2020.
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St. Louis-area day care operator sentenced in infant deathMAPLEWOOD, Mo. (AP) -- A woman who operated a day care center from her St. Louis County home has been sentenced to prison for causing the death of an infant.
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Pandemic-era asylum limits in hands of federal judgeLAFAYETTE, Louisiana (AP) -- An attorney arguing for 24 states urged a federal judge Friday to block Biden administration plans to lift pandemic-related restrictions on migrants requesting asylum, saying the decision was made without sufficient consideration on the effects the move could have on public health and law enforcement.
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Missouri Legislature passes few bills in slow sessionJEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (AP) -- Missouri lawmakers passed few bills during the 2022 legislative session, in part because of gridlock in the Republican-led Senate.