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    After Capitol Riot Backlash, Sen. Josh Hawley's Book Will Hit Shelves In May

    Jan 18, 2021
    "We're proud to publish Mr. Hawley's book, which his original publisher has made more important than ever," Regnery Publishing President Thomas Spence said Monday.
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    America Reckons With Racial Injustice
    St. Louis Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner is the city's first Black Circuit Court attorney. On Thursday a circuit judge disqualified her and her staff from prosecuting the case against Mark McCloskey.
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    St. Louis Prosecutor Ousted From Case Of Couple Who Brandished Guns At BLM Protesters

    Dec 10, 2020
    A judge in St. Louis rules that in sending fundraising emails seeking reelection, Circuit Attorney Kim Gardner jeopardized Mark McCloskey's right to a fair trial.
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    A voter casts a ballot on Tuesday at Jennings Senior High School in Jennings, Mo., a St. Louis suburb. Voters passed an amendment to Missouri's constitution that opens the door to redrawing state legislative districts that don't take into account childre
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    A National Fight Over Who Is Counted In Voting Districts May Arise From Missouri

    Nov 06, 2020
    A new amendment to Missouri's constitution opens the door to redrawing state legislative districts that don't take into account children, noncitizens and other residents who are not eligible to vote.
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    Live Updates: Protests For Racial Justice
    "The government chooses to persecute us for doing no more than exercising our right to defend ourselves, our home, our property and our family," said Mark McCloskey, alongside his wife Patricia on Tuesday outside the Carnahan Courthouse.
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    White Gun-Wielding St. Louis Couple Reportedly Indicted By Grand Jury

    Oct 06, 2020
    "I've been told they've been charged with exhibiting a firearm and tampering with evidence," Joel Schwartz, who represents Mark and Patricia McCloskey told NPR.
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    Coronavirus Live Updates
    Gov. Mike Parson and his wife, Teresa, share a kiss after he was sworn in as Missouri's 57th governor in 2018.
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    Missouri Governor And Wife To Host Fall Festival Days After COVID Diagnosis

    Sep 25, 2020
    "Come enjoy the outdoor activities and the beautiful fall decorations," said First Lady Teresa Parson days after her diagnosis. The event is scheduled for Oct. 3, 4 days short of a 14-day quarantine.
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    Coronavirus Live Updates
    Missouri Gov. Mike Parson, here at an August news conference in St. Louis, says he and his wife, Teresa Parson, "are both fine" after testing positive for the coronavirus.
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    Missouri Governor And Wife Test Positive For The Coronavirus

    Sep 23, 2020
    The governor, who has a spotty track record of wearing face coverings, said he and the first lady "are both fine." He added he is not showing any symptoms.
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    Shots - Health News
    Nika Cotton recently opened  Soulcentricitea in Kansas City, Mo. When public schools shut down in the spring, Cotton had no one to watch her young children who are 8 and 10. So she quit her job in social work — and lost her health insurance — in orde
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    Missouri Voters Approve Medicaid Expansion Despite Resistance From Republican Leaders

    Aug 05, 2020
    Missouri is the second state to expand the health care program via ballot measure during the pandemic. Nearly a quarter-million people could get health insurance thanks to the measure.
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    Shots - Health News
    Voters in Kirkwood, Mo., cast ballots on Nov. 6, 2018 that helped decide the balance of power in Congress. Next week they'll get the chance to decide whether to expand Medicaid in their state. The measure could extend health coverage to more than 230,000
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    Will Missouri Be The Next Red State To Expand Medicaid? Voters To Decide

    Jul 30, 2020
    Advocates for expansion say it would create jobs, protect hospitals from budget cuts, bring billions of federal taxpayer dollars back to the state, and bring health coverage to 230,000 more people.
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    Shots - Health News
    Dr. Lee Norman, secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment, discussed the resurgence in coronavirus cases in the state this week. The state hospital association fears there will be delays in getting coronavirus data under new federal ru
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    With CDC Sidelined, Some States Lose Access To Timely COVID-19 Hospital Data

    Jul 17, 2020
    Health and hospital officials in two states report that a Trump administration change to how pandemic data is collected has left them unable to access vital information.
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    Coronavirus Live Updates
    Kanakuk Kamps closed its overnight K-2 program after 41 people tested poisitve for the coronavirus, local health officials said last week. As of Monday, that number had doubled to at least 82 positive results.
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    At Least 82 Coronavirus Cases Linked To Missouri Sleepaway Camp

    Jul 10, 2020
    Kanakuk Kamps shut down its K-2 program after 41 campers, staff and counselors tested positive. That number has since doubled, according to county health officials.
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    Missouri's only clinic that provides abortions, located in St. Louis, will be able to keep operating after a state commission decided Friday, that the health department was wrong not to renew the license of the Planned Parenthood facility.
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    Missouri's Only Clinic That Provides Abortions Allowed To Remain Open

    May 29, 2020
    "Planned Parenthood has demonstrated that it provides safe and legal abortion care," a state commission ruled. It said state health regulators wrongly blocked the St. Louis clinic's renewal in 2019.
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    Wendy and Eric Schmidt, shown here at a 2016 event for UCLA, have given $4.7 million to NPR to boost investigative reporting and news coverage in the Midwest and California.
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    $4.7 Million Gift To Propel Public Radio Coverage in Midwest, California

    May 19, 2020
    Philanthropists Eric and Wendy Schmidt's $4.7 million contribution will help public radio stations increase news coverage in Iowa, Kansas, Missouri and Nebraska as well as California.
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    Coronavirus Live Updates
    Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt filed a lawsuit against the Chinese government, the Chinese Communist Party and others, alleging that the hiding of information and other actions at the outset of the coronavirus outbreak led to loss of life and sig
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    Missouri Sues China, Communist Party Over The Coronavirus Pandemic

    Apr 21, 2020
    Missouri's attorney general alleges that China "engaged in misrepresentations, concealment, and retaliation to conceal the gravity and seriousness of the COVID-19 outbreak from the rest of the world."
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    Alabama And Missouri Issue Stay-At-Home Orders

    Apr 03, 2020
    Govs. Kay Ivey and Mike Parson had previously resisted calls by medical and health experts who have been urging lawmakers to take immediate action.
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    Politics
    A Planned Parenthood clinic in St. Louis is shown in June. The clinic has all but ceased providing abortions after Missouri tightened restrictions.
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    As Missouri Clinic Awaits Its Legal Fate, Abortions In State Have Virtually Halted

    Mar 12, 2020
    The state has one remaining clinic in St. Louis, but Planned Parenthood officials say just three abortions were performed there in February, down from 174 in the same month a year ago.
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    National
    Democrats on the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform are examining how states regulate abortion clinics. From right are Reps. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.
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    House Oversight Committee Democrats To Examine Regulation Of Abortion Providers

    Nov 13, 2019
    The hearing on Thursday will use Missouri — where the last remaining clinic that provides abortion could close over a dispute with health regulators — as a case study.
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    National
    A group of anti-abortion rights protesters hold signs during a rally outside a Planned Parenthood Reproductive Health Center in St Louis, Mo., in June.
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    Planned Parenthood To Open Large New Facility In Illinois Near Missouri Border

    Oct 02, 2019
    The site of the 18,000 square foot clinic is intended to serve women from Missouri, where access to abortions has become more restrictive.
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    Shots - Health News
    Missouri resident Patricia Powers had no health insurance when she was diagnosed with cancer a few years ago; she and her disabled husband were struggling to get by on, at most, $1,500 a month.  If they'd lived across the river in Illinois, she'd have be
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    State Border Splits Neighbors Into Medicaid Haves And Have-Nots

    Oct 01, 2019
    On the Illinois side of the Mississippi River, many families struggling financially can get health care, thanks to Medicaid expansion. Meanwhile, their neighbors on the Missouri side don't qualify.
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    Law
    Death penalty opponent Herve Deschamps holds a sign during a vigil outside St. Francis Xavier College Church in St. Louis, hours before the 2014 scheduled execution of death row inmate Russell Bucklew.
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    Supreme Court Closely Divides On 'Cruel And Unusual' Death Penalty Case

    Apr 01, 2019
    A divided court ruled against a Missouri man who said that because of a rare medical condition, death by lethal injection would constitute "cruel and unusual punishment."
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    National
    Firefighters battled a massive fire at the St. Louis Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum on Tuesday. The museum houses some of collector David Karpeles' collection of original manuscripts, one of the largest in the world.
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    Historic Manuscripts Saved From St. Louis Fire

    Mar 27, 2019
    A four-alarm fire at the Karpeles Manuscript Museum on Tuesday nearly destroyed a large collection of artifacts. But firefighters were able to preserve many of the rare items.
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    Politics
    Supporters of Missouri's redistricting ballot measure hold signs behind former state Sen. Bob Johnson during a news conference in Jefferson City, Mo., in August.
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    Missouri Voters Backed An Anti-Gerrymandering Measure; Lawmakers Want To Undo It

    Jan 08, 2019
    Like voters in Colorado, Utah and Michigan last year, Missouri's voters decided to alter the redistricting process. But lawmakers argue it could create bizarre districts that are hard to represent.
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    Duck boats sit idle in the parking lot of Ride the Ducks days after the accident in July in Branson, Mo. Kenneth Scott McKee, the captain and operator of a boat that sank on July 19, was charged on Thursday with criminal misconduct and negligence resulti
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    Duck Boat Captain Indicted In Missouri Lake Accident That Killed 17

    Nov 08, 2018
    Kenneth McKee was charged with 17 federal counts of criminal negligence, misconduct and inattention to duty. U.S. Attorney Tim Garrison said, "Each represents a life that was lost."
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    National
    Michigan has become the first state in the Midwest to legalize recreational marijuana, after voters approved a ballot measure Tuesday. Here, a clerk reaches for a container of marijuana buds at Utopia Gardens, a medical marijuana dispensary in Detroit.
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    Voters Relax Marijuana Laws In 3 More States: Michigan, Utah, Missouri

    Nov 07, 2018
    There are now 33 states that have legalized marijuana to some degree, and recreational pot use is now legal in 10 states, along with Washington, D.C.
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    Politics
    Philip Bennett repairs machines at Mid Continent Nail in Poplar Bluff, Mo. A self-proclaimed Democrat who voted for Donald Trump in 2016, Bennett's support for the president has waned since Trump instituted steel tariffs earlier this year.
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    VIDEO: As Elections Loom, Workers In Trump Country Reckon With Tariffs Fallout

    Oct 30, 2018
    President Trump's steel tariffs may force America's largest nail manufacturer out of business. Despite an uncertain future, many factory workers there say they still support the president.
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    Voters cast their ballots at a polling station at Hazelwood Central High School on November 8, 2016 in Florissant, Missouri. A state judge has ruled state election authorities can no longer tell voters they must show a photo ID to cast a ballot, blocking
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    Missouri Judge Blocks Parts Of State Voter Photo ID Law

    Oct 10, 2018
    A Missouri judge ruled that election authorities must cease distributing materials that could "mislead" voters to believing photo identification is required to cast a ballot.

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