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The Supreme Court has ended constitutional protections for abortion that had been in place nearly 50 years — a decision by its conservative majority to overturn the court's landmark abortion cases. …
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By MARK SHERMAN
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6/24/22
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The Associated Press is making available the full text of the Supreme Court’s ruling overturning the nationwide right to abortion. Justice Samuel Alito wrote in the final opinion issued Friday that …
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By The Associated Press
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6/24/22
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Most abortions are now illegal in Missouri following a U.S. Supreme Court decision that ended a constitutional protection for abortion. A 2019 Missouri law prohibits abortions “except in cases of …
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6/24/22
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The lawyer for the ex-wife of Missouri U.S. Senate candidate Eric Greitens says the family has been subjected to “serious threats” in the days since Greitens released a violent campaign video in …
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By DAVID A. LIEB and JIM SALTER
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6/23/22
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A man has been sentenced to 20 years in prison for fatally shooting a woman as she rode an all-terrain vehicle on a south Kansas City street two years ago. The Kansas City Star reports that …
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6/23/22
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A federal lawsuit is challenging a decades-old Missouri law that limits the extent to which volunteers can provide ballot-booth help to people who have disabilities or are unable to read or write. …
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6/22/22
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An attorney working as a senior investigator for the U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection will leave the post amid calls urging him to run for a Missouri U.S. Senate seat as an …
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By JIM SALTER
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6/22/22
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Republican Sen. Rick Scott of Florida is criticizing the Texas GOP's new party platform for not being “inclusive” when it described homosexuality as “an abnormal lifestyle choice.” Scott, the …
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By JILL COLVIN
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6/22/22
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Kansas City Star. June 20, 2022.
Editorial: Hunting humans: Ludicrous Eric Greitens hits a new low targeting fellow Republicans
Missourians have long been accustomed to boorish behavior from …
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By The Associated Press
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6/22/22
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When a GOP Missouri U.S. Senate candidate released a video Monday in which he cocked a gun after calling for a hunt of fellow Republicans who he believes are “RINOs,” or Republicans in Name Only, …
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By AMANDA SEITZ
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6/21/22
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Former Republican U.S. Sen. John Danforth and others are urging a former federal prosecutor who now serves as an attorney for the congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection …
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By JIM SALTER
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6/21/22
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Eric Greitens, a Republican candidate for U.S. Senate in Missouri, has posted a campaign video ad on Twitter that shows him brandishing a long gun and declaring that he’s hunting RINOs, or …
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By BRIAN SLODYSKO
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6/20/22
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The father of a Missouri teenager killed after falling from a Florida amusement park ride said Monday he fears his son’s death will be forgotten with tragic consequences for future ride patrons. …
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6/20/22
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Two men have been charged with murder in a house explosion near St. Louis that authorities say killed four people who were assembling fireworks in a garage. St. Louis County prosecutors charged …
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6/19/22
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Health officials said Saturday that they had identified what is likely to be the first case of monkeypox in Missouri in the Kansas City area. State and local health officials are waiting for the …
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6/19/22
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Two former members of a University of Missouri fraternity have been indicted for a hazing incident that left another student blind and unable to walk or communicate after drinking a liter of vodka in …
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6/18/22
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A 29-year-old man has been found guilty of second-degree murder and other crimes in the 2019 shooting death of a suburban St. Louis police officer. The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports that a St. …
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6/18/22
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Five additional lawsuits have been filed accusing a southwestern Missouri boarding school of abusing students. The lawsuits alleging physical and emotional abuse at Agape Boarding School were filed …
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6/18/22
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Data show Black drivers are more likely to be pulled over in Missouri compared to white drivers. The attorney general's annual report on police stops shows continued differences in how Black and …
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6/17/22
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A 25-year-old St. Louis woman who pleaded guilty to stabbing a man and his young son to death has been sentenced to three life sentences plus 90 years. Onyai Turner was sentenced Friday in the …
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6/17/22
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