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Despite signing bill, Missouri governor never funded program probing radioactive waste

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Five years ago, Gov. Mike Parson signed legislation aimed at providing state funding to help investigate areas of the state exposed to radioactive waste.

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Missouri taxpayers to pay $242,000 to Democrats for records violations under Josh Hawley

JEFFERSON CITY — A Cole County judge on Wednesday ordered the Missouri attorney general's office to pay $242,000 in legal fees in connection to Sunshine Law violations under current U.S. Sen. Josh Hawley.

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Missouri schools ramp up use of safety app amid a rise in mass shootings

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — About one in five Missouri school districts have accepted an offer to install an app designed to protect students and school employees during an active shooter event.

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Missouri to restrict gender-affirming care for trans adults this week

Missouri AG Andrew Bailey has issued a rule that severely limits adults and youth from receiving gender-affirming care. The rule, the first of its kind, is scheduled to take effect Thursday.

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Missouri secretary of state predicts transgender restrictions won't stand

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — At least one top Missouri Republican isn't defending Attorney General Andrew Bailey's rules on transgender medical care, which advocates say would make Missouri the first state to restrict treatments for adults.

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Biden invites Ralph Yarl to the White House once teen recovers from shooting

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — President Joe Biden has invited Ralph Yarl to visit the White House once the Kansas City teen recovers after being shot last week after he rang the wrong doorbell.

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Missouri House approves bill limiting transgender athletes

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — House legislators have approved a plan limiting transgender athletes, requiring individuals in sixth grade or older to play on sports teams aligning with their birth gender.

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Missouri hoping to net results with new invasive carp removal program

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri conservation officials are preparing to launch a program aimed at ridding the waters of the Mississippi River of an invasive species.

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Transgender adults face 'egregious' barriers to care under new Missouri rules, advocates warn

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri's foremost LGBTQ advocacy group raised alarm on Friday that adults currently receiving transgender medical care will face "egregious" barriers to continued treatment under new emergency rules in Missouri.

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Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft elevated voting conspiracy theories. Now he’s running for governor

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — During his time in the office, Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft has been willing to acknowledge and elevate those that have promoted conspiracy theories and false claims about elections.

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Jay Ashcroft says fellow Republicans have ‘failed to deliver,’ launches bid for Missouri governor

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft announced his long-expected run for governor on Thursday, asserting Missouri Republicans had “failed to deliver” on conservative policies, falling behind other red states.

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Missouri lawmakers move to strip public library funding in retaliation over book ban lawsuit

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri lawmakers late Thursday evening moved to strip state funding from public libraries in retaliation for a lawsuit challenging a new state law that bans certain materials in school libraries.

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Missouri advances measure limiting vaccines

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri House approved an anti-vaccination measure Tuesday that could tie the hands of health professionals to address future pandemics.

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Missouri Senate advances bans on gender-affirming care, transgender student athletes

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The GOP-controlled Missouri Senate early on Tuesday advanced a pair of bills that would ban most gender-affirming care for minors and bar transgender people from competing in women’s sports.

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Missouri AG Andrew Bailey announces rules targeting gender-affirming care for minors

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey on Monday said his office plans to file a set of emergency rules aimed at restricting how doctors provide gender-affirming care to minors.

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Anti-trans rally set for Missouri Capitol on Monday

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A conservative political action committee is organizing a rally at the Missouri Capitol on Monday to push state lawmakers to enact strict limits on transgender health care for minors.

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Group files petitions to restore abortion rights in Missouri

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri abortion rights supporters on Wednesday filed a flurry of ballot initiatives seeking to ask voters in 2024 to restore some form of abortion rights in a state where the procedure is almost entirely banned.

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Missouri would be only state in country that taxes food but not guns under GOP bill

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri would be the only state in the country that taxes food but does not tax gun sales under a bill being considered by the Missouri Senate.

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Editorial: Missouri could do right by pregnant mothers. Don’t let abortion politics mess it up

You know the old saying about hard-won progress being “two steps forward and one step back?” The Missouri General Assembly doesn’t often meet even that low standard when it comes to expanding Medicaid to the people who need it. State leaders in Jefferson City are on the cusp of delivering…

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Jackson County GOP drops censure of gay Missouri Republican over marriage amendment — for now

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Jackson County Republican Party on Monday ruled a motion to censure Missouri state Rep. Chris Sander out of order.

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Blackness 'under attack': Kansas and Missouri Black lawmakers face racism in statehouses

TOPEKA, Kan., and JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Sen. Oletha Faust-Goudeau’s political career has been filled with firsts that often go unnoticed.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Lamar Johnson calls on Missouri lawmakers to start compensation program for exonerees

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Six days after a judge declared him a free man, Lamar Johnson told members of a Senate panel Monday that the state must compensate people who have been freed from prison for crimes they didn’t commit.

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Editorial: Just like doctors, lawmakers should adopt do-no-harm standard on gender dysphoria

The increasing politicization of care for young people with gender dysphoria is making it much harder, if not impossible, for doctors to provide the kinds of help necessary to ease kids through a particularly difficult period of their already-difficult teen and pre-teen years. Lives could be at stake, given the…

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Missouri Senate approves school lesson database, limits on race-related instruction

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A plan that would usher in new limits on race-related school lessons won final approval in the Missouri Senate on Tuesday, but the debate in the upper chamber could return in the spring.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Rule targeting Missouri libraries could go into effect with no public hearing

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A controversial change to how public libraries operate in Missouri may go into effect without any public hearings, despite generating a record-setting amount of public comments.

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