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Missouri House scraps Senate-approved map of state's congressional districts

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri House on Thursday jettisoned a Senate-approved blueprint for the state’s congressional maps, with House members again urging senators to meet to work out differences.

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Hard-line Missouri senator pushes to reject talks with House on congressional map

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo — A St. Charles County senator kicked off business in the Missouri Senate on Wednesday by delaying any action in protest of proposed talks with the House on a compromise congressional map.

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Penalty for assisting abortion in case of ectopic pregnancy removed from measure in Missouri House

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Following an outpouring of outrage, a plan to outlaw abortions in the case of life-threatening ectopic pregnancies was removed from a House bill Tuesday afternoon.

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Schmitt dismisses lawsuits against St. Louis, school districts where masks no longer required

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Attorney General Eric Schmitt on Friday dismissed his challenge to masking rules in the city of St. Louis, and his office also announced an end to dozens of lawsuits he filed against Missouri school districts this year.

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Hard feelings persist in Missouri Senate as lawmakers fail to approve congressional map

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — While most other states have finished work on new congressional boundaries, Missouri is one of just four without a map, as lawmakers here remain mired in personal feuds and disagreement over the lines.

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Missouri House approves concealed carry of weapons on public transportation, in churches

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri House passed a bill Wednesday that allows concealed weapons on public transportation and lifts their prohibition in houses of worship.

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Missouri Senate overcomes dress code dilemma, approves $4.5 billion spending plan

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A fight over one senator's bib overalls was shunted aside Wednesday so the Missouri Legislature's fractured upper chamber could finally approve a midyear budget adjustment that boosts state worker pay and bans funds for Planned Parenthood.

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Missouri Republicans trade jabs as race for US Senate kicks off

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Nearly four years after he resigned from office and retreated from the capital city, former Gov. Eric Greitens returned Tuesday to officially launch his bid for U.S. Senate.

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Police probe shows Missouri data weakness existed a decade before Post-Dispatch exposed it

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A police investigation released Monday shows that a flaw in a Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education webpage had been in place since 2011 and that no one had noticed the flaw until a St. Louis Post-Dispatch journalist pointed out the weakness.

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Biden administration sues Missouri to overturn act that declares federal gun laws ‘invalid’

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The U.S. Department of Justice has sued Missouri in federal court, seeking to overturn the state’s Second Amendment law that prohibits local police from helping enforce certain federal gun restrictions.

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Prosecutor declines to charge Post-Dispatch reporter targeted by Parson

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A St. Louis Post-Dispatch journalist will not be charged after pointing out a weakness in a state computer database, the prosecuting attorney for Cole County said Friday.

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Measure derided as the ‘Make Murder Legal Act’ killed in Missouri Senate committee

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A Missouri Senate panel on Thursday terminated a proposal one county prosecutor called the “Make Murder Legal Act.”

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‘Nuclear option’ possible to force vote in Missouri Senate on stalled congressional map

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Debate over Missouri’s next congressional map stretched into its third day on Wednesday, and hard-line GOP Sen. Bob Onder wondered whether GOP leaders were planning to cut off debate and force a vote.

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Missouri Supreme Court tosses signature rules that derailed challenge to abortion law

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday tossed two laws that it said stymied efforts by abortion rights activists to put the state's strict new abortion law to a public vote in 2019.

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Missouri senators still debating after bipartisan coalition rejects '7-1' congressional plan

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Two differing visions for Missouri's next congressional map collided Monday when conservative hard-liners attempted to block a status quo-style plan that GOP leaders had brought up for debate.

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Missouri court to hear challenge to controversial gun law

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The Missouri Supreme Court will hear arguments Monday in a case challenging a new gun law opponents say bars police from helping enforce certain federal firearms laws.

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Responding to criticism, Missouri governor's office says there's no ‘religious litmus test’ for state workers

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Gov. Mike Parson’s office said Friday he has no “religious litmus test” for state government employees, clarifying a statement he made earlier this week that he wouldn’t have appointed a health director “who does not share the same Christian values” as him.

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Only Christians need apply? Gov. Mike Parson’s ‘Christian values’ statement prompts legal concerns

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Does the next director of the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services need to be a Christian?

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Governor calls failure to confirm Missouri health director ‘an embarrassment to the state’

JEFFERSON CITY — The Missouri Senate torpedoed Gov. Mike Parson’s choice to run the state health department Tuesday amid unfounded concerns that he favors mask mandates and vaccine requirements.

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Missouri prosecutors criticize immunity for shooters bill as 'Make Murder Legal Act'

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A Missouri lawmaker wants to expand the state's self-defense law to grant wide latitude to shooters who claim they killed because they were in danger.

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Missouri AG has sued 45 school districts with mask rules. What about charter schools?

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt filed nine additional lawsuits against school districts with mask mandates this week, bringing the total number of systems targeted to 45.

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KC Democrats back Missouri map that spares Cleaver as fight with conservatives looms

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A bipartisan group of Missouri state senators advanced a congressional map to the Senate floor Tuesday that preserves Kansas City’s safe Democratic seat, as conservative activists pressed lawmakers to gerrymander the district for the GOP instead.

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Missouri Republicans float plans to stop nursing homes and hospitals from restricting visitors

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Hospitals and nursing homes in Missouri would lose some of their ability to restrict visitors during a pandemic under legislation being considered in the Legislature.

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