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A billboard supporting legislation that would provide legal protection to manufacturers of pesticides such as Bayer's popular weedkiller Roundup, is shown in Jefferson City, Mo., on May 13, 2024. (AP Photo/David A. Lieb)

Maker of popular weedkiller amplifies fight against cancer-related lawsuits

The maker of a popular weedkiller is planning to amplify its push for legal protection against lawsuits claiming it failed to warn the product could cause cancer.
 
FILE - This undated photo provided by Kira Dunn shows Christopher Dunn. A hearing begins Tuesday, May 21, 2024, in St. Louis to determine if a murder conviction should be vacated for the Missouri inmate. Dunn has spent more than three decades in prison on a life-without-parole sentence for a 1990 killing, but St. Louis prosecutors now are convinced that he is innocent. (Kira Dunn via AP, File)

Judge hears wrongful conviction claim of Missouri inmate in prison for 33 years

 
Jesse Fernandez, center, stands with his former foster parents Jason and Joyce White Friday, May 17, 2024, in Independence, Mo. Fernandez was paid thousands of dollars of Social Security survivor's benefits because of the death of his mother, but by the time he turned 18, the money had all been used by the state of Missouri and Fernandez's relatives to pay for his foster care. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

States have been using foster children’s Social Security benefits. That’s ending in some places

 
Bryan Steil, R-Wis., chairman of the Committee on House Administration, displays a large photo of an unlocked election ballot drop box in Washington, during a hearing about noncitizen voting in U.S. elections. on Capitol Hill, Thursday, May 16, 2024 in Washington. In recent months, the specter of noncitizens voting in the U.S. has erupted into a leading rallying cry for Republicans. (AP Photo/John McDonnell)

Noncitizen voting, already illegal in federal elections, becomes a centerpiece of 2024 GOP messaging

 
Missouri House Speaker Dean Plocher holds a press conference encouraging the Senate to take action on a proposed constitutional amendment that would make it harder for voters to approve future amendments, Friday, May 17, 2024, at the state Capitol in Jefferson City, Mo. The Senate, shortly afterward, adjourned without voting on the measure. (AP Photo/David A. Lieb)

GOP fighting, 50-hour Democratic filibuster kill push to make amending Missouri Constitution harder

 

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Missouri senators, not taxpayers, will pay potential damages in Chiefs rally shooting case

Missouri lawmakers will have to pay out of their own pockets if they lose defamation cases for falsely accusing a man of being one of the Kansas City Chiefs parade shooters and an immigrant in the country illegally.
 

Four people killed in a house explosion in southwestern Missouri

Four people in rural Missouri died when an explosion that could be heard 10 miles away occurred at a house.
 

Missouri candidate with ties to the KKK can stay on the Republican ballot, judge rules

A Missouri judge has ruled that a longshot gubernatorial candidate with ties to the Ku Klux Klan can stay on the Republican ticket.
 
FILE - This photo provided by Missouri Dept. of Corrections shows David Hosier. Hosier, who is scheduled to be executed next month, was hospitalized Thursday, May 16, 2024, after suffering what a corrections official called a medical emergency. .(Missouri Dept. of Corrections via AP)

Missouri inmate facing execution next month is hospitalized with heart problem

A Missouri inmate who is weeks away from execution is in a hospital after suffering what a Missouri Department of Corrections spokeswoman described as a “medical emergency.”
 
FILE - Dr. Elizabeth Brett Daily talks with patient Haley Ruark about the medical abortion process at a Planned Parenthood clinic, Oct. 12, 2022, in Kansas City, Kan. Comprehensive Health of Planned Parenthood Great Plains announced Tuesday, May 14, 2024, that Pittsburg, Kansas, will be home to a new facility providing abortion procedures and pills, as well as pregnancy services, contraception and testing and treatment for sexually transmitted diseases. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

New Kansas abortion clinic will open to help meet demand from restrictive neighboring states

A new abortion clinic is going to open in southeast Kansas this fall, bolstering the state’s role as a regional hub for reproductive health services since the U.S.
 

Missouri lawmakers renew crucial $4B Medicaid tax program

Missouri lawmakers have approved a more than $4 billion hospital tax program essential to the state’s Medicaid budget.
 

Terry Blair, serving life in prison for killing six women in Kansas City, Missouri, dies

A man convicted of killing six women 20 years ago in Kansas City, Missouri, has died. The Missouri Department of Corrections says 62-year-old Terry Blair died Saturday morning.
 
FILE - The Missouri Capitol is seen, April 5, 2024, in Jefferson City. Democratic lawmakers on Tuesday, May 14 passed the 24-hour point in a nonstop, overnight filibuster against a Republican proposal to raise the bar for amending Missouri's constitution. (AP Photo/David A. Lieb, file)

Filibuster by Missouri Democrats stretches into a second day. What’s the fight about?

Democratic lawmakers are on the second day of a filibuster against a Republican proposal to raise the bar for amending Missouri’s constitution.
 

Former University of Missouri frat member pleads guilty in hazing that caused brain damage

A former member of a University of Missouri fraternity has pleaded guilty in the hazing of another student that caused blindness and significant brain damage. The St.
 

Former Missouri day care operator sentenced to 24 years for infant’s death

The former operator of a southwestern Missouri day care has been sentenced to 24 years in prison for the death of an 8-month-old boy who died after being left alone with other small children.
 
This combination of images from body-camera videos shows police encounters with, top row from left, Jeffrey Melvin in Colorado in 2018, Johnathan Binkley in Tennessee in 2019; bottom row from left, Bradford Macomber in Mississippi in 2016 and Samuel Celestin in Florida in 2019. (Colorado Springs Police Department, Knox County Sheriff's Office, Gulfport Police Department, Ocoee Police Department via AP)

AP Investigation: In hundreds of deadly police encounters, officers broke multiple safety guidelines

An Associated Press investigation found that police across the U.S. violated well-known guidelines for safely restraining people in hundreds of fatal encounters that didn’t involve a firearm.
 
Amanda Householder, center, speaks outside the St. Louis office of Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey on Monday, May 13, 2024, as David Clohessy, right, listens. They were among a group of people urging Bailey to take action in response to allegations of child abuse at Christian boarding schools in southern Missouri. (AP Photo/Jim Salter)

Abuse victim advocates pushing Missouri AG to investigate Christian boarding schools

Advocates for victims of abuse at Missouri boarding schools are urging the state’s attorney general to launch an investigation, work with local prosecutors and take other steps aimed at stemming the tide of abuse.
 
Missouri House Speaker Dean Plocher speaks at a press conference as majority party Republicans tout passage of a state budget, Friday, May 10, 2024, at the state Capitol in Jefferson City, Mo. (AP Photo/David A. Lieb)

Missouri lawmakers pass budget boosting funding for education and infrastructure

Missouri lawmakers have passed a roughly $51 billion budget that boosts funding for education and infrastructure.
 
Missouri's Republican Gov. Mike Parson signs a bill to block Medicaid payments for Planned Parenthood, Tuesday, May 9, 2024, in his Jefferson City, Mo., Capitol office. (AP Photo/Summer Ballentine)

Missouri’s GOP Gov. Parson signs bill to kick Planned Parenthood off Medicaid

Missouri’s Republican Gov. Mike Parson has signed a bill to once again try to kick Planned Parenthood out of the state’s Medicaid program.
 
FILE - Missouri Gov. Mike Parson delivers the State of the State address on Jan. 18, 2023, in Jefferson K-12 students from low-income families across Missouri soon will have access to private school scholarships under legislation signed Tuesday, May 7, 2024, by Parson. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)

Missouri’s GOP Gov. Mike Parson signs law expanding voucher-like K-12 scholarships

K-12 students from low-income families across Missouri soon will have access to private school scholarships. Republican Gov.
 
Arkansas Attorney General Tim Griffin speaks at a news conference at the attorney general's office in Little Rock, Ark., Tuesday, May 7, 2024, about a lawsuit challenging a new regulation aimed at protecting the rights of transgender students in schools. Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, right, and Arkansas Solicitor General Nicholas Bronni and high school athlete Amelia Ford, left, listen. (AP Photo/Andrew DeMillo)

More GOP states challenge federal rules protecting transgender students

Seven more Republican states are suing to challenge a new federal regulation to protect transgender student rights.
 

Man confesses to killing hospitalized wife because he couldn’t afford to care for her, police say

Court records say a Kansas City-area man who’s charged with killing his hospitalized wife told police he couldn’t take care of her or afford her medical bills.
 

Children are dying of fentanyl by the dozens in Missouri. A panel is calling for changes

A Missouri panel found that fentanyl deaths among Missouri babies, toddlers and teens spiked as child welfare officials struggled to adequately investigate the cases.
 

Missouri abortion-rights campaign turns in more than double the needed signatures to get on ballot

Advocates have turned in more than twice the needed number of signatures to put a proposal to legalize abortion on the Missouri ballot.
 
Mascots for the Kansas City Royals, St. Louis Blues and St. Louis Cardinals haul boxes of voter signatures collected in order to put a proposal to legalize sports betting on the ballot this year, Thursday, May 2, 2024, outside the Secretary of State's Office in Jefferson City, Mo. (AP Photo/Summer Ballentine)

Campaign to legalize sports betting in Missouri gets help from mascots to haul voter signatures

Missouri’s professional sports teams are one step closer to putting a proposal to legalize sports betting before voters this year.
 
FILE - The Missouri Capitol is seen, Sept. 16, 2022, in Jefferson City, Mo. A dayslong filibuster in the Missouri Senate ended Thursday, May 2, 2024, after a Republican faction allowed a vote on a more than $4 billion Medicaid program they had been holding hostage. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)

Missouri Senate filibuster ends with vote on multibillion-dollar Medicaid program

A dayslong filibuster in the Missouri Senate has ended. Senators gave initial approval in a voice vote Thursday to a $4 billion Medicaid program that Freedom Caucus members had been holding hostage.
 
Longtime Missouri basketball coach Norm Stewart poses with his bust after being inducted into the Hall of Famous Missourians at the state Capitol on Wednesday, May 1, 2024, in Jefferson City, Mo. Stewart was immortalized in a bust and joked that he appreciated that his likeness still had hair. (AP Photo/Summer Ballentine)

Longtime Missouri basketball coach Norm Stewart entered into the Hall of Famous Missourians

Longtime Missouri basketball coach Norm Stewart has been inducted into the Hall of Famous Missourians.
 
In this photo provided by Joni Wickham, advocates hoping to raise Missouri's minimum wage to $15 an hour turned in voter signatures Wednesday, May 1, 2024, to the Secretary of State's Office in Jefferson City, Mo. Campaigns need more than 100,000 valid voter signatures to put proposed changes to Missouri law before voters. (Joni Wickham via AP)

Campaign to raise Missouri’s minimum wage to $15 an hour confident it will get on the ballot

Missouri voters have gotten a step closer to getting to decide whether to raise the state’s minimum wage to $15 an hour.
 
FILE- Fans fill Arrowhead Stadium as fireworks go off before an NFL football game between the Kansas City Chiefs and the Denver Broncos on Nov. 13, 2011, in Kansas City, Mo. Some Kansas lawmakers see a chance to lure Kansas City's two biggest professional sports teams across the Missouri border, but an effort to help the Super Bowl champion Chiefs and Major League Baseball's Royals finance new stadiums in Kansas fizzed over concerns about how it might look to taxpayers. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel, File)

Lawmakers want the Chiefs and Royals to come to Kansas, but a stadium plan fizzled

Some Kansas lawmakers see a chance to lure Kansas City’s two biggest professional sports teams across the Missouri border.
 
FILE - Kansas City, Mo., Mayor Quinton Lucas speaks during a press briefing at the White House in Washington, May 13, 2022. The Missouri Supreme Court on Tuesday, April 30, 2024, took the unusual step of striking down a 2022 voter-approved constitutional amendment that required Kansas City to spend a larger percentage of its money on the police department. The state Supreme Court ordered that the issue go back before voters by November. (AP Photo/Andrew Harnik, File)

Missouri Supreme Court strikes down 2022 vote on KC police funding, citing faulty fiscal note

The Missouri Supreme Court has taken the unusual step of striking down a 2022 voter-approved constitutional amendment that required Kansas City to spend a larger percentage of its money on the police department, and ordered that the issue go back before voters in November.
 
FILE - Missouri Speaker of the House Dean Plocher listens as Gov. Mike Parson delivers the State of the State address, Jan. 24, 2024, in Jefferson City, Mo. On Monday, April 29, 2024, a panel of lawmakers dismissed an ethics complaint against Plocher, breaking from a Republican who argued that Plocher used his power as the House leader to block an investigation. (AP Photo/Jeff Roberson, File)

Ethics committee dismisses complaint against Missouri speaker

A panel of lawmakers has dismissed an ethics complaint against Missouri’s powerful House speaker. The House Ethics Committee voted 7-2 on Monday to dismiss the complaint against Republican Speaker Dean Plocher.
 
FILE - Ralph Yarl looks at a badge that he received after walking at a brain injury awareness event, May 29, 2023, in Kansas City, Mo. The family of Yarl, a Black teenager who was shot when he mistakenly went to the wrong home in Kansas City, Mo., filed a lawsuit Monday, April 29, 2024, against the white 84-year-old homeowner, an attempt to pursue justice from the “driver’s seat” and put pressure on the criminal trial scheduled for later this year, the family's attorney said. (KCTV via AP, File)

Family of a Black teen who was shot after ringing the wrong doorbell files lawsuit against homeowner

The family of a Black teenager by a white homeowner when he mistakenly went to the wrong Kansas City, Missouri, address has filed a lawsuit.
 
Kansas City Chiefs owner Clark Hunt, left, and Kansas City Royals owner John Sherman talk before a baseball game between the Kansas City Royals and the Minnesota Twins Thursday, March 28, 2024, in Kansas City, Mo. Jackson County voters will decide on a ballot question to extend a sales tax to fund a new stadium for the Royals and stadium improvements for the Chiefs in an election held Tuesday, April 2. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)

Chiefs owner says leaving Arrowhead Stadium is an option after sales tax funding was rejected

The Kansas City Chiefs plan to explore options that include leaving Arrowhead Stadium after voters in Jackson County, Missouri, soundly rejected a sales tax initiative that would have helped to pay for renovations to the 52-year-old building.
 
FILE - Residents place their signatures on a petition in support of a ballot initiative to end Missouri's near total ban on abortion during Missourians for Constitutionals Freedom kick-off petition drive, Feb. 6, 2024, in Kansas City, Mo. Missouri's GOP-led House on Thursday, April 25, amended a proposed constitutional amendment that, if approved by voters, would raise the vote threshold needed for all constitutional amendments going forward. (AP Photo/Ed Zurga, File)

Amendments to Missouri Constitution are on the line amid GOP infighting

Republican Missouri lawmakers are divided over how far to go with a ballot measure that would make it more difficult for future voters to amend the state constitution.
 
FILE - Containers of Roundup are displayed on a store shelf in San Francisco, Feb. 24, 2019. Bayer, the manufacturer of the popular weedkiller, won support Wednesday, April 24, 2024, from the Missouri House for a proposal that could shield it from costly lawsuits alleging it failed to warn customers its product could cause cancer. (AP Photo/Haven Daley, File)

Missouri House backs legal shield for weedkiller maker facing thousands of cancer-related lawsuits

The Missouri House has passed legislation that could protect chemical manufacturer Bayer from some lawsuits alleging a popular weedkiller causes cancer.
 
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