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Missouri becomes first state to ban abortion following the SCOTUS decision to overturn Roe v. Wade
Missouri was one of 13 US states that set up "trigger bans" designed to immediately ban abortions w…
Lauren Frias
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He was 19 when he was sentenced to death row. Now, his 19-year-old daughter is suing to attend his execution after a judge ruled she's too young to observe.
Kevin Johnson's 19-year-old daughter can't see his execution due to her age. Johnson was 19 when he…
Kenneth Niemeyer
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Missouri governor is calling for criminal charges against a journalist who found social security numbers exposed on a public website
Republican Gov. Mike Parson labeled the reporter a "hacker" and demanded an investigation - which c…
Aaron Holmes
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Missouri executed a murderer with an intellectual disability despite pleas from the pope to spare him
Ernest Lee Johnson was sentenced to death in 2015 after being convicted of murder for killing three…
Bill Bostock
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Missouri AG, who authorized the state's Roe v. Wade 'trigger' ban on abortions, says DOJ had 'third world' response to protests against Supreme Court
The DOJ "has no interest in condemning" the "night of rage" that followed the Supreme Court's decis…
Yelena Dzhanova
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An MMA fighter returned from a 4-year layoff to score a thumping first-round knockout in the UFC
Tyson Pedro iced Ike Villanueva with heavy shots in a first-round drubbing at the UFC event that to…
Alan Dawson
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Missouri is set to put an intellectually disabled man to death, after Pope Francis and politicians urged the governor to halt the execution
Ernest Lee Johnson had a surgery in 2008 that removed 20% of his brain tissue, which Vice reports m…
Ashley Collman
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62-year-old Missouri man who has spent 43 years in prison in still behind bars even though prosecutors say he was wrongly convicted for 3 murders
Missouri Gov. Mike Parson, a Republican, has so far declined calls to pardon Kevin Strickland despi…
Connor Perrett
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Missouri governor defends decision to go mask-free in public, says it's 'personal' and not 'government's place to regulate'
Parson was one of just a few people photographed without a face mask during his visit to a thrift s…
Connor Perrett
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Missouri health system resumes providing emergency contraception amid fears patients and staff could be prosecuted under the state's strict abortion ban
Missouri was the first state to make abortion illegal last week after the US Supreme Court overturn…
Jake Epstein
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The lawyer who was pardoned for pointing a gun at Black Lives Matter protesters in St. Louis is suing to get his firearms back
Mark McCloskey argues in the lawsuit that he and his wife have been "absolved of all wrongdoing," a…
Michelle Mark
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At least 3 people were killed, 50 injured after an Amtrak passenger train derailed in Missouri after hitting a dump truck
Amtrak confirmed a passenger train carrying over 240 people on board collided with a dump truck on …
Katie Anthony,Rebecca Cohen
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The last, best hope for homebuyers
Current homeowners are refusing to sell, leaving new homebuyers out in the cold. But there's one ho…
James Rodriguez
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Two hairstylists in Missouri may have exposed more than 140 clients to the coronavirus, health officials say
The stylists worked at a Great Clips hair salon in Springfield, Missouri, between May 12 and May 20…
Tyler Sonnemaker
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Hours after the St. Louis couple who pointed guns at protesters were given felony charges, Missouri's attorney general said he's joining the case to get their charges dismissed
Missouri AG Eric Schmitt, a Republican, said in an amicus brief Monday that Mark and Patricia McClo…
Ashley Collman
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Missouri senate passes anti-abortion bill that bans termination from 8 weeks, days after Alabama and Georgia pass similarly hardline laws
The Republican-controlled Senate in Missouri has passed a strict anti-abortion bill, which would ou…
Tom Porter,Tom Porter
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Citigroup just handed a 37-year old rising star a seat on the firm's most powerful management committee
Wechter joined Citigroup in 2004, working in investment banking and then corporate strategy during …
Dakin Campbell
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Pope Francis compares abortion to 'hiring a hitman' as several US states attempt to restrict the procedure
The Associated Press reported that Francis, the head of the Catholic church, was speaking Saturday …
Akin Oyedele
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Musk to testify in own defense in defamation trial, his lawyer says
The dispute between the two men arose after the search team decided not to use a mini-submarine off…
Ben Gilbert,Reuters
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Texas, Arizona, Georgia, Missouri, and Minnesota have all declared statewide states of emergency over ongoing George Floyd protests
The declaration will allow federal agents to serve as Texas Peace Officers, Abbott said, as protest…