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Coroners are crucial to their counties, but low pay keeps many potential candidates away. “A lot of people realize that we need a higher level of education, a higher level of standards for the office of the coroner,” Dent County Coroner Ben Pursifull said. “The problem is you’re not going to get a great influx […]

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey filed a motion to intervene in a class-action lawsuit against Tyson Foods on Tuesday. If granted, Bailey’s involvement will allow him access to confidential documents currently being withheld by Tyson Foods and key depositions taken by the prosecuting attorneys. Bailey aims to join the suit through permissive intervention, which will […]

Missouri’s microbusiness cannabis program will never get off the ground if regulators are consistently forced to revoke licenses over concerns about unlawful predatory practices, the head of the state’s marijuana division said Wednesday at a town hall meeting. That’s why new rules must be put in place to root out these practices and ensure the […]

America’s dairy industry is being ravaged by bird flu, leading to a significant decline in milk production in many states, including California, the nation’s largest dairy-producing state that hit a 20-year low in 2024. But unlike eggs, which spiked in price due to the bird flu’s impact on poultry flocks, consumers aren’t likely to see […]

Bigger bonuses, higher executive salaries and a few eye-popping retirement payouts. That’s how St. Luke’s Health System closed the books on its final year as a nonprofit independent hospital chain, according to recent tax filings. The $2.5 billion hospital system, which merged with St. Louis-based nonprofit BJC Healthcare at the start of 2024, paid one-third […]

In communities across Missouri, family caregivers work hard day in and day out to put their parents, spouses and loved ones first. In Washington, President Donald Trump has a solution — a federal tax credit — to put money back into these family caregivers’ pockets and give them much-needed financial relief. Family caregivers play a […]

The Missouri House on Thursday approved a proposal to extend the civil statute of limitations for survivors of childhood sexual abuse.

The company at the center of a massive cannabis product recall in 2023 lost its appeal to get its license back on Tuesday, with Missouri’s administrative hearing commission concluding it had a “corporate culture of lax compliance with regulatory requirements.” The scathing 137-page ruling, issued by Commissioner Carole Iles, comes almost a year after a […]

Worries that “slackers” may take advantage of Missouri’s new law requiring most employers to give workers paid sick leave isn’t a good enough reason to repeal it, a Democratic lawmaker said Wednesday. In November, voters overwhelmingly approved an initiative petition called Proposition A that requires employers with business receipts greater than $500,000 a year to […]

On a day when dangerously cold weather forced the Internal Revenue Service to close its downtown processing center, hundreds of probationary employees are on notice that their jobs are likely going away. Following days of uncertainty for Kansas City’s federal workforce, IRS employees learned in a Feb. 18 video message that their jobs would be […]

In January, the federal government took over regulating Missouri’s more than 1.5 million miles of natural gas pipelines. The pipelines had been regulated by the state, but the federal government said the fines for violations were too low and not in line with federal requirements. If a gas company is violating safety standards, federal regulators […]

A plan to make Missouri dependent on sales tax for general revenue by eliminating the income tax is heading to the state Senate for debate after a party-line committee vote on Wednesday. Two proposals — one to immediately end the state individual income tax and depend on sales tax for revenue, and another a proposed […]

For the third year in a row, Missouri Republicans are trying to place restrictions on drag performances. The effort has stalled in years past, clearing a House committee last year but never coming up for debate in the Senate. That changed Wednesday, when a Senate committee held a public hearing on legislation sponsored by state […]

A proposed constitutional amendment that would impose work and reporting requirements on Missouri Medicaid recipients was debated in a state Senate committee Wednesday morning.

Gov. Mike Kehoe signed an executive order Tuesday directing all Missouri state agencies to eliminate diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives. The order bans agencies from using state funding for diversity training initiatives and from incorporating DEI into hiring and contracting practices. “Our state agencies must operate under a framework that ensures fairness, equal opportunity, and […]

The Missouri General Assembly is at a crossroads this legislative session as their constituents demand they do something, almost anything, to put a stop to violent crime. It’s no secret that Missouri ranks in the top 10 states in the U.S. for both violent crime and property crime, and several Missouri communities lead the nation with high crime rates. […]

A Missouri House committee spent 90 minutes discussing and hearing testimony earlier this month on legislation that would criminalize medical professionals who don’t provide life-saving care to any infants born during an unsuccessful abortion. Known as the “born alive abortion survivors act,” it won approval of the House Health and Mental Health Committee on Tuesday, […]

A bill to protect one of the world’s largest chemical companies from charges it didn’t warn customers that one of its most popular products causes cancer won first-round approval Tuesday in the Missouri House. The legislation, sponsored by Republican state Rep. Dane Diehl of Butler, would make the label required by federal pesticide regulators “sufficient […]

Republican leaders of the Missouri House on Tuesday joined the chorus of lawmakers blasting the state public defender’s office for employing a man who was convicted of two felonies in connection to the 2007 rape and murder of his stepdaughter.  In a joint statement issued Tuesday, House Speaker Jon Patterson and other members of the […]

Missouri’s homeschool families and those enrolled in private schools could receive a tax credit for their educational expenses under legislation debated Tuesday by the Senate Education Committee. The credit would be capped at the annual state adequacy target, a number determined by the per-pupil expenditure of the highest performing school districts in the state.  Currently, […]