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The changes address some of the challenges regulators have encountered with facilities, such as the cases of the Delta Extraction manufacturing and Red Tractor cultivation facilities
Missouri cannabis regulators target rule-breakers, delays in ownership approval
Missouri cannabis regulators want more power to penalize bad actors in the marijuana industry, according to drafts of proposed rules released last week. The sweeping revisions to Division of … more
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Family nurse practitioner Munira Maalimisaq, center, gives a vaccine education session at Inspire Change Clinic, a nonprofit health care center she leads in Minneapolis. Tuberculosis cases in the U.S. have been rising since 2021.
Tuberculosis cases have been rising as public health agencies struggle to keep up
In Johnson County, Iowa, the number of tuberculosis cases has increased in recent years — and so has the cost of containing it. The cost of contact tracing and surveillance, traveling … more
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Representatives of community organizations, child care providers and the Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education gather in Jefferson City to discuss solutions to the state's child care crisis.
Community-driven pilot program seeks solution to child care scarcity, affordability crisis
For Scarlett Loomas of Sikeston, the logistics of obtaining day care for her children were half the battle. She would drive southeast for 30 minutes each morning to East Prairie in Mississippi … more
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Sen. Rick Brattin, R-Harrisonville, listens to reporters' questions following adjournment of the 2024 legislative session Friday (Annelise Hanshaw/Missouri Independent)
State of the Judiciary speech scrapped as Missouri Senate GOP protest court decisions
The annual State of the Judiciary address to a joint legislative session scheduled for  Wednesday was cancelled when it became clear Senate Republicans were going to boycott.  House … more
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State Rep. Bill Hardwick, a Republican from Dixon, describes his bill to legalize video lottery during a hearing Tuesday, of the Missouri House Emerging Issues Committee (Rudi Keller/Missouri Independent).
Legalize and tax or ban them outright? Missouri lawmakers debate video lottery machines
Video lottery operators on Tuesday promised Missouri will reap a windfall of money for education and other programs if lawmakers will substitute their devices for slot machine-like games currently in … more
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Missouri Department of Social Services Director Jess Bax presents to state lawmakers on the House Budget Committee on Tuesday (Steph Quinn/Missouri Independent)
Missouri social services director requests investment to avoid ‘bankruptcy territory’
Missouri lawmakers were urged Tuesday to make major investments in the state’s social services department in order to comply with new federal requirements and avoid steep penalties. Jess Bax, … more
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State Sen. Barbara Washington prepares to swear into another term in the Missouri Senate on the first day of the 2025 legislative session.
Missouri lawmakers debate eliminating sales tax on infant care items
Baby bottles, baby wipes and breast pump supplies would be exempt from state and local sales taxes under a bill discussed by a Missouri Senate committee Wednesday. The bill , sponsored by … more
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LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA - MARCH 14: Pedestrians look toward a Waymo autonomous self-driving Jaguar taxi stopped at a red light near Venice Beach on March 14, 2024 in Los Angeles, California. Beginning today, Waymo One is offering robotaxi services in a 63-square mile area of greater Los Angeles including Santa Monica, Venice and downtown with over 50,000 people on the wait list. Waymo is owned by Alphabet, Google’s parent company.
Bills legalizing driverless cars clear a Missouri House committee
The push to allow Waymo driverless taxis to operate in Missouri cleared its first hurdle Tuesday evening.  The House Emerging Issues committee voted 7-4 Tuesday, along partisan lines, to … more
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John Diehl during his time in the Missouri House of Representatives.
Ex–Missouri House Speaker John Diehl seeks to avoid prison in COVID loan fraud case
Former Missouri House Speaker John Diehl, who pleaded guilty last year  to wire fraud , is asking a federal judge for leniency as he faces the possibility of years behind bars. Diehl … more
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Missouri state lawmakers visit Rising Sun Learning Center in Kansas City, Missouri, Oct. 20, 2023. Rising Sun's owner Megan Huffman has been calling lawmakers this week asking about the status of December child care subsidy payments.
Missouri waiting on $25.7 million payment from feds to reimburse child care providers
Megan Huffman is holding off paying rent and utilities this month for the day care she runs in Kansas City so she can guarantee that her employees won’t miss a paycheck. The state owes her … more
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An abortion procedure room pictured on March 3, 2025, at Planned Parenthood in Columbia.
Missouri abortion regulations go on trial Monday
A trial litigating the parameters of Missouri’s new reproductive rights amendment begins Monday in Kansas City. The outcome will reach far beyond the state’s borders. The trial, which will … more
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Jahi Hynes was placed in administrative segregation on April 3, 2021, after allowing the food port door in his cell to strike the hand of a corrections officer, causing minor injuries, and blocking the port with his mattress. The next day, he hanged himself with a bedsheet.
‘Deliberate disregard’: Judge sanctions Missouri prisons in inmate wrongful death case
A southeast Missouri judge on Tuesday threw out all of the Missouri Department of Corrections’ defenses in a mother’s wrongful death case over her son’s suicide because the department … more
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A small crowd of far-right activists marched on the U.S. Capitol Tuesday in a nonviolent protest. They followed the path of the march five years ago, when rioters attacked the Capitol in an attempt to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s presidential election win.
Inside and outside the U.S. Capitol, the fifth anniversary of Jan. 6 reverberates
WASHINGTON — Five years after a pro-Trump mob stormed the U.S. Capitol, the struggle to define the event and assign blame carried on in events across the city Tuesday that remained nonviolent, … more
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Missouri Capitol Police officers conduct security checks Dec. 9 on the 691 boxes of petitions filed to force a referendum on the gerrymandered Congressional district map. About one-third of the petition pages submitted Dec. 9 won't be checked because the signatures were collected prior to Oct. 14.
Denny Hoskins isn’t verifying one-third of signatures for vote on Missouri’s gerrymandered map
Signatures on only two-thirds of the petition pages submitted to force a statewide vote on Missouri’s gerrymandered congressional map will go through the verification process, new filings in a Cole … more
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Aging Best in Jefferson City, one of Missouri's 10 area agencies on aging, after a lunch for adults 60 and older on Jan. 5.
Federal funding uncertainty puts Missouri senior services at risk as deadline approaches
At 11:30 a.m. on the first Monday of the new year, the parking lot of Aging Best in Jefferson City is full, a temporary red canvas sign flapping in the breeze to identify the senior center’s new … more
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A sign in a convenience store along Barlowe Road in Hyattsville, Maryland, on Tuesday, Oct. 28, 2025, advertises that it accepts SNAP benefits.
Trump administration to pay partial November SNAP benefits by Wednesday
The U.S. Department of Agriculture will pay for a portion of November benefits for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP, the department said Monday in a brief to a federal court in … more
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Mature men sitting on the sofa at home and watching soccer game. He is using smart phone for sports betting.
Missouri sports betting is a month away. Here’s what you need to know
On Dec. 1, Missourians will officially be able to start placing sports bets. As the rollout has progressed, a number of sportsbooks have already been jockeying for positioning in the market and … more
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When we completely understand biology, said Dr. Roy Jensen, vice chancellor and director of the University of Kansas Cancer Center, we will understand cancer. “They’re so intertwined,” he said. “Life is cancer and cancer is life”
Kansas City’s top cancer researchers worry about federal funding cuts doing lasting damage
Every year, the University of Kansas Cancer Center must file a report with the National Cancer Institute in order to get its annual grant allotment. This year that typically routine report, … more
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A shopper who receives SNAP benefits slides an EBT card at a checkout counter in a Washington, D.C., grocery store in December 2024.
SNAP benefits on pace to run out in two weeks if shutdown persists
WASHINGTON — As the federal government shutdown extends to day 17, and with congressional leaders  nowhere near negotiating , state officials are  beginning to raise concerns of … more
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Participants joined the No Kings rally in Fargo, North Dakota, on June 14.
No Kings day expected to draw millions for anti-Trump mass protests
WASHINGTON — More than 2,600 nonviolent demonstrations against President Donald Trump’s administration are slated Saturday as part of No Kings day. The includes in Missouri, where … more
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Kari Newell, the former owner of a restaurant and coffee shop in Marion, is questioned by Sedgwick County District Attorney Marc Bennett about how former Marion police chief Gideon Cody instructed her to delete text messages between them. Cody oversaw a raid on the Marion County Record newspaper and the homes of the paper’s owners in August of 2023 over the false allegation that the paper illegally obtained information about a drunk driving issue pertaining to Newell. Cody is charged with a felony in the case.
Judge orders ex-police chief who led raid on Kansas newspaper to stand trial for deleted texts
MARION, Kansas — Former Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody probably committed a felony crime when he told a witness to delete text messages they exchanged before, during and after he led raids on … more
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Author James Comey, former FBI director, speaks at the Barnes & Noble Upper West Side on May 19, 2025 in New York City.
Former FBI Director Comey indicted on 2 federal charges after Trump urged prosecution
Former FBI Director James Comey was indicted Thursday on two federal charges, after President Donald Trump publicly urged Attorney General Pam Bondi to prosecute Comey, a Trump critic who led an … more
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Missouri Commissioner of Education Karla Eslinger speaks at a Saint Louis University PRiME Center conference Thursday on the campus of the University of Missouri-Columbia
Educators look to Missouri growth model to measure instructional effectiveness
Measuring academic progress is becoming increasingly important as Missouri schools recover from pandemic-related learning loss, with researchers and the state’s education officials championing … more
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Gov. Mike Kehoe, center, speaks to reporters Thursday during a visit to Columbia Regional Airport.
‘Let the courts decide’: Kehoe says he will sign gerrymandered Missouri congressional map
The courts will determine if the bill revising Missouri’s congressional districts is constitutional, Gov. Mike Kehoe said Thursday after announcing his plans to sign the measure this weekend. … more
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Catherine Hanaway was sworn in as Missouri’s first woman attorney general on Monday.
Catherine Hanaway takes over as Missouri attorney general vowing a ‘different style’
Catherine Hanaway had nothing but kind words Monday about the man who she was replacing as Missouri’s attorney general.  In an interview with The Independent shortly after taking the … more
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