Missouri says clinic that challenged transgender treatment restrictions didn't provide proper care
Missouri officials struck back at one of the clinics that unsuccessfully challenged new state restrictions on gender affirming care by filing a new lawsuit accusing the clinic of failing to provide proper care for transgender minors even before the new law took effect last month.
Judge limits Biden administration in working with social media companies
A judge on Tuesday prohibited several federal agencies and officials of the Biden administration from working with social media companies about โprotected speech,โ a decision called โa blow to censorshipโ by one of the Republican officials whose lawsuit prompted the ruling.
Missouri governor to announce his pick as new St. Louis prosecutor after Kim Gardner resignation
Republican Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Friday will announce his pick to serve out the remainder of Kim Gardnerโs term as the chief prosecutor in St. Louis, following her sudden departure earlier this week.
With Missouri ban on gender-affirming care likely, Kansas City Council approves sanctuary status
Officials in Missouriโs largest city approved a resolution Thursday to declare it a sanctuary for people seeking or providing gender-affirming care, defying state lawmakers who voted a day earlier to ban such care for minors and restrict it for some adults.
Religious leaders sue to block Missouri's abortion ban
A group of religious leaders who support abortion rights has filed a lawsuit challenging Missouriโs law that bans abortions in nearly all cases, saying lawmakers openly invoked their religious beliefs while drafting the measure and thereby imposed those beliefs on others who donโt share them.
Transgender Missouri inmate executed for fatal stabbing
A Missouri inmate has been put to death for a 2003 killing, becoming what is believed to be the first transgender woman executed in the U.S. Amber McLaughlin was put to death Tuesday night, hours after Republican Gov. Mike Parson declined a clemency request.
Takeaways: Abortion backlash in Kansas, Greitens' collapse
In one of the biggest days of this year's primary campaign season, red-state Kansas rejected a measure that would have made it easier to restrict abortion, and voters in Missouri repudiated a scandal-tarred former governor seeking a Senate seat.
Some Missouri hospitals briefly halt emergency contraception
A large Missouri hospital chain briefly stopped providing emergency contraception amid confusion over whether the stateโs abortion ban could put doctors at risk of criminal charges for providing the medication, even for sexual assault victims.
Greitens RINO video spurred threats to family, lawyer says
The lawyer for the ex-wife of Missouri U.S. Senate candidate Eric Greitens says the family has been subjected to โserious threatsโ in the days since Greitens released a violent campaign video in which he declares heโs hunting RINOs, or Republicans in Name Only.
EXPLAINER: How platforms dealt with 'RINO hunting' video
When a GOP Missouri U.S. Senate candidate released a video Monday in which he cocked a gun after calling for a hunt of fellow Republicans who he believes are โRINOs,โ or Republicans in Name Only, Facebook scraped it off its platform within a few hours.
Execution of Missouri man just the 5th in US this year
A Missouri man who killed a couple during a robbery at their rural home nearly 26 years ago has been put to death, even as another state has halted executions that have become increasingly uncommon in the U.S. Carman Deck was executed Tuesday at the state prison in Bonne Terre.
Woman claiming to be cousin of teen killed in fall from Orlando drop tower not known to family, deputies say
A woman who claimed to be related to a 14-year-old boy who died after falling from an Orlando thrill ride is not known to the teenโs family, according to the Orange County Sheriffโs Office.