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Missouri Marijuana Legalization Bill Aims High but Expectations Remain Low

Previous efforts languished in committees.

Reason

Missouri Senate overcomes dress code dilemma, approves $4.5 billion spending plan

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A fight over one senator's bib overalls was shunted aside Wednesday so the Missouri Legislature's fractured upper chamber could finally approve a midyear budget adjustment that boosts state worker pay and bans funds for Planned Parenthood.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Wintry weather disrupts travel across the heartland

Hundreds of flights have been canceled at the busy Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport and hundreds of traffic accidents reported as freezing rain and drizzle glazed parts of Texas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Arkansas with ice

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Missouri lawmaker ends protest, sorry for overalls 'ruckus'

A Republican Missouri state senator punished for wearing overalls has ended his filibuster

The Independent UK

Ice likely in Southern Plains; New England to see heavy snow

Hundreds of flights have been canceled at the busy Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport as parts of Oklahoma, Missouri and Arkansas braced for an ice storm making its way into the Southern Plains

The Independent UK

Missouri senator protests punishment for wearing overalls

A Missouri state senator punished for wearing overalls on the Senate floor has blocked any work from getting done in protest

The Independent UK

Missouri Republicans trade jabs as race for US Senate kicks off

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Nearly four years after he resigned from office and retreated from the capital city, former Gov. Eric Greitens returned Tuesday to officially launch his bid for U.S. Senate.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

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Missouri man convicted in wife's death admits child abuse

A Missouri man convicted of killing his wife and lying about her body's whereabouts has pleaded guilty to abuse of their young daughter

The Independent UK

Missouri takes months to process Medicaid applications — longer than law allows

Aneka French applied for Medicaid in October, not long after Missouri became the 38th state to expand eligibility for the program.

Tribune News Service

Editorial: Ranchers are going bankrupt as meat prices soar. Blame the robber barons

Farmers and ranchers in rural Missouri and Illinois, it’s safe to say, are a pretty conservative group, firm in their longtime dedication to the deregulation and free market principles of the Republican Party. But now might be a good time for them to take a good look at their bank…

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Kevin McDermott: Why I’m voting for an unfit demagogue in this year’s Republican Senate primary

Eric Greitens is the worst of the worst. He earns the title just by virtue of the credible sexual assault allegations that drove him out of the Missouri governor’s office in 2018.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Police probe shows Missouri data weakness existed a decade before Post-Dispatch exposed it

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A police investigation released Monday shows that a flaw in a Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education webpage had been in place since 2011 and that no one had noticed the flaw until a St. Louis Post-Dispatch journalist pointed out the weakness.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Tennessee vs Missouri Prediction, College Basketball Game Preview

Tennessee vs Missouri prediction, college basketball game preview, how to watch, lines, and why each team might - or might not - win on Tuesday.

USA Today Sports Media Group

FDA issues warning for Family Dollar stores after 1,100 rodents found at Arkansas facility

The states impacted include Alabama, Arkansas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri and Tennessee

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Editorial: In defending Missouri's unconstitutional gun law, AG Schmitt aids the criminals

The Biden administration sued Missouri in federal court in Kansas City on Wednesday over the state’s bonkers attempt to nullify enforcement of federal gun laws here. The plainly unconstitutional state statute has already had the predictable result of hampering crime-fighting efforts. Yet state Attorney General Eric Schmitt is, in his…

The Philadelphia Inquirer

Mike Jensen: Call Dawn Staley a villain if you want. She’ll just keep winning.

LEXINGTON, Ky. — As Dawn Staley stood on the court in front of her bench, nobody inside Memorial Coliseum seemed to care that this woman had coached a United States Olympic team to glory, had herself once carried the American flag into the opening ceremony of the 2004 Olympics. They…

Reason

The Biden Administration Sues Over Missouri's Pro–Second Amendment Law

Plus: An antitrust lawsuit against Juul was dismissed, the EARN IT Act's sponsor has a new proposal, and more...

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Editorial: Compensate the victim first, then ask who should pay for wrongful conviction

Gov. Mike Parson raises an interesting, but not terribly well-informed, point about how Missouri’s criminal justice system works. Last week in a radio interview, he questioned why the state should be the one to compensate wrongfully convicted prisoners when county prosecutors are the ones responsible for sending innocent people to…

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Missouri police ask Republican legislators to amend act blocking federal gun laws

COLUMBIA, Mo. — Missouri law enforcement officials are asking the General Assembly to revise the state’s new Second Amendment act that prohibits them from helping enforce certain federal gun laws, telling lawmakers that it is hindering their ability to conduct criminal investigations.

Tribune News Service

Biden administration sues Missouri to overturn act that declares federal gun laws ‘invalid’

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The U.S. Department of Justice has sued Missouri in federal court, seeking to overturn the state’s Second Amendment law that prohibits local police from helping enforce certain federal gun restrictions.

USA Today Sports Media Group

Arkansas vs Missouri Prediction, College Basketball Game Preview

Arkansas vs Missouri prediction, college basketball game preview, how to watch, lines, and why each team might - or might not - win on Tuesday.

Mic

GOP ghoul Josh Hawley is selling his seditionist mug on a mug

The Missouri senator is learning that being an unctuous, undemocratic worm has its up$ides.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

4 of GOP's top contenders for Missouri's open US Senate seat square off in St. Charles

ST. CHARLES, Mo. — The annual Lincoln Days gathering, held here over the weekend to celebrate the Republican Party, had a much different feel than when U.S. Sen. Roy Blunt, R-Mo., started making a statewide name for himself.

The Independent UK

Super Bowl 2022 isn’t just about sports – it’s the battle between red and blue America

From the place they play, to the team owners, the Los Angeles Rams and the Cincinnati Bengals represent two divergent parts of the country, writes Eric Garcia

Tribune News Service

'Definition of insanity': Missouri Senate ends week of filibuster with no redistricting deal

COLUMBIA, Mo. — The Missouri Senate, stalemated for nearly a week in search of a deal on a new congressional map, is moving on for the moment.

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