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Missouri Senate advances bans on gender-affirming care, transgender student athletes

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — The GOP-controlled Missouri Senate early on Tuesday advanced a pair of bills that would ban most gender-affirming care for minors and bar transgender people from competing in women’s sports.

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Missouri Senate endorses transgender health restrictions

The Missouri Senate has given initial approval to legislation that would temporarily prohibit gender-affirming treatments for minors and restrict their participation in sports

The Independent UK

Temp nurses cost hospitals big during pandemic. Lawmakers are now mulling limits

To crack down on price gouging, proposed legislation in Missouri calls for allowing felony charges against health care staffing agencies that substantially raise their prices during a declared emergency.

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First Thing: Missouri to limit gender-affirming care for minors

Missouri’s Republican attorney general sidesteps GOP-led state senate as it struggles to pass legislation

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Missouri AG Andrew Bailey announces rules targeting gender-affirming care for minors

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey on Monday said his office plans to file a set of emergency rules aimed at restricting how doctors provide gender-affirming care to minors.

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Missouri to restrict gender-affirming care for minors

Missouri's Republican attorney general says his office will limit access to gender-affirming care for minors

The Independent UK

For a golfing vacation, Branson is a 'world-class destination'

BRANSON, Mo. — Kirk Elmquist wants Missouri golfers to know how lucky they are.

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Four incumbents lose re-election in primaries for downsized Board of Aldermen in St. Louis

The city of St. Louis, Missouri, held nonpartisan primaries for the Board of Aldermen on March 7, 2023. All 14 seats on the board and the seat of the president of the board were up for election. The top two candidates in each primary advanced to an April 4 general…

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Missouri pollution is so bad it hurts other states. Power plants ordered to cut emissions

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released an order Wednesday which instructs Missouri, along with 22 other states, to reduce its air pollution levels.

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Attorney Erin Hawley, wife of Missouri senator, fighting to end FDA approval of abortion pill

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Erin Morrow Hawley, an attorney and wife of one of Missouri’s senators, is at the center of a federal lawsuit in Texas that could cancel approval of a common drug used to terminate pregnancies, threatening abortion across the country.

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Mo. sheriff, two deputies charged in 'criminal street gang activity'

WASHINGTON COUNTY, Mo. — The sheriff of Iron County and two of his deputies are accused of "criminal street gang activity" in what prosecutors allege was a parental kidnapping plot to help a friend.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Health: High sugar and fat diet can cause liver disease, even liver cancer; says research

A recent study from the University of Missouri School of Medicine has found a correlation between high-fat, high-sugar diets and the development of fatty liver disease. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Anti-trans rally set for Missouri Capitol on Monday

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — A conservative political action committee is organizing a rally at the Missouri Capitol on Monday to push state lawmakers to enact strict limits on transgender health care for minors.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Workers dismantle Florida ride where teen fell to death

Almost a year after a Missouri teen fell to his death, a 400-foot (122 meter) amusement ride was being dismantled this week in central Florida’s tourism corridor

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After Ashcroft pulls Missouri out of voting information system, no plan for alternative program

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — When Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft and officials in a handful of other Republican-leaning states left a national system designed to improve the accuracy of voting rolls last week, the likely GOP candidate for governor outlined his grievances.

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‘Everybody’s afraid.’ Doctors warn of chilling effect as Missouri, Kansas target transgender care

Kansas City-based endocrinologist Brandon Barthel has provided care for transgender adults for six years, including helping them go through hormone therapy.

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Prosecutor: No charges in fatal Kansas City police shooting

A Kansas City, Missouri, police officer who fatally shot a man at a convenience store nearly two years ago will not be charged with a crime, following a decision by a special prosecutor

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March Madness 2023: Best bets (Utah State!) in the South Region

An upset brewing for Missouri and banking Baylor in the South Region.

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Editorial: Missouri succumbs to conspiracy theories by leaving group that fights voter fraud

Missouri has withdrawn from a national coalition of states focused on election integrity and has no plan to replace its services. Talk about bad timing. A contentious presidential election year is right around the corner. Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft must waste no time figuring out how Missouri will ensure…

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Three more states withdraw from voter data organization

Missouri, Florida, and West Virginia withdrew from the Electronic Registration Information Center (ERIC) on March 6. Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft (R) said the state was withdrawing because ERIC would not “require member states to participate in addressing multi-state voter fraud.” West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner (R)…

The Independent UK

Missouri officer killed, 2nd hurt in shooting; suspect fled

A Missouri police officer has died and a second officer was badly wounded after a shooting at a small-town convenience store

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

St. Louis County man sought after one Hermann, Mo., policeman killed, another injured

ST. LOUIS — Police continued an apparent standoff early Monday with a St. Louis County man wanted in connection with a shooting that killed one Hermann, Missouri, police officer and injured another on Sunday night.

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Gun control reforms make little progress in Missouri legislature, despite violence in state

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Despite a growing sense of urgency to address gun violence in the state’s two largest cities and a mass shooting at a high school last fall, the Missouri General Assembly has been slow to pursue any gun reforms.

Reason

Federal Court Issues Flawed Decision Striking Down Missouri Gun Sanctuary Law

The ruling has significant shortcomings and may be overruled on appeal. The Biden Administration's position in this litigation is wrong for much the same reasons as the Trump Administration was wrong to target immigration sanctuaries.

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Group files petitions to restore abortion rights in Missouri

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Missouri abortion rights supporters on Wednesday filed a flurry of ballot initiatives seeking to ask voters in 2024 to restore some form of abortion rights in a state where the procedure is almost entirely banned.

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