The districts facing new litigation have all been previously sued by Schmitt and include the Special School District of St. Louis County, Maplewood Richmond Heights, Clayton, Ladue, Webster Groves and Mehlville.

If Missouri's abortion ban takes effect, reproductive rights advocates worry the next fight could be over birth control. The Missouri Senate voted last year to ban common forms of contraceptives like the “morning after” pill and some IUDs from being paid for by the state’s Medicaid program.

For the first time, researchers have assigned a value to the Black-owned farmland lost over the past century.

A Missouri Supreme Court decision from 2012 could provide foes of the congressional map signed by Gov. Mike Parson on Wednesday with an uphill battle.

Eric Schmitt's latest round of lawsuits would target districts that have mask policies triggered by the number of students who are ill or by the prevalence of cases in their communities.

The bill directs the Missouri Department of Corrections to establish a nursery within a women’s correctional facility by July 2025, and allow incarcerated women to stay with their newborns for their first 18 months.

If you want to get into Ukraine by vehicle, you might have to wait hours at the Medyka border, where people sit in a line of cars that stretches for miles and takes hours to move.

Law professor Kim Mutcherson said that while states are bound by HIPAA laws, individuals are not. This means that abortion "bounty hunters" could help punish people who seek abortions in other states.

Scientists went to extraordinary lengths to eradicate smallpox from the world. Rahima Banu is now recorded as having the last known naturally-occurring case of the deadly form.

It isn't well-known that Missouri used to be the largest fur-trading center in the world or the world's leading shoe manufacturer, but that's okay, that's why we have people like NICOLE JOHNSTON around to tell us- and better yet, show us, 200 years of fashion in the Show Me State. See for yourself now through June 17 at the Center for Missouri Studies in Columbia! Additional guest: JOAN STACK May 20, 2022

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Twenty years after a spate of deaths at a rural Missouri hospital, a former worker has been charged with murder.

In this episode, hosts Brianna Lennon and Eric Fey speak with Whitney May, the Director of Government Services at the Center for Tech and Civic Life about the recently announced US Alliance for Election Excellence. This is a “nonpartisan collaborative of election officials, technologists, designers and other experts, working across all 50 states to improve the performance of systems serving 240 million voters.”

The parade of eco-friendly flooring continues on today's show with and show and tell of a "cushion-back carpet tile that requires no adhesive" courtesy of SCOTT BRADLEY and Carpet One Floor and Home in Columbia! Also, public health educator HEATHER HARLAN is back after a two-year hiatus with some really frightening information about the opioid known as fentanyl and the amount it takes to kill you- hint: it's not much. (4:09) May 19, 2022

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