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Pilot Grove Mayor Dennis Knipp confirmed outdoor warning sirens did not sound in Pilot Grove, despite being triggered by the Cooper County Emergency Management Agency. -
A tornado warning was issued by the National Weather Service for northern parts of Boone County at 10:36 a.m. The warning included Centralia and Hallsville. -
The largest point of consternation between Democrats and Republicans on this year’s budget is education funding. -
Planned Parenthood has asked a judge to overturn the Missouri health department’s newly published emergency rule governing complication plans for medication abortions. -
A day before the new budget period for Title X, a federal reproductive healthcare grant, Missouri’s sole grantee received notice from the federal government that the state’s cash would be withheld. -
The Missouri House spent the day Tuesday in deep debate over how they believe around $50 billion should be split across the state. Senators spent most of their session Tuesday in debate over a bill eliminating the capitol gains tax.
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For generations of Black workers, federal government jobs have provided a path into the middle class. The Trump administration's workforce cuts are now throwing that sense of stability up in the air.
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The snow moving through Mid-Missouri has led most local schools to close or move to alternative methods of instruction, or AMI, for the day but it’s complicating calculations for when the school year might end.
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