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One of the measures, Senate Bill 74, would bar cities and counties from imposing their own open carry firearm restrictions.
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Sharon Kinne, who fled Kansas City in 1964 after being acquitted of two murders, was the subject of one of the longest outstanding murder warrants in the area. She was convicted of another murder in Mexico in 1964, escaped from prison in 1969 and died in 2022 in Canada.
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“She was going to hurt somebody that day. It just happened to be my husband,” says Adrienne Siddens. Her family’s name is on a bill that bans phone use behind the wheel in Missouri.
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Missourians voted for both President Donald Trump and to restore abortion access in November's election. In his first term, the Trump administration appointed Supreme Court justices who would overturn Roe v. Wade, slashed Title X funding, and defunded health care clinics.
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Scharf was a member of Trump’s legal team before joining his new administration as staff secretary. The job has traditionally involved managing the papers that cross the president’s desk.
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The bill aims to bring hemp drugs into the regulatory fold by subjecting them to the same rules as marijuana.
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The herbicide maker has settled or been ordered to pay out billions tied to lawsuits claiming the weedkiller Roundup causes cancer.
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Senate Bill 36 would allow exonerated defendants to claim damages of $179 per day of wrongful imprisonment with a yearly cap of $65,000.
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More than 1,000 bills have been introduced in the Missouri General Assembly this session, but only a few will get passed and signed by Gov. Mike Kehoe. Housing, taxes and right-to-work proposals are all on the table.
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The legislation heard in Senate and House committees would place the St. Louis police department under a governor-appointed board.