Missouri Independent
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Crime
Jones signs executive order banning no-knock search warrants
St. Louis has become the first Missouri city to completely ban no-knock search warrants, or warrants that allow police officers…
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News
Lesser-known candidates struggle for spotlight in Missouri Senate primaries
ou know Eric and Eric and David and Billy, Mark and Lucas and Trudy and Vicky. But do you recall…
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Business
Compromise on eminent domain gets Parson’s OK after efforts to stymie Grain Belt Express
Gov. Mike Parson has signed legislation requiring electrical transmission line developers to pay farmers more for easements on their land. Parson, a Republican, was…
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Business
Missouri poised to remove unenforceable discriminatory housing restrictions in deeds
Realtor Shari Asher’s clients were in the process of listing their home in Monett in 2019 when they saw something…
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News
As Juneteenth nears, St. Louis organizations call for reparations
Residents living in some majority Black neighborhoods in St. Louis have a 18-year lower life expectancy than residents of majority…
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Business
Legal aid agencies receive $126M windfall from Johnson & Johnson talc liability judgment
A fund Missouri legislators set up 20 years ago to provide low-income residents with civil legal services received an unprecedented…
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Politics
5 things we learned about Jan. 6 and Trump from the first hearing
The opening U.S. House hearing in a series on the Jan. 6 attack included some eye-opening new details about the…
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Crime
U.S. House passes ‘red flag’ gun control bill with only five Republicans in support
WASHINGTON — The U.S. House on Thursday passed a “red flag” gun control bill that would allow federal courts to…
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Politics
Jan. 6 panel says Trump, far-right groups are responsible for insurrection
A widely anticipated hearing Thursday by the U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol…
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Politics
First Jan. 6 hearing to reveal new evidence of Trump conspiracy, panel aides say
The U.S. House committee investigating the Jan. 6, 202,1 attack on the Capitol will use its first public hearing to…
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News
Missouri AG Schmitt subpoenas school districts over student surveys
Attorney General Eric Schmitt announced Wednesday that he’s issued subpoenas to seven school districts across the state as part of…
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Politics
Appeals court finds Greitens’ use of self-destructing text message app wasn’t illegal
Though the use of self-destructing text-messaging apps has the practical effect of “side-stepping the reach of Missouri’s Sunshine Law,” their…
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Coronavirus
Governor signs law shielding doctors prescribing ivermectin, hydroxychloroquine
A bill signed into law by Gov. Mike Parson Tuesday will shield health care providers from losing their medical licenses…
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Politics
Missouri helps abortion opponents divert state taxes to crisis pregnancy centers
In the final days of Missouri’s legislative session in May 2019, lawmakers turned their focus to a bill that would…
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Politics
Pair of lawsuits expose potentially massive hole in Sunshine Law
In 2017, in two different state government agencies, Missouri’s Sunshine Law was put to the test. Just weeks after Josh…
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Crime
$2M Missouri witness protection fund finds few takers in second year of operation
In 2020, amid the worst wave of violent crime in almost 15 years, Missouri lawmakers set up a new witness protection…
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Health
Months-long wait times for Medicaid coverage may finally shrink
Missouri officials have vowed again to lower the number of days it takes to process Medicaid applications – which was…
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Religion
Eight Missouri ministers accused of sex abuse in Southern Baptist Convention report
The Southern Baptist Convention’s list of accused sex abusers within the denomination includes at least eight men in Missouri. The…
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Politics
‘A piece of history for your house’: Stone salvaged from Capitol Building are auctioned
On Friday morning, stones quarried more than 100 years ago performed one last service for Missouri. Until recently, the dense…
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Coronavirus
8,500 Missourians may have survived COVID if all had been vaccinated
If all of Missouri’s adults were vaccinated against COVID-19, more than half of the more than 14,000 deaths attributed to…
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Business
Lead industry misled the public about its toxic problem for decades
Lead is a dangerous neurotoxin. Researchers have known that for decades. But the substance stuck around for decades in everyday…
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Coronavirus
COVID vaccine for children under 5 could be available as soon as June 21
WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden’s administration is preparing to ship out to the states millions of COVID-19 vaccines for children…
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Politics
State to spend more than $100M settling pay claims for corrections officers
Missouri corrections officers would receive a back pay settlement and future payments worth more than $100 million under an agreement…
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Politics
Reed, Boyd, Muhammad are indicted on federal bribery charges
A federal grand jury indicted three St. Louis aldermen, including the board’s president and longest-serving member, on charges of accepting bribes…
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News
Senate hopeful Trudy Busch Valentine counters NRA fundraiser plan at Grant’s Farm
U.S. Democratic Senate candidate Trudy Busch Valentine says she convinced the board she serves on that oversees her family’s St.…
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Politics
Gun control bills to be taken up by U.S. House panel in emergency meeting
WASHINGTON — Following mass shootings in New York and Texas, the U.S. House Judiciary Committee is holding an emergency meeting…
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Politics
Missouri bill banning unauthorized camping raises concerns about criminalizing homelessness
Micah Titterington was among hundreds of organization leaders who opposed a measure in the Missouri legislature this year that they…
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Politics
Remote voting in the U.S. House hits a second anniversary, but it may be its last
After two years of a temporary provision to allow remote voting in the U.S. House, the top 36 users of…
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Opinion
Opinion: Flash of GOP unity created a Missouri 2nd District even Harry Potter can’t turn blue
In 1992, Jim Talent was a nerdy, 30-something policy wonk with wire-rimmed glasses and a head of brown anchorman hair…
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Politics
Health agency appeals ruling requiring it to pay Planned Parenthood legal fees
Missouri’s health department is appealing a Cole County judge’s ruling that put the state on the hook to pay at…
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