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Missouri is set to be the first state in the nation to spell out the type of eating disorder treatments that insurance companies must cover, a move advocates say will ensure families have access to care for not just the ...

Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon has vetoed a bill aimed at revamping the state’s student transfer system. Nixon on Friday criticized expanded options for virtual schools and said the bill didn’t address key issues with current law. Failing schools now must pay ...

Missouri health care advocates praised a U.S. Supreme Court ruling Thursday that backs nationwide subsidies under President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul, while Republican leaders called the health care law flawed and renewed calls to ax it. Roughly 200,000 Missourians ...

An internationally known union donated $50,000 to Democratic Gov. Jay Nixon days after he recently vetoed a contentious right-to-work measure, a sizeable contribution that could help fund a re-election campaign — if he was not term-limited from running again. The ...

A Missouri bill signed by Gov. Jay Nixon on Friday is touted by its supporters as a way to protect older residents and those with disabilities from financial exploitation by giving advisers more authority to act if they suspect fraud. ...

A Missouri judge declared a mistrial Tuesday for a suburban Kansas City lawyer accused of fatally shooting the girlfriend of her millionaire father, then forging documents to have the man taken off life support when he survived the attack. Susan ...

A company's request to build a power line for a multistate wind energy project that would run through Missouri appears unlikely to gain approval from a state regulatory panel after most members spoke against the plan Tuesday.

Missouri state Rep. Lynn Morris’ pharmacist’s license has been placed on probation for a third time, most recently because Morris wrote prescriptions for himself and others without a doctor’s approval, documents show. Television stations KYTV and KSPR first reported Thursday ...

A plan aimed at fixing Missouri’s troubled student transfer system passed the Legislature on Tuesday, despite expanded options for charter and virtual schools and other concerns that meant the House only narrowly approved the measure. At issue is a 1993 ...

Missouri’s GOP-led Senate expanded a House bill on Tuesday that would ban municipalities from barring the use of plastic bags and also stop cities and towns from increasing their minimum wage — a move some Democrats criticized as inhibiting local ...

Missouri lawmakers disagree over how long minors convicted of first-degree murder should have to spend in prison, with a House panel on Monday advancing a proposal that would end the state's mandatory life without parole sentences by offering an alternative sentence of 25 to 40 years.