The Latest Breaking News from Missouri

MENDON, Mo. — In March 2021, a small group of men met at a rural railroad crossing in northern Missouri that locals had long been complaining about because of its steep grade and lack of visibility.

With the constitutional right to abortion gone, healthcare providers, clinics and millions of Americans are grappling with a new reality. But will it mimic the time before Roe v Wade?

St. Louis (AFP) - Abortion is now banned in Lori Lamprich's home state of Missouri, but that hasn't stopped her taking women to their appointments -- she drives them across the Mississippi River to Illinois, where it remains legal.

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson on Wednesday signed into law a bill that bans people from sleeping on state-owned land and allows the state attorney general to sue local governments that don’t enforce the ban.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — One month before the deadly Amtrak train derailment at a crossing in northern Missouri, the county commission there alerted the state that overgrown brush was obstructing drivers’ views.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Saint Luke’s Health System said Wednesday it would resume providing emergency contraceptives, reversing course less than 24 hours after The Kansas City Star first reported it was no longer providing Plan B.

A large Missouri hospital chain briefly stopped providing emergency contraception amid confusion over whether the state’s abortion ban could put doctors at risk of criminal charges if they provide the medication known as the morning-after pill, even for sexual assault victims, only to restart the procedures on Wednesday

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — Samantha McDonald and her brother Dax were traveling with other family members from Arizona to Iowa when the Amtrak train they were on hit a dump truck, causing rail cars to tumble off the tracks and land on their side.

Missouri Gov. Mike Parson has signed a law enacting a photo identification requirement for voters in advance of the November election