Army, Air Force and reserve members will be providing free medical, dental and vision care in Ava, Eminence and Houston through July 8.

The intersection where the speeding train collided with a lumbering truck has drawn complaints for years. Now the widow of the dump truck driver killed in the Amtrak collision in Missouri is suing a railroad inspector and the county where the collision occurred.

The St. Louis and St. Louis County health departments are urging people who are pregnant to get tested for syphilis so they do not pass it to their children. Missouri last year reported the highest number of congenital syphilis cases in the state since 1994.

Local governments can lose state or federal funding if they don’t enforce rules on unauthorized public camping, sleeping or obstructions of sidewalks. National organizations are urging HUD’s general counsel to weigh in on whether the measure violates federal policy and law.

Gov. Mike Parson used a Tuesday visit to St. Louis to thank nonprofits he helped support with additional funding in the 2022 budget.

Derges, an assistant physician, was elected in November 2020 to represent Christian County. Missouri law requires her to forfeit her office once she is sentenced.

Farmers in Ukraine begin to harvest this year's wheat, barley and rapeseed crops as diplomats try to negotiate an end to Russia's Black Sea blockade of exports.

Now that the Supreme Court has struck down Roe v. Wade, experts warn that prosecutions will increase for miscarriages, stillbirths and self-induced abortions.

In a departure from earlier Supreme Court decisions on abortion, Justice Alito's abortion opinion barely mentions medicine. This creates a perilous new legal reality for doctors, legal analysts say.

The Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson overturned abortion rights protected under Roe v. Wade. On this week’s program, we talk about how it was covered, who’s voices were – or weren’t – heard, and how it reignited the debate over journalists’ objectivity. Also, breaking down a ‘surprise’ hearing of the January 6 Committee, and giving credit to journalists working behind the scenes. From Missouri School of Journalism professors Amy Simons, Earnest Perry and Kathy Kiely: Views of the News.

A roundup of regional headlines from the KBIA newsroom.

She's not just the owner, she's also a client! OsteoStrong Columbia's DAYNA GLANZ tells us why she chose to go the OsteoStrong route after being diagnosed with osteoporosis. Also, KELSEY HAMMOND encourages area youths (middle/high schoolers) to apply to Columbia Art League's annual 'Emerging Artist Mentorship Program'. (4:32) June 29, 2022

In this episode, hosts Eric Fey and Brianna Lennon speak with Judd Choate, the Director of the Division of Elections for the Colorado Department of State about the voter-centric election system in the state – a nearly all vote-by-mail model. In 2013, Colorado passed “The Voter Access and Modernized Elections Act of 2013,” which requires ballots to be mailed to every registered voter for most elections.

The Supreme Court’s 6-3 decision in the case of Dobbs v. Jackson overturned abortion rights protected under Roe v. Wade. On this week’s program, we talk about how it was covered, who’s voices were – or weren’t – heard, and how it reignited the debate over journalists’ objectivity. Also, breaking down a ‘surprise’ hearing of the January 6 Committee, and giving credit to journalists working behind the scenes. From the Missouri School of Journalism professors Amy Simons, Earnest Perry and Kathy Kiely: Views of the News.

"So, I think one our important roles is...trying to diffuse and make things a little less personal and a little less one-side-versus-the-other where possible. One of our real successes is anytime we hear a legislator on the floor speaking to their colleagues...refer to a fact or figure that we know was something that we provided them. I think we feel, procedurally, that that is a healthier place to be discussing what is out there in the research ecosystem." -- JOSH MUELLER, PhD, deputy director, MOST Policy Initiative June 28, 2022