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Oliver Ackerman and Danielle Workman are both transgender and are in a T4T, or trans for trans relationship. They’ve known each other since they were young and shared a little about their relationship, and how they support each other.
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Incumbent Dwayne Carey and Charles Blair last ran against each other in 2020.
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Ameren Missouri announced in a press release today that they will be putting an additional $200,000 toward the Ameren Missouri Veterans Fund.
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For many years, it’s been possible to hear speeches from so-called “scared straight” programs where formerly incarcerated people go into a community and speak about what led them astray, in hopes of steering others clear of the mistakes they made. KBIA’s Rebecca Smith has the story of one event held earlier this year that changed the setting, bringing the audience to the experts, instead of the other way around.
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Kat and Aly Wright are a queer married couple in Columbia. Kat is queer and nonbinary, and Aly is a bisexual transgender woman. They met and fell in love while playing roller derby. They spoke about how some unexpected circumstances changed their original wedding plans – perhaps for the better.
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Dr. Crystal Lim is the chair of health psychology at the University of Missouri, and has spent much of her career working with children who are overweight. She spoke about how the treatment of excess weight has changed to focus more of health than size.
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A new study examines the impact of sleep, screen time and physical activity on obesity rates among youth with ADHD. KBIA’s Rebecca Smith reports the research was conducted in part by a University of Missouri scientist.
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Since 2020, severe weather, global conflict, and upgraded infrastructure have resulted in higher bills, utilities say
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The Air Race Classic, an annual race for women pilots and their planes, made a stop this year in Moberly, Mo at Omar N. Bradley Regional Airport.
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The city of Fayette has approved funding to purchase an incinerator for drug evidence disposal just two weeks after the publication of a KBIA Investigative series that detailed the city’s lack of access to a reliable method of drug evidence disposal.
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Prison can be a lonely, violent place. But KBIA’s Rebecca Smith has the story of one program - or more specifically, one Missouri prison resident who’s changing the men around him.
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A roundup of regional headlines from the KBIA Newsroom.