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Room at the Inn executive director John Trapp updated KBIA on how the former winter shelter has been faring since its transition to year-round homeless shelter in October.
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The Boone County Overdose Response Coalition hosted a community discussion Tuesday night at Hickman High School to address an increase in drug overdose-related deaths in Boone County.
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Cape Girardeau County has approved a new deputy coroner one week after the removal of former coroner Wavis Jordan.
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The newly released 2024-2028 Missouri Suicide Prevention Plan offers tools and strategies that are intended to help decrease Missouri’s number of suicide deaths.
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The CDC case counts are reported weekly by doctors - 83 COVID cases in were reported in Boone County at the end of January, down 115 cases from the last week of December.
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Missy Rice of the Department of Health and Senior Services' Show Me Healthy Women talks with KBIA's Anna Spidel about why cervical cancer screenings are important and how patients can stay informed.
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According to the National Cancer Institute, prostate cancer accounted for nearly 14.7% of all new US cancer cases in 2023.
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Missouri's nursing home regulation allows poor care, and sometimes abuse, to continue for years with few consequences.
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Incarceration can have a lasting impact on people, which makes community on the outside even more important. KBIA’s Rebecca Smith caught up with some former juvenile lifers on a cool, breezy day in August.
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Paige Spears has been incarcerated in the Missouri Department of Corrections for nearly 35 years. At the age of 26, he was given a life sentence plus 30 years for an armed robbery he committed in 1988 – where no one was physically injured. He’s now 62.Betty Cummings is his mother, and still lives in Ferguson, Missouri. She’s now 87-years-old and spoke about how the many years of Paige’s incarceration have impacted her.
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Missouri officials attribute part of the rise to an increase in fentanyl-related deaths and unsafe sleeping conditions.
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Jamie Morton is a postdoctoral research fellow at the University of Iowa and a former nurse. She led a study that found stigma can impact health outcomes of opioid-dependent moms.