-
A Missouri woman who was denied an abortion prompted an unprecedented federal investigation into whether a hospital violated the law by failing to provide her medical care.
-
A company hired to clean meatpacking plants in Missouri and other Midwest states is accused of illegally using children for potentially dangerous jobs. Plus: Eric Schmitt is heading to D.C. as Missouri's next U.S. Senator, but he'll be entering a very different legislative environment than the one he's used to at home.
-
From the moment Schmitt entered Missouri politics, the Republican Party always called the shots. But that won’t be what he’ll encounter in the U.S. Senate, which will remain controlled by Democrats.
-
“This is a big win for our office and for Americans across the country, and we will keep up the fight," said Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, one of six Republican attorneys general who sued over the loan relief program.
-
Republicans scored big wins from Eric Schmitt in the U.S. Senate contest and Scott Fitzpatrick in the auditor’s race, but Democrats came out on top in Missouri’s only competitive state Senate contest and gained in the House.
-
Republican Eric Schmitt topped Democrat Trudy Busch Valentine in a contest that lacked the suspense of previous Senate elections.
-
Kansas and Missouri are headed to the polls today! Voters have some big races to decide: governor, U.S. Senate and attorney general in Kansas, and in Missouri, an open U.S. Senate contest plus constitutional amendments to legalize recreational marijuana and increase KCPD funding.
-
Compared to other recent races for the U.S. Senate, the contest between Eric Schmitt and Trudy Busch Valentine has been a low-energy affair.
-
Polls show Schmitt, Missouri's attorney general, leading in the race for the open seat in the U.S. Senate despite being outspent his opponent, Trudy Busch Valentine.
-
The Missouri general election battle for U.S. Senate has been somewhat tame compared to the wild primary season, but does that signal a unified rightward trajectory for the state? Plus: Voters in northwest Missouri say they’ve always been conservative but used to be able to call themselves Democrats.
-
After being admitted to Freeman Health Services in Joplin, a patient whose water broke before 18 weeks of pregnancy could not obtain an emergency abortion because of Missouri's near-total ban. Now the hospital is under investigation for possible violations of a federal law requiring hospitals in the Medicare program to provide care for patients in emergency situations.
-
In a campaign ad for Democrat Trudy Busch Valentine, a woman explained that she could not obtain needed care at Freeman Health System in Joplin because of Missouri's strict abortion ban. Investigators from the Department of Health and Senior Services then visited Freeman.