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In rural Medicine Lodge, Kansas, Sarrah and Kyle Miller were sued last month by their local medical clinic for $230 in unpaid medical expenses. Their story is part of a new pattern. Kansas hospitals have filed thousands of lawsuits against their rural patients in recent years, including many for less than $500.

Nurse practitioners and midwives have been pushing to get the law changed in Missouri, but haven’t made any progress. Now, one Columbia nurse is suing the state.

Missouri legislators recently approved the use of millions in state funding for MOScholars, a K-12 school scholarship program that had previously been supported by tax-deductible donations. But an investigation found that nearly all of those state-funded vouchers were used for religious schools.

The texts between Marion Police Chief Gideon Cody and a restaurant owner were allegedly deleted amid widespread scrutiny of the chief's August 2023 raids of the Marion County Record newspaper and the homes of the paper's owners.

Gov. Mike Kehoe has repeatedly said the plan was drafted in his office. A filing by the attorney general's office says only that "various governmental actors" worked on the plan to give a seat to the GOP.

A federal judge ruled Friday that University of Missouri System President Mun Choi violated students' freedom of speech when he barred the group Mizzou Students for Justice in Palestine from taking part in the Homecoming parade. The judge ruled Choi excluded the group because of its views on Israel and Palestine.

A federal lawsuit argues the University of Missouri violated the First Amendment rights of Mizzou Students for Justice in Palestine when it denied their applications for Homecoming parade. The school wouldn't allow "stop the genocide" banners and Palestinian flags, but did permit "Make America Great Again" and Israeli flags.

In a federal filing, 10 women claim they suffered seizures due to the stifling heat in a facility once described as “a wood-fired pizza oven.” They say they were also forced to stand in raw sewage because of plumbing problems and were not given basic needs, like underwear or menstrual products.

Settlement payments from chemical companies are helping cities pay for expensive PFAS removal technology. But local leaders say the dollars often fall short of covering the full costs to clean up drinking water.

Lucas Cierpiot, a disability-rights activist, said he felt intimidated by the governor’s actions and too unsafe to attend any “No Kings” protests on June 14.

The Missouri Students for Justice in Palestine has employed the legal help of a national Muslim civil rights group to file a free speech suit against Mun Choi.

Team Roc, the rapper’s philanthropic effort, along with nine civil rights groups, filed a “friend of the court” brief, supporting a lawsuit filed by five Black women who say they were threatened and stalked by former KCKPD Detective Roger Golubski for years.