Missouri Governor

He resigned the governor’s office in 2018 to avoid impeachment and settle a felony charge. He’s being inundated with attack ads highlighting allegations of child abuse. Yet Eric Greitens is still considered among the frontrunners in the Aug. 2 GOP Senate primary.

Parson’s announcement comes after he vetoed a bill Friday authorizing a one-time, nonrefundable tax credit. On Thursday, he vetoed the $500 million allocated for the credit, foreshadowing a rejection of the credit itself.

Missouri's governor clarified that "contraceptives are not abortions" and are not affected by the new abortion ban. But Saint Luke's said the law's ambiguity "continues to cause grave concern and will require careful monitoring."

Defense attorneys for three men accused of criminal negligence in the 2018 duck boat tragedy on Table Rock Lake said Missouri law doesn’t allow the Missouri Attorney General to bring criminal charges without an invitation from a local prosecutor.

Police departments have tapped only $14,647 from the fund. Police in Kansas City have used some of the money to rent hotel rooms for crime victims who would be in danger if they remained in their residence.

Lawmakers in Missouri are fresh off of passing the biggest budget in state history. Now the General Assembly has just a few days left to make decisions on several big issues, all just a few months before an election.

For two weeks before Missouri's state of emergency expired, health care organizations urged Gov. Mike Parson to extend it or give them enough notice it was ending to make accommodations. He did neither.

For two consecutive weeks, a group of seven members of the Missouri Senate have been pushing back hard against GOP leadership.

Over half of states have rolled back public health powers during the pandemic, which experts say permanently weakens states’ abilities to protect their constituents’ health.

The Missouri governor's State of the State address on Wednesday also included calls to invest $400 million in water and wastewater systems, investments in agriculture and telehealth upgrades and economic development.

In the spring of 2020, Black Lives Matter protesters called for the Kansas City Police Department to be released from state oversight. Civil rights groups are still talking about that, but there's little momentum.

Legal delays and appeals from the Missouri Attorney General's Office have kept Strickland incarcerated, despite the fact that Jackson County Prosecutors say he's innocent. His family is bearing the burden.